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* Welcome * Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
PLM Innovation Day, a 1 day event for top-level PLM practitioners, will take place at the Radisson Hotel, London on 22nd January 2007. A series of end-user led case studies will describe the innovative deployment of PLM across a variety of industry verticals and applications. Each delegate will receive a personalized itinerary having selected from over 20 individually prepared best practice PLM workshops and PLM masterclasses. PLM Workshop and Masterclass topics include:
Key reasons why you should attend:
* PROMISE PLM * A new White Paper, "The Promise of Increasing Business Value with PLM and Smart Products", describes PROMISE, an innovative approach that brings together, and builds on, PLM and Smart Product technologies to offer companies a new business model and new ways of creating business value. In today's global business environment, manufacturing companies are looking for new ways to provide value to customers and gain competitive advantage. Many would like to offer affordable, reliable, intelligent products that can be easily upgraded during their life in response to real product use. Being first to market with such innovative products will lead to a high market share and high revenues. Even better, such products will keep low-cost competitors at bay while additional revenues are earned from upgrades and related services for many years. The premise of the PROMISE (Product Lifecycle Management and Information Tracking using Smart Embedded Systems) project is that this dream isn't as far-fetched as it may seem, and now is the time to turn it into reality. The core concept of PROMISE is that the information generated by Smart Products - products that are able to sense their condition and environment - can be transformed into knowledge that can be used to better support existing products and to create new product and service value. PROMISE focuses on the complete lifecycle of a product with special emphasis on tracking and managing information during the last two phases of life - the Middle-Of-Life and the End-Of-Life - and how information from these phases can be fed back to the design and production phases of future products, thus closing the product information loops. PROMISE goes beyond current business models in which the flow of product information stops once the product goes to the customer. In the new business model, the product information loops are closed, enabling the flow of product feedback information (such as information about the use and environment of the product) to the manufacturer and/or operator. With such information available, new products and services, corresponding ever closer to customer needs and desires, can be developed and supported. To read this White Paper, go to the PROMISE E-room at the PROMISE website. 
* A380 News * EADS announced that Singapore Airlines has committed to expansion of its Airbus A380 fleet with the signing of a contract for additional orders. Details EADS announced that Qantas Airways signed a firm order for eight more Airbus A380s. Details A380's troubles roiling Airbus. (Published December 17, 2006, Chicago Tribune) Details |
