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Creating a Profession for PLM Practitioners
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The Home of Professional PLM
The PLM industry needs a recognised, worldwide profession for the people who work within it. The
Professional PLM Initiative has been set up to fulfil this need. Check .com
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The Initiative covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be 'professional' in PLM.
Bringing this together is a significant step forward, and will change the way that PLM practitioners work.
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The Initiative is inclusive and interactive. This web site shows the latest developments, and how you can get involved.
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PLM as a Profession
The Professional PLM Initiative aims to establish a professional structure within the PLM industry that will
support its practitioners, and the discipline of PLM itself, in line with evolving methods and technologies.
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PLM practitioners will continue to be undervalued until the work that they do is made clear to the rest of
the business world. Forming a single, global PLM Profession is the way to make this happen.
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Mission
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The Mission of the Initiative is to raise PLM onto the same level as
existing professions, by bringing together PLM practitioners from around
the world to form a single, global Professional Body that will support and
maintain the discipline into the long-term future.
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Impact on PLM
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As the Initiative reaches through the world's manufacturing countries it will spread good practice and
cross-fertilise ideas. This effect can be leveraged by the Steering Group to actively influence and
enhance the direction, growth and adoption of PLM.
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Deliverables
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This will be a huge area of rediscovery for PLM practitioners - to see in writing the full set of skills and expertise that
they should possess.
See what is involved >>>
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Features of the Profession
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Starting with the background debate ("Should there be a profession at all"), and ranging through roles & grades, the impact of a profession,
deliverables and timing; this is the Navigation start point for the Initiative.
Welcome >>>
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Themes
The Steering Group has identified 3 themes that should have the most initial impact.
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Progress
will be focused on these areas as part of a comprehensive overall plan.
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How to Participate in
the Initiative
The way to benefit from the Professional PLM Initiative is to interact with it. Companies can join the
Steering Group, and individual practitioners can become Correspondents or Associates.
If you have any specific ideas or feedback about the material on this site then you can add your views directly.
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