How Education Supports PLM Deliberations
A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with John MacKrell, Chairman, CIMdata
12 October 2023
11:00 EST | 08:00 PST | 17:00 CST
Do any of the following statements sound familiar?
- Many organizations do not have all the internal resources and knowledge they need to plan, implement, and deploy a PLM solution that enables digital transformation. Thus, an effective roadmap, strategy, and tactics to guide resources are difficult to plan and achieve.
- While a few organizations have implemented PLM in the past, the capability landscape continues to evolve, with new concepts and capabilities being continuously introduced.
- Digital transformations and PLM solution implementations include many factors that need to be accounted for—few organizations seem to understand all of the issues.
- Organizations tend to end up with a partially viable solution that provides only some of the expected business benefits and does not deliver the expected ROI.
You have selected a PLM solution suite, but to maximize its value to your company’s digital transformation it must be properly architected and implemented to support your business processes and methods. This is a complex journey that involves the integration of the multitude of solutions and capabilities you use today and new tools you may be planning to use.
Data usually comes from and goes to multiple repositories and parts of your organization. Not all functions and tools use data in the same way and in the same form, so accommodating all business processes is not always straightforward. If you don’t understand what a PLM solution may be capable of doing, how your selected solution may be configured to do what you need, and the best practices that may be employed to provide the best value, then your PLM solution can’t be built to maximize its value to your business.
This webinar will offer helpful guidance on planning for the critical implementation phase to support ever-evolving requirements to support corporate objectives and business processes.CIMdata will present its experiences based on helping our clients through their PLM journeys and digital transformations using education as a basis for improved understanding and execution.
What will I learn?
- You will understand what you need to know to define solutions and data architectures for product development, manufacturing, implementation, support, and other activities—sustaining the full product lifecycle
- You will learn about the best ways to educate your cross-functional PLM team on—PLM concepts, best practices, and the selected PLM solution’s capabilities (leans somewhat toward training)
- You will gain an understanding about the sources of PLM knowledge
- You will hear about ways to manage business rules—they cross solutions, data architectures, and business owners
- You will learn how to incorporate best business practices into a solution architecture
- You will learn about the differences between education and training
Who should attend?
Regardless of your digital transformation status, you will find this webinar to be timely and informative. It will provide helpful guidance on planning for the critical implementation phase to support ever-evolving requirements to support corporate objectives and business processes.
Attendees can come from every part of the organization since properly deployed PLM solutions impact cross-functionally on product design, manufacturing, service, and other downstream product processes. People from multiple levels will find the information pertinent and valuable: senior and middle managers, digital transformation and PLM leads, team participants, users (engineers, manufacturing planners, installation and services practitioners, and others), IT—anyone impacted by how an organization adopts digital transformation strategies and solutions to support product programs.
During the webinar you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.