Abstract
Management of green products is a demanding trend that most of the corporates have to face now. The most effective way to deal with the green product management comes from the management of the very source end, the incoming materials, and the managements of the supplier-chain and green materials. The Green Product Management System (GPMS) can act as the management tools for the corporates. For the process management aspect, extentions of the corporate’s original quality management system can satisfy the requirements for the green product management system. To realize the green product management, it is necessary to build up an information infrastructure to integrate the product-related documents and operation-related documents on the same electronic platform, to promote the efficiency of the product information management. The requirement of the reducing environmental impacts, the energy saving and waste reduction becomes dramatically important. The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system can provide a good platform of information flow and management, it can guide the products and operation procedures, allow all the participants to get the quick and accurate information at different product phases and to move the process flow speedily. A product lifecycle management system with the interation of the product information, operation procedures and information platform can act as a suitable tool for the corporate’s product management. In this study, we propose a way to transform the corporate internal flow management to an internal management standard to meet the customer’s green product requirements. In the green product management system, it is necessary to transfer the documents of the procedure requirements and green product certificates as part of the product information. In the first stage, it will be better to run both the paper copy system and PLM software system dually to minimize the risk. Once the PLM system is on track, the process can come on in parallel line. Taking the green product management system as part of the product lifecycle management system, integrating effectively the GPMS and PLM can provide a good reference for the optical component manufacturer to build up the product management system.