651 Collaborative Multisite PLM Platform George Draghici 1 , Anca Draghici 1 gdraghici@eng.upt.ro, adraghici@eng.upt.ro 1 Politehnica University of Timisoara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania Abstract: The product development is a result of a collaborative design process in network. The national research network in the field of product and process integrated engineering (INPRO) main objective is the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) concept and solution promotion through the Romanian industry. In this context, was built a collaborative multisite platform for product and its associated processes that join together the methodological approach, methods and tools for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Knowledge Management (KM) and Human Resources Management (HRU), examples of good practice. In the paper are presented: the product lifecycle model which is the base for the proposed collaborative product development methodology and the multisite PLM platform. The universities partners’ PLM platforms and the potential industrial partners have connected through Internet/ Intranet. Keywords: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), multisite platform, collaborative product development, conceptual design. 1. Introduction Integrated product and processes development supposes to consider all the knowledge about the product lifecycle from the beginning of product design stage, by integrating the user requirements, with the quality, terms and costs constraints (Draghici, 1999), (Usher, Roy & Parsaei, 2005). Therefore, we can talk about the whole product lifecycle integration and management (Stark, 2005). In the same time, many product development projects require cooperation between research teams with different competence, which are geographical distributed. When such a project/product team is set up, all the require knowledge must be considered to solve a certain design problem in a collaborative environment. The product development process has changed dramatically in the last time because of the progresses in the information and communication technology field. Nowadays, the product development is a result of a collaborative design process in network (Shpitalni, Guttman, & Bossin, 2005). The partners’ collaboration and synergy in the National Research Network for Integrated Product and Process Engineering (INPRO) (Draghici & Draghici, 2007) was adapted to the actual requirements of product development. In this context, was built a collaborative multisite platform for product and its associated processes (Draghici, Savii & Draghici, 2007), (Draghici, Savii & Draghici, 2008), that join together the methodological approach, methods and tools for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Knowledge Management (KM) and Human Resources Management (HRU), examples of good practice.