Contents -- Foreward -- Preface -- Part 1: Basic Principles of PDM and SCM -- Chapter1: Requirements of complex pro -- 1.1 Products are all around us -- 1.2 Product life cycle -- 1.3 Complexity increases -- 1.4 PDM and SCM -- Chapter 2: General description of PDM -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Basic functionality -- 2.3 Information architecture -- 2.4 System architecture -- 2.5 Applications -- 2.6 Trends in PDM -- 2.7 Summary -- Chapter 3: General description of SCM -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Basic functions -- 3.3 Related domains -- 3.4 Trends -- 3.5 Summary -- Part 2: Similarities and Differences between PDM and SCM -- Chapter 4: Comparison of technical principles and key functionality -- 4.1 Comparison of principles -- 4.2 Comparison of key functionality -- 4.3 Summary -- Chapter 5: Analysis and general findings -- 5.1 Development process and information management -- 5.2 A case study-Information management and PLC -- 5.3 Complex products -- 5.4 Integration requirements and constraints -- 5.5 Summary -- Part 3: Integration and Deployment -- Chapter 6: PDM and SCM integration -- 6.1 Possible integrations -- 6.2 Different scenarios in an integrated environment -- 6.3 Examples of integrations -- 6.4 Summary -- Chapter 7: Evaluation and deployment -- 7.1 Evaluation and deployment of complex systems -- 7.2 Evaluation -- 7.3 Deployment -- 7.4 Summary -- Part 4: Case Studies -- Chapter 8: Case Studies -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Sun Microsystmes, Inc. -- 8.3 Mentor Graphics Corporation -- 8.4 Ericsson Radio Systems AB -- 8.5 Ericsson Mobile Communications AB -- 8.6 ABB Automation Technology Products -- 8.7 SaabTech Electronics AB -- 8.8 Summary -- Part 5: Tools and Standards Survey -- Chapter 9: A survey of PDM tools -- 9.1 PDM resources on the Internet -- 9.2 PDM systems -- 9.3 List of PDM tools -- 9.4 Summary -- Chapter 10: Survey of SCM tools.

10.1 SCM resources on the Internet -- 10.2 Commercial SCM tools -- 10.3 List of SCM commercial tools -- 10.4 Freeware SCM tools -- 10.5 Summary -- Chapter 11: Document management systems -- 11.1 Document management and PDM -- 11.2 Document life cycle and document management -- 11.3 Document management and related technologies -- 11.4 Document management resources on the Internet -- 11.5 List of document and content management systems -- 11.6 Summary -- Chapter 12: Standards and de facto standards in PDM and SCM -- 12.1 PDM standards -- 12.2 CM standards -- 12.3 SCM standards -- 12.4 Life cycle processes -- 12.5 CMM and CMM Integration -- 12.6 SGML and XML -- 12.7 Summary -- List of Acronyms -- About the authors -- Index.