CIMdata Introduces a New PLM Certificate Program

By DE Editors

CIMdata has introduced a new PLM Certificate Program, the flagship of CIMdata PLM Leadership education and training. The PLM Certificate Program was developed to ensure that the individuals participating in a PLM initiative all have the same level of PLM understanding, and to prepare PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges of their implementations.

An enterprise’s inherent need to manage its products’  lifecycles in a holistic and efficient manner has grown significantly over the last several years, according to Peter Bilello, CIMdata vice president. As a result, an ever-increasing number of companies, recognizing the need to define and enable a comprehensive enterprise strategy, are viewing PLM as a critical business initiative.

“PLM’s criticality, considerable depth and breadth, and current evolving nature have generated opportunity and stress for companies who are defining and enabling a comprehensive PLM strategy, as well as on those that support the market with technologies and services,” says Bilello. “This is due in large, to the shortage of knowledgeable PLM resources.”

CIMdata’s five-day PLM Certificate Program is an assessment-based certificate program comprised of nine sessions that are delivered through a series of lectures, case studies, individual as well as group exercises, and tests. Upon completion of the program, each participant will receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate.

To earn the CIMdata PLM Certificate, participants must complete all 9 sessions in one of two ways:

1. By attending the full program delivered over five consecutive days; or
2. By attending the prerequisite Core PLM Certificate sessions offered over three consecutive days and at a later time, within a 12-month period, completing the remaining sessions given over two consecutive days.
 

The PLM Certificate Program covers a number of topics,  including:

• Introduction to PLM
• PLM Benefits & Potential Value
• PLM Strategy & Solution Definition
• The PLM Commercial Landscape
• PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection
• PLM Implementation, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
• Configuration Management’s Role in PLM
• Expanding PLM Across the Value Chain
• The Expanding Reach of PLM
 

CIMdata has scheduled three PLM Certificate Program educational sessions to be held in Helsinki, Finland (May 11-19, 2009),  Neumarkt, Germany (May 25-29, 2009), and in Ann Arbor, MI (June 8-17, 2009).

For more information, visit CIMdata.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.