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11 Citations
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3 September 2022

Managing change in organizations is a laborious task that consumes value added time in various segments of the product lifecycle including design and development, production, delivery, and product disposition. Product lifecycle management plays an im...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,930 Views
29 Pages

9 April 2021

In order to tackle interoperability issues of large-scale automation systems, SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) principles, where information exchange is manifested by systems providing and consuming services, have already been introduced. However,...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,134 Views
18 Pages

Product lifecycle management (PLM) as a holistic process encompasses the idea generation for a product, its conception, and its production, as well as its operating phase. Numerous tools and data models are used throughout this process. In recent yea...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,995 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2020

The management role of the public sector in public–private partnership PPP infrastructure projects has been extensively expanded to the whole lifecycle rather than in the traditional infrastructure projects. The performance of the public sector...

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  • Open Access
1,260 Views
41 Pages

Crisis management in smart cities demands coherent, interoperable, and reusable semantic models to represent complex systems, their risks, crisis situations, interdependencies, and decision-making processes across all lifecycle phases, i.e., preventi...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,065 Views
14 Pages

Background: Several product lifecycle management systems (PLMs) have been implemented in the industrial sector for managing the data of the product from the design up to the disposal or recycling stage. However, these PLMs face certain challenges in...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,003 Views
17 Pages

In manufacturing companies, computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) feature-based approaches have been developed for faster numerical control (NC) programming. They allow to automatically generate toolpath, recognizing both sta...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,696 Views
21 Pages

A Comprehensive Security Architecture for Information Management throughout the Lifecycle of IoT Products

  • Narges Yousefnezhad,
  • Avleen Malhi,
  • Tuomas Keyriläinen and
  • Kary Främling

18 March 2023

The Internet of things (IoT) is expected to have an impact on business and the world at large in a way comparable to the Internet itself. An IoT product is a physical product with an associated virtual counterpart connected to the internet with compu...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,005 Views
20 Pages

The Importance of Lifecycle Refrigerant Management in Climate and Ozone Protection

  • Pallav Purohit,
  • Tilden Chao,
  • Rick Cooke,
  • Hilde Dhont,
  • Richie Kaur,
  • Roberto Peixoto,
  • Helen Walter-Terrinoni and
  • Ashley Woodcock

25 December 2024

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are widely used in refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps (RACHP), and various other applications such as aerosols, fire extinguishers, foams, and solvents. Initially, HFCs were adopted as the primary substitutes for oz...

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  • Open Access
149 Citations
13,233 Views
22 Pages

An Adapted Model of Cognitive Digital Twins for Building Lifecycle Management

  • Ibrahim Yitmen,
  • Sepehr Alizadehsalehi,
  • İlknur Akıner and
  • Muhammed Ernur Akıner

9 May 2021

In the digital transformation era in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, Cognitive Digital Twins (CDT) are introduced as part of the next level of process automation and control towards Construction 4.0. CDT incorporates c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
16,198 Views
36 Pages

25 September 2024

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for implementing digital twins in aircraft lifecycle management, with a focus on using data-driven models to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency. The proposed framework integrates cutting-e...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,346 Views
26 Pages

8 July 2016

This paper describes our conceptual framework of closed-loop lifecycle information sharing for product-service in the Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is based on the ontology model of product-service and a type of IoT message standard, Open M...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,321 Views
29 Pages

23 October 2020

This paper examines the recent hype around Industry 4.0 through the lens of management fashion theory to answer the question of how Industry 4.0 has emerged as a management fashion and to what extent it has diffused in organizational practice. Theref...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,975 Views
20 Pages

22 October 2022

Blockchain technology has disrupted traditional business processes and hence gained significant attention and popularity in recent years. Consequently, a number of blockchain-based platforms are available today that offer vast applications across mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,081 Views
19 Pages

Product Lifecycle Management as Data Repository for Manufacturing Problem Solving

