A PLM Approach for Services in Transportation System Management

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is one of the innovative manufacturing paradigms which allow a company s product content to be developed and integrated with all company business process through the extended enterprise. The core part of the PLM successful process is the management, collaboration and exchange of all the product information. In this paper we analyze the state of the art about the integration of product meta-data models, standardized engineering and business processes, Service Oriented Architecture and Decision Support System specifications in PLM. Moreover, we expand the field of application of the PLM on the service contexts, particularly looking at the logistic services. More precisely, we study the possibility of exploiting the PLM characteristics for the huge data management of the Decision Support System specification applied to the Intermodal Transportation Networks. Moreover, in order to evaluate the implementation success or failure of PLM in the Intermodal Transportation Networks context, a procedure for the successive PLM assessment and verification is outlined