Is PLM Dead Long Live the Digital Thread!

🤔 PLM is dead? Long live the digital thread! 😄 The future of Product Lifecycle Management took center stage with a diverse chorus of industry visionaries:

Christine Longwell: “As long as PLM is considered a PLM tool from a vendor, it will never get the corporate attention that it needs to get funding for that information to break out of your engineering system. You need PLM to go through your services group, to manage ideation, to listen to what the customers want.”

Martin Eigner: “My dream, my really dream, is to build up a symmetrical data model—a digital thread above all the legacy systems—so end-to-end processes like release management, change management, configuration management, quality management sit on top of these processes.”

Patrick Hillberg Ph.D. Hillberg: “PLM is to product lifecycle management what IBM is to international business machines—it’s an acronym that no longer means what it meant when it started. If we want to manage product life cycles, we need to figure out how to integrate the databases to create a digital thread.”

Jos Voskuil: “Recently, I’m working a lot with companies and I don’t mention the ‘P word’ anymore...I think we all agree we have to solve business issues and those business issues because of digitalization can now become end-to-end business issues.

Brion Carroll (II): “Introducing the digital thread to people in manufacturing and why they need to look upstream is a conversation I have regularly to find that business imperative… It’s weird that the people who drive business continuity all the way from ideation to on the shelf have the pedigree of PLM.”

Juliann Grant: “PLM doesn’t really get its rightful due when it comes to looking at the C-level. ERP gets the right money and resources, but PLM is tougher because it touches so many places—from incoming marketing, sales, design, to service.”

Jim Brown: “It doesn’t matter what we call it. It’s about what are the business problems that need to be solved. It’s more important about the strategy first and about the business processes, and what vendors call PLM today isn’t enough to fulfill that.”

Full webcast here: https://lnkd.in/eCjgW-sB

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