PLM makes life easier and more productive for everyone involved in the product lifecycle, except for those who are implementing it.  For the PLM team, the more successful they are, the more their workload increases - a scenario that has been published in 2PLM as:-

• Reducing the PLM Workload

The PLM User Initiative has generated a great deal of structured, user-oriented material that gives a clear shape to PLM management.  These neutral tools, formalised from the vast amount of user expertise within companies in Europe and the USA, eliminate time-wasting issues and enable implementations to be structured so that every part builds upon the others.  Visioning, for example, feeds into VP liaison and roadmapping; VP demands for benefits and maturity figures feed into metrics and planning; maturity figures feed into roadmapping, which feeds back to the board VPs.

As part of the interaction with the PLM user community, the PLMIG is offering a number of on-site briefing visits for user companies, to explain how the material can be used to establish metrics and implementation goals.  The visits cover:-

• Overview of User Initiative Content
• Current body of PLM knowledge
• PLM tools for Self-Assessment, Benchmarking and Roadmapping
• How to establish PLM Metrics
• Feedack for your own company PLM environment
• Working session on PLM issues and targets

These one-day visits are free of charge, and participating companies receive a complimentary copy of the PLM Self-Assessment Toolkit to use within their organisation after the visit.  The initial geographical coverage will be the USA and Europe, arranged to optimise the logistics

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