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* Welcome * Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
In the January 30 issue of 2PLM we suggested that 2006 is the Year of Talking about Innovation. A reader wrote to inform us that there is a real need to talk about innovation, otherwise companies won't have products to sell, and the West will become a deindustrialized society without jobs. Large manufacturing companies unable to innovate eventually reduce their headcount. Small and medium companies without a specific differentiator lose out to competition from low-cost countries. He's organizing an Innovation Conference, focused on innovation achievements and achieving innovation, that will be held at the end of 2006 and is expected to attract hundreds of innovationists. He suggested that we present a paper on the emergence of PLM in the light of Schumpeter's view that innovation drives growth. Joseph Schumpeter and his work on evolutionary economics are expected to figure high on the Innovation Conference Agenda. Schumpeter's work at Harvard from 1932 onwards influences the thinking of innovationists, with much of the innovation program of the European Union, for example, being based on his work. We offered to present 'Innovation drives growth : Implementing PLM to increase the value of the product portfolio'. Meanwhile we've been working with our customers to help them plan and implement PLM. Their objectives, definitions and timescales differ, but they are all working towards cradle-to-grave PLM addressing multiple components such as applications, processes, data and skills. When we start working with a company, we often suggest taking a week or two to document the current situation and the issues to be addressed. The resulting document is useful in several ways. It shows the wide scope of PLM and the issues addressed in a PLM project. It's a good basis for management discussion about the need for PLM and the expected benefits. It helps identify and prioritize the activities that will occur in the project. It helps define short-term targets for quick success in the first six months. Experience shows that short-term demonstrable success will help achieve the support required for medium- and long-term actions. * Top 10 PLM Pitfalls To Avoid * John Stark Associates, together with SofTech, Inc. (sponsor of the recent John Stark Associates PLM Web Series), share their knowledge of working with companies to implement PLM solutions in a quick-read, complimentary white paper summary entitled 'Top 10 PLM Pitfalls to Avoid'. Jointly developed for the PLM Web Series, this document outlines some of the more common pitfalls seen and encountered by companies planning for and implementing PLM. 
Product Lifecycle Management is focused on managing a company's products. Not surprisingly, PLM strategies vary from industry to industry and company to company. However, there are core fundamental objectives of PLM that are the same, and because of this and the nature of people, technologies, and product practices in general, common implementation obstacles are encountered along the way. Click on the banner above to download your copy of 'Top 10 PLM Pitfalls to Avoid' to help steer your PLM initiative around these common hazards: Top 10 PLM Pitfalls 1. Starting before everyone is informed 2. Proceeding before everyone agrees 3. Having unclear project objectives 4. Not planning for setbacks and rejection 5. Proceeding without a sense of reality 6. Running a major product risk 7. Thinking PLM is only about managing product data 8. Thinking you can hold off on PLM a little longer 9. Believing you can't fail 10. Not measuring and promoting your success * Product Development Metrics and PLM Benefits in Boston, MA * GGI announced its third Product Development Metrics Summit will be held March 14-16, 2006 in metro Boston. The series of 3 seminars is focused on 3 areas of importance to R&D executives and managers. Details The PLM Interest Group (PLMIG) announced a PLM Benefits Workshop to be held 28 February - 1 March 2006 in Boston. It's the first in a series of Workshops being held to launch the project to develop a PLM Benefits Reference Model (BRM). The Workshop is aimed at achieving an in-depth understanding of the current situation with PLM benefits, and preparing the plan for a project which will lead to an internationally accepted PLM Benefits Reference Model. Details The Boston Workshop is being organized with the assistance of PTC, one of the Founder Members of the PLM BRM project. The second Workshop in the series is expected to be held in March in London, England. It is being organized with the assistance of UGS, another of the Founder Members of the PLM BRM project. |
