Need of Developing Information Systems of Managing a Technology Lifecycle of Industrial Enterprises

Abstract

The following article is aimed at justifying the need of developing new information systems of managing a lifecycle of technologies in order to increase the efficiency of industrial enterprise performance. This necessity was caused by the objective processes happening in the world, specifically globalization of the world economy and further specialization of labour which led to segregation of production facilities from R&D centers developing new types of products and doing market research. In this regard, the competitiveness of industrial enterprises is now primarily to be defined by the efficiency of the technologies used in the production process. However, nowadays the vast majority of information systems are aimed not at managing technologies, but at managing products.

The author shows the common ground and differences between the management systems of a product lifecycle and management systems of a technology lifecycle as well as what competitive advantages industrial enterprises will get implementing management systems of a technology lifecycle. At the same time, the transition into such system should not have a revolutionary nature. It can be implemented due to the improvement of the available information systems, with shifting the focus on improving the existing technologies and creating new ones. Upon such transition, industrial enterprises will keep the available competences in developing new types of products and will receive an additional impulse of development due to the increase in efficiency of the technologies used.