Discovery

The PLM Center will project the world-renowned research of Purdue's distinguished laboratories for the benefit of industry. It will offer unique opportunities to interdisciplinary research teams in collaboration with our partners. PLM research will

  • address the enterprise aspects, deepening the understanding of risks and rewards of product strategies and inherent in specific sectors.
  • address the technology aspects of the ever evolving nature of product and process and the increasing integration of different technical domains.
  • address the issues of scalability and cost of change, considering the core significance of organizing and understanding information and knowledge in many domains and considering the entire product life span from production to decommission.

By giving our partners access to the frontiers of knowledge, the Center accelerates innovation and puts industry into a superior position in the market place. Of particular importance today, bringing innovation through products to market is a core business practice that continually increases competitiveness of the enterprise and maximizes return on investment.

Product Strategies

Planning and Scheduling

Predictive Monitoring

Monitoring and Analyzing Complex Systems

Visualization and Virtual Inspection

Shape Research

Data Management, Integration, and Mining

Security and Assurance

Perceptualization for Product Design and Manufacturing

Remote Visualization and Product Design Collaboration
Increasingly, new products raise serious interdisciplinary problems, combining electrical, mechanical, and embedded software elements and subsystems, necessitating an integration of diverse domains of knowledge and interoperations of diverse software systems. Purdue is uniquely qualified to step forward and address these complex issues through research, industrial engagement and teaching. Collaborating with industrial partners, Purdue will create the interdisciplinary scientific methodology, solution architectures, and their proof of concept.
The loss of pricing power and increased consumer demands for product support, as well as the regulatory cost burden manufactures must carry over the product's lifespan, raise serious problems when making the business case for and justifying the ever increasing investment in information systems in industry. Purdue will address this issue and help the partners in this effort by the involvement of the Krannert School of Management and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in the center and its unique methodologies to explore economic and business issues related to PLM.
Considering the complexities of implementing an enterprise-wide PLM system, which is an integration of several systems, Purdue will implement, in full collaboration with IBM, a complete PLM implementation and keep it cutting edge. In conjunction with this, we will establish an industrial sponsor program whereby founding sponsors can learn from the Purdue PLM implementation prior to embarking on theirs or, better yet, can learn from ours to improve theirs.