1. News & trends in PLM/PDM

PLM is getting traction as a industry direction and becomes accepted as a business strategy by many customers. Nevertheless, there are lots of debates about what PLM is actually need to become - strategy, application, vision, platform etc. The discussion in this working group will be around what we see as the top challenges and opportunities for PLM in the coming decade:
— Challenges: Simplicity, Alternative Business Models, Openness, Beyond Engineering, noPLM
— Opportunities: Competition, Social Applications, Regulation and Sustainability, Cost

Discussion topics:

• Top PLM challenges in the next decade
• Digital Prototyping vs. Full-Scale PLM?
• What will be the next CAD data management paradigms?
• How social application can influence PLM?
• Open-source PLM/PDM
• Integrated PLM-ERP-MES Systems
• Cloudy PLM
• PLM, sustainability and green

Some links:

• Top Five PLM Software Challenges for 2010s
• PLM and Heterogeneous Product Development
• PLM Model: Granularity, Bottom-Up and Change
• The “New Normal” Wake Up Call for Enterprise PLM
• Social Software and PLM – Gap Filler or Intelligent Network?
• Engineering Data to Manage but no PLM? Synergis Says No Problem
• Closing the Loop on Product Innovation – Integrating ERP and PLM