 Have you replied to the Reader Survey? Have you replied to the survey in the December 16, 2002 issue to help you position your Collaborative Product Development (CPD) priorities against the priorities of others? If not, please select a link and reply to the survey form hosted by our partner i-nova.cpds. The results will be e-mailed back to all participants. Survey in English Survey in French Survey in German Reference Section Follow the link for books in the Product Development Library Configuration Management . Innovation Management . Performance Metrics . QFD Proposed ICP-35K Project In a recent issue we mentioned the proposed "Implementing CPD and PLM Technologies for 35,000 European Manufacturing Companies" project for the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration. The Expression of Interest for the project is on the European Commission's CORDIS web site at http://eoi.cordis.lu/dsp_details.cfm?ID=34920. The corresponding Call for Proposals has been made: Thematic call in the area of "manufacturing, products and services engineering in 2010". Identifier: [FP6-2002-IST-NMP] Closing Date: 24 April 2003 (first stage) http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=10. Here is an updated list, by country, of the Consortium members participating in preparation of the proposal:
A reader contacted us : "I'd like to participate in your project, but I need some help to present it to my boss. You need to know that in our company when you ask a question these days the first answer is 'how much will it save?' followed by 'what is it?' and then 'how?'". Maybe the following will help. How much will it save? The project's targets are:
PLM is the process of managing a product throughout its lifecycle (from requirement or idea to disposal or recycling) PLM is a major business process along with CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and SCM (Supply Chain Management) PLM is a new paradigm. It changes the way people see the world of product development and support. Before PLM, people used to think about separate "bits" - CAD, testing, PDM, New Product Introduction process, Virtual Prototyping, product costing, maintenance, CASE, simulation, Collaborative Development, recycling, mass customization, best practices, visualization, PPM, traceability, CAM, etc. Different people worked in these areas - with different systems, different information, different words, different documents, different standards. Time was wasted, costs were added and quality went down at the interface between each "bit". PLM is holistic. Everything's joined up along the product lifecycle. Processes, information, techniques and systems fit neatly together. Time is saved, costs go down. Why participate in this project? In 2003, PLM is still a vision. No-one knows what it will look like, how it will work, or how we will implement it. Those who get involved now can get the benefits first. Reader question 2 Another reader contacted us : "Why don't you extend the project beyond Europe as it is of world-wide interest? IMS could be a vehicle". According to its web site, IMS is an industry-led, international research and development program established to develop the next generation of manufacturing and processing technologies. Companies and research institutions from Australia, Canada, the European Union and Norway, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, and the United States of America participate in this program. Each IMS project must include elements being performed by project partners in at least three of the regions participating in the IMS Program". We don't know about the level of interest in all these regions. We have only focused on two of them. It would be interesting to know if there is interest elsewhere. We'd like to hear from any companies or research institutions in
EDM/PDM/PLM World Follow the links for : Vendors in the EDM/PDM/PLM World. Latest additions/modifications : Cimmetry, Interneer. EDM/PDM/PLM service providers. Latest additions/modifications : Martir & Partners EDM/PDM/PLM Conference and seminar organizations Conferences and Seminars in the EDM/PDM/PLM world CE2003 : 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Madeira, Portugal. July 26-30, 2003 International Symposium on Product Lifecycle Management Bangalore, India. July 16-18, 2003 PTC/USER World Event Orlando, FL. June 8-11, 2003 ProSTEP Symposium 2003 Ruesselsheim, Germany. May 7-8, 2003 PLM World 2003 Anaheim, CA. April 28 - May 2, 2003 Cambashi Seminar 2003 Gaydon, England. April 9, 2003 Total Design Solutions 2003 Novi, MI. March 19-20, 2003 Collaborative Product Development and SRM Strategies for Aerospace 2003 Bethesda, Maryland. March 17-19, 2003 CAD case studies, CAD user stories DW Product Development, Inc. : Moldflow Adviser PocketSpec Technologies Inc. : ColorQA Color Comparison Device Polymer Technologies : Moldflow Jada Plastics : Moldflow British Telecommunications (BT) : GTX Bose Corporation : Ansoft Corporation Others General Interest Innovation Management Engineering Change Management Managing PDM in a changing environment Principles of Good Product Development Newsletters Engineering Data Management Newsletter - December 2002 issue Table Of Contents CPC/PLM Strategies : 2002 2PLM Media Sheet Advertisers of CAD, CAM, CAE, EDM, PCM, PDM, PIM, PLM, CPC, CPC/PLM and related systems and solutions. Read the 2PLM Media Sheet. Find out how to reach more than 30,000 customers with one mouse click. |
