Product Life Cycle Management detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (Mech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Mechanical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of product life cycle management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
HISTORY, CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY OF PLM 9 Introduction to PLM, Need for PLM, opportunities of PLM, Different views of PLM – Engineering Data Management (EDM), Product Data Management (PDM), Collaborative Product Definition Management (cPDm), Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). PLM/PDM Infrastructure – Network and Communications, Data Management, Heterogeneous data sources and applications
Unit II
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Unit III
DETAILS OF MODULES IN A PDM/PLM SOFTWARE 9 Case studies based on top few commercial PLM/PDM tools – Teamcenter, Windchill, ENOVIA, Aras PLM, SAP PLM, Arena, Oracle Agile PLM and Autodesk Vault-Architecture of PLM software- selection criterion of software for particular application – Brand name to be removed
Unit IV
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Unit V
BASICS ON CUSTOMISATION/INTEGRATION OF PDM/PLM SOFTWARE 9 PLM Customization, use of EAI technology (Middleware), Integration with legacy data base, CAD, SLM and ERP
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Text Books:
- Product Lifecycle Management for a Global Market, Springer; 2014 edition (29 September 2016),ISBN-10 : 3662516330
- Product Life Cycles and Product Management, Praeger Publishers Inc (27 March 1989)ISBN-10 : 0899303196
Reference Books:
- AnttiSaaksvuori and Anselmilmmonen, Product Lifecycle Management, Springer Publisher, 2008 (3rd Edition)
- IvicaCrnkovic, Ulf Asklund and AnnitaPerssonDahlqvist, Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management, Artech House Publishers, 2003.
- John Stark, Global Product: Strategy, Product Lifecycle Management and the Billion Customer Question, Springer Publisher, 2007
- John Stark, Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation, Springer Publisher, 2011 (2nd Edition).
- Michael Grieves, Product Life Cycle Management, Tata McGraw Hill, 2006.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Mechanical Engineering 5th Sem, visit Mech 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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