CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 April 2009
CIMdata News
CIMdata Introduces a New PLM Certificate Program: Ensures strong understanding of PLM concepts and prepares professionals to address PLM implementation challenges
CIMdata, the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce the introduction of a new PLM Certificate Program, the flagship of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering for today’s PLM professionals. The PLM Certificate Program was developed to ensure that the individuals participating in a PLM initiative all have the same level of PLM understanding, and to prepare PLM professionals at several levels, to successfully address the challenges of their implementations.
Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata Vice President, explained that an enterprise’s inherent need to manage its products’ lifecycles in a holistic and efficient manner has grown significantly over the last several years. As a result, an ever-increasing number of companies, recognizing the need to define and enable a comprehensive enterprise strategy, are viewing PLM as a critical business initiative. Mr. Bilello noted, “PLM’s criticality, considerable depth and breadth, and current evolving nature have generated opportunity and stress for companies who are defining and enabling a comprehensive PLM strategy, as well as on those that support the market with technologies and services. This is due in large, to the shortage of knowledgeable PLM resources.” He added that the PLM industry acutely needs a best-practice based education and training program to provide the solid foundation necessary to successful define, implement, and continuously improve today’s and tomorrow’s PLM environments. “It is for this reason CIMdata has continued to develop and deliver a rich set of educational and training services for individuals and companies that seek leadership in PLM.” said Mr. Bilello.
CIMdata’s internationally recognized 5-day PLM Certificate Program is an assessment-based certificate program comprised of 9 sessions that are given over a five-day period, and delivered through a series of lectures, case studies, individual as well as group exercises, and tests. Upon completion of the program, each participant will receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate.
To earn the CIMdata PLM Certificate, participants must complete all 9 sessions in one of two ways:
By attending the full program delivered over 5 consecutive days; or
By attending the prerequisite Core PLM Certificate sessions offered over 3 consecutive days and at a later time, within a 12-month period, completing the remaining sessions given over 2 consecutive days.
The PLM Certificate Program covers a number of topics, including:
Introduction to PLM
PLM Benefits & Potential Value
PLM Strategy & Solution Definition
The PLM Commercial Landscape
PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection
PLM Implementation, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
Configuration Management’s Role in PLM
Expanding PLM Across the Value Chain
The Expanding Reach of PLM
CIMdata has scheduled three PLM Certificate Program educational sessions to be held in Helsinki—Finland, Neumarkt—Germany, and in Ann Arbor—Michigan. For more information on each of the scheduled PLM Certificate Program educational events, including detailed course description, fees and registration information, please visit:
Helsinki, Finland, May 11-15, 2009
Neumarkt, Germany, May 25-29, 2009
Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 8-12, 2009
About PLM
CIMdata defines PLM as a strategic business approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions in support of the collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of product definition information across the extended enterprise from concept to end of life—integrating people, processes, business systems, and information. PLM forms the product information backbone for a company and its extended enterprise.
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