Career Opportunities in Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)

What is Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a management science which deals with the management of product data or product itself from its concept generation to the disposal of the product. PLM helps industries to sustain in this highly competitive world. It reduces the time required to launch the product in the market and also manufacturing and design time. It is a science of managing a big amount of data related to the product. Thus it is also known as Product Data Management(PDM).

Need of PLM

Today, in this Twenty first century, competition in the industrial sector is reached at its highest peak. Everyone wants to launch his product first to capture the whole market share. PLM philosophy helps them to manage huge amount of data and get benefits to capture the market. Thus in today’s world, there is very much necessity of PLM concept or philosophy. This creates a huge opportunity for work in the PLM sector.

Career Opportunities of PLM in Software Development Sector:

There is a huge demand in developing the sector of PLM software for lifecycle management. If a person having programming knowledge, data management, and mechanical system, then there are good opportunities for him to work as a PLM software. The Siemens, PTC, Dassault, Oracle, are pioneer companies in developing PLM software system. The PLM software are Siemens’ Teamcenter, PTC’s Windchill, Dassault’s Enovia and 3D experience, Autodesk’s vault, Oracle's Agile PLM and open source software ARAS PLM. To Build this software require programming skill, PLM concepts and having domain knowledge of the system.

Career Opportunities for PLM in Support and service

There is also an opportunity for software implementation in a particular industry. If there is an aviation industry, then we require millions of data store in this system. We also require maintenance of this large amount of data. There are opportunities in Implementation, support and service, data backup and data recovery in this PLM software field.  HCL PLM, TCS PLM, Emerson PLM, Think Enovia, PLM Logix, Capgemini, Infosys, ITC are some companies which provide implementation, support, and services in leading industries of Mechanical, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical sector. These companies are all related to Information Technological field which creates huge opportunities in PLM support and service sector.  

Career Opportunities in Product based or Manufacturing Industries

Industries like Tata Technology, JCB, L&T, Boeing and all leading manufacturing Industries implemented PLM software in their industries for management of data related to their field. To run this software, to solve daily issues, to give training to industrial person about PLM philosophy and software backbone knowledge, they require person who is having domain knowledge of PLM concept and PLM software. In this leading manufacturing companies, there is also an opportunity for new data feeding in software and customized software according to companies’ product.

Opportunities in Start-Up and on service sector start-up

 There is also an opportunity in opening a start-up in PLM consultant service and development sector. The companies which are not having knowledge of PLM or they want to focus more on their product instead of PLM implementation such as Automobile, Pharma and food industries give more opportunities to the companies which provide PLM work for their product. For this implementation, support and services of PLM software gives opportunities for start-up of PLM consultant service companies. PLM philosophy’s concepts are changing day by day, because to live in this competitive world everyone wants to get service or product immediately as soon as generation of concept in researcher’s mind. There is lot of scope in research field of data management and data migration field. Every research field is focused on how this data management science work efficiently with less time and less cost to manage this data. There is huge amount of opportunities in software research and research PLM concepts like change management, workflow designer, product structure management etc.