PLM Advisory Service Meets Strategic Business Needs
An integrated approach in PLM consulting is necessary to counter the multitude of challenges placed on manufacturers. With extraordinary optimization of PLM processes without any consideration of the ITarchitecture for instance, such implementation efforts would have to be regarded as incomplete, eventually leading to suboptimal results. In today's scenario of tighter budgets, investments in PLM solutions need to be justified and benefits properly quantified. PLM advisory services provide an ideal opportunity for executives to be convinced that the investment is justified.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Advisory Service delivers the strategic businesses information to provide a valued insight for Collective Design (CAD / CAM / CAE), Engineering Data Management, Product Data Management (PDM) and Digital Manufacturing / Manufacturing Process Management with more innovative, time-to-market PLM market evaluation and reduce cost on their PLM technology.
Good change and configuration management processes go hand in hand. PLM has evolved to address the challenge and is designed to manage the complexities inherent to engineering and product development. With the complexity of today's products and because it is time consuming it is not viable for manufacturers to maintain manual processes or using spreadsheets.
Advanced PLM software's can include a more complete view of a product. PLM advisory services help in taking strategic business decisions. PLM can now capture and manage both technical and commercial product information to keep it in sync. Now all of this information can be under revision and change control to ensure products are delivered as intended. With resources across the globe working concurrently on designs, it is even more important to have product information under control. PLM enables and also offers support for collaboration with suppliers and vendors.
Products have grown in complexity as direct results of today's market and manufacturing environment. Manufacturers must address these challenges or suffer from poor quality products, delayed time to market, and high lifecycle costs. Addressing product complexity requires PLM. Many of the complexities can be addressed by the basics of PLM such as configuration management and change control. PLM advisory also helps alleviate challenges in lifecycle profitability and global manufacturing, leveraging more advanced capabilities resulting from extending PLM to more people, expanding the view of the product, supporting more of the product lifecycle, and enabling more processes. Through a consistent reduction in complexity, efficiency potential may also be released which could thereby lead to significant cost and process optimization and in turn strengthen the company's competitive position.
PLM also enables companies to close the loop of product lifecycle, and improve products by incorporating downstream feedback into new designs. Lastly, expanding PLM to more facets of the product lifecycle is incredibly valuable to support global manufacturing, service, and lifecycle profitability.
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