Product lifecycle management for society

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2013, held in Nantes, France, in July 2013. The 63 full papers presented together with 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: PLM for sustainability, traceability and performance; PLM infrastructure and implementation processes; capture and reuse of product and process information; PLM and knowledge management; enterprise system integration; PLM and influence of/from social networks; PLM maturity and improvement concepts; PLM and collaborative product development; PLM virtual and simulation environments; and building information modeling.