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* Welcome * Welcome to 2PLM, an e-zine distributed about every two weeks. This issue includes :
One of the reasons why it is so difficult to implement PLM successfully in a company is that many people in the company will initially have little or no understanding of PLM. Although a few people will immediately understand the meaning of PLM, and the importance of PLM for the company, many will not understand what PLM is, many will misunderstand, some will disagree, and some will ask for more information. People may have several reasons for wanting to know more. They could want to know more about the PLM environment in which they will be working. They could want to know more about what they will have to do to achieve that environment. They could have questions such as:
It would not be useful to reply to them: "I'm sorry, PLM doesn't exist in the company today, so I can't tell you about it, but in a few years it should be fully deployed. If you ask me then, I'll be able to tell you more". It would be much more useful to reply: "I can tell you what PLM will look like in the future, for example five years from now". "What it will look like five years from now" is a five-year Vision of PLM. Once this Vision has been created it can be communicated throughout the company so that people will know what PLM is going to look like. It will be easier to make progress if everyone knows where they are going. Although a Vision may sound as if it is ghostly and immaterial, the PLM Vision needs to be concrete, clear, complete, consistent and coherent. It needs to be understandable and meaningful to different types of people in the company. It needs to provide people at different positions in the company with different levels of detail. The five-year PLM Vision should provide a high-level conceptual description of the way that the company will manage its products across their lifecycles in five years, enabling it to perform successfully and continue to perform successfully. The Vision should provide a self-contained description of the motivation for PLM, the components of PLM and their organization. It should offer a picture of an effective product lifecycle environment that will be rewarding for shareholders and exciting for employees. To learn more :
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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