PLM Knowledge Base

A semantic glossary of Product Lifecycle Management — every notion documented once and cross-linked to related notions, placed on a four-layer grid.

The four layers

  1. Strategywhy: objectives, drivers, KPIs, principles, policies.
  2. Processwhat/when: business processes, activities, workflows, methods, practices.
  3. Logicalwhat capability/data, vendor-neutral: capabilities, functions, data objects, services, roles, artifact types.
  4. Systemconcrete implementation: products, modules, platforms, standards, protocols, formats, vendors.

How to read this site

Every concept has a “Related by relation” block in its right sidebar — that’s the semantic edge-list in human form. The colored graph view on the homepage is the same data, visually.

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