---
_id: '11373'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The topic of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) should be nowadays part of
    any engineering degree course in every university worldwide. In an increasingly
    digital and connected world, students and prospective engineers need to know the
    interrelationships of holistic product development. Excellent expertise in a discipline
    such as mechanical engineering is still necessary, but no longer sufficient. This
    article explains why this is the case and what universities can do to address
    this issue. It describes in detail the PLM course of the OWL University of Applied
    Sciences and Arts located in Lemgo, Germany. In addition, suggestions are made
    on how to improve the course content, based on many years of experience. As such,
    this article is a valuable source of information for anyone teaching PLM today
    or intending to do so in the future.
author:
- first_name: Andreas
  full_name: Deuter, Andreas
  id: '62088'
  last_name: Deuter
  orcid: 0000-0002-6529-6215
- first_name: Andreas
  full_name: Otte, Andreas
  id: '51466'
  last_name: Otte
citation:
  ama: 'Deuter A, Otte A. PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and Challenges. In:
    Stark J, ed. <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value
    of PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i>. Decision Engineering. Springer Nature
    Switzerland; 2024:215-231. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14">10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14</a>'
  apa: 'Deuter, A., &#38; Otte, A. (2024). PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and
    Challenges. In J. Stark (Ed.), <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing
    the Value of PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i> (pp. 215–231). Springer
    Nature Switzerland. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14</a>'
  bjps: '<b>Deuter A and Otte A</b> (2024) PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and
    Challenges. In Stark J (ed.), <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing
    the Value of PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i>. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland,
    pp. 215–231.'
  chicago: 'Deuter, Andreas, and Andreas Otte. “PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose
    and Challenges.” In <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the
    Value of PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i>, edited by John Stark, 215–31.
    Decision Engineering. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14</a>.'
  chicago-de: 'Deuter, Andreas und Andreas Otte. 2024. PLM in Engineering Education:
    Purpose and Challenges. In: <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing
    the Value of PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i>, hg. von John Stark, 215–231.
    Decision Engineering. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14">10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14</a>,
    .'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Deuter, Andreas</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Otte, Andreas</span>: PLM in Engineering Education:
    Purpose and Challenges. In: <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Stark, J.</span>
    (Hrsg.): <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value of
    PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i>, <i>Decision Engineering</i>. Cham :
    Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, S. 215–231'
  havard: 'A. Deuter, A. Otte, PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and Challenges,
    in: J. Stark (Ed.), Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value
    of PLM with Innovative New Technologies, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024:
    pp. 215–231.'
  ieee: 'A. Deuter and A. Otte, “PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and Challenges,”
    in <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value of PLM with
    Innovative New Technologies</i>, J. Stark, Ed. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland,
    2024, pp. 215–231. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14">10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14</a>.'
  mla: 'Deuter, Andreas, and Andreas Otte. “PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose
    and Challenges.” <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value
    of PLM with Innovative New Technologies</i>, edited by John Stark, Springer Nature
    Switzerland, 2024, pp. 215–31, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14</a>.'
  short: 'A. Deuter, A. Otte, in: J. Stark (Ed.), Product Lifecycle Management (Volume
    6) : Increasing the Value of PLM with Innovative New Technologies, Springer Nature
    Switzerland, Cham, 2024, pp. 215–231.'
  ufg: '<b>Deuter, Andreas/Otte, Andreas</b>: PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose
    and Challenges, in: <i>Stark, John (Hg.)</i>: Product Lifecycle Management (Volume
    6) : Increasing the Value of PLM with Innovative New Technologies, Cham 2024 (Decision
    Engineering),  S. 215–231.'
  van: 'Deuter A, Otte A. PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and Challenges. In:
    Stark J, editor. Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value
    of PLM with Innovative New Technologies. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2024.
    p. 215–31. (Decision Engineering).'
date_created: 2024-04-25T12:09:54Z
date_updated: 2024-04-25T13:04:09Z
department:
- _id: DEP7022
- _id: DEP1306
- _id: DEP7001
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-53521-5_14
editor:
- first_name: John
  full_name: Stark, John
  last_name: Stark
language:
- iso: eng
page: 215-231
place: Cham
popular_science: '1'
publication: 'Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 6) : Increasing the Value of PLM
  with Innovative New Technologies'
publication_identifier:
  eisbn:
  - 978-3-031-53521-5
  eissn:
  - 2197-6589
  isbn:
  - 978-3-031-53520-8
  issn:
  - 1619-5736
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
series_title: Decision Engineering
status: public
title: 'PLM in Engineering Education: Purpose and Challenges'
type: book_chapter
user_id: '83781'
year: '2024'
...
---
_id: '7783'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The digitization of the industry, the drive towards smart factories as well
    as the Internet of Production (IoP) require rising smartness of products and services.
