At PLM Road Map 2006 join Donald H. Brown, leading industry 
analysts from CPDA, key industry players, and front-line 
implementation experts as they discuss their experiences in 
addressing strategic PLM topics. Find out about their 
successes in making technology work by linking it across 
the whole product lifecycle, the obstacles they encountered 
on the way, and how they developed strategies to overcome 
them. represents a strategic conference focused on the 
critical trade-offs that shape product development. At PLM 
Road Map 2006, find out first hand which issues are 
currently confronting end users. Presentations will cover 
collaboration across the enterprise, knowledge capture and 
reuse, the business benefits of PLM integration, PLM 
interoperability, the tradeoffs of open CAD and tight 
integration, product development platforms to meet the 
needs of commonality and variety, up-front simulation, up-
front manufacturing process constraints, SOA reuse of 
software modules as web services, the business benefits of 
PLM, and more.  Join the CPDA team in Dearborn, MI on 
September 27 & 28 to find out how PLM can deliver immediate 
results to your bottom line.