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Welcome to the PLMIG

The PLM Interest Group is the leading industry body for PLM.  It was formed in 2003 as a proactive, global interest group for PLM and 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.

The PLMIG is a highly proactive organisation, and will generate more knowledge and material during 2012 as it runs the first ever global PLM benchmark.

PLM Governance Benchmark

The PLMIG is organising an international PLM Governance Benchmark amongst user companies that will run throughout 2012.  This is the first time that companies that may spend millions of dollars annually on PLM will be able to compare how well that money is being spent.

 

Thales, Knorr-Bremse, DCNS Group and Honeywell met in Paris on April 16-17 to confirm the Benchmark structure, methodology, timescales and deliverables.

The first stage of the Benchmark will start in June, and will deliver bespoke comparisons by the summer break.  The detailed drill-down will start in September and produce the full results by mid-Q4.

The benefits of benchmarking in this way are extensive. The exercise gives an unparalleled appraisal of the entire PLM implementation, from strategy to operations, and a thorough review of your PLM approach.  For those who take part in the detailed drill-down, the Governance Benchmark will provide detailed information about how well PLM affects the business bottom line.  This will provide PLM Teams with all the factual data that is needed to fulfil the Board's requirements for management information.

The participating companies would be glad to accept more partners, and you can still join the Benchmark in time to take part in the full programme.

Read More on the PLM Governance Benchmark >>>

PLM Standardisation

Workshop Programme

The PLM Standardisation Initiative is underpinned by a series of international workshops that cover the scope and detail of best practice formalisation.

The programme was launched with a workshop in Gothenburg for the Nordic region that generated a standardised framework for
PLM Governance.

  Novotel, Gothenburg
BW University, Munich  

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.


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.

  Nearchimica

IMechE, London  

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.


The above series added a great deal of new best-practice material to our understanding of PLM.  Techniques for how to apply this in real implementations were developed at the PLMIG Standards Implementation Workshop held in synergy with the PLM Innovation 2012 Congress in February 2012.

  Westin Munich

Standardised PLM Knowledge

  PLM Journal  

As a direct result of the Standardisation Initiative, a new PLM Best Practice Library has now been established, and the Catalogue has been published in the Q1 2011 PLM Journal.


  PLM Journal  

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.


  PLM Journal  

The third Workshop in the PLM Standardisation Initiative was held in Milan, Italy in September. It highlighted the particular needs of the small business sector, and generated a new PLM Handbook for SMEs.


  PLM Journal  

The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers hosted the fourth Workshop in the 2011 PLM Standardisation Initiative series at their headquarters in London on 01-02 December. This generated the final material needed to complete the PLM Governance Standard.



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