This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2020, held in Rapperswil, Switzerland, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 technical industrial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:

• smart factory;
• digital twins;
• Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT);
• analytics in the order fulfillment process;
• ontologies for interoperability;
• tools to support early design phases;
• new product development;
• business models;
• circular economy;
• maturity implementation and adoption;
• model based systems engineering;
• artificial intelligence in CAx,
• MBE,
• PLM;
• building information modelling; and industrial technical contributions.