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Article: Product life cycle management hits its stride.(John Crary)(Interview)
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- Automotive News
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- August 15, 2005
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Byline: Ralph Kisiel
Product life cycle management is a mouthful to say, and it's even harder to define.
Originally, the term described the computer technology needed by automakers and suppliers to store information about a vehicle or part, such as engineering data. But the definition has evolved.
John Crary, Lear Corp.'s vice president of information technology, discussed the evolution with Staff Reporter Ralph Kisiel.
How do you define product lifecycle management?
In the early days it was merely a way to use some computer technology to store all of the engineering data or computer-aided design data in one place so you would ...