PLM is about secure sharing of information within, and between, organizational boundaries over the product's entire life cycle. It concerns all the intellectual property and processes employed to bring a product to market and support its usage, including the management of products as "corporate assets": Reducing cost of ownership and increasing availability and up-time.

Standards play an important role in bringing consistency and interoperability to information exchanges. The ISO standard for Product Life Cycle Support, ISO 10303-239 PLCS, is the only standard to address the requirements of product support throughout the complete product life cycle, from concept to disposal. Where adopted it provides data independenc in relation to processes, systems and format.

This training introduces you to the concept of PLM, and shows you how it is implemented by using the PLCS standard.

Course content:

Day 1:

• Content and background of PLM
• Requirements for PLM in networked business model
• Support of ISO STEP-standards for PLM implementation
• ISO Product Lifecycle Support –standard in short
• Content and phases of PLM-project
• Example of PLM implementation with ISO PLCS-standard in real life

Day 2:

• Background and overview of the ISO PLCS-standard
• ISO PLCS activity model
• ISO PLCS architecture and basic ideas
• ISO PLCS
• ISO PLCS usage in PLM development and implementation
• ISO PLCS, part of STEP standard
• Example of PLM implementation with ISO PLCS-standard in real life

For more information about the training, please contact Jari Soukas at Eurostep Oy in Helsinki.