Production Lifecycle Information Management (PLIM)

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Duration

since 2017

Mission

Due to the increasing complexity of processes and products, global enterprises today are confronted with growing demands for flexibility and shorter development cycles. Coping with these more extensive requirements requires the development of new standards and models for the uniform exchange of information throughout the product lifecycle.

The Production Lifecycle Information Management project group brings together users, integrators and service providers who share the vision of designing an end-to-end information model that covers the entire product lifecycle with the aim of providing support for collaborative planning and production of products in dynamic environments.

Milestones 2018

The detailed use cases will be made available to users and vendors in 2019 in the form of customized test suites, much like in the prostep ivip implementor forums. Focus will be placed on the concrete exchange of information for each use case and evaluating the data formats available for this purpose. This will enable users to compare and optimize their existing processes. Vendors can use the test suites to further develop their software products. In addition, a survey of the IT systems used by the industrial project partners for processing the use cases will help to identify integration gaps and identify the need for action.