PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

-The Hottest Buzzword In Industry Today

By :
Tarun Kumar Agrawal
National Institute of Fashion
Technology ,Hyderabad
What is PLM?
 Activity of managing a product throughout its
lifecycle-’from cradle to grave’.
 First used by American Motors Corporation
(AMC).
 Super set of PDM( Product Data Management).
 Within PLM there are five primary areas-
 Systems Engineering (SE)
 Product and Portfolio Management (PPM)
 Product Design (CAx)
 Manufacturing Process Management (MPM)
 Product Data Management (PDM)
PLM In Fashion Industry
Challenges In Fashion Industry
 Economic pressures -how and where to make
innovation investments.
 Numerous Fashion Season.
 Globalization
 Optimization
 Speed
 Sustainability
PLM benefits for Industry
 Accelerate
launch
 Increase
profitable
growth
 Reduce design
costs
 Re-use best
practices
Cont..
 Making design and development more efficient
 Faster communication
 Improved internal and external collaboration
 Better visibility of progress and performance
 Faster times-to-market
 Provision of up-to-date and accurate data and
maintenance of such data
 Eliminating risks of working on different
versions of a file
 Repository for storing and protecting
intellectual property
Activity supported by PLM
 Line planning
 Storyboarding
 Colour management
 Computer aided design (CAD)
 Management of fabrics and trims
 Management of product data
 Cost estimates
 Management of sourcing and suppliers
 Workflow: tracking a product's development
 Business intelligence and reporting
Cont..
 Digital Library Management
 Tech Pack Management
 Request for Quote (RFQ) Management
 Calendar and Task Management
Before implementing PLM….
 Size of organisation
 Industry-specific functionality
 Flexibility and scalability
 Common user interface
 Web-based systems or web-enabled systems'
 International support
 Total costs of ownership
 Changing business models
 Existing enterprise resource planning (ERP)
software
PLM Implementation Options
 On-Premise
 On-Demand or SAAS (Software as a service
module)
Major Player..
 Siemens PLM Software
 Yunique PLM –Gerber Technology
 Lectra Fashion PLM
 Lawson Fashion PLM
 World Fashion Exchange (WFX)
 Trade Stone Software
 Polygon Software (USA)
 Porini USA
Thank You