Product Lifecycle Modelling, Simulation and Synthesis (PLMSS) Activities and Conferences
Product innovation is the main tool for competitive advantage and crucial driver for economic growth. Organizations strive to realize superior quality and cost effective products by adapting to state of art technologies in product development. Managing the lifecycle activities of the product development is major challenge because of lack of integration between tools used to perform various product development and delivery functions, between the digital world where the product takes the shape and the real world where the product is made, used and serviced. Launching branded products at the earliest in the market and sustaining it in the competitive environment are the aim of any product development organizations. To achieve the above mentioned aims with reduced level of risk, Product Data Management, Collaborative Product Commerce and Product Lifecycle Management tools are used in practice. To further this a series of conferences were held starting with the first International Conference which was held in 2006. The series of conferences are described below.
PLMSS International Conferences
PLMSS is a Bi-annual International Conference organized jointly by ADA, DRDO, NAL, IISc and HAL. This conference is intended to promote, guide, manage, coordinate, execute and disseminate activities in the following areas:
a. Computer Aided Design(CAD)
b. Computer Aided Manufacturing(CAM)
c. Computer Aided Engineering(Analysis-CAE)
d. Product Life Cycle Management(PLM)
e. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other related topics.
PLMSS Conference and Pre-conference Workshop
There have been 6 PLMSS conferences 4 before the formation of the trust and two after the trust was formed. The list of Conferences held is given below.
PLMSS 2006
Dec 18 – 20, 2006 organized by ADA along with IISc, NAL, DRDO and HAL at IISc, Bangalore
Conference Chief Guest
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Honourable President of India
Themes
Product Definition
Product Visualisation
Product Modeling and Simulation
Product Realization
Product Development Framework
No of Technical Papers Presented :
45
Pre –Conference Workshop
Dec 14 – 16, 2006 at NAL Aircraft Design by Daniel P Rayners USA.
No. of Participants
100
PLMSS 2008
Nov 17 – 19, Nov 2008 organized by NAL
Conference Chief Guest
Dr.V. Sumantran, Executive Vice Chairman
Hinduja Automotive Limited
Themes
Product Delivery and PLM Function as Additional Topics
No of Technical Papers Presented :
75
Pre –Conference Workshop
12 – 14 Nov. 2008 at NAL, Bangalore Helicopter Design for the Environment
Dr. V T. Nagaraj University of Maryland, USA
No. of Participants
50
PLMSS 2011
05 – 07 Dec 2011 at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
Conference Chief Guest
P. S. Subramanyam DS/PGD (CA) & Director (ADA)
Themes
Product Delivery and PLM Function as Additional Topics
No of Technical Papers Presented :
39
Pre –Conference Workshop
2 – 3 Dec 2011 – A Modern Introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing’ by Dr. Vijay Srinivasan American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA
No. of Participants
50
PLMSS 2014
06 – 08 Jan 2014, VIT University, Vellore
Conference Chief Guest
Shri Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Group
Themes
Previous topics +
Sustainable Design, Emerging Additional topics
Life Cycle methods for X Methods
Robotics, Dynamics
No of Technical Papers Presented :
63
Pre –Conference Workshop
3 – 4 Jan 2014
“PLM Implementation Best Practices, Solution Patterns and Case Studies by Dr. Ravi Rangan (ASME Fellow, VP-Client Services & CTO, Centric Software, Inc., Bellevue, WA)
No. of Participants
50
PLMSS 2015
15 (A/F) - 18 Dec 2015 at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, Organized by ASL, DRDO and BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad
Conference Chief Guest
Dr. Sateesh Reddy, SA to RM
Themes
Previous topics +
Sustainable Design, Emerging Additional topics Life Cycle methods for X Methods
Robotics, Dynamics
No of Technical Papers Presented :
56
Pre –Conference Workshop
14 -15 (F/N) Dec 2105
“PLM for Digital Manufacturing”
Prof. P.L. Narisimhan, Prof M.K. Tiwari and Biswajit Mohanty, from IIT Kharagpur
Prof. K.P. Karunakaran, IIT Bombay
No. of Participants
75
PLMSS 2017
Dec 13- 15, 2015 at DIAT, Pune, Organized by DIAT, Pune Tech Mahindra, Bangalore
Conference Chief Guest
Dr. C P Ramanarayanan, DG-Aero
Mr. Karthikeyan Natarajan, Senior VPTechnology, Tech Mahindra
Themes
Previous topics+
Sustainable Design, Emerging Additional topics
Life Cycle methods for X Methods, Robotics, Dynamics
No of Technical Papers Presented :
56
Pre –Conference Workshop
11-12 Dec 2107
“Simulation Driven Systems Development”
A CIMdata, USA Workshop
Mr. Peter A Billelo, President, CIMdata, USA
Mr. Frank Popilas, Executive Consultant, CIMdata, USA
No. of Participants
25