Product life cycle management –
Need for PLM, Components of PLM, Product Data and Product workflow, Drivers for Change.
The PLM Strategy, Developing a PLM Strategy, A Five-step Process, Strategy Identification and Selection, Strategy Elements, Implications of Strategy Elements, Policies, Strategy Analysis, Communicating the Strategy.
Change Management for PLM, Configuration management, Cost of design changes, schemes for concurrent engineering,Design for manufacturing and assembly, robust design, failure mode and effect-analysis.
Modeling, Current concepts, part design, sketching, use of datum's construction features, free ovulation, pattering, copying, and modifying features, reference standards for datum specification, Standards for Engineering data exchange
Tolerance mass property calculations, rapid prototyping and tooling, finite modeling and analysis, general procedure, analysis techniques,Finite element modeling.Applicability of FEM, Static analysis, thermal analysis, dynamic analysis.