CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
October 2007
Events News
COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair Call for Speakers
When : April 27 - April 30, 2008
Where: Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
The success of all COE events is based on the advanced knowledge sharing between COE members. Each year, the conference program is developed through a Call for Speakers - an opportunity for COE member companies, industry contacts, product experts (IBM, Dassault Systèmes) and vendors to submit a session idea for a possible presentation at the 2008 conference.
Share your expertise in Dassault Systèmes product usage as related to one of the hot topics below. Submit an abstract of your presentation for consideration by the conference planning committee by November 2, 2007 .
COE Annual Conference Program Hot Topics
The COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference
& TechniFair program is carefully developed by ensuring that
all content presented at the conference maps back to the most pressing PLM
business issues of the day. These issues, as identified by the Conference
Committee Chairmen and the COE Board of Directors, are as follows:
• Collaboration
• Implementing PLM, Success and Lessons Learned
• PLM Legacy Data
• Working in Heterogeneous PLM Environment
Collaboration
This topic explores the approaches, benefits, tradeoffs and results to be obtained through structured and effective collaboration. It includes the challenges created by global locations, time zones, and cultures; as well as, technology and cost sharing issues. It addresses all collaboration within a PLM environment, such as Product Development, Production within the Supply Chain, and Post-delivery issues.
Implementing PLM, Success and Lessons Learned
This topic in general covers approaches for implementation, supporting tasks, and early results gained within the context of this typical industry challenge. Specifically, it can address issues involving PDM implementation, managing change, and best practices in a PLM environment.
PLM Legacy Data
Many products have a life that is measured in decades. Customers require support for products even though the technology that developed them in the market is long gone. This topic addresses the issues of data migration, compatibility, and accessibility as these technologies change. The requirement to efficiently access legacy data is not limited support, since decisions can also be driven by PLM's goal to reduce design to market Cycles through the reuse of design data.
Working in a Heterogeneous PLM Environment
This is a reality in many projects and companies today. The product development environments depend on multiple vendors for PLM Solutions. This topic explores the issues and solutions for working with multiple operating platforms, multiple PDM solutions, and multiple CAD solutions. It also addresses specific issues such as SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), Open Architecture, (evolving) Standards for Data (e.g., 3DXML), and network issues working with geographically distributed users (with remote facilities, business partners, and suppliers).
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