Polarion Spring Meeting 2024

Exchange of experience from user to user

The association PLM Benutzergruppe e.V., in which we, cip alpha, are a member, promotes the cooperation of the users of the software tools of Siemens Industries Software in order to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. The association offers different platforms for Siemens as manufacturer and the licensees as users to get in contact and exchange experiences.

Within the framework of the association, there are different topic- and product-specific work groups, called Special Interest Groups or SIG for short. The Polarion ALM SIG is focused on usage aspects of the ALM software tool Polarion. Guido Lange, cip alpha, is the leader of the Polarion SIG.

Spring Meeting 2024 - Topic and Platforms

The digital transformation is not only changing the capabilities of technical products into communicating marvels, but also, to an unprecedented extent, the software tools that are used to develop, build and support them throughout their lives. Disruption and complexity are buzzwords that characterize the brutality of the change. Technical products are no longer mechatronic, but cyber-physical: they can communicate. Requirements are no longer sufficient to describe them: Model-based development is the key to mastering their complexity. Lifecycle management no longer focuses on the development and production of electromechanical products like product lifecycle management (PLM), but has a holistic view of the entire lifecycle of cyber-physical products, i.e. encompassing the methods, tools and processes involved, known as system lifecycle management, or SysLM for short.

What does this mean for those who go through development processes for cyber-physical products and for those who provide production and service processes for cyber-physical products? Nico Michels and Dr.-Ing. Chantal Sinnwell, both Siemens DISW, answered this question very vividly in their presentation The Power of Models at the PLM User Group Association's Summer Conference 2023, for association members here is the link to the recording.

The goal of the Polarion Spring Meeting 2024 is to provide participants with orientation, decision-making and action aids as well as a broad communication platform on important SysLM issues:

1. What are the motivation, benefits and models for SysLM?
2. What role can/should Polarion play as a gateway to SysLM?
3. How should interfaces between Polarion as an authoring system and a backbone system such as Teamcenter be functionally designed?
4. What infrastructure and administration does a SysLM IT landscape need on a technical and functional level?
5. What visions, plans and implementations of SysLM already exist in operational practice, especially, but not limited to, the interaction of Polarion with Teamcenter?

Experts from science and industry as well as representatives of companies that use Polarion and Teamcenter will report their ideas and experiences on these questions in 15 presentations, accompanied by good opportunities to talk to each other and to get to know Heidenheim and to see and hear on site how other companies deal with the topic of SysLM.

Spring Meeting 2024 - Organizational Details

The conference will be held as a hybrid event, i.e. participation is possible

• either in person on site within the limited number of 80 participants
  • in the 15 presentations at the Voith Group headquarters in Heidenheim and
  • the accompanying program in Heidenheim and the surrounding area
• or remotely via teams without a limit on the number of participants
  • at the 15 presentations at the Voith Group headquarters in Heidenheim

• For Registration Presence
• For Registration Online
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Sponsors

Voith Group: Rooms, room technology, catering
Siemens Digital Industries Software: Joint get-together for networking
cip alpha: Technical and organizational support