The PLMIG feels that more should be done to promote PLM success stories to the wider business world. The PLM in the Popular Press initiative aims to develop a reporting format that can convey PLM as business news, and to use this to publish articles in mainstream newspapers around the world.

It has been suggested that the strategic nature of PLM is more developed in Europe than in the USA, but nobody knows for sure. The massive implementation track record within the United States is hidden from view, so that not even American companies can learn from it. The PLM in the USA feature will reveal the general picture of the current state of the art.

News - Jim Heppelmann Interview

News - Denis Senpere Interview

PLM Industry Vision

Based on its work on PLM standards and maturity, the PLMIG has defined and published a PLM Industry Vision to show where the PLM industry should be in 2020.

This definition is a starting point in the process of deciding how to develop the industry, and is open to comments and feedback from all PLM professionals. The aim is to use the Vision as the basis for a widespread and constructive debate about the direction of PLM.

PLM Standards

The PLMIG PLM Standards Workshop held in Oxford in March generated a number of new standards for PLM, including:-

• the PLM Concept Set, which defines the fundamental understanding of PLM
• the Product Structure Standard, which is the cornerstone of every PDM architecture

The PLMIG will continue to provide a platform for users, vendors, integrators, consultants, academics and other organisations to work together to generate new standards material.

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The PLM Concept Set contains the formal definitions of 7 basic concepts of PLM:-

• PLM Definition
• PLM vs PDM Definition
• 'Enterprise Down' Concept
• PLM Permeation Concept
• PLM Traction Concept
• PLM Maturity Definition
• PLM Best Practice Definition

The PLM Concept Set is a significant development because it formalises, in a very simple way, a standardised base point for PLM expertise. It embodies fundamental PLM ideas into an industry standard grouping, and encapsulates what experienced PLM people know but people new to the role may not.

The PLMIG provides extensive working material for those who are about to implement, or are in the process of implementing, PLM.  The knowledge embodied in the PLM Journal and the PLMIG toolkits and handbooks is neutral, accurate and effective, and is based on the collaborative work of PLMIG members since 2004.

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