PLM Interest Group

Welcome to the PLMIG

The PLM Interest Group provides neutral tools, expert knowledge, managed programmes and leadership to raise the performance of PLM.

Road to Excellence

The PLMIG provides a wide range of structured methodologies to enable Members to raise their implementations to a standard of PLM excellence.

PLM Toolsets

PLMIG toolsets are the instruction books for PLM. They embody most comprehensive and advanced set of neutral working methodologies for PLM.

PLM Knowledge

The PLMIG is all about useful, accurate, detailed PLM knowledge and improvement. Knowledge that is formulated into structures you can understand and use. Improvement that makes PLM easy to apply effectively, leading change so that the industry gets better for everyone.

In its 18 years of existence the PLMIG has generated a vast amount of neutral knowledge, tools and guidance for PLM practitioners.

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Making PLM Work

PLM Toolsets

PLM manuals and handbooks to help carry out the most important tasks of PLM Managers.

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Buy PLMIG publications on Amazon.

Excellence in PLM

Raise your horizons and apply a range of advanced techniques to your implementation in the quest for excellence.

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Monetize Your PLM

Get financial control of your PLM spend and benefits, and turn financial performance into a weapon for PLM improvement.

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Digital Transformation

Sidestep the hype. Envision the future, define a roadmap, and maximise the impact of your PLM in the Digital Age.

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User Collaboration

Work directly with PLM practitioners from other user companies at the User Forum Workshops.

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Recovery and Refocus

Fix the reasons for under-performance while retaining optimum use of the existing environment.

Reorientation >>>

Ideas for 2023

A look at the thought progression over the last couple of years, in preparation for 2023.

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Drive for Improvement

General Information

Basic information about PLM.

Early Adoption

Getting started and early development.

Management Techniques

Managing the real PLM implementation.

Advanced PLM

High-end approaches to PLM.

Financial Control

Calculate the $/�/� costs and benefits of your current implementation and future plans.

Professional PLM

Join the industry initiative to develop and establish a recognised PLM Profession.

User Initiative

Work with PLM Managers from other user companies at a User Forum event.

Active Support

Active intervention to improve your implementation.

User Viewpoint

The PLM User Initiative enables PLM Managers to meet with and learn from each other, in a constructive environment that is completely vendor- and advisor-independent.

If you are working at the 'PLM coalface' in a user company, you will face technical and operational issues that only other PLM Managers will understand.

User Forum workshops enable you to get together and collaborate.

User Forum Workshops

User Forum meetings are 1-day workshops open to participants from user companies from any country that is within the time zone.

Delegates choose the subjects they will cover; present their ideas to each other; and work together to generate solutions.

The PLMIG adds theory and best-practice knowledge to enhance the discussions, and provides a written record of the results.

This means that participants receive brand-new instruction material to use back at base, and can follow up the ideas with other users as they wish.

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Voice of the User

The 'Voice of the User' is a separate issue in its own right.

There is a widespread feeling amongst PLM user companies that vendor roadmaps are designed to serve a few very large customers, and that the race to add new features can push users in directions they don't want to go.

It is also clear that users themselves need to be expert in dealing with their providers, because many things that users wish for are, in fact, the user's own responsibility.

Future PLM

See how research programmes can advance PLM beyond its current horizons.

Site Map

Find subjects by name.

Membership Options

There are 3 Membership options to cover the varying ranges of involvement from use of the tools through to direct corporate support. Tools and journals can also be purchased from the Store.