PLM Interest Group

Welcome to the PLMIG

The PLM Interest Group provides neutral tools, expert knowledge, managed programmes and leadership to raise the performance of PLM.

PLM 2025-35

Industry collaboration on Professional PLM and the Body of Knowledge will form the Vision for the next 10 years of progress.

Professional PLM

Establishing a global Professional Body for PLM will raise standards, enable certification, and raise the profile and recognition of PLM as a discipline.

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Over the past 20 years the PLMIG has run a wide range of initiatives which have established many of the core principles and techniques of PLM.

You can find the tools and methodologies under PLM Improvement.

Many PLMIG techniques have raised the horizons of PLM and enable solutions and outcomes that were not previously thought possible.

You can browse these and compare them to your current thinking under Advanced Thought.

This twin-track project enables major corporations to swap methods and solutions with each other, while a parallel strand distils these into neutral knowledge.

The findings will produce a new global model for best practice and right-first-time PLM.

PLM Improvement

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General Information

Basic information about PLM.

Management Techniques

Managing the real PLM implementation.

Advanced PLM

High-end approaches to PLM.

Financial Control

Calculate the $/�/� costs and benefits of your current implementation and future plans.

User Initiative

Work with PLM Managers from other user companies at a User Forum event.

Active Support

Active intervention to improve your implementation.

User Viewpoint

The PLM User Initiative enables PLM Managers to meet with and learn from each other, in a constructive environment that is completely vendor- and advisor-independent.

If you are working at the 'PLM coalface' in a user company, you will face technical and operational issues that only other PLM Managers will understand.

User Forum workshops enable you to get together and collaborate.

User Forum Workshops

User Forum meetings are 1-day workshops open to participants from user companies from any country that is within the time zone.

Delegates choose the subjects they will cover; present their ideas to each other; and work together to generate solutions.

The PLMIG adds theory and best-practice knowledge to enhance the discussions, and provides a written record of the results.

This means that participants receive brand-new instruction material to use back at base, and can follow up the ideas with other users as they wish.

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Voice of the User

The 'Voice of the User' is a separate issue in its own right.

There is a widespread feeling amongst PLM user companies that vendor roadmaps are designed to serve a few very large customers, and that the race to add new features can push users in directions they don't want to go.

It is also clear that users themselves need to be expert in dealing with their providers, because many things that users wish for are, in fact, the user's own responsibility.

Future PLM

See how research programmes can advance PLM beyond its current horizons.

Site Map

Find subjects by name.

Making PLM Work

PLM Toolsets

PLM manuals and handbooks to help carry out the most important tasks of PLM Managers.

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Buy PLMIG publications on Amazon.

Membership Options

There are 3 Membership options to cover the varying ranges of involvement from use of the tools through to direct corporate support. Tools can also be purchased from the Store.