I-PLM Archiving (Implementation of Long Term Archiving and Retrieval Systems for Digital PDM and PLM Data) STANDARDS PROBLEM Movement from paper to digital data has made product information archiving much more complex Digital product data becomes unreadable or irretrievable before end of product life IMS ACTIVITY Bring together separate activities underway in aerospace and automotive sectors for a unified digital archiving solution. PARTICIPANTS USA (lead) – AIAG, PDES, Inc → General Dynamics EU – ENEA Research (Italy), Habel Dokumentenmanagement (Hungary), EU Project TERRIFIC MEXICO - IECOS LOTAR International MTP originally launched May, 2011