Closed-loop Product Life Cycle Management

Book excerpt: Better understanding of product life cycles leads to process improvements and to reduced total product costs; better product quality; improved supply chain efficiency; and better rebuilding and recycling choices. This book provides industrial users, as well as the broad R&D community with an understanding of the principles behind the PROMISE technologies, their successful implementation in the PROMISE demonstrators, and their enormous potential to improve competitive advantage across the industrial spectrum.|Better understanding of product life cycles leads to process improvements and to reduced total product costs; better product quality; improved supply chain efficiency; and better rebuilding and recycling choices. This book provides industrial users, as well as the broad R&D community with an understanding of the principles behind the PROMISE technologies, their successful implementation in the PROMISE demonstrators, and their enormous potential to improve competitive advantage across the industrial spectrum.