  • Alvaro Camarillo,
  • José Ríos and
  • Klaus-Dieter Althoff

18 August 2018

Fault diagnosis presents a considerable difficulty to human operators in supervisory control of manufacturing systems. Implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in existing manufacturing facilities implies an investment, since it requires up...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,760 Views
22 Pages

The Role of Integrated Information Management Systems in the Relationship Between Product Lifecycle Management and Industry 4.0 Technologies and Market Performance

  • Carlos Eduardo Maran Santos,
  • Pedro Tondela de Jesus Correia Filho,
  • Osiris Canciglieri Junior and
  • Jones Luís Schaefer

6 June 2025

This research explores the relationship between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies with Integrated Information Management Systems (IIMS) and the impact on the Market Performance (MP) of organisations. A survey was...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,162 Views
24 Pages

Digital Intelligence in Building Lifecycle Management: A Mixed-Methods Approach

  • Jianying Lai,
  • Runnan Wan,
  • Heap-Yih Chong and
  • Xiaofeng Liao

3 June 2025

The rapid evolution of information technology has positioned digital intelligence as a transformative force across socio-economic domains, necessitating rigorous scholarly examination of its applications and implications. This paper systematically ex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,471 Views
15 Pages

25 January 2022

Innovations in product development and process technologies represent a promising strategy to face the increasing competitiveness of modern markets in the global economy. Also, customer requirements become more and more specific and the complexity of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,977 Views
23 Pages

Review of the Digital Twin Technology Applications for Electrical Equipment Lifecycle Management

  • Alexandra I. Khalyasmaa,
  • Alina I. Stepanova,
  • Stanislav A. Eroshenko and
  • Pavel V. Matrenin

8 March 2023

Digital twin is one of the emerging technologies for the digital transformation of the power industry. Many existing studies claim that the widespread application of digital twins will shift the industry to a principally new level of development. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
9,549 Views
24 Pages

Generic Multi-Layered Digital-Twin-Framework-Enabled Asset Lifecycle Management for the Sustainable Mining Industry

  • Nabil El Bazi,
  • Mustapha Mabrouki,
  • Oussama Laayati,
  • Nada Ouhabi,
  • Hicham El Hadraoui,
  • Fatima-Ezzahra Hammouch and
  • Ahmed Chebak

14 February 2023

In the era of digitalization, many technologies are evolving, namely, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (IA), and digital twin (DT) which has gained significant traction in a variety of sectors, includin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,018 Views
30 Pages

Sustainable Development of Employee Lifecycle Management in the Age of Global Challenges: Evidence from China, Russia, and Indonesia

  • Hua Xiang,
  • Jie Lu,
  • Mikhail E. Kosov,
  • Maria V. Volkova,
  • Vadim V. Ponkratov,
  • Andrey I. Masterov,
  • Izabella D. Elyakova,
  • Sergey Yu. Popkov,
  • Denis Yu. Taburov and
  • Angelina O. Zekiy
  • + 3 authors

10 March 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the employee lifecycle management (ELM) sphere, leading to the adoption of new human resource (HR) technologies and policies. This study investigates the impact of megatrends, artificial intelligence,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,687 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2025

This study analyzes the effects on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of various combinations of lifecycle refrigerant management (LRM) practices and refrigerant substitutions in residential air conditioners (ACs) until the year 2070. Six scenario...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,715 Views
11 Pages

Infrastructure BIM Platform for Lifecycle Management

  • Keunyoung Jang,
  • Jong-Woo Kim,
  • Ki-Beom Ju and
  • Yun-Kyu An

3 November 2021

Recently, the application of the BIM technique to infrastructure lifecycle management has increased rapidly to improve the efficiency of infrastructure management systems. Research on the lifecycle management of infrastructure, from planning and desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
14,654 Views
23 Pages

Cascade Use and the Management of Product Lifecycles

  • Matthias Kalverkamp,
  • Alexandra Pehlken and
  • Thorsten Wuest

29 August 2017

This paper explores the challenges related to the End-Of-Life phase of products and circular systems of reuse and recycling within the commonly established frameworks of product lifecycles. Typically, Original Equipment Manufacturer-centric supply ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,677 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Hazardous Waste Management Elements in Oil and Gas Enterprises Based on the Life-Cycle Management Concept

