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Product life cycle management (PLM) is a philosophy, process and discipline supported by software for managing the life cycle of products through the stages from concept through recycling/retirement. As a discipline, it has grown from a mechanical design and engineering focus to being applied to many different vertical-industry product development challenges. The market for PLM software includes vendors that: - Provide product data management (PDM) software to capture, cultivate and manage technical product-related content. That content defines the products’ specifications and designs and their allowable product configurations. It includes technical descriptions of the parts, materials and allowable product configurations expressed as 3D models, drawings and other related content. All PLM vendors deliver PDM functionality. - If software providers support only PDM functionality, Gartner does not consider them PLM vendors. PLM vendors support complementary applications that enable the PLM discipline to various degrees. Gartner considers a vendor a PLM provider if it supports at least three complementary software categories that enable the PLM discipline. Table 1 provides insight into the complementary categories of software that support the PLM discipline. Those additional software categories help manufacturers create, deliver, maintain, service and discontinue products.

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