Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Open Source PLM, OW2con11, Nov 24-25, Paris
1. PLM
Florent Garin, DocDoku
Open Source PLM
Building a generic modern PLM solution
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
2. Who are we?
• IT consultancy company
• France based
• Team : 10 people passionate about software
• The founders
• Florent Garin CTO, certified Java EE architect,
trainer, book writer
• Eric Descargues Sales director, agile project manager
• Competency= IT
• Activities= Consulting, Training, Application development
• Open Source= DocDokuPLM
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
3. Agenda
• PLM definition
• What does PLM provide?
• Our vision, our project
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
4. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
“Manages the entire lifecycle of a
product from its conception to
disposal.
Integrates people, data, processes and
business systems and provides a
product information backbone.”
Wikipedia
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
5. PLM, what is about?
Process Management
Data Visualization
Bill of Materials
Product Structure
Change Management
User access control
Product Configuration
Document Management
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
6. What are the purposes of PLM?
• Decrease time to market
• Increase quality
• Reduce costs
• Achieve better productivity
• Ensure legal compliance
• Meet traceability requirements
• Manage complexity
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
7. Our vision
• PLM systems are traditionally used and designed for the
manufacturing industry
• Why?
• Does any sector could benefit from a PLM system?
• Open Source has proved to be more efficient than
proprietary development process
• So, why not an Open Source PLM?
• The social ERA has come, PLM software should embrace it
• The cloud is changing the way enterprises make use of IT,
PLM solutions cannot escape that evolution
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
8. DocDokuPLM
• Still in early stage (fall 2011) but yet production-ready
• Used by mia-electric (electric car maker)
• OW2 incubated
• GPL v3
• http://plm.docdoku.com
• Training, support and customization provided by DocDoku
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
9. Technical specifications
• Cross-platform, multi-device
• Because PLM involve people inside and outside the company using
heterogeneous OS and devices
• Enterprise level Software
• Reliability, security and performance are not options
• Standard compliant
• To protect investments
• Adapted from STEP 10303
• Open API
• Mandatory for interoperability
• Cloud-Ready
• Because Cloud is more than a buzzword, it’s a strong movement
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.
