This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference
on Product Lifecycle Management PLM 2016 held in Columbia SC USA in July 2016. The 57
revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The
papers are organized in the following topical sections: knowledge sharing re-use and
preservation collaborative development architectures interoperability and systems integration
lean product development and the role of PLM PLM and innovation PLM tools cloud computing
and PLM tools traceability and performance building information modeling big data analytics
and business intelligence information lifecycle management industry 4.0 metrics standards
and regulation and product service and systems.
