PPM
# PPM

PPM may refer to:

## Business in general

* Planned preventive maintenance
* Project portfolio management
* Public performance measure, UK measure of rail punctuality
* Procurement Performance Management

## Organizations

* Mauritanian People's Party
* Parry People Movers, UK flywheel vehicle manufacturer
* Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), also known as the Pashtun Protection Movement (PPM), a human rights movement in Pakistan for the Pashtun people
* Partido Popular Monárquico (People's Monarchist Party), Portugal
* Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia, the Scouts Association of Malaysia
* 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

### Online advertising

* PPM (Pay per 1000 impressions)

### Other uses in science and technology

* Parts per million, ppm
   * Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, $CO_2$ ppm
* Peak programme meter, measuring audio level
* PPM Star Catalogue of 378,910 stars
* Proton precession magnetometer, measures small magnetic field variations
* Pulse-position modulation of a signal.
* Planned Preventative Maintenance for Telecom Systems.

## Other uses

* Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards (Premios Pepsi Music Venezuela)
* Portable People Meter, to measure radio and TV broadcast audiences
* Private Placement Memorandum, offering document for private placements
* Peter, Paul and Mary, American folk group
* Precision Performance Motorsports, an American auto racing team
