PLM Innovation Hits North America

Posted by Lauren Craig on Tue, September 18, 2012 @ 1:30:00 PM PM

The PLM Innovation Americas 2012 is North America's only independent and technology agnostic PLM event. Bringing together 300 senior end-users, thought leaders and select PLM vendors, the conference aims to leverage the collective wealth of knowledge and experience to identify and encourage best practice. The combination of a world class speaker roster, cross-industry case studies, targeted Think-Tanks and pre-qualified networking opportunities make this North America's must attend PLM gathering.

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Tags: BOM Management, PLM implementation, Change Control, product lifecycle management, PLM deployment, BOM, PLM Innovation

Change Management considered harmful?

Posted by Dan Matheson on Tue, July 10, 2012 @ 10:36:00 AM AM

These comments are inspired by two things: 1) observations during PLM consulting work in life science companies and 2) remembering an article by Edeger W. Dijkstra, A Case Against the GO TO Statement, in Communications of the ACM 11 (1968), 3: 147–148.  As an R&D product development engineer, I have found the following a great help to innovation: change the vocabulary to change the perspective on the problem, the new perspective enables new insights for innovation.

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Tags: Change management, PLM implementation, Change Control

Get the PLM Governance Right

Posted by Greg Letendre on Mon, May 07, 2012 @ 12:30:00 PM PM

I’ve had the opportunity to manage a large number of projects over the years from very large to very small and I have often found that the main challenges related to successful enterprise solution delivery are usually not technical.  Yes technical obstacles will exist, will need to be overcome and engineering tradeoffs made.  But in my experience the major roadblocks to enterprise implementations stem from improper governance, issues related to management of change (by that I mean organizational acceptance and understanding of value) and strategic investment shifts.

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Tags: PLM, Integware, Life Sciences PLM, PLM Governance, Life Sciences, PLM implementation, Change Control, PLM system

What do PLM and Tim Tebow have in common?

Posted by Lauren Craig on Fri, March 16, 2012 @ 12:22:00 PM PM
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Tags: NCR, PLM, Integware, Quality system management, Life Sciences PLM, Regulatory Compliance, BOM Management, PLM Insider, Complaint Management, CAPA, Quality Documentation, Life Sciences, PLM implementation, Change Control, product lifecycle management, Total product lifecycle managment, PLM system, PLM deployment, Document Management, PLMinsider, Audit Management, FDA Audits