“…Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), is defined as a strategy that integrates information, people, processes and technologies in all the stages of a product lifecycle, from its design, manufacture, implementation and maintenance, and ending in the withdrawal from service and final disposition (Grieves & Tanniru, 2008). PLM strategy has been implemented in aerospace (Brandao & Wynn, 2009), textile (Hribernik et al, 2019) and automotive industries (Nascimento & Cessa, 2019), however, only a few studies have been done in the field of orthopaedic medicine. The studies done in this sector are mainly focused on osteosynthesis implants (Murillo, López, & Martínez, 2017;Ngo, Bernard, & Belkadi, 2017).…”