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* Welcome *
Welcome to this issue of 2PLM, an e-zine distributed every two weeks on
a free subscription basis. This week we start by looking at some events
proposed by the PLM Interest Group (PLMIG) in April 2005:
- April 20. PLM Best Practice Forum
- April 27. PLM Research SIG Meeting
- April 28-29. PLMIG's PLM/SCM Workshop
* The PLM and Software Configuration Management Workshop *
We addressed the integration of Software Configuration
Management (SCM) and Product Data Management (PDM) in the
January 5, 2004 issue of 2PLM,
including the following quotations:
- "It is a challenge to manage documentation of systems
consisting of both software and hardware. The software
developers prefer to keep the software-related documentation
in the SCM system, while at the same time there is a need to
manage this documentation together with the overall product
documentation" - ABB, Sweden
- "We meet new challenges in the management of software
components consisting of internally developed units, Open
Source Code, and Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS), complying
with different import/export rules and restrictions, and use
them as embedded software in different versions and variants
of devices, products and systems". - Annita Persson
Dahlqvist, Ericsson AB, Sweden.
Many 21st Century products, such as cars, telecomms equipment
and medical equipment are built with tightly integrated
hardware and software components. Yet:
- Product Data Management systems are used to manage the data
defining the hardware components
- Software Configuration Management is used to manage the
evolution of the software components
- PDM and SCM have evolved in parallel, and almost independently,
in their respective domains, solving domain-specific demands
and using different technologies.
The result is a complex situation in which different,
sometimes conflicting, approaches are taken to managing the
data and processes linked to different parts of the same
product. However, it is the same product, and PDM and SCM
must be combined to ensure effective and efficient product
and system development, production and maintenance.
It is expected that, in future years, more and more products
will contain both hardware and software components. It is
also expected that as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
becomes more widespread, the demand on integration between
PDM and SCM processes and data will increase.
The challenges for those responsible for managing the
lifecycles of products with tightly integrated hardware and
software components are already significant, and are
expected by many to grow in coming years.
The PLM and SCM Workshop to be held in
Gothenburg, Sweden on April 28-29, 2005 will
identify:
- current experience with SCM/PDM
- the major issues associated with PLM/PDM/SCM
- currently available implementation approaches
- ideas for future solutions
The Workshop will be hosted by Annita Persson Dahlqvist, a
senior specialist in CM, SCM and PDM at Ericsson AB,
and co-author of the best-selling PDM/SCM
book,
"Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and
Software Configuration Management". This book provides an
excellent introduction to the subject, showing the
similarities and differences of SCM and PDM, and ways to
combine them. It also provides coverage of the wide range
of PDM/SCM tools available in the marketplace.
The book was published in July 2003, and the Workshop will
provide an opportunity to take account of progress since then.
The Workshop is open to both PLMIG members and PLMIG non-members.
For more information, contact Roger Tempest.
* PLM Best Practice Forum, Paris *
This is one of a series of meetings in which the PLMIG is
collaboratively defining PLM Best Practice. This meeting will:
- build on the findings of the PLMIG PLM Best Practice meeting held in
Oxford, England in February 2005
- identify and describe additional Best Practices, and their
implementation details
- discuss the additional steps needed to achieve a complete definition
of Best Practice
This meeting, held at PSA Velizy B, is open to both PLMIG members and
PLMIG non-members.
For more information, visit the FPDMUG
or contact Roger Tempest.
* PLM Research Meeting, Gothenburg *
This is a meeting of the PLMIG's Research SIG (RSIG). The RSIG is
aiming to become the global leader in PLM research. This will not be easy
to achieve, and will certainly require a lot of effort. However it seems
that such an approach is necessary if PLM research is to make
a meaningful impact.
Achievement of significant PLM research results will require a
co-ordinated program of research carried out by a critical mass of
researchers from many organizations. To achieve funding for such a
research program will require high visibility in industry, academia
and research funding bodies. Membership of the RSIG is open to all
organizations wanting to participate in achieving successful PLM
research.
During its meeting in Gothenburg, the RSIG will:
- prepare proposals for EC FP6 Calls with closing dates in
September 2005
- continue to work on the development of 2 PLM Research White
Papers
- define the next activities leading to the creation of a joint
academia/industry PLM Research Forum. One of the objectives of this
Forum will be to initiate and strengthen long-term PLM-oriented
relationships between industry and academia.
Researchers in both industrial and academic organizations may join
the RSIG, and participate in this meeting which is being held at
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
For more information, contact Roger Tempest.
PDM Integration from MeritSpring
* PLM - The Next Frontier. France. Sweden. *
John Stark, author of Product Lifecycle Management:
Paradigm for 21st century Product Realisation, the
book
leading the way to the new PLM, will be in France in
the week starting Monday April 18, and in Sweden in the week
starting Monday April 25. Why not take this opportunity for a
PLM - The
Next Frontier Workshop?
Stark is a thought-leader for the new, 21st Century PLM.
Does your organization agree with his
- definition of PLM (Chapter 1)
- opportunities and benefits of PLM (Chapter 4)
- rationale for PLM (Chapter 5)
- scope of PLM (Chapter 9)
- principles of PLM strategy (Chapter 17)
- development approach for a PLM strategy (Chapter 19)
- change management needs for PLM (Chapter 21)
- positioning of PDM (Chapter 23)
- PLM functionality (Chapter 31)
If you don't know, this could be the time to find out. Mail for more
details.
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