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.

Professional PLM

The PLMIG is leading the Initiative to establish an internationally-recognised Professional Body for the PLM industry, running throughout 2025.

PLM Body of Knowledge

After more than two decades of PLM development, it is time for the industry to develop a cohesive and structured body of knowledge.

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Over the past 20 years the PLMIG has run a wide range of initiatives which have established many of the core principles and techniques of PLM.

You can find the tools and methodologies under PLM Improvement.

Many PLMIG techniques have raised the horizons of PLM and enable solutions and outcomes that were not previously thought possible.

You can browse these and compare them to your current thinking under Advanced Thought.

As part of the PLM 2025-35 Project, organisations of all types can collaborate to create this Body of Knowledge.

The findings will produce a new global model for best practice and right-first-time PLM.

PLM Improvement

Advanced Thought >>>

PLM Toolsets >>>

General Information

Basic information about PLM.

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.

User Initiative

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

Active Support

Active intervention to improve your implementation.

Focused Support

PLM is a complex subject, and every organisation is different in PLM terms. Sometimes problems can be solved only when the context is fully understood.

If your PLM environment needs some specific external input, the PLMIG can offer support to:-

gain Executive Buy-In
conduct a formal Status Review
diagnose a specific problem
provide mentoring for staff

Technical Cross-Check

A Technical Cross-Check is 'Step 0' of any refocusing action, and this can be carried out as a concise, stand-alone activity.

This can focus on the specific sticking points that you are experiencing, and provides clear advice and documentation as a record of the findings and as the starting material for any corrective action.

Class A Status Review

The first Stage on the path to Class A PLM is to have a clear, accurate, written picture of where you are now.

The 3 Steps of Groundwork, Governance and Performance confirm that the basic platform for Class A PLM is in place, and act as a timely Status Review of your implementation.

Recovery and Relaunch

There are more and more reports in the media of major PLM implementations failing and being abandoned.

There are even more implementations that are slowly "progressing backwards" on their way to possible failure. It is important to react as soon as this becomes apparent.

If your implementation is seen to be under-performing, there is a process to follow that will retain and utilise the most value from your existing investment.

How to Recover >>>

Future PLM

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

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Find subjects by name.

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.

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 can also be purchased from the Store.