Product Life Cycle Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Product Life Cycle Management (subject code 3722811) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 30 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3722811)Unit 1 Introduction to PLM
- Need for PLM, opportunities and benefits of PLM, different views of PLM, components of PLM, phases of PLM, PLM feasibility study
- PLM visioning
Unit 2 PLM Strategies
- Industrial strategies
- strategy elements
- its identification
- selection and implementation
- change management for PLM
Unit 3 Product Data Management (PDM)
- PDM systems and importance
- reason for implementing a PDM system
- financial justification of PDM, barriers to PDM implementation
Unit 4 Product Design
- Engineering design
- organization and decomposition in product design
- product design process
- methodical evolution in product design
- concurrent engineering
- design for ‘X’ and design central development model
- Strategies for recovery at end of life
- human factors in product design
- Modeling and simulation in product design
Unit 5 New Product Development
- Structuring new product development
- building decision support system
- Estimating market opportunities for new product
- new product financial control
- implementing new product development
- market entry decision
- launching and tracking new product program
- Concept of redesign of product
Unit 6 Technology Forecasting
- Future mapping
- invocating rates of technological change
- methods of technology
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