PLCS training on June 28-30th!

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

--Forwarding on behalf of Eurostep--

Eurostep offers PLCS training in the US - Last Call !

We are pleased to invite you to a 3-day Product Lifecycle Support Technical Walkthrough course on June 28-30th, in the Washington
area (Arlington, Virginia).

The price for the 3-day course (including lunches and coffee) is ordinarily
2.095 USD. OASIS PLCS TC members get a 15% discount--a price of 1.781 USD. A course description and a booking form can be found on
our web site
(www.eurostep.com) under Training. Last day for enrolment is Tuesday June 14th.

The PLCS course includes individual exercises where participants use a specially designed tool to create examples of product
structures, activities, requirements, etc., to improve their understanding of the standard and learn how it can be used. (Note: the
exercises require a laptop
computer.) More info on PLCS is at the bottom of this mail.

It is time for you to learn more about PLCS! Make sure you and your colleagues attend this course and are among the first to take
advantage of the PLCS standard!

Please send this mail on to any colleague you think would also be interested. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact
me.

Best Regards,
Helena

Helena Lindström
Eurostep AB
Vasagatan 38
111 20 Stockholm
Sweden
Office: +46 8 200 440
Mobile: +46 708 200 498
www.eurostep.com

More on PLCS:
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PLCS (ISO STEP 10303-239) was approved as an International Standard in December 2004. Major implementations are already well under
way. A number of organizations already run PLCS-based systems and have experienced major business benefits. With PLCS, much of the
early promise of STEP is delivered with information integration over a product's life cycle. Major organizations such as the U.S.
DOD, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, UK MOD, BAE SYSTEMS, and FMV have been supporting the development of PLCS, both financially and with
resources.

To meet the growing interest in learning more about PLCS, Eurostep will conduct its popular PLCS Technical Training course in the
U.S. Eurostep has been the leading resource in the development of PLCS and has led in the implementation of PLCS through its
commercial software, Share-A-space, and through its consulting services. The course has been delivered with great success in many
European countries, including UK, Sweden, Norway, and France. Some organizations that have attended the training are Ericsson
Telecom, Land Systems Hägglunds, Scania, Volvo, FMV (the Swedish Defence Material Organization), DNV, Ericsson Microwave, SAAB
Bofors Dynamics, Airbus, Bofors Defence, the Norwegian Defence, Tetra Pak, and several leading software and consulting companies
such as IBM and UGS.

PLCS defines the rules for common and complete information management. It is based on the established ISO STEP standards, where PDM
schema is one of the building blocks. The standard targets the complete product's lifecycle and manages requirements, design
structures, planned maintenance, and performed maintenance. Companies and organizations with a business requirement for long term
and/or open information management, for both internal and external communication, benefit from all or parts of PLCS. Large buyers
are starting to demand product and maintenance information in PLCS format. Even without such requirements, PLCS makes business sense
- it saves time and money, and it improves the overall quality of information management across the product's life cycle. PLCS takes
advantage of programs like UID where unique identification of individual products is key to a product's life cycle management.
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