Digital transformation in a manufacturing company involves integrating digital technologies into all phases across the product’s life cycle. This transformation aims to optimize operations, enhance productivity, and improve decision-making through data-driven insights. Beyond optimization, digital transformation can also disrupt markets and organizations, making what was previously considered impossible the new normal.

A true digital transformation is not going to take place without a modern enterprise-level Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach that:

• Establishes a comprehensive PLM digital transformation program.
• Secures executive sponsorship to drive transformation initiatives.
• Implements organizational change management (OCM) from the departmental to the enterprise level.
• Incorporates digital engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) strategies and trends.
• Augments the workforce with technologies supporting the Human in the Loop, such as AI/ML, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Simulation.
• Ensures robust data governance and enterprise data modeling.
• Develop strategies for achieving interoperability, openness, and leveraging the role of standards.
• Integrates designing for sustainability and other sustainability strategies.
• Defines value and implements digital twins and digital threads.
• Expands PLM capabilities beyond the concept and development stages to the full lifecycle.
• Elevates PLM from engineering to an enterprise business solution.

Digital transformation is inherently disruptive, and PLM has historically been an enabler and integrator across the community of knowledge workers who create and consume product information. But times have changed.

PLM Road Map and PDT 2025 will build on what is possible when PLM is aligned with Digital Transformation and will show how to make this happen, providing an environment where you can learn, discuss, and collaboratively move product lifecycle digitalization forward.

Building on prior conferences, our agenda will offer a mix of reports and case studies shared by industry experts, covering the people, process, and technology aspects of product life cycle digitalization. Join your peers at PLM Road Map and PDT 2025 to learn, discuss, and collaborate to help move product lifecycle digitalization forward.

Agenda topics will include the following:

• Digital engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE): Incorporating strategies and trends into a digital transformation initiative.
• Digital Twins: Improving efficiency and reducing costs by creating digital replicas of physical assets to simulate and optimize manufacturing processes.
• Digital Threads: The reuse of quality-assured data downstream and upstream, allowing the opportunity to break out of traditional software application silos.
• Data Governance: The importance of robust data governance and enterprise data modeling.
• The Importance of Executive Sponsorship: The importance of strong executive sponsorship in driving transformation initiatives.
• Organizational Change Management: How to implement organizational change management (OCM) from the departmental to the enterprise level.
• Interoperability, openness, and standards: Use of strategies for achieving interoperability, openness, and leveraging the role of standards.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): Leveraging AI and ML to analyze data, predict equipment failures, optimize production schedules, and enhance quality control.
• Enhanced Customer Experience: Integrating digital tools to improve customer interactions, from order tracking to personalized product recommendations.
• Sustainability: Using digital technologies to reduce waste, improve energy efficiency, and minimize the environmental impact of manufacturing operations.

Don't miss PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2025 on 7-8 May if you are concerned with PLM and delivering increased business value on all levels in and across your enterprise. Regardless of your industry, join us in the Washington D.C. area for the opportunity to interact with PLM leaders and your peers, learn about successes and trends, and take the next step in your journey as a PLM professional.

Please mark your calendars now and plan to join us in May 2025.