Product Life Cycle Management

Product Life Cycle Management addresses the full life cycles of products, from conception until disposal. The creation of the product determines largely what can be done with the product in the later life cycle phases. From business perspective the installed base, all systems that are operational in the field, is an asset that provides many opportunities. From technical perspective the operational life of products is quite a challenge, because systems keep evolving to fit in the market and to benefit from technical capabilities. This creates a variety of operational configurations that have to be served. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. March 6, 2013 status: preliminary draft version: 0.2 R1 SW R1 HW R1 HW R2 SW R2 SW R2 HW R3 SW R3 HW initial delivery sw upgrade initial delivery sw upgrade R3 SW R2 HW initial delivery R3 SW R3 HW forklift upgrade How long are new functions compatible with older system configurations? When to break compatibility? When does the customer pay for an upgrade? When to retrofit? example Try to run Windows Vista on your 1GB computer from 2005... Figure Of