| dc.description.abstract | The Great China market has become an extremely competitive territory for worldwide IC design companies since globalization is strongly underway in semiconductor industries. Fierce competition does motivate Taiwan IC design companies, who mostly penetrate in low and middle levels product market, to implement Product Life Cycle Management System to compete with international companies who have gained market shares by acquisition, merger and factory expansion.
This research takes A Company’s project execution as example. Through implementing of the Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) System, the system helps to optimizing the company’s core product development process and procedure, and then enhancing its capability of product development according to previous researches and problem-solving experiences.
IC design industry puts great emphasis on customization fulfillment, research and development management, human resource management, product outsourcing management, and internal procedure integration. Therefore, with the PLM system, the company can shorten product launch cycle, achieve better knowledge management, and then enhance its customer relationships.
Through the analysis of A company, the key success factors of implementing a PLM system include 8 elements: capability of project management, team involvement, support and commitment from top management, setup long term strategy and working mode, assistance from experienced consultant team, maturity of system integration, performance index setting, and lesson learned from previous implementation. In this study, we provide guidelines for IC design companies when implementing of a Product Life Cycle Management System.
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