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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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