20ME504 – Fundamentals of New Product Development and Product Lifecycle Management

Unit II and Unit IV

Part-A

What is Innovation?

What is Globalization?

What is Innovative product?

What is design patent?

What is patent?

When does product complexity increases?

When does the product pricing pressure increases?

What is globalization?

What are the challenges faced by current manufacturing industries?

What are the most important factors which make a successful product manufacturing industry?

Define Product Lifecycle Management?

What is Product Data Management?

What is Manufacturing Process Management?

What is SCM?

What is SLM?

What causes an enterprise to go for use of PLM in its business?

What are the needs of PLM?

Why PLM is needed?

When does the industries need PLM?

What type of industries need PLM?

What are the main business benefits of PLM?

What is the impact of PLM?

Name the leading PLM software packages?

Which are the emerging PLM software packages?

Give any three open-source PLM software packages?

What are the drawbacks of sequential engineering approach?

What are the advantages of simultaneous engineering approach?

What are the goals of concurrent engineering approach?

Define concurrent engineering.

What is sequential engineering?

What is PLM strategy?

Give example for optimum design?

What is rapid prototyping?

What are the enterprise applications?

What do mean by the holistic approach in PLM?

What is the example of product life cycle?

What are the 5 stages of product life cycle?

What is the importance of PLM?

What is PLM implementation?

Draw the product life cycle curve.

What is the best way to create a product life cycle management strategy?

What is PLM digital transformation?

What is a PLM platform?

What is digital thread in PLM?

What are the threads of PLM?

What are the modules in PLM?

What is the objective of PLM?

What is a PLM tool?

How does a PLM system work?

What are the major elements of PLM?

Part – B
Briefly explain the challenges faced by the current Automotive manufacturing industries in developing
new products and how PLM is used to overcome them.

Briefly explain the challenges faced by the current manufacturing industries in developing new
products and how PLM is used to overcome them.

Briefly explain the challenges faced by the current retail product manufacturing industries in
developing new products and how PLM is used to overcome them.

Briefly explain the challenges faced by the current Energy equipment manufacturing industries in
developing new products and how PLM is used to overcome them.

Briefly explain the challenges faced by the current high-tech electronic industries in developing new
products and how PLM is used to overcome them.

Give the overview product lifecycle management with an example.

Briefly explain the various Needs and benefits of product lifecycle management.

Explain the Concept of Product Life Cycle of a product.

Explain the Concept of Product Life Cycle of an Automotive product.

Explain the Concept of Product Life Cycle of an electronic product.

Briefly explain the strategic design and product lifecycle management.

Explain the process of new product development using concurrent engineering approach in detail

Briefly explain the sequential engineering approach with its advantages and drawbacks.

Briefly explain the concurrent engineering approach with its goals and advantages.

Explain in detail the difference between sequential engineering and concurrent engineering approach
NPD.

Briefly explain the different Components of product lifecycle management.

Briefly explain the different elements of product lifecycle management.

Briefly narrate about the Significance of product lifecycle management.

Briefly explain the different types of management modules of a product lifecycle management
software.

Briefly explain the different modules of product lifecycle management software.

Explain about the stages involved in the emergence of product lifecycle management.

Explain about the different stages of CAD software development.

Explain about the stages involved in the emergence of product lifecycle management software.
Explain about the stages involved in the emergence of PDM software.

Briefly explain about the importance and downstream deliverables of solid models created using any
CAD/CAM software.

Briefly explain about the various Product Data managed in the Product life cycle environment.

Briefly explain about the Workflow of Product data in the Product life cycle environment.

Briefly explain about the Link between Product Data and Product Workflow in the Product life cycle
environment.

List and explain the Key Management Issues around Product Data.

List and explain the Key Management Issues around Product data Workflow.

Briefly explain the Different phases of product lifecycle and use of PLM in each phase.

Briefly explain the Different phases of product lifecycle and corresponding PLM technologies.

Briefly explain the product development processes and methodologies.

Briefly explain the Different phases of product lifecycle and impact of PLM in each phase.

Briefly explain the Different phases of product lifecycle and role of PLM in each phase.

Briefly explain about a Company’s PLM vision.

Briefly explain about a Company’s PLM Strategy.

Briefly explain the Principles for PLM strategy.

Briefly explain about (i) preparing for the PLM strategy, (ii) developing a PLM strategy,

Briefly explain about PLM Strategy identification and selection,

Explain in detail the Architecture of a PLM software.

Explain about the 3- tier Architecture of Windchill software.

Distinguish between 2- tier, 3-tier and 4-tier architectures of PLM software.

Briefly explain about the stages of evolution of PLM as an enterprise application.

Briefly explain about the digital thread of PLM and its future applications for NPD.

Briefly explain about Functional Components and System Components of PLM.

Briefly explain about Change Management in PDM.

Explain in detail the Functional Components of PLM.

Explain in detail the System Components of PLM.

Briefly explain about Change Management in PLM.

Take your own case study of an individual product with regard to an automobile product. Show the
detailed product lifecycle and explain in detail how the lifecycle activities are executed using PLM
and its related technologies.

Take your own case study of an individual product with regard to any computer product. Show the
detailed product lifecycle and explain in detail how the lifecycle activities are executed using PLM
and its related technologies.

Take your own case study of an individual product with regard to any retail product. Show the detailed
product lifecycle and explain in detail how the lifecycle activities are executed using PLM and its
related technologies.

Take your own case study of an individual product with regard to any HVAC product. Show the
detailed product lifecycle and explain in detail how the lifecycle activities are executed using PLM
and its related technologies.

Take your own case study of an individual product with regard to an electronic product. Show the
detailed product lifecycle and explain in detail how the lifecycle activities are executed using PLM
and its related technologies.

Briefly explain about the first stage of CAD software development and its impact in NPD.

Briefly explain about the second stage of CAD software development and its impact in NPD.

Briefly explain about the third stage of CAD software development and its impact in NPD.

Briefly explain about the fourth stage of CAD software development and its impact in NPD.

Briefly explain about the future technologies to be integrated with PLM.