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* Welcome * Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
On March 12 2008, Eurostep held a demonstration of Manufacturing Life-cycle Management as part of the STEP T24 (Manufacturing) meeting in Sweden. This demonstration will now be held as a webinar on April 9. Afterwards, the webinar will be available for download at Eurostep's website. The demonstration provides insight into the life-cycle aspect of manufacturing, presenting the benefits of having a holistic view of the product realization process. The demonstration includes information about:
The demonstrations shows how it is possible to see for a manufactured individual:
* PLM Project Preparation Problems * A few weeks ago we spent a day with a company that had decided to look for a new PLM solution as its PDM application didn't work well. They wanted confirmation, or otherwise, from an external consultant. It was soon clear both that there was little wrong with their PDM application and that they wouldn't need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new PDM system. It was also clear that the company hadn't always taken the most appropriate decisions during implementation and use of the PDM application. That's not unusual. Successfully defining a PLM solution, selecting, implementing and using PLM applications is far from easy. The failure rate is about 50%. Problems can occur:
While defining, in a PLM project, the future overall PLM solution, problems can arise from: Starting with the Wrong Objective
* PDM and PLM * Andreas Lindenthal To understand the terms better, it is useful to go back in history a few years. Until about 1999 the term PLM did not exist. Before, everything that had to do with managing product data was referred to as product data management (PDM) or sometimes also engineering data management (EDM). Most PDM software vendors had their origin in CAD, CAM and/or CAE, and the main purpose of PDM systems was the management and control of the large and complex data structures of their CAD/CAM/CAE (CAx) systems. In 1999, the leading PDM systems included functionality for CAD data management, some document management, configuration/BOM management, revision control and basic workflow management. Then the term PLM was introduced and quickly adopted by the majority of vendors, who saw the opportunity to position PLM as an enterprise application and differentiate it from the prevalent engineering and CAx data centric stance of PDM. With the expanding scope of PLM over the past years this distinction has become more pronounced. Today the consensus is that PDM is focused on the management of CAx data, whereas PLM encompasses the enterprise-wide management of all product related data and processes from ideation to end-of-life. But, depending on the origins of the different PLM vendors, their views differ in terms of whether PDM is part of PLM or not. PLM vendors with origin in CAx, such as Dassault, PTC and Siemens (formerly UGS), whose PLM systems largely evolved from the PDM systems they initially offered, generally position PDM as part of PLM and consequently offer functionality to manage CAx data with their PLM systems via integrations to the various CAx systems. PLM vendors whose origin is in configuration/BOM management, enterprise change management or ERP, such as Arena, Oracle|Agile and SAP, often promote managing CAx data with a PDM system that is part of the CAx system and then to integrate the PDM system to their PLM system. Both approaches or solution architectures have their respective advantages and drawbacks, and it is important to analyze related processes and define detailed requirements and practical use cases to be able to decide which architecture is the better fit for a company's long-term needs. Andreas Lindenthal is President, Metafore, LLC. He can be contacted at andreas.lindenthal@meta-fore.com. 
* PLM User Initiative 2008 * Roger Tempest The Product Lifecycle Management Interest Group (PLMIG) announced the launch of a globally-based PLM User Initiative that will provide companies with a managed framework to interact and collaborate with each other throughout 2008. The Initiative enables participants to combine experience and best practice, and to derive specific solutions to their own most important PLM problems. The aim is to enable a group of companies to gain synergy from their PLM implementions, to generate and quantify a common set of PLM Best Practices, and to enhance the PLM implementation of each participant by focused application of the new knowledge, tools and metrics. Pre-Registration Details Pre-Registration is free, and includes the creation of a concise PLM Profile. As the collected Profiles will be circulated amongst the Pre-Registrants for discussion, this will give an interesting comparison of a number of different, real PLM implementations. There is no obligation to take part in the Initiative after the discussion phase. The PLM Interest Group The PLM Interest Group is a neutral, independent industry body for PLM. It has no geographical restrictions on membership or activities. The aim of the PLMIG is the advancement of Product Lifecycle Management and its related disciplines by combining the experience of organisations across the whole industry. Membership of the PLM Interest Group is open to : manufacturers ; product and service providers; developers of PLM and related technologies; vendors and distributors ; system integrators ; consultants ; research institutes ; industry associations ; standardisation bodies ; government agencies ; academia. More Information For more information, please contact: Roger Tempest PLMIG e-mail: userinitiative@plmig.com tel: +44 1865 880495
* BPM Initiatives * Scott Cleveland BPTrends performs many surveys during the year. I found these results worth discussing .. 53% use process modeling and analysis tools 38% use business process automation software 61% are actively pursuing departmental process improvements 45% have active process improvement projects in place And, 36% have a dedicated business process practice group or a center of excellence A couple of their conclusions:
Scott Cleveland is VP Sales & Marketing, Ingenuus Software.
* Airbus news * A400M Life Cycle Costs The acquisition price is only a portion of the total costs of owning and operating an aircraft. The Life Cycle Costs (LCC) are also affected by downstream fuel and other operating & support costs. A fleet of 50 A400M airlifters represents an acquisition cost of 5bn-Euros and a 30-year total LCC of 10bn-Euros. Details. A380 March 11 2008 The third production Airbus A380 (MSN006) was handed over to Singapore Airlines on 11th March. This follows the delivery of the first A380 (MSN003) on 15th October 2007 and second delivery (MSN005) on 11th January 2008. Details. March 26 2008 Singapore Airlines grounded a second Airbus A380 super-jumbo because of a fuel pump problem. .. A similar fuel pump problem grounded another of the airline's A380s back in February. Details. Insider trading France's stock market regulator said it has uncovered evidence of insider trading and market abuse at Airbus parent firm EADS. Details.
* Lättare införa PLM i litet bolag * Mindre företag är också mindre komplexa. Därför är det lättare att införa PLM där, hävdar PLM-gurun John Stark. Automation. #3, 27 March 2008 http://www.automation.se/ default_mall.asp?sokvag=innehall/innehall.htm 
* European PLM Summit 2008 * Nike confirmed to speak about deploying PLM throughout the organisation. Over 50 delegates have confirmed their attendance for the Airbus Pre-event Innovation tour taking place as part of the European PLM Summit from the 23rd - 25th June and the response from the PLM community has been truly overwhelming. This is an opportunity you cannot miss as spaces on the tour are now strictly limited for you to learn and experience first hand how the latest product design, development and production technologies combine to help maximise the output of the new Airbus A380. Book your place now quoting JSPLM3 by 18th April 2008 to qualify for special early bird price of £1695 on the pre-event innovation tour package. Following this chance to see PLM in action, there will be a two day gathering of industry professionals at the European PLM Summit 2008 made up of keynote conference sessions and interactive workshops run by leading solution providers covering the length and breadth of the PLM spectrum. Featuring the presentation: PLM and Human capital: Addressing the cultural dynamic Led by Michael Flynn, Director, Category Product Creation IT, Nike, Inc, USA who will discuss:
View the full programme For all enquiries, please contact Oliver Sloane on +44 (0) 207 202 7558.
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