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Systems Analysis Lecture by William Magill |
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Date: June 13, 2007
Time: 8:30-10:30am
Location: NASA Langley Research Center, Building 1209, Room 180
Product Lifecycle Management in Aerospace
Dr. William Magill, Wavelength Consulting, Island Magee, Northern Ireland and
Dr. William Grossmann, NIA, SAIC Services Inc., Heidelberg, Germany
For years now the subject of PLM (Product-Plant-Process Life Cycle Management) has been discussed, debated, reviewed, and argued at many conferences and in many journals and magazines. While promises abound from software and service vendors many companies and organizations are waiting for that single PLM killer application that, straight out-of-the-box, solves the issues of optimising the business across its whole lifecycle without man-years of consultancy and customisation. We argue here that, of course, no such application exists. The sixty-four thousand dollar question is will such a solution ever come to the market, and can your company put off addressing those pressing PLM issues whilst waiting for the perfect PLM application?
In this paper we discuss some of the key factors influencing the evolution of PLM applications and how they mitigate against the development of an all-encompassing solution. We also describe several successful PLM implementations that, in our opinion, suggest that the success is more to do with innovative use of available applications rather than deployment of monolithic applications, pre-configured on the basis of other companies’ business models.
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