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        PLM Standardisation
          German Workshop


Overview

The second workshop in the 2011 PLM Standardisation series was hosted on June 07-08 2011 by the Universität der Bundeswehr München.

The Agenda incorporated the results of the results of the workshop in the Nordic Region, including the PLM Governance Standard, and made extensive progress with the group's own ideas, including the development of a PLM Best Practice Library.


 German Region
Workshop Format

On Day 1 the PLMIG presented the current standards scenario, together with the Gothenburg results, after which delegates presented their own themes to the group. These included the context of PLM standards in general, and their usefulness in the real world; the application of PLM in the military and defence arenas, particularly in through-life support; PLM as applied to software and ALM; and the academic or theoretical structure of PLM standardisation.

On Day 2 the group developed these areas in more detail, and collectively reached a watershed point about the relationship between formal standards and the more general capture of PLM best practices.

Workshop Results

Significant progress was made with the participants' own scenarios and, as in Gothenburg, the current PLMIG standards material proved to be accurate and applicable across industry boundaries.

The step forward made by the group as a whole was to differentiate between those elements of best practice which need to be standards in the conventional meaning of the term (such as the PLM Governance Standard and the Product Structure Standard), and the more informal elements (ranging from the PLM syllabus to specifics such as the Benchmarking methodology) that are used in a more "freestyle" way by the PLM Team.

The majority of PLM best practice elements fall into the second category, and should be managed in a PLM Best Practice Library.

Next Steps

The PLMIG initiative continued with the release at Version 1.0 of the PLM Best Practice Library.  The workshop series then moved forward to Milan on 27-28 September, at which participants leveraged the new material to generate new techniques for SME PLM and for the process industries.


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