Session 1—Introduction to PLM (One Day)
Prerequisites: None
Intent: The scope of this 7-hour session includes the presentation of today’s view and vision of the global PLM market and technologies. The overall intent of the session is to provide a broad overview of the PLM market, including trends, system architectures, and critical elements of success. This session will include presentations, discussions, and a set of interactive exercises.
Session Outline:
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Session Introduction
A discussion of the PLM market status, including recent history, today’s facts and figures, and some market trends that can help an attendee understand the market’s evolution. These include system sources, types of implementations, scope of implementations, sources of investment, etc. -
Elements of a PLM Solution
- Definition — A definition and description of a PLM solution, what it is and how its various components fit together. This provides a broad definition for PLM, and positions the solutions with regard to other related technologies, such as CAD, software engineering, and ERP/MRP II tools.
- Functionality — A description of the functionality required to support PLM. This includes a description of the functional areas that make up typical PLM solutions and a discussion of each of them; what they are and how they work, what they are used to achieve, examples of how they are supported in commercial and private designed systems.
- Architecture — A discussion of issues related to the architectures of PLM solutions, including distributed system operational requirements, user interfaces, applications interfaces, platform issues, service-oriented architectures, etc.
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The Expanding Reach of PLM
This discussion introduces PLM’s key expansion areas. These include functional areas of an extended enterprise where PLM has yet to be applied or where PLM has recently begun to show applicable benefits. Some of these areas include: portfolio management, requirements management, digital manufacturing, mechatronics, and analysis and simulation. -
An Introduction to the PLM Commercial Landscape
This discussion provides an overview of the commercial landscape for PLM solutions, including a review of leading PLM solution suppliers and their offerings. This session will describe today’s “mindshare” PLM solution suppliers with a specific focus on the PLM solution suppliers that support the region. -
PLM Benefits
This discussion provides an overview of the types and magnitude of benefits that can be achieved through the proper adoption of a PLM strategy. This session will include the review of a selected set of actual benefit examples from various major industrial companies. -
Best Practices for PLM Strategy Definition and Solution Selection
This discussion provides a set of highlevel guidelines for developing a PLM strategy, and solution evaluation and selection. Ideally, these best practices help organizations reduce the time it takes to get to implementation, identify and quantify associated risks, and better manage and control project costs. -
Best Practices for PLM Deployment, Monitoring, and Continuous Improvement
This discussion provides an overview of the main activities associated with the successful deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of a PLM solution.
Session 2—PLM Benefits & Potential Value (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Intent: This half day session reviews industry metrics used to measure and monitor the benefits of PLM implementations. Areas of potential PLM benefits will be presented by discussing results achieved by various companies that have implemented PLM. These case studies are taken from published literature and CIMdata’s researched case studies. The focus of the session will be to describe how metrics should be used to help define a company’s PLM strategy, select the most appropriate PLM enabling solutions, define the company’s PLM roadmap, and much more.
Session Outline:
- Potential Benefits of PLM
- Defining & Measuring the Costs of PLM
- Measuring the Value of PLM
- Methods for measuring value, e.g., ROI
- The importance of metrics
- Introduction to a Benefits Appraisal Methodology
- Using Metrics to Steer a PLM Program
- Selected PLM Benefits Case Studies
Session 3—PLM Strategy & Solution Definition (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Session 2: PLM Benefits & Potential Value
Intent: This half day session provides a set of detailed guidelines for PLM strategy development and solution definition. When properly followed, these guidelines will help an organization reduce the time it takes to define and create a PLM solution strategy.
Session Outline:
- Introduction to PLM Strategy Development
- HighLevel Planning
- Defining a Strategy & Tactics
- Defining Business Requirements
- Implementation Strategies
Session 4—PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Session 3: PLM Strategy & Solution Definition
Intent: This session provides a set of detailed guidelines for evaluating available solutions and selecting an appropriate one to support a company’s PLM strategy. When properly followed, these guidelines will help an organization reduce the time it takes to select the right solution for their organization.
Session Outline:
- Evaluation of Available PLM Solutions
- Selecting an Appropriate PLM Solution
- Developing True Business Requirements
- Developing Technical Requirements
- How to translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Developing Benchmark Scenarios
- How to Define the Most Appropriate Solutions
- How to evaluate solutions against requirements
Session 5—PLM Implementation, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Session 2: PLM Benefits & Potential Value
Session 3: PLM Strategy & Solution Definition
Intent: This half day session provides a set of detailed guidelines for implementing and evolving a PLM environment. When properly followed, these best practices will help an organization reduce the time it takes to identify and quantify associated risks and better manage and control project costs from the project concept phase through implementation and organizational adoption.
Session Outline:
- Organizing the Program
- Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Project Management Practice Areas: scope, risk, quality assurance, and others as appropriate
- Initiating & Planning the Deployment Project
- Program Execution & Control
- Monitoring & Improving the Program
- Transition to Ongoing Support & Evolution
Session 6—PLM Process Development & Testing (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Session 2: PLM Benefits & Potential Value
Session 3: PLM Strategy & Solution Definition
Session 4: PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection
Session 5: Implementation, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
Intent: This half day session provides an understanding how to best define, implement, and continuously improve PLM enabled processes. The session will also present best practices for testing the process enabling PLM solution.
Session Outline:
- Introduction
- Refinement of Process Requirements
- Development of Process Flows & Use Cases
- System Testing (software development lifecycles and the type of testing required, user acceptance testing, test management, etc.)
- Process Ownership & Continuous Improvement
Session 7—Integrating PLM within the Enterprise (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Session 2: PLM Benefits & Potential Value
Session 3: PLM Strategy & Solution Definition
Session 5: Implementation, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
Intent: This half day session focuses on PLM’s role within an enterprise’s overall information technology architecture (both process and data) and how to best approach (e.g., via the implementation of a service oriented architecture) the integration of various PLM solutions, especially PDM technologies, with other enterprise IT systems, e.g., ERP, CRM, etc.
Session Outline:
- Introduction
- The Typical Enterprise IT Landscape
- PLM’s Role in an Enterprise IT Landscape
- Integration Approaches that Work
- Other Issues to Consider
Session 8—Expanding PLM Across the Value Chain (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Intent: This half day session will cover the next steps in implementing PLM inside and outside the company, to its supplier and partner community, providing access to its customers, to other functional areas outside of engineering and manufacturing operations, and distribute operations across the broader enterprise.
Session Outline:
- Defining the Value Chain
- Areas of Expansion
- Essential Issues for each Area
- Priorities & Steps for Expansion
Session 9—Configuration Management’s Role in PLM (Half Day)
Prerequisites:
Session 1: Introduction to PLM
Intent: This half day session defines configuration management and how PLM can be used to enable it. The session provides an understanding of the various PLMrelated configuration management elements (e.g., configuration items, options & variants, change management, and effectivity) and how a PLM solution can be used to support them. The session also includes the review of a set of configuration management best practices and industry examples.
Session Outline:
- Introduction to Configuration Management
- Configuration Management Defined
- Processes & Related Requirements
- Best Practices Guidelines
- Industry Example
