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CIMPA explains how PLM and circular economy strategies can support sustainable product development, innovation, collaboration, and long-term business profitability.
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The Grid is the Green Energy Transition’s Weakest Link
By PLM Green Global Alliance contributor and green energy moderator Mark Reisig, Executive Consultant and Sustainability Practice Director from CIMdata. Decarbonization, the use of renewable energy, electric mobility, heating solutions, and the energy transition will only occur if a smart, secure, distributed grid is completed in time. A simple analogy would be building a house…
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PLM Green Announces Participation of CIMdata and Mark Reisig
The PLM Green Global Alliance (PGGA) enthusiastically announces that CIMdata Executive Consultant Mark Reisig will be participating in our PLM Green initiative with the support of CIMdata, the leading global Product Lifecycle Management strategy consulting and research firm. PLM Green’s nonprofit-like mission is to educate, advocate, and collaborate across the boundaries of technical disciplines, different…
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The Sustainability Thread
The topic of sustainability was high on the agenda of the SAP Product Lifecycle Management Info Days event held this past September in Hershey, PA, just west of SAP America’s HQ outside of Philadelphia. Most SAP customer presentations at the annual event referenced the growing need to provide product data to support their company’s sustainability…
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Climate Change Chronicles October 2023
The latest Climate Change Chronicles from the PLM Green Global Alliance provides a quick-to-scan summary of news during October 2023 from around the world about the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. I am often asked if the distressing news about climate change does not depress me. Not at all. As…
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Circular Economy of Large Complex Systems from CIMPA
Patrice Quencez examines how PLM capabilities support sustainability and circular economy strategies for complex, long-lifecycle industrial systems and infrastructures.
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PLM Green Talking About Green PLM
Since our start in earnest in 2020, the PLM Green Global Alliance has participated in discussion panels with solution providers Aras, Autodesk, Dassault Systems, PTC, SAP, and Sustaira. In these interviews our focus was to learn about their thought leadership, products, and experience implementing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to support Sustainability initiatives. Our last interview…
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PLM Green Expands Circular Economy Coverage
The PLM Green Global Alliance (PGGA) is excited to announce that Patrice Quencez, Director Consultant and Deputy Director of CIMPA PLM Services, has volunteered to lead our coverage of the role of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategies, technologies, and solutions in creating a new global Circular Economy. The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is straight…
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How PLM sustains Sustainability and Circular Economy
Patrice Quencez explores how PLM digital platforms enable sustainability and circular economy strategies through systemic thinking, value chains, and collaboration.
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PLM and Sustainability Book Preview
From PLM Green Global Alliance’s (PGGA) European co-founder Jos Voskuil. During May and June of this year I wrote a guest chapter for John Stark’s book Product Lifecycle Management (Volume 2): The Devil is in the Details. The book is considered a standard in academic and professional circles when studying all the many aspects of PLM….
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PLM Tools to Design for Sustainability
This month we are pleased to feature a guest blog submitted by PLM Green Global Alliance follower Roger L. Franz. who shares a few things he has learned as a Principal in Engineering Information Technology when beginning to explore the state of PLM tools to Design for Sustainability. Design for Sustainability is now a mainstream…
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Climate Change Chronicles July 2023
This month’s Climate Change Chronicles bears witness to July 2023 going down in history as a tipping point in human awareness of the effects of global warming that can no longer be denied as the planet crosses over into an era of accelerating climate change. Yet, despite all the unsettling news, global carbon emissions are…
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Climate Change Chronicles May 2023
The latest Climate Change Chronicles from the PLM Green Global Alliance provides a quick-to-scan digest of news, both good and bad, from around the world during May 2023 about the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. While there is increasing good news about the race to decarbonize the global economy, I…
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PLM Green Reports on PTC LiveWorx 2023
This post was written and first published in May 2023 by PLM Green co-founder Jos Voskuil in his European Virtual Dutchman blog about PLM. Last week I enjoyed visiting LiveWorx 2023 on behalf of the PLM Global Green Alliance. PTC had invited us to understand their sustainability ambitions and meet with the relevant people from…
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Discussing PLM and Sustainability with CIMdata
Last year the PLM Green Global Alliance was excited to speak with PLM solution providers SAP, Autodesk, Dassault Systems, Sustaira, Aras, and PTC to learn about them and their customers’ contributions to sustainability. This year we were equally enthused to meet with CIMdata’s Mark Reisig in a wide-ranging conversation about sustainability, climate change and green…
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PLM Green 2023 Survey
This month we are taking a pause from the typical format of the PLM & Sustainability newsletter to ask PLM Green followers for their valued input in a one-question survey that will help guide our initiative forward. In the way of context for our survey, the PLM Green Global Alliance LinkedIn Group was launched early…
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Discussing Sustainability with PTC
The following post was first written by PLM Green co-founder Jos Voskuil where it appeared in his European PLM Weblog in December 2022. We are excited to close the year with the first round of the PLM Global Green Alliance (PGGA) series of interviews and panel discussions about PLM and Sustainability. Over the past year…
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Climate Change Chronicles December 2022
This month’s Climate Change Chronicles from the PLM Green Global Alliance provides a quick-to-scan summary of news from around the world during December 2022 about the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. Our good news question of the month: what laboratory announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy? Read on to…