PPM

PPM may refer to:

Business in general

• Planned preventive maintenance
• Project portfolio management
• Public performance measure, UK measure of rail punctuality

Organizations

• Malaysian Scouts Association (Malay: Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia)
• Mauritanian People's Party (French: Parti du peuple mauritanien, 1960–1978)
• Parry People Movers, UK flywheel vehicle manufacturer
• Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a human rights movement in Pakistan for the Pashtun people
• People's Monarchist Party (Portugal) (Portuguese: Partido Popular Monárquico), a Portuguese political party
• People's Progressive Movement (Cayman Islands)
• Progressive Party of Maldives

Science and technology

Computing

• Pages per minute, a measurement of printing speed
• Perl package manager, for software packages
• Planted partition model, a special case of Stochastic block model
• Portable pixmap format, a Netpbm format
• Prediction by partial matching, a data compression technique

Medicine

• Permanent pacemaker
• Persistent pupillary membrane, an eye condition
• Physician practice management

Other uses in science and technology

• Parts-per-million
• Peak programme meter, measuring audio level
• Planned preventative maintenance of equipment
• PPM Star Catalogue
• Proton precession magnetometer, measures small magnetic field variations
• Pulse-position modulation of a signal

Other uses

• Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards (Spanish: Premios Pepsi Music Venezuela)
• Peter, Paul and Mary, American folk group
• Portable People Meter, to measure radio and TV broadcast audiences
• Precision Performance Motorsports, an American auto racing team
• Prince Philip movement, a religious sect in Vanuatu
• Private Placement Memorandum, offering document for private placements
• Pay per 1000 impressions

See also

• Temperature coefficient, in parts per million per Kelvin (ppm/K) or per degree Celsius (ppm/C)