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"Providing a PLM Course
for Academic Organisations world-wide"
Korhan Sevenler, Jennifer Bradford and John
Stark
Siemens
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Abstract
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) spread quickly
throughout industry world-wide after its emergence at the
beginning of the 21st Century. Twenty years later, an industrial
company expects new employees to be knowledgeable about PLM, and
to work immediately in its PLM environment. However, few PLM
courses have been offered by academia, meaning that companies
have been forced to develop and provide their own PLM education
for new hires. It also means that it has been difficult for
students to learn about PLM, either at undergraduate or graduate
level. In recent years two such courses were developed and
taught, one in USA and the other one in Europe. Their authors
joined forces to create a complete course package that could be
taught throughout the world with the support of Siemens Digital
Industries Software. This paper describes the project and the PLM
course that is now available for use in academic organisations
throughout the world.
This webinar will initially introduce the historic
context of PLM and its growth as a discipline over the last
decades. The authors will then introduce the new “Business Value
of PLM” course. This is a business-oriented course about PLM.
It’s a 3 Credit (US) course. In other words, a typical
one-semester course requiring about 145 hours of effort from a
student of an academic organisation such as a University,
College, or School. The content of the 15-week course will be
discussed, along with information about how the course is being
taught and opportunities for further dissemination of the course
material.
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Speakers
Korhan
Sevenler is a Visiting Professor at Kate Gleason College of
Engineering and College of Engineering Technology at Rochester
Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Rochester Institute
Faculty, Professor Sevenler worked 23 years in Xerox Corporation.
He held several program management and operations management
roles, including the Manager of Xerox Global Engineering Systems
in Xerox Engineering Center, and Manager of Strategic Planning
and Integration Architecture in Xerox Information Management
organization. In his last position as the Director of Xerox
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), he led global PLM processes
and systems at Xerox Corporation. These included CAD/CAM/CAE,
Product Data Mgt (PDM), Requirements Mgt, Problem Mgt,
Configuration and Change Mgt, Supplier Portal, Critical
Parameters Mgt (Systems Engineering), and Compliance and
Sustainable Development. Earlier in his career, Professor
Sevenler worked at Battelle Memorial Institute as a Researcher
and Principal Research Scientist for 11 years after finishing PhD
at The Ohio State University. He received a BS in Mechanical
Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Professor Sevenler is a Fellow of ASME.
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Dr John Stark
is the President of JSA, a consultancy organisation providing
services in the area of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). He
gives the “The Basics of PLM” and “PLM for Executives” courses
for the PLM Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. Dr Stark is the
author of several books including “Product Lifecycle Management:
21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation“, now in its fourth
edition, and “Digital Transformation of Industry: Continuing
Change“. After a BSc and PhD from Imperial College, London and a
CERN Fellowship, he has worked with companies in many industries
including FMCG, pharma, fine chemical, aerospace, automotive,
transportation, medical devices, machine tools, power generation
and transmission, electronics, computer, watch, precision
machines, connectors, etc.
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Jennifer
received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University
of Missouri and her MS in Instructional Design and Technology
from Fontbonne University. She spent her early career as a
programmer and an IT manager at various Silicon Valley startups
before becoming a technical trainer and, eventually,
curricular and instructional designer. Jennifer has worked with
industrial technology, non-profit and academic institutions
throughout her career. She now manages the Curriculum and
Certification program for Siemens Digital Industries Software’s
Global Academic Partner Program. In her spare time, Jennifer
loves to garden, hike and scuba dive.
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