PLM Road Map 2011

PLM Road Map™ is a strategic conference focusing on the transformation of product development approaches to serve a new value proposition involving the detailed reconciliation of data and processes across global engineering functions.

Pressures intensify every year to integrate diverse efforts across the entire product lifecycle. The payoff for automating simulation activities while driving multi-disciplinary optimization escalates as more computing capacity becomes routinely available through HPC and Cloud approaches. A new generation of smarter products with increasingly sophisticated embedded software and instrumentation is transforming the development process. Managing this process requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and coordination with customers, engineering disciplines, and suppliers alike.

PLM Road Map™ 2010 challenged attendees to shift their current thinking to a new level in a series of presentations focusing on the global transformation of product development and innovation processes. Attendees gained insight from our keynote speakers who included: Christopher Davey, Ford Motor Company; Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, IBM Rational; Michael Kennedy, Targeted Convergence Corporation; Stephen Pickett, Penske Corporation; David Taylor, Siemens PLM Software; Jim Tung, MathWorks; and Christian Verstraete, Hewlett-Packard.

Leading analysts from CPDA and key industry players came together in Plymouth, Michigan to share their experiences in making technology work by driving efforts up front early in design, and continuously incorporating cross-disciplinary knowledge and feedback.