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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

CIMdata Publishes “Product Line Engineering @ IBM”

Managing Smart, Connected Products Across the Lifecycle

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 24 November 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces new research on “Product Line Engineering @ IBM: Managing Smart Products Across the Lifecycle.”

Products and product development complexity are evolving in tandem, with the trend toward smart, connected products driving companies to look for new product development and support methods. Product line engineering (PLE) has emerged as an approach that can readily support a systems view to develop families of product variants in an effective manner. IBM’s Continuous Engineering Solution builds on their traditional strengths in requirements management and software development, and leverages their on-going support for standards and open solutions to help support PLE strategy implementation. This paper focuses on issues in product development and variant management, and how PLE and IBM and their partners can help industrial companies develop and manage smart products across the product lifecycle.

This paper is freely available from CIMdata’s Publications web page.

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