Exploring the Challenges for Adopting the Cloud PLM in Manufacturing Organizations

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is an engineering management approach which helps organizations to manage product-related technical data for its complete lifecycle. The right product data enables better business functioning in organizations. PLM systems are recent and upcoming information technology tools in manufacturing firms. Although PLM systems were initially introduced as the on-premise tools, the current cloud technology is taking it from organizational boundaries to a global level through the Internet. Most enterprise applications have already started moving to clouds; PLM is also all set to be utilized through clouds. But it brings various challenges during cloud PLM adoption. Hence, this paper aims to empirically investigate the critical challenges that manufacturing firms face while adopting cloud PLM. There is rare academic research in the cloud PLM domain. This paper results in the three most significant challenges viz., “Data security on clouds,” “Lack of trust on services,” and “Lack of customization.” These critical challenges not only help the managers in manufacturing firms in planning to migrate on clouds but also the technical cloud providers to improve the cloud services and systems appropriately in order to increase the compatibility of cloud PLM in firms. The present paper uniquely identifies the critical challenges for cloud PLM adoption in large manufacturing firms.

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