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The people side of PLM seems to be the theme today.  Alfred Katzebach from Daimler commented in his keynote that one of the projects was not so much an IT project as it was a project focused on people, specifically getting them to work differently.  Picking up on that theme in the Teamcenter track was Michaal Berkowitz from Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd<\/A>.  Elbit is a system house responsible for all of Israel’s electro-optic defense systems: everything from lasers and thermal imaging to heads up displays.  As you can imagine, there are a wide range of disciplines at work amongst Elbit’s 1400 employees, more than 50% of which are scientists, engineers or software developers.<\/P>

Elbit started a project to move from a very expansive PDM system to a PLM system.  Some of you may have to read that last sentence twice.  Go ahead…I’ll wait.  I know it may come as a shock, but its not just the industry<\/EM> who makes it a point to differentiate between PDM and PLM – users see the difference too!<\/P>

There were over 1,000 users of the legacy PDM system and all of them were moved over a long holiday to the new PLM system.  Michal didn’t spend her time talking about code migration or server provisioning.  Rather she focused on the needs of those >1,000 users.<\/P>

She developed a three stage plan:<\/P>