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* Welcome * Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
The functions of PLM include:
PLM gives transparency about what is happening over the product lifecycle. It offers managers visibility about what is really happening with products. Without PLM, they are often faced by a huge mass of conflicting information about a product. PLM gives them the opportunity to manage better. With access to the right information, they can make better decisions. With accurate, consolidated information about products available, revenues from new products can be increased and low-cost ways found to extend the revenue-generating lifetimes of mature products. PLM enables a company to reduce product-related costs. Product-related material and energy costs are fixed early in the product development process. PLM provides the tools and knowledge to minimize them. PLM helps optimize resource utilization during product development. And PLM can help cut those pesky recall, warranty and recycling costs that come later in the product's life and eat into profits. PLM is also important because it enables a company to improve its product development performance. Product development, the creation of new products and related services, is the source of future revenues. PLM helps improve product development, enabling a company to grow revenues by improving innovation, reducing time-to-market for new products, and providing superb support and new services for existing products. PLM helps bring new products to market faster. It helps companies to develop and produce products at different sites. It enables collaboration across the design chain and supply chain. PLM helps manage Intellectual Property. It helps maximize reuse of product knowledge. It helps bring together the management of products and processes, and to get processes such as engineering change under control. It helps ensure compliance with regulations. To learn more :
New Aircraft News 13 May 2008 Airbus announced it has completed the A380 programme review. Airbus plans now for 12 (instead of 13) deliveries in 2008 and 21 (instead of 25) in 2009. Details April 09, 2008 Boeing announced a revised plan for first flight and initial deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner. First flight of the all-new airplane will move into the fourth quarter of this year rather than the end of the second quarter, and first delivery is now planned for the third quarter of 2009 instead of first quarter. The 787-9, a larger variant of the airplane, will be the first derivative of the baseline 787 with delivery planned for early 2012. The 787-3, a shorter-range model previously slated to deliver in 2010, will now become the second derivative of the airplane family. Details 
European PLM Summit 2008: Less than two months to secure your place! With only two months left until the European PLM Summit, a few delegate places remain for the pre-event innovation tour taking place on the 23rd June 2008. This is a benchmarking exercise you cannot afford to miss as it will be rich with business critical information to take back and implement in your operation. Find out how the world's leading Aircraft manufacturer defines, executes, measures and manages its product-related business processes. Following the tour will be a two day conference. Join us at the Diagora Espace de Congrès et d'Exposition on the 24th and 25th June with a combination of keynote conference sessions and interactive workshops imperative to reinforcing your understanding of the PLM concept. A clear focus for all manufacturers today is the need to optimise the link between design and manufacturing, reducing product development time. Dick Slansky, PLM Research Director, Arc Advisory Group, USA will be presenting his findings of a brand new report on "Integrating PLM with your existing MES system: linking PLM with physical production" Discover how in order for products to be built quickly and at lower costs entails that all information surrounding it must be consistent and available to all stages of the product lifecycle process:
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