| The PLM
Program - An Incremental Approach to
the Strategic Value of PLM
- Introduces a pragmatic approach
to implementing Product Lifecycle
Management in a way that drives
towards a strategic vision by taking
incremental steps with tangible
returns on investment.
(View PDF)
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| Regulatory
Compliance Across the Product
Lifecycle -
Examines the importance
that regulatory compliance and
product related EH&S play in
protecting the value available from
PLM across the product lifecycle.
(View PDF) |
| Digital
Manufacturing
- Discusses the use of
technology—including 3D CAD and
simulation—within a PLM
strategy to help manufacturers
develop more profitable products by
optimizing the planning, development
and deployment of better
manufacturing processes.
(View PDF) |
| Computer
Aided Design for Formula-Based
Industries
- Outlines the business value
achieved by Revlon, Shiseido /
Zotos, Pfizer and other leading
companies utilizing CAD software for
formula-based product development,
and provides guidance for similar
manufacturers.
(View PDF)
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| Successful
PLM Programs
- Reviews the characteristics of a
phased approach for manufacturers to
meet their PLM objectives,
highlighting some relevant,
successful PLM Programs.
(View PDF)
See German translation.
(View PDF)
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| Selecting a
PLM System to Improve Product
Development Performance for Small
and Medium Sized Manufacturing
Businesses
- Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Ray
Kurland of TechniCom offer a
framework for smaller manufacturers
to evaluate, select, and implement a
PLM system based on a structured
plan and objective requirements.
(See
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Complementary Roles of PIM and PLM
- Explores how Product Information
Management (PIM) can extend the
value of PLM implementations by
providing complementary tools and
capabilities.
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| The Many Faces of PLM -
Overviews the various, inter-related
software solutions that contribute
to achieving the PLM value
proposition, and where they fit in
the PLM software suite. (View PDF) |
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Rules-driven Product Management
- Highlights the
manufacturing strategy of
customizing products to exact
customer specifications to combat
commoditization, globalization,
margin shrink and increased
competition, and how Rules-driven
Product Management can help.
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| Moving
Innovation Closer to the Customer
(Order)
- Explores the question "Can
innovation be moved closer to the
customer in order to meet their
needs, and if so, how far towards
the customer’s point of order can
innovation still be included?" (View PDF) |
| Mass Customization
of Highly Configurable Products
- Discusses the challenges that mass
customization places on
manufacturing companies. Describes
how customization makes seemingly
"simple" products complex to design,
sell and produce (View PDF).
See related article in Mechanical
Engineering Magazine.
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| PLM Proving
Value at Heinz
- Reviews the strategic value
achieved by Heinz from implementing
Product Lifecycle Management
processed and software in their
global business.
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| Maximizing
Product Development Value
- Highlights key insights on
realizing value from new products
based on discussions with product
development leaders. Analyzes a new
approach to portfolio management
that focuses on achieving the
economic value available from new
products. (View PDF)
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| Regulatory
Compliance Across the Product
Lifecycle -
Examines the importance
that regulatory compliance and
product related EH&S play in
protecting the value available from
PLM across the product lifecycle.
(View PDF) |
| Agile, IBM,
Others Take PLM in a Green Direction - Reviews
increasing manufacturers’
responsibilities for product-related
environmental impacts based on
recent regulations such as WEEE and
RoHS and how PLM vendors are
stepping in to help.
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| PLM Is
An Industry Affair - Or Is It?
- Discusses the counterintuitive
fact that some PLM solutions must be
highly focused on vertical industry
needs, while others can be applied
in a more industry-neutral approach.
(View PDF) |
| Can ERP
Speak PLM?
- Analyzes the trade-offs between
advanced PLM functionality and
pre-built integration that is
offered by ERP vendors. Specifically
discusses the challenge of semantics. (View PDF) |
| Dynamics of
Electronic Components (Component
Event Management)
- Discusses the inherent challenge
of managing product lifecycles for
products that contain electronic
components, given that the
components often have
shorter lifecycles than the parent products.
(View PDF) |
| The Role of
PIM and PLM in the Product
Information Supply Chain
- Summarizes the need for managing
and synchronizing commercial product
information, discussed Product
Information Management (PIM) and
increased demand for PLM vendors to
provide supporting tools.
(View PDF) |
| Selecting
PLM Software
- Describes the challenges of
selecting enterprise application
suites. Offers advice for
selecting PLM based on lessons
learned from more mature application
suites. (View PDF) |
| Customization
Drives Complexity - Introduces
the complexity that product
customization places on the process
of selling, designing and producing
custom products and suggestions on
how to streamline the process of
incorporating customer
specifications into orders.
(View PDF) |