1 Semester Unit

Product life cycle management (PLM) has been a core business activity for a while when the focus was mainly technical and economical. In recent years, there is a shift to talk about sustainable product life cycle management when we also measure the environetmnal and social impacts of our products across the life cycle stages. An even more innovative approach will also look at other pillars such as safety and risk management across the product life cycle stages. In this course we will discuss the different aspects of PLM approach, giving focus on the three pillars of sustainability, economic, environmental, and societal including assessment methodology, examples, and working with special software. The students will acquire theoretical and practical tools as a management approach to life cycle thinking.