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 ()
  • Mauritanian People's Party (, 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) (), 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 ()
  • 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)