Conference paper
Configuration Lifecycle Management – Future of Product Configurators
Operations Management, Management Science, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark1
Management Science, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark2
Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark3
Configit A/S4
The utilization of product configurators (PC) in the sales phase is a well-established solution for manufacturing companies of configurable products and it comes along with several benefits. However, there is a tendency identified currently in the industry that companies use PC to cover more lifecycle phases, such as engineering, manufacturing and service.
This is described as configuration lifecycle management (CLM). Digitalization, increasing complexity and competitiveness are the main drivers of this need. This research analyses 59 case studies using PC in several lifecycle phases. The findings from the case studies confirm this tendency and the need towards a complete CLM solution is discussed.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Pages: | 1315-1319 |
| Proceedings: | 2018 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM2018) |
| ISBN: | 1538667851 , 153866786X , 153866786x , 1538667878 , 9781538667859 , 9781538667866 and 9781538667873 |
| ISSN: | 2157362x and 21573611 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607471 |
| ORCIDs: | Myrodia, Anna and Hvam, Lars |
Companies Complexity theory Configuration lifecycle management Maintenance engineering Manufacturing Standards organizations case study configuration lifecycle management configuration management manufacturing companies manufacturing industries product configuration product configurators product life cycle management product lifecycle sales management sales phase
