Program

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an integrated business approach to the collaborative creation, management and dissemination of engineering data throughout the extended enterprises that create, manufacture and operate engineered products and systems. 

PLM12 will bring together researchers, developers, and users of PLM so as to share recent developments, shape the future of this field and advance the science and practice of enterprise systems development.

Topics: Contributions are welcome in all aspects of PLM, including (but not limited to):

  • The influence of social networks on PLM,
  • PLM infrastructure and implementation processes,
  • PLM maturity and improvement concepts,
  • Collaborative product development,
  • Capture and reuse of product and process information,
  • Knowledge management and PLM,
  • Metrics for PLM,
  • Organizational change management and PLM,
  • Virtual and simulation environments,
  • Enterprise systems integration,
  • Interoperability and security issues,
  • PLM and the environment,
  • PLM educational and training approaches.

Special Session S1: Increasing awareness and understanding of information and knowledge flows in PLM

Session Organizers: Dr. Frédéric Demoly, UTBM, France and Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis, EPFL, Switzerland

Please see the Special Sessions page for details.

Special Session S2: From PLM to LCE

Session Organizers: Dr. Sudarsan Rachuri & Kevin Lyons, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, {sudarsan,klyons}@nist.gov

Please see the Special Sessions page for details.