The PLM User Initiative extends this to a new level in 2010, involving more user companies working together throughout the year to generate new methods and tools to apply to their own implementations.  By leveraging this body of knowledge with the input of vendors, service providers and industry bodies, new PLM standards will emerge that will improve the adoption and effectiveness of PLM throughought the marketplace.

Real-world PLM expertise is spread amongst the implementation teams of many companies in the USA and Europe, but until now there has been no platform for developing or formalising it.

The PLMIG will manage a structured framework of close collaboration and open themed events on both sides of the Atlantic, incorporating the experience of multinational companies operating in global environments.  It is a chance to share implementation methods and best practice with the only people with comparable expertise and challenges as you - other PLM managers and directors - and have the results blended with your working processes.

The central, or core, deliverables of the Initiative have been set by users.   Each participating company also defines its own specific set of deliverables, in the form of impact and benefits on their own implementation.  This is made possible because of the integrated structure of the project by which results in one stream map onto many others.

Additional benefits of the User Initiative will be the development of the first standards for PLM, of the kind that are common in other industries.  Some will be enhanced by cooperation with industry bodies and existing standards organisations, and others will build into the PLMIG reference models for PLM Benefits, PLM Maturity and PLM Best Practice

Look at the User Initiative Deliverables and see if they match the needs of your implementation.  If you feel that others should be added, or would like more information about the User Initiative itself, contact the PLMIG via userinitiative@plmig.com.

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