CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 February 2007
Events News
Report on the PCO Forum
More than 200 industrialists gathered at Lyons on January 25, 2007 for the PCO Forum, twice the number who attended the previous forum. It celebrated the 10th birthday of the PCO company and confirmed its change of market position to "Innovation Intelligence", a new concept combining practices, methods and tools at the service of continuous innovation.
This day of cross-sector meetings and exchanges between well-known companies, at the cutting-edge of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) information system field, allowed the new trends in PLM to be reviewed through many case histories and lively debates.
Among the basic subjects covered by the industrialists on this occasion we noted a strong wish to place Customer Requirements at the heart of the Product Development process and the related information system, as the DCN and VOLVO Powertrain presentations demonstrated.
Concurrent Product/Process engineering was also a central issue in the debates, with the Bourbon Fabi Automobile presentation dealing with federating technical and economic repositories within PLM, in order to support product design and mass production.
You cannot have innovation without a process of rationalisation. Several presentations covered this search for balance, in particular those given by Faurecia and MBDA who shared a common wish to harmonise PLM information systems and processes in complex organisations.
Finally, because continuous innovation concerns not only the processes and the information system, but also the corporate culture and individual aptitude, the Schneider Electric Group and EM Grenoble highlighted the principle of flexibility as a fundamental factor for performance.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the next PCO Forum, in 2 years time.
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