The PLCS initiative was a joint industry and government effort to accelerate development of new standards for the exchange of assured product and support information, i.e. the information needed and created during the use and maintenance of complex products. Several of Eurostep's consultants had leading roles in the development of the standard. 

PLCS can be thought of as a new "world map" for product support. Like any new map, PLCS contains much that is familiar - a maintenace task is still a maintenance task - and many new discoveries. 

Just like a map, PLCS can be used in different ways. One is to solve business problems by automating data exchange between existing systems. PLCS can also be used to support a major update of processes across an entire organization.

Goals of PLCS:
• Improve quality and accessibility of
  Product Life Cycle Support information
• Reduce the cost of creating and maintaining information
• Accelerate technical development of the standards

Case studies:

 Supplier Integration

 In-Service Information Management

 Synchronizing Requirements between Departments or Partners

 Full Service Life Cycle Engineering Support

 Corporate Information Integration 

 What issues does PLCS address?
• Keeping technical information about a product
  in line with the changing physical product through life
• Linking support information to product information
• Interoperability of software tools
• Consistency of data definitions

Eurostep arranges webinars presenting PLCS technology, developments and implementations. Please join us at the next one, or download the ones already held, such as "Manufacturing Lifecycle Management" or "Efficient Collaborative Engineering Change Management".

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Learn more about the business benefits and implementation of PLCS!

 Standards-based PLM:
Re-engineering the
Aftermarket with PLCS:
Part 1 Business Benefits

 Standards-based PLM:
Re-engineering the
Aftermarket with PLCS:
Part 2 Technologies and Deployments