Introduction, growth, maturity & decline, Product Lifecycle Management- Definition & Overview, Background for PLM-corporate challenges, Need of PLM, Components/Elements of PLM, Emergence of PLM, Significance of PLM - life cycle problems to be resolved, product development problems to be resolved, Customer Involvement.

Threads of PLM- engineering data management (EDM), Product data management (PDM), Weaving the threads into PLM, comparison of PLM to Engineering resource planning (ERP). PLM characteristics - singularity, cohesion, traceability, Information Mirroring Model. External drivers- scale, complexity, cycle times, globalization & regulation.

Collaborative Product Development, Mapping Requirements to specifications. Part Numbering, Engineering Vaulting - Product reuse, Engineering Change Management, Bill of Material and process Consistency. Digital Mock up and Prototype development. Virtual testing and collateral. Introduction to Digital Manufacturing.

Product life cycle management system- system architecture, Information models and product structure, Information model, the product information data model, the product model, functioning of the system. Reasons for the deployment of PLM systems.

Product Data issues – Product Workflow, The Link between Product Data and Product Workflow, Key Management Issues around Product Data and Product Workflow, Company’s PLM vision, The PLM Strategy, Principles for PLM strategy, Preparing for the PLM strategy, Developing a PLM strategy - selection, Change Management for PLM.