  • Rui Wang,
  • Qing Xu,
  • Chenyu He,
  • Xinyi Liu,
  • Zhenyu Feng,
  • Luxiaohe Zhang and
  • Jun Gao

21 March 2023

By analyzing the China’s hazardous waste management policy and the existing problems in hazardous waste management, the elements of hazardous waste management in oil and gas exploration enterprises were identified. Based on the theory of life-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,981 Views
20 Pages

Innovative Ecosystem Model of Vaccine Lifecycle Management

  • Igor Ilin,
  • Anastasia Levina and
  • Konstantin Frolov

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely tested humanity, revealing the need to develop and improve the medical, economic, managerial, and IT components of vaccine management systems. The vaccine lifecycle includes vaccine research and development, product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,990 Views
20 Pages

With an ever-increasing volume and complexity of data collected from a variety of sources, the efficient management of geospatial information becomes a key topic in disaster risk management. For example, the representation of assets exposed to natura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,794 Views
30 Pages

A Framework of Life-Cycle Infrastructure Digitalization for Highway Asset Management

  • Yeran Huang,
  • Jian Gao,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Jierui Zhu and
  • Wanjun Li

23 January 2025

With increased highway mileage, various types and quantities of infrastructure are equipped on the roadside to improve traffic safety and efficiency but also encounter difficulty in asset management. The collected data are separately stored with dive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
13,611 Views
13 Pages

Sustainability-Based Lifecycle Management for Bridge Infrastructure Using 6D BIM

  • Sakdirat Kaewunruen,
  • Jessada Sresakoolchai and
  • Zhihao Zhou

20 March 2020

A number of bridge infrastructures are rising significantly due to economic expansion and growing numbers of railway and road infrastructures. Owing to the complexity of bridge design, traditional design methods always create tedious and time-consumi...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,288 Views
22 Pages

3 July 2023

The discovery of plastic caused a true transformation in human lives and it is used in many essential applications. Despite its significance, humanity struggles to control plastic waste and stop its infiltration into the natural environment. This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,071 Views
40 Pages

2 November 2024

The paper presents a novel framework for implementing decentralized algorithms based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital twin management in aviation, with a focus on component lifecycle tracking. The proposed approach uses NFTs to create unique...

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  • Open Access
920 Views
34 Pages

22 October 2025

Commercial complexes, as major sources of urban energy consumption and carbon emissions, face urgent demands for efficiency improvement under the “dual-carbon” strategy. This paper develops a Building Information Modeling (BIM)-enabled li...

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  • Open Access
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14 March 2026

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has accelerated the adoption of advanced digital technologies in construction, with Digital Twin (DT) emerging as a data-driven framework for enhancing project performance, efficiency, and sustainability. Despite thes...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,216 Views
21 Pages

26 October 2020

The role of agriculture in environmental degradation and climate change has been at the center of a long-lasting and controversial debate. This situation combined with the expected growth in crop demand and the increasing prices of fertilizers and pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,379 Views
23 Pages

A Blockchain and Fingerprinting Traceability Method for Digital Product Lifecycle Management

  • Jose Luis Gonzalez-Compean,
  • Victor Jesus Sosa-Sosa,
  • Jose Juan Garcia-Hernandez,
  • Hiram Galeana-Zapien and
  • Hugo German Reyes-Anastacio

1 November 2022

The rise of digitalization, sensory devices, cloud computing and internet of things (IoT) technologies enables the design of novel digital product lifecycle management (DPLM) applications for use cases such as manufacturing and delivery of digital pr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,851 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2023

The purpose of this study was to combine simulations and experiments in order to present the first stage of construction in product lifecycle management. Based on the simplification of casting models, the relationship between the filling and solidifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,813 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2021