    Smart physical products are often mechatronic products that include increasing
    amounts of software. The development of software, however, comes along with new
    challenges for companies specialized in developing mechanical, electrical or electronic
    products. Some of these challenges address the product lifecycle management (PLM)-related
    business and work processes. The management of software lifecycles requires a
    much more rigorous requirements management. Furthermore, special solutions for
    management of source code in distributed development teams are needed. The build-process
    and testing activities need to be conducted in a systematic manner. The generation
    and provision of different licensing models need to be mastered and finally the
    issue of security needs to be addressed for any product that can be networked---which
    by the way is a strategic target of nearly any product developing company. Application
    Lifecycle Management (ALM) covers many of the above-mentioned issues. IT solutions
    for ALM are comparable to traditional PLM solutions, but focus particularly on
    software as a product. Thus, these systems have become widely used by software
    companies in the same manner as PLM solutions belong to the standard enterprise
    IT environment of companies developing physical products. With software penetrating
    traditional physical products, product managers, product developers, manufacturing
    staff etc. need to work with both, PLM and ALM, since neither solution is able
    to cover both domains sufficiently. However, ALM and PLM solutions feature redundant
    functionality. Thus, best practices for the systematic integration of ALM and
    PLM are required.
author:
- first_name: Andreas
  full_name: Deuter, Andreas
  id: '62088'
  last_name: Deuter
  orcid: 0000-0002-6529-6215
- first_name: Andreas
  full_name: Otte, Andreas
  id: '51466'
  last_name: Otte
- first_name: Marcel
  full_name: Ebert, Marcel
  last_name: Ebert
- first_name: Frank
  full_name: Possel-Dölken, Frank
  last_name: Possel-Dölken
citation:
  ama: 'Deuter A, Otte A, Ebert M, Possel-Dölken F. Developing the Requirements of
    a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study. In: Stark J, ed. <i>Product Lifecycle
    Management (Volume 4)</i>. Decision Engineering. Springer; 2019:125-143. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11">10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11</a>'
  apa: 'Deuter, A., Otte, A., Ebert, M., &#38; Possel-Dölken, F. (2019). Developing
    the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study. In J. Stark
    (Ed.), <i>Product lifecycle management (Volume 4)</i> (pp. 125–143). Springer.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11</a>'
  bjps: '<b>Deuter A <i>et al.</i></b> (2019) Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM
    Integration: An Industrial Case Study. In Stark J (ed.), <i>Product Lifecycle
    Management (Volume 4)</i>. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 125–143.'
  chicago: 'Deuter, Andreas, Andreas Otte, Marcel Ebert, and Frank Possel-Dölken.
    “Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study.”
    In <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 4)</i>, edited by John Stark, 125–43.
    Decision Engineering. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11</a>.'
  chicago-de: 'Deuter, Andreas, Andreas Otte, Marcel Ebert und Frank Possel-Dölken.
    2019. Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case
    Study. In: <i>Product lifecycle management (Volume 4)</i>, hg. von John Stark,
    125–143. Decision Engineering. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11">10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11</a>,
    .'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Deuter, Andreas</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Otte, Andreas</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Ebert,
    Marcel</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Possel-Dölken, Frank</span>:
    Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study.
    In: <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Stark, J.</span> (Hrsg.): <i>Product
    lifecycle management (Volume 4)</i>, <i>Decision Engineering</i>. Cham, Switzerland :
    Springer, 2019, S. 125–143'
  havard: 'A. Deuter, A. Otte, M. Ebert, F. Possel-Dölken, Developing the Requirements
    of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study, in: J. Stark (Ed.), Product
    Lifecycle Management (Volume 4), Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2019: pp. 125–143.'
  ieee: 'A. Deuter, A. Otte, M. Ebert, and F. Possel-Dölken, “Developing the Requirements
    of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study,” in <i>Product lifecycle management
    (Volume 4)</i>, J. Stark, Ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, pp. 125–143.
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11">10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11</a>.'
  mla: 'Deuter, Andreas, et al. “Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration:
    An Industrial Case Study.” <i>Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 4)</i>, edited
    by John Stark, Springer, 2019, pp. 125–43, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11</a>.'
  short: 'A. Deuter, A. Otte, M. Ebert, F. Possel-Dölken, in: J. Stark (Ed.), Product
    Lifecycle Management (Volume 4), Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2019, pp. 125–143.'
  ufg: '<b>Deuter, Andreas u. a.</b>: Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration:
    An Industrial Case Study, in: <i>Stark, John (Hg.)</i>: Product lifecycle management
    (Volume 4), Cham, Switzerland 2019 (Decision Engineering),  S. 125–143.'
  van: 'Deuter A, Otte A, Ebert M, Possel-Dölken F. Developing the Requirements of
    a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study. In: Stark J, editor. Product
    lifecycle management (Volume 4). Cham, Switzerland: Springer; 2019. p. 125–43.
    (Decision Engineering).'
date_created: 2022-04-25T10:46:14Z
date_updated: 2025-06-26T13:40:03Z
department:
- _id: DEP7022
- _id: DEP1306
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_11
editor:
- first_name: John
  full_name: Stark, John
  last_name: Stark
keyword:
- Product lifecycle management
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Smart products
- Systems engineering
language:
- iso: eng
page: 125-143
place: Cham, Switzerland
publication: Product lifecycle management (Volume 4)
publication_identifier:
  eisbn:
  - 978-3-030-16134-7
  eissn:
  - 2197-6589
  isbn:
  - 978-3-030-16133-0
  issn:
  - 1619-5736
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
series_title: Decision Engineering
status: public
title: 'Developing the Requirements of a PLM/ALM Integration: An Industrial Case Study'
type: book_chapter
user_id: '83781'
year: '2019'
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