A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

PLM Prompt: Should we combine PLM and PIM efforts?

PLM Prompt: Should we combine PLM and PIM efforts?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
20 July, 2009 | 1 min for reading

Short prompt – I’m looking on definition of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Information Management (PIM).

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. [1] PLM integrates people, data, processes and business systems and provides a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise.[2]

Product information management (PIM) or PIM refers to processes and technologies focused on centrally managing information about products, with a focus on the data required to market and sell the products through one or more distribution channels. A central set of product data can be used to feed consistent, accurate and up-to-date information to multiple output media such as web sites, print catalogs, ERP systems, and electronic data feeds to trading partners. PIM systems generally need to support multiple geographic locations, multi-lingual data, and maintenance and modification of product information within a centralized catalog to provide consistently accurate information to multiple channels in a cost-effective manner.

Even difference is clear, it looks like combination of PIM and PLM efforts can bring significant benefits to the company to streamline information management around a product.

Just my opinion. What do you think about it?

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
4 April, 2012

One of the unpublished rules of PLM Think Tank is not to talk about marketing. Marketing is a tough job....

30 January, 2010

This post was born as a consequence of on-going conversation with Jim Brown of TechClarity. Jim and I have a...

17 January, 2011

I read on Forrester Blog about acquisition of Dimdim by Salesforce.com. T.J. Keits of Forrester is discussing various aspects of...

16 February, 2015

[Updated 19-Feb-2015] I’ve been thinking about my blogging pattern this week. Taking time off, it is hard to keep up...

19 February, 2010

When somebody is asking me what is the number one PLM software problem, my instant answer is – complexity. Yes,...

13 April, 2009

Personalization is one of the today’s trends in product development. More and more manufacturers are discovering the ability to develop...

2 August, 2016

Our environment is getting more distributed then ever. The borders between work, home and mobile environments are blurring. What is the...

10 July, 2018

Have you heard about serverless computing?  Not yet… This is a time you should start paying attention. Serverless computing is...

13 October, 2010

In any enterprise software, there is a point of time we are asking the following question – “what APIs are...

Blogroll

To the top