PLM Interest Group

PLMIG Individual Membership provides you with neutral tools, standards and best practices to enable you to manage and implement PLM effectively throughout your organisation.  The complete toolset covers the whole range from early adoption to Class A PLM.

Individual Membership provides all of the PLMIG Toolsets in the Store, plus ongoing Q&A support through the year.

The ongoing support starts when you join, with a simple induction that enables you to position your implementation against a checklist of best-practice parameters.  This 'As Is' picture becomes the platform for structured guidance that highlights the areas you may want to focus on, and shows how the PLMIG tools and methods can take you towards those aims.

PLMIG Membership covers the '4-speed Gearbox' of PLM:-

• Adoption
• Operation
• Advanced
• Excellence

You can move through any or all of these during the year, independently or following the PLMIG initiatives to improve the overall status of PLM.

You can request feedback as you apply the extensive set of Tools and Material, and the answers to your questions make your programme more productive. When you encounter specific problems, a question to the PLMIG can show you ways to resolve them.

Members also receive a discount at PLMIG on-line and in-person events.

Individual Members can follow the Fast Track to Professionalism under the guidance of the PLMIG, and also become Associates of the Professional PLM Initiative.  This leverages the growing body of PLM knowledge, and provides all of the new releases in the programme to reshape the PLM Industry as a profession.

PLM practitioners working in these phases need information and practicality.  Whether you are focused on getting up to speed, fleshing out a clear operational structure, or finding solutions to specific technical problems, the guidance needs to be clear and to the point.

The PLMIG provides Tools and Methodologies that you can use yourself, as you meet problems or search for improvement.  When combined with the Q&A response it provides the most comprehensive self-help support in the industry.

Experienced PLM implementors start to look around for how to do better, and answer the question:-.

"How do we know that we are doing PLM as well as possible?"

This takes you into the areas of Governance, Best Practice, Standardisation, Financial Metrics... in short, it becomes a quest for Class A PLM.

This motivation to lift PLM to a higher level is supported by the PLMIG Drive for Improvement, and can also include inter-company collaboration to develop new advanced solutions.

Individual Membership of the PLMIG provides the full set of PLM tools including electronic copies of the publications on Amazon.

PLMIG Toolsets include:-

• The complete toolset for PLM Justification:-
• PLM Justification Handbook
• PLM Financial Primer
• Company PLM Overview
• PLM Discussion Document
• PLM Contact Summary
• Accountancy Overview
• The master document for PLM Delivery:-
• PLM Delivery Handbook
• The most advanced toolset for PLM and ERP Integration:-
• PLMuERP Handbook
• PLMuERP Primer
• Product Structure Standard
• Data Management Manual
• The tool for creating Board-Level PLM Awareness:-
• CEO Briefing Document
• The neutral standard for PLM Governance:-
• PLM Governance Standard
• Toolkits for PLM Assessment and Benchmarking:-
• PLM Self-Assessment Toolkit
• PLM Benchmarking Handbook
• PLM Maturity Manual
• The theory and core methodology of PLM-ALM Integration:-
• PLM-ALM Standard and Reference Manual
• The world's largest compilation of PLM Concepts:-
  • Compendium of PLM Ideas

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