PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
We optimize all stages of the product management process.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a tool that allows you to manage all product-related information: its development, industrialization, production start-up, including supply chain elements, for an adequate exchange of information with suppliers involved in the production process.
Our value propotition:
- Ability to bring best practices across industries
- Independence from software vendors
- Use of standardized methodologies, sharing of approaches
- Flexible and proactive approach to the Client and its needs
- A Team of specialist consultants
Among the services we offer are:
Our expert services are divided into:
Support and Maintenance
- ‘As a service’ support
- Performance analysis and tuning of the PLM systems and databases involved
- Corrective and evolutionary maintenance of the application
- PLM software “upgrade” release
- Multisite replications
Area of Implementation
- PLM software installation, configuration and administration
- Implementation and customization of PLM application
- Replacement of “custom” applications with vertical PLM solutions
- Installation, configuration, and administration of PLM-CAD integrations
- Interfacing and integration between PLM and other “enterprise” applications (CRM, ERP, MES, Document Management System, Knowledge Management System, SRM, etc.).
- Data migration from legacy applications
Consulting
- Business Process Assessment
- Identifying business objectives for PLM projects
- Defining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for PLM applications
- Return on Investment (ROI) studies for PLM projects
- Functional coverage check-up for PLM applications
- Adoption of industry best practices
- Project Management, Project Governance and Technical Guidance for PLM projects
- Benchmarks and selection of PLM systems
- System Integration
Training
- Brief practical instructions in “presentation” mode ( <5’ ) - Pills
- Simple and rapid courses in “video tutorial” mode ( <10’ ) - Bullets
- Actual courses in “web” mode for remote learning (<2h) - Web
- Traditional classroom courses with trainer ( >2h ) - Class
PLM helps with all strategic processes, as it steers the company from a Data Driven to a Process Driven model, standardizing workflows such as change management, product configuration and any other sub-process associated with the product development cycle.
PLM may thus be considered as the backbone for product-related information, and as such must be able to integrate with business systems such as
- CRM, to collect the main product requirements from the market
- SRM, to foster the exchange of technical and product information with suppliers
- CAD/E/M, FEM/A and Dynamic Simulation, for design and for static and dynamic product simulation
- ERP, to facilitate the industrialization and production process
- ALM, to optimize profits for the management of product-related services
General optimization steps for the product management process:
With the digitization of manufacturing systems and move towards Cyber-physical systems, Cybersecurity and Data Protection topics are central to and integrated in this methodology.