In recent years, as all actions of Internet users become information, the importance of personal information is emphasized, but in reality, the management of personal information is still insufficient. With the advent of the concept of sharing system...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,308 Views
19 Pages

Corrosion in infrastructure creates high-risk scenarios, and mitigation strategies are expensive, with significant annual costs globally. This paper advances the discourse of corrosion monitoring and tracking in infrastructure, emphasizing the import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,397 Views
46 Pages

A Comprehensive Framework for Integrating Extended Reality into Lifecycle-Based Construction Safety Management

  • Felipe Muñoz-La Rivera,
  • Javier Mora-Serrano,
  • Eugenio Oñate and
  • Sofia Montecinos-Orellana

20 May 2025

Construction remains one of the most hazardous industries, with high accident rates driven by insufficient planning, coordination, and safety training. While extended reality (XR) technologies, encompassing virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,566 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2024

This study applies Info-Gap Decision Theory (IGDT) to manage uncertainties in early-stage lifecycle assessment (LCA) in the building sector, focusing on carbon emissions and cost optimization. The building industry significantly contributes to global...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
14,842 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable Development Factors in Pavement Life-Cycle: Highway/Airport Review

  • Peyman Babashamsi,
  • Nur Izzi Md Yusoff,
  • Halil Ceylan,
  • Nor Ghani Md Nor and
  • Hashem Salarzadeh Jenatabadi

Sustainability has gained as much importance as management in business. Sustainable pavement development as a business practice should involve making evaluations according to the triple bottom line in the pavement life-cycle. Despite the current appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,374 Views
32 Pages

18 February 2020

A key challenge in project management is to understand to which extent the dynamic interactions between the different project people—through formal and informal networks of collaboration that temporarily emerge across a project´s lifecycl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,310 Views
11 Pages

18 June 2020

To optimally maintain buildings and other built infrastructure, the costs of managing them during their entire existence—that is, lifecycle costs—must be taken into account. However, due to technological improvements, developers now build...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
15,695 Views
21 Pages

Sustainability in Project Management Practices

  • Inês Soares,
  • Gabriela Fernandes and
  • José M. R. C. A. Santos

19 May 2024

The intersection between sustainability and project management has received significant attention as organizations recognize the criticality of incorporating sustainability practices into their projects. However, incorporating sustainability consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,991 Views
15 Pages

Life-Cycle Oriented Risk Assessment Using a Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Simon Züst,
  • Michael Huonder,
  • Shaun West and
  • Oliver Stoll

21 December 2021

State of the art mechatronic systems are complex assemblies of various parts and sub-systems. In such an interconnected system, even relatively cheap parts can have a major impact on the overall performance due to unexpected failure. Hence, lifecycle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,504 Views
24 Pages

2 April 2023

Changeability analysis methods primarily assist with formulating a response to uncertain and new requirements from various system stakeholders and include asset management issues such as modelling lifecycle path dependency. Epoch-era networks proved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,445 Views
23 Pages

Towards GreenPLM—Key Sustainable Indicators Selection and Assessment Method Development

  • Joanna Helman,
  • Maria Rosienkiewicz,
  • Mariusz Cholewa,
  • Mateusz Molasy and
  • Sylwester Oleszek

19 January 2023

Regulations, depletion of natural resources and changing customer demands are putting pressure on manufacturing companies to consider environmental issues in the development of new products. Companies are using PLM systems to manage the product lifec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,527 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2024

Prefabricated construction has become a significant trend in the international building industry, yet its promotion in China faces cost challenges. This study explores the effect of building information modelling (BIM) technology on the various phase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,073 Views
18 Pages

Behaviors and Trends toward Routine Maintenance and Major Repairs of Afridev Handpumps in Rural Malawi

  • Jonathan P. Truslove,
  • Andrea B. Coulson,
  • Emma Mbalame and
  • Robert M. Kalin

15 June 2021

Service provision for Afridev handpumps through community management in Malawi is a notable challenge. Essential preventative maintenance is often neglected, and repairs are undertaken on a reactive basis. The costs of major repairs are not recognize...

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