ABSTRACT
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a business strategy, aiming to streamline the flow of information about products and related processes throughout the whole product Lifecycle such that the right information in the right context at the right time can be made available. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic meant major improvements to the way service companies operate, changing the schedule and activities of their workers. The introduction of Industry 4.0 also launched emerging technology that could promote certain operations, thus alleviating the consequences of COVID-19. The aim of this research is to, first, investigate how this pandemic has impacted the product lifecycle, and secondly, explore how industry 4.0 technologies can address these challenges by proposing a Digital Smart Agile PLM framework. © 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 health crisis has had a major impact on health systems around the world. The health care structures supposed to counter the spread of the disease and to limit its extent are running out of steam due to the cruel lack of means and resources, especially at the peak of the pandemic. This calls into question the current models of Hospital Supply Chains (HSCs), which have been heavily impacted by the crisis and whose mission is to provide the healthcare process with what it needs to guarantee patients quality medical care. The present paper proposes first to show that the HSC is a complex system that is facing a system which is not lacking in complexity, namely Covid-19. Second, it presents the impact of Covid-19 on all the processes of the HSC, from a hospital directly involved in the care of patients affected by the disease. © 2020 IEEE.