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Welcome to the PLMIG

The PLM Interest Group has built on collaboration from all parts of the PLM industry over the past six years to develop tools and methodologies that address the primary issues of PLM. The main focus in 2010 will be on PLM Standards, supported by a number of themes that support the overall development of PLM.

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PLM Standards

The PLMIG is running a structured process to enable PLM standards to be created. Discussions started in December 2009 with input and feedback on this web site, supported by a series of published articles from a wide range of contributors in 2PLM.

These discussions formed the basis for the Global PLM Standards Workshop held in Oxford, UK on 24-25 March, which launched the process of actually creating the standards.  

The Workshop generated the PLM Concept Set, which is the set of definitions and principles that everyone needs to know in order to understand PLM correctly.  It also confirmed the first release of the Product Structure Standard, which is the cornerstone of any PDM architecture.

There will need to be international cooperation to take this forward and to align standards across countries and regions, and the next step may be to form a Steering Committee to guide progress.   There may also need to be a new industry grouping of professional experts from PLM organisations that will act as the appraising authority.

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PLM Journal 2010

The Q1 2010 Issue covers the launch of the PLM Standards Initiative and the new standards that were created at the PLM Standards Workshop. The Q1 Issue includes:-

  • Standards Initiative Background
  • PLM Standards Workshop
  • PLM Concept Set
  • Product Structure Standard
  • Next Steps

The PLM Journal is available via Individual Membership, Subscription,
or from the Store.

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The four issues of the PLM Journal published in 2009 form a reference set that encapsulates the current state of neutral PLM knowledge.

The Q4 2009 Issue looks at what the PLM industry as a whole needs to do in order to become more professional.

The Q3 2009 Issue covers the relationship between PLM and the business, from strategy down to the generation of metrics.

The Q2 2009 Issue explains the Path to PLM, deals with the relationship between PLM and PDM, and describes the different project management techniques that apply to them.

The Q1 2009 Issue outlines the PLM managers' discussions at the User Forum launch, and a new framework for calculating the Commercial Value of PLM.

Working Material

The PLMIG has developed a wide range of working material for the PLM Team that is detailed more fully within this site.  The tools include:-

There are also workshops for:- The PLMIG body of knowledge includes the combined results of programmes to develop Reference Models to provide industry standard structure and metrics for:-

PLMIG Membership

You can receive all of the PLMIG working material, plus the quarterly PLM Journal in 2010, plus the 2009 issues and the back catalogue, through PLMIG membership via .

FAQs

The web site now has a Frequently Asked Questions page.

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