CERN's New PLM Platform & Consolidation of Legacy Tools: What's New and What's Next?

Long-term CERN projects such as the LHC or the FCC require the ability to store, validate and archive large sets of engineering data (documentation, various reports, 3D models, 2D drawings). The current engineering tools at CERN manage several million documents that go through various lifecycles and workflows. A continu-ous increase in the complexity of projects and exchanges between CERN and external partners requires contin-uous improvement of engineering tools. In the initial part, this paper presents the purpose of the PLM service, legacy tools used for managing engi-neering data at CERN and motivations for their modernisation. The main part of the paper focuses on CERN’s new PLM, its components and current functionality. In this section, we will learn how multiple tools were consolidated into one single platform, how having one platform allowed us to streamline engineering processes and stimulate collaboration between engineers. The last part draws perspectives for next steps in the PLM platform evolution and explains how having one common PLM platform can enable CERN to profit from modern engineering concepts.