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Welcome to the PLMIG
The PLM Interest Group was formed in 2003 as a proactive, global interest group for PLM.
It now provides a wide-ranging set of neutral PLM tools and best practices, including a new standard for PLM Governance
published in December 2011.
The PLM Governance Standard is the first international standard to be created specifically for PLM, and enables any
company to establish effective management and communication between the Board and the PLM Team. More developments will
follow in 2012 as the Standard is applied and assessed, and the PLM industry begins to develop more structure as a result.
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The Standardisation Initiative produces
more material with the publication of the
Path to PLM in the Q2 2011 PLM Journal, showing how to adopt
and implement PLM within a 2-year timeframe.
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PLM Best Practice Library
The PLM Best Practice Library brings together in one place, for the first time, some of the most important knowledge
learned about PLM over the past decade. A 31-page Catalogue indexes over 300 pages of formalised concepts and
methods covering PLM, PDM and some of the most important specialised disciplines.
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In concept, the PLM manager
reaches a decision point, and looks in the Library for a simple document that indicates
the best-practice way forward.
Metrics, commercial value, PLM skills and concepts,
roadmapping, planning, culture change, and through-life support all belong in the Library,
together with detailed best practices for PLM-ERP, PLM-ALM, PLM for SMBs, and advanced
PDM techniques.
The first revision of the
PLM Best Practice Library
is published in the
Q1 2011 PLM Journal.
It is available
via PLMIG Membership.
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Path to PLM
The Path to PLM is a
comprehensive framework of tools and information that leads from the first decision to
try to understand PLM to a fully-working implementation. It provides you with a
central structure to build the optimal PLM environment within your organisation, and a
core set of standard principles against which you can compare the external information
sources and proprietary advice.
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The methodology enables any organisation from any industry to become fully aware of PLM, and to
achieve a practical and effective first implementation within 2 years.
The Path to PLM can also be used by companies that have already started out with PLM, but feel that
progress has not been as good as expected. The methodology includes a "brownfield" process that
will steer the implementation onto a best-practice track within a similar timescale.
The
Path to PLM
is published in the
Q2 2011 PLM Journal
It is available via PLMIG Membership.
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PLM Handbook for SMEs
Small and medium-sized businesses generate at least 25%-30% of private sector output in most industrial
countries. In Italy, almost 95% of industrial companies have less than 150 employees. This made the
Milan Workshop in September the ideal platform to review how the PLM
industry serves this sector.
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The Workshop showed that a completely new approach is needed. It has always been assumed that
PLM implementation for SMEs is somehow a "stripped down" version of what larger companies apply, and that
that it is simply a matter of buying cheaper software and making it work. This completely overlooks
factors such as management style, commercial drivers, ability to adapt and reliance on staff performance
that are the particular strengths and vulnerabilities of smaller companies.
The group in Milan focused on the real world of SMEs, and applied PLM from this viewpoint. The
result is the
PLM Handbook for SMEs,
which sets out a practical PLM methodology that is designed from the SME point of view.
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The Handbook has now been published in the
Q3 2011 PLM Journal,
and is available
via PLMIG Membership.
PLM Governance Standard
The PLMIG programme of workshops in 2011 has produced the first ever international
Standard for PLM Governance that
can be applied by companies of all sizes as a methodology for integrating board-level and operational PLM.
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The Standard gives CEOs and VPs clear visibility of PLM throughout the enterprise, without
requiring them to deal with technical detail - and it provides the PLM Team with a natural mechanism
for presenting PLM problems and issues to the Board in a clear and non-contentious way.
The Standard does not rely on restrictive rules, and does not require extensive documentation of procedures.
Care has been taken to keep it simple, lightweight and accurate.
It focuses purely on governance, not implementation performance, and is simply a distillation of best practice
management and oversight at all levels of a company.
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This is a landmark for the PLM industry, because it is the first standard that applies purely to PLM. Also, this is a
standard, and not simply a collection of best practices. It is intended to be followed in the same way as other
international standards.
The first revision of the
PLM Governance Standard has now
been published in the
Q4 2011 issue of the
PLM Journal. It is available via
PLMIG Membership.
Read More on the PLM Governance Standard >>>
PLM Governance Benchmark
In parallel with the Governance Standard, there is a demand from user companies to be able to show, in quantifiable terms,
how well their
organisation is set up for PLM. The idea was proposed by
Knorr-Bremse in June, and has been gathering support ever since.
The PLMIG is therefore organising a
PLM Governance Benchmark that
will run during 2012.
There will be several companies in the benchmark, to generate the comprehensive results that are needed; together with a
structured framework to run the comparisons and process the results. The benefits of benchmarking in this way are
extensive. The exercise gives an unparalleled appraisal of your whole PLM implementation, from strategy to operations,
and a thorough review of your PLM approach. This will give the PLM Team all the factual data that is needed to fulfil the
Board's requirements for management information.
The Introduction Stage for the Benchmark ran from June to November, and a number of companies are interested
in taking part. The next stage is to hold a
Benchmark Coaching Workshop
to explain the benchmarking techniques and to agree the level of detail. Knorr-Bremse have offered to host this at their
headquarters in Munich, in February.
The Workshop will be a valuable training session in its own right, and is open to PLM managers and directors from any
user company, with no obligation to take part in the Governance Benchmark itself. The timing of the Workshop will be
agreed to suit those who wish to take part, so if you would like more details, follow the links or contact
governance@plmig.com
for more information.
Read More on the PLM Governance Benchmark >>>
PLM Standardisation
Workshop Programme
The 2011 PLM Standardisation Initiative
is underpinned by a series of international workshops that
cover the scope and detail of best practice formalisation.
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The programme was launched with a workshop in Gothenburg for the
Nordic region that
generated a standardised framework for
PLM Governance.
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The Munich Workshop built on the results from Gothenburg, and extended the standardisation concepts into skills,
provisioning, and through-life support. It also laid the groundwork for
the development of a PLM Best Practice Library.
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The
Milan Workshop
in September focused on the new structure of PLM Best Practice, the specific needs of SMEs, PLM application in the process
industries, and the role of advanced technology in PLM
management.
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The London Workshop was hosted by the
IMechE at the beginning of December. It enabled participants to focus on issues that are important to the UK,
and also to debate how PLM standards should be adopted by professional bodies around the world.
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The 2011 series added a great deal of new best-practice material to our understanding of PLM. You can learn how
to apply this at the PLMIG
Standards Implementation Workshop that will be held in synergy with the
forthcoming
PLM Innovation 2012 Congress in February 2012.
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