Category: (1) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 4.3
Maturity Level: 4
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is responsible for the managing the entire lifecycle of the product and its underlying components. This includes all of the processes required to design, build, deploy, maintain and ultimately retire the product. Product Lifecycle Management includes those activities and tools used to define new products and updates to existing products. Generally these activities require a significant degree of collaboration, often across multiple geographic locations. This could even include the gathering of customer needs/preferences and mapping those to current and future product capabilities. There will also be a significant use of project and program management activities and tools to satisfy these functional areas.
A PLM application should support the following major functions:
Application services that should be available from the PLM capability of Product management include the following:
(Note: In this context the term Service is being used as an application service (i.e. API, Web Service) and not the SID definition of Service as it pertains to telecommunications.)
Get prior lifecycle state: Retrieves the previous lifecycle state for the product offering or product component based on input unique ID or other search criteria for product offering or product component.
This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model