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Defining Value for PLM Solutions: What to Measure
While countless companies across industries have realized tremendous payback on their investments in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, they often don’t reap the full value for years after the first phases of go-live. Part of the challenge is simply deciding what and how to measure, especially since PLM is often a multi-year, multi-phase initiative that strives to improve a set …
Quality Lifecycle Management: Striking a Balance between Product Reliability and Over-Design
When it comes to product design, companies must balance four competing goals: cost, time to market, feature set, and reliability. The key is to get the right mix and create the greatest customer satisfaction with the product. Too often, however, companies downplay the importance of reliability when weighed against the other three goals. They prioritize cost, time to market, or …
Succeeding with Software Adoption: The Devil is in the Details
Following a learning and adoption continuum is a proven way to achieve business goals faster and with less disruption when deploying PLM software. But when it comes to successfully pulling off this model, the devil is in the details. Along with starting the adoption process at the beginning of an implementation program instead of just doing training at the end, …
Adding Review Cycles to Accelerate Product Development
It seems counterintuitive, but putting more review cycles in the development process can actually help get products to market faster. A large consumer products manufacturer shows why this can work. Like many manufacturers trying to get more efficient in product development, the company had invested in multiple design centers around the world along with a large network of suppliers to …
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Designing for Reliability: Why a Closed-Loop Process Works Best
Product reliability goes a long way toward ensuring customer loyalty. When products fail we feel annoyed and inconvenienced – or worse. If failure results in injury or even loss of life, the response is outrage and the impact to the manufacturer can be incredibly damaging. Consider the lawsuit