PLM23 International Conference was hosted by Polytechnic Montreal, Canada from July 9th to July 12th 2023. The conference started on Monday, July 10th, the Industrial day was held on Tuesday, July 11th and the doctoral day was a success on Sunday, July 9th . The leading organizer was Prof. Christophe Danjou.

For its 20th anniversary, PLM23 Conference registered 132 participants from 15 countries which as the chance to attend two Special Sessions (Digital enginnering, and artificial intelligence in support of digital transformation), an overall set of 20 scientific sessions plus one industrial day and an amazing social program to celebrate this anniversary.
In addition, PLM23 proposed Academics Keynotes, a PLM Pionneer presentation, Industrial Keynotes and round tables:

Academics Keynotes

• Catherine Beaudry, PhD., Professor at Polytechnic Montreal
• Felix Nyffenegger, PhD., Professor at OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science
• Louis Rivest, PhD., Professor at École de Technologie Supérieure
• Hany Moustapha, PhD., Professor at École de Technologie Supérieure

PLM Pionner speaker

• Francis Bernard, 1st PLM pionneer award recipient

Industrial Keynotes

• Mohamed-Ali El Hani (Impararia) & Frédéric Gal (Bouygues construction) – Smart modular home construction
• Wissem Maazoun (BusPas) – The Bus Stop, Reimagined
• Fethi Chebli (VPorts) – Shaping the future of advanced air mobility
• Nick Giannias (CAE) – DOME: The Digital Operations and Maintenance Environment for the offshore renewable energy lifecycle
• Jonathan Brodeur (MILA) – Adopting applied AI in manufacturing SMEs: A project lifecycle approach

Round table on “The future of PLM with AI and Digital twins”:

• Moderator: Benoît Eynard, Doctorat, Professor at Université de Technologie de Compiègne
• Panelists:  Éric Boutin (Siemens), Kevin Chagnon Beaulieu (Techso), Arnaud Guitton (Impararia), François Lamy (PTC), Florent Salako (Dassault Systems)

All submitted papers were reviewed by at least two reviewers. In total, 116 contributions were submitted, of which 62 were accepted to be presented at the conference and grouped in 20 thematic sections :

1. Digital twin
2. Knowledge management
3. Prediction and smart processes
4. CPS and Digital twin implementation
5. Change management
6. Additive manufacturing digital thread
7. Training and learning
8. Process optimization
9. BIM and PLM for the construction industry
10. System engineering
11. Artificial intelligence
12. IoT and digital transformation
13. Circular economy (2 sessions)
14. Augmented reality and digital twin
15. Ontology and semantics
16. Blockchain and data exchange
17. CAD and collaboration
18. Frameworks for project and service development