This advanced and systematic training seminar has attracted more than 50 PLM technical staff from manufacturing enterprises in aerospace and defense, electromechanical and automotive and PLM vendors PTC, Dassault System, SIPM, and Beijing Shenzhou Aerospace Software.

Group photo of 2014 CIMdata PLM Certificate Program

The seminar is consisted of 12 sessions. Mr. Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata and Professor Xinnong Mo are the speakers and Dr. Pei Huang, e-works CEO does the translation and explanation. In each session there are lectures, case studies, discussions, and in the final session there is a individual test. The aim of this seminar is helping these trainees gain a comprehensive understanding and skills of PLM technology, selection, implementation.

Mr. Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata

Professor Xinnong Mo, PLM expert

Dr. Pei Huang, e-work CEO

In the first day, Professor Mo introduces PLM development, deployment methods, future trends, and keys of success in detail that helps trainees build product lifecycle management thinking. In session 2, he introduced the three key factors of PLM which is people, technologies, and processes as well as the collaboration platform provided for product designing, processes, manufacturing, and maintenance. Professor Mo also pointed out that keys of success lie in appropriate culture, correct strategies, consoled foundation, and continuous improvement.

On the afternoon sessions of the first day, topics are PLM strategy and solution definition, PLM solution evaluation and selection. In the first topic, Professor Mo introduced how to implement PLM in different phases and preparedness, quality control, deliver, and improvement of PLM implementation. PLM solution evaluation and selection introduces evaluation methods on PLM implementation effects which helps trainees better understand PLM's function and role.

Mr. Peter Bilello is the speaker of the second day and third day sessions. On the second day sessions he talked around PLM implementation, monitoring and continuous improvement, PLM process development and testing, integrating PLM within the enterprise, and configuration management role in PLM. In the session 5, topics like how to use project management to continuously define and improve PLM planning, key points in implementation planning, and how to deal with change, data migration, customization, and training and support etc. Session 6 includes how to develop process requirements into technical specifications that are to be implemented and verified, the development and refinement of process flows and their associated Use Cases, the differences & inter-relationship among the different tests, good process owners and what their responsibilities, and process ownership and continuous improvement.

Session 7 includes PLM's role in enterprise IT landscape and how to optimize the integration of PLM with other systems like ERP and CRM. Session 8 defines configuration management and its core elements such as configuration items, change management, and effects.

Through the two days of basic PLM lectures, in the third day, advanced PLM sessions include data modeling with PLM, PLM and enterprise program management, and requirement management. Session 9 include three components of PLM data modeling and data modeling cases, refined requirements of data modeling, and main steps. Session 10 includes how to realize enterprise program management with PLM. In session 11, Mr. Bilello defines requirements management and how to use PLM do requirements management.

In the final session, Mr. Bilello summarized the whole training lectures, then trainees had a individual test. Some of them are very happy to get CIMdata PLM Certificate

Mr. Bilello issuing PLM Certificate

This is the second time e-works in cooperation with CIMdata to host the PLM Certificate Program Training Seminar. The aim of this seminar is to guide manufacturing enterprises and PLM software vendors to deal with confusion and difficulties in PLM implementation and application, provide them with systematic PLM knowledge and thinking, and help them build PLM thoughts and implementation theories.