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"The growing deployment of product lifecycle management (PLM) among both OEMs and suppliers hasn&amp;rsquo;t gone unnoticed at IBM (www.ibm.com), which recently launched new Centers of Excellence to assist in the deployment of PLM throughout the supply chain in automotive (as well as other industries). Located in Nice-La Gaude, France; Boeblingen, Germany; Beijing, China; Bangalore and New Delhi, India; Yamato, Japan; Montreal, Canada; Hawthorne, NY, and Dallas, TX, the centers will provide access to more 3,000 researchers, 9,000 software developers and 1,000 technology consultants.&amp;ldquo;We have seen a shift in the way our customers are trying to execute their business."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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