Reference model for the evaluation of the performance of a PLM implementation

Nowadays PLM tools and suites are more and more adopted. How a company might choose the right PLM solution? Aim of the paper is the presentation of a reference model for the evaluation of PLM implementations, developed by the authors in a industry-university activity. The model, defined in an Excel sheet, has been adopted into several real industrial test cases. Two of them are partly explained in the paper.