“…The growing importance of PLM has been pinpointed by several authors, such as Ameri and Dutta (2005), Ball, ing, Patel, Mullineux, and Matthews (2011), Bokinge and Malmqvist (2012), Chen et al (2008), D'Amico, Giustiniano, Nenni, and Pirolo (2013), Garetti, Terzi, Bertacci, and Brianza (2005), Hans, Hribernik, and Thoben (2010), Kaur and Sharma (2011), Kiritsis (2011), Le Duigou, Bernard, Perry, and Delplace (2012), Pol, Merlo, Legardeur, and Jared (2008), Segonds, Maranzana, Véron, andAoussat (2011), Segonds, Nelson, andAoussat (2012), Subrahmanian, Rachuri, Fenves, Foufou, and Sriram (2005), Terzi, Bouras, Dutta, Garetti, and Kiritsis (2010), Verhagen, Bermell-Garcia, van Dijk, and Curran (2012) and Zhang (2011).…”