PLM systems - functions, architecture, configuration and usage
Information flows in producing companies
Principles and methods for product data management
Data modelling
Relational databases and SQL
MG2135 PLM - Product Lifecycle Management 9.0 credits
Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2025 Start 14 Jan 2025 programme students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 14 Jan 2025 - 2 Jun 2025
- Periods
- P3 (4.5 hp), P4 (4.5 hp)
- Pace of study
33%
- Application code
60488
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
English
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Places are not limited
- Target group
Conditionally elective for TPRMM1
Elective for all Master programmes as long as the course can be included in the programmes
CMAST4, CDEPR4 course within technical profile
- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
- Part of programme
Degree Programme in Design and Product Realisation, åk 4, INE, Conditionally Elective
Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering, åk 4, INE, Conditionally Elective
Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering, åk 4, SUT, Conditionally Elective
Master's Programme, Production Engineering and Management, åk 1, Conditionally Elective
Contact
Per Johansson (pj@kth.se)
Course syllabus as PDF
Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.
Course syllabus MG2135 (Spring 2021–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus MG2135 (Spring 2021–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- explain what product data is and describe its role in a producing company through the whole life cycle of a product
- explain the basic principles of documentation of a product including the rules of operations that apply to this
- describe the main functions and the general architecture of a PLM system
- develop a specification for adaptations of a PLM system for a producing company, based on given preconditions
- create an information model based on a number of operations requirements on product data
- use this information model in an implementation of a PLM system to support a company's processes
- account for the fundamentals of relational databases and formulate simple expressions/queries in a modern database management system
- account for similarities and differences between different PLM systems on the market
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
MG2028/MG2128 CAD and other IT Tools in Industrial Processes
or the equivalent
Recommended prerequisites
MG2028/MG2128 or corresponding
Equipment
In laboratory exercises we use software that is available only in our own computer labs, or that requires remote connection to KTH network.
Literature
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Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- INLA - Individual assignment and reflections, 2.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- LABA - Laboratory assignments, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- PROA - Project work, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
Active participation in PLM workshop
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
No information inserted
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Mechanical Engineering
Education cycle
Second cycle
Add-on studies
No information inserted
Contact
Per Johansson (pj@kth.se)