B.E. (Automation and Robotics) Product Life Cycle Management Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Product Life Cycle Management
Module 1: Introduction to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Need for PLM, Product Lifecycle Phases, Opportunities of Globalization, Pre-PLM Environment, PLM Paradigm, Importance & Benefits of PLM, Widespread Impact of PLM, Focus and Application, A PLM Project, Starting the PLM Initiative, PLM Applications PLM Strategies: Industrial strategies, Strategy elements, its identification, selection and
- implementation, Developing PLM Vision and PLM Strategy , Change management for PLM
Module 2: Product Design: Product Design and Development Process, Engineering Design, Organization and Decomposition in Product Design, Typologies of Design Process Models, Reference Model, Product Design in the Context of the Product Development Process, Relation with the Development Process Planning Phase, Relation with the Post design Planning Phase, Methodological Evolution in Product Design, Concurrent Engineering,
- Characteristic Features of Concurrent Engineering, Concurrent Engineering and Life Cycle Approach, New Product Development (NPD) and Strategies, Product Configuration and Variant Management, The Design for X System, Objective Properties and Design for X. Tools, Choice of Design for X Tools and Their Use in the Design Process
Module 3
- Product Data Management (PDM): Product and Product Data, PDM systems and importance, Components of PDM, Reason for implementing a PDM system, financial justification of PDM, barriers to PDM implementation
Module 4
- Virtual Product Development Tools: For components, machines, and manufacturing plants, 3D CAD systems and realistic rendering techniques,
References
- 1 John Stark, “Product Lifecycle Management: Paradigm for 21st Century Product Realisation”, Springer-Verlag, 2004. ISBN: 1852338105
- 2 Fabio Giudice, Guido La Rosa, Antonino Risitano, “Product Design for the environment-A life cycle approach”, Taylor & Francis 2006, ISBN: 0849327229
- 3 Saaksvuori Antti, Immonen Anselmie, “Product Life Cycle Management”, Springer, Dreamtech, ISBN: 3540257314
- 4 Michael Grieve, “Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the next generation of lean thinking”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2006, ISBN: 0070636265 U University of Mumbai
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Automation and Robotics) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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