Please allow us to send you this email to remind you that you are cordially
invited to participate in the 9th International Product Lifecycle Management
Conference, PLM12, on July 9th - 11th, 2012 in Montreal, Canada.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an integrated business approach to the
collaborative creation, management and dissemination of engineering data
throughout the extended enterprises that create, manufacture and operate
engineered products and systems.
PLM12 will bring together researchers, developers, and users of PLM so as to
share recent developments, shape the future of this field and advance the
science and practice of enterprise systems development.
Contributions are welcome in all aspects of PLM including, for example :
• The influence of social networks on PLM,
• PLM maturity and improvement concepts,
• Collaborative product development,
• Capture and reuse of product and process information,
• Knowledge management and PLM,
• Interoperability and security issues,
• PLM educational and training approaches,
• SPECIAL SESSION S1 : Increasing awareness and understanding of information
and knowledge flows in PLM
• SPECIAL SESSION S2 : From PLM to Life Cycle Engineering (LCE)
_Venue_
As Canada’s first touristic destination, Montreal distinguishes itself by
its hospitality and infrastructure. Situated on an island, the city of
Greater Montreal counts approximately 3.6 million people making it the
largest bilingual (English and French) metropolis in North America.
Designated as the City of Design by UNESCO, it offers a large showcase of
modern design, art and architecture. Montreal’s summers are warm with
average high temperatures of 26 °C (79 F) and low of 16 °C (61 F).
_Paper Submission_
Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages in length
for review before February 5^th , 2012. Each paper (in English) will be
reviewed by three members of the International Scientific Committee. Those
that are accepted will be published by Springer in the conference
proceedings and may be considered for publication in the International
Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM, www.inderscience.com/ijplm).
Submission instructions are provided on the PLM12 website :
www.plm-conference.org. Industry
presentations are also welcome, these do not require full paper submission.
_Deadlines_
2012 February 05,
2012 April 02,
2012 April 15,
2012 May 06,
2012 May 20,
2012 May 29,
Academic paper submission (full paper due) Notification of acceptance for
academic papers Extended abstract for industrial sessions Notification of
acceptance for industrial sessions Final manuscript due Early registration
_Conference Organization _
The conference is promoted by the International Federation for Information
Processing (IFIP) Working Group 5.1 on Global Product Development for the
whole Lifecycle (www.ifip-wg51.org).
*Steering Committee* :
Alain Bernard, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France Deba Dutta, University of
Illinois, USA Marco Garetti, Polytecnico di Milano, Italy Balan Gurumoorthy,
Indian Institute of Science, India Chris McMahon, University of Bath, UK
*Conference Chair :
*Abdelaziz Bouras, University Lumiere of Lyon, France
*Program Chairs :
*Henk Jan Pels, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Louis Rivest, Ecole
de technologie superieure, Canada
*Organizing Committee
*Louis Rivest, Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada Clément Fortin,
CRIAQ, Canada Hany Moustapha, Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada
_Further Information_
Information is available on the PLM12 website : www.plm-conference.org
. Website content updates will be ongoing.
Do not hesitate to contact us. We hope to have the pleasure of meeting you
in Montreal. Please feel free to transmit this invitation to colleagues.
Louis Rivest, P.Eng., PhD, Professor
Department of Automated Production Engineering
Ecole de technologie superieure (ETS)
Universite du Quebec
Email : louis.rivest[at]etsmtl.ca
Conference website : www.plm-conference.org
Conference email : plm12[at]etsmtl.ca