Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation (Decision Engineering) Hardcover – January 1, 2011

My company (auto industry) is considering implementing some PLM best practices in conjunction with a large PDM software purchase. I was hoping this book would shed light on current practice in industry. Unfortunately, the book is unreadable in my opinion and I cannot imagine the intended audience. It contains over 500 pages of choppy definitions and generalities. Some examples:from page 265: "Whatever the equipment, companies are always looking for high quality equipment and output."The Archiving subheading on page 117 comprises: "A lot of product data must be kept for a long time. Requirements may vary by industry, but customers and regulators may require data to be kept for several decades."Thanks for the deep insight! Those types of vacuous quotes fill the pages. It has the appearance of being a well organized book because of the exhaustive outline structure, but it is still not cohesive. Even if the publisher heavily edited this book (don't think it was edited at all), I am not sure you could get 100 useful/insightful pages out of it. Perhaps the author gets paid by the word.I do not write many negative reviews, but I felt it was necessary in this case so that others may not be duped into buying it by some of the absurd reviews below.