Chapter Meeting

Dr. Majdi Najm, PMP

Product Lifecycle Management: New Tools for Collaborative Project Management

When: November 21, 2002
Where: Ramada Inn
Hampshire Hall Conference Room
1510 Jefferson Street
Jefferson City, MO
Cost: $20
Menu: TBD

Please RSVP to Ritchie Jenkins. Anyone with special dietary needs may call Karen Sanders at (573) 635-9979.

Note: The Chapter is obligated to pay for all dinners ordered, even for "no-shows." If you RSVP you will be expected to pay the $20 so the Chapter can recoup cost.

About the Program:

"PLM provides Web-based, collaboration of virtually all enterprise functions, including suppliers, throughout the life of a product" (Sun Microsystems)

"PLM is an extended enterprise solution for manufacturing companies that facilitates the sharing of product data across all company functions, customers and suppliers" (IBM)

"From first product conception, design, and engineering onwards to production ramp-up, product change management, and well into the area of service and maintenance, mySAP PLM provides a holistic view of all product-related business processes and needed information over the complete product and asset life cycle, through the extended supply chain" (SAP)

These are just a few descriptions of a new environment that software companies are providing to support the management of projects, especially those projects that consist of geographically distributed team members, subcontractors, and customers. This presentation will provide a brief overview of PLM as offered by various solution providers and will then focus on and demonstrate one of these solutions, mySAP PLM, that the E-Business University Competency Center is making available to the University community.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Majdi Najm, PMP works as Coordinator of the E-Business Program at the University of Missouri System and is responsible for promoting e-business research and education by providing access to and technical support of integrated e-business software solutions and educational material to the university community. He is also the Director of the E-Business University Competency Center, which provides hosting services of SAP e-business software and educational material to other universities across the USA.

Majdi developed an electronic book on Project Management that he has been using to offer several courses and workshops on Project Management to faculty, government agencies and industry in the United States and abroad. In his previous position with the Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Missouri-Rolla, he assisted businesses modernize their operations and was actively involved in the planning and the establishment of a teaching factory on advanced manufacturing technology. He taught courses on Project Management, Facilities Planning, Industrial Ecology, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer-aided Design and Manufacturing, and Robotics. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Kansas.