This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference
on Product Lifecycle Management PLM 2015 held in Doha Qatar in October 2015. The 79 revised
full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized
in the following topical sections: smart products assessment approaches PLM maturity
building information modeling (BIM) languages and ontologies product service systems future
factory knowledge creation and management simulation and virtual environments sustainability
and systems improvement configuration and engineering change education studies
cyber-physical and smart systems design and integration issues and PLM processes and
applications.
