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This chapter addresses the characteristics of products that need to be understood and addressed in PLM. The product is at the heart of PLM. Whether it’s a car, a television, a beverage or an anaesthetic, it’s the product that the customer wants. The product is the source of company revenues. Without a product, the company doesn’t need to exist and won’t have any customers . From a product lifecycle management viewpoint, even though there’s a huge range of products, much is common between different products. This chapter addresses issues about structuring a product and its parts. Issues with identification, classification and requirements are described. And similar issues about product numbering, definition of product specifications and working with versions , variants and options are evoked.
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Stark, J. (2016). Product. In: Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 2). Decision Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24436-5_7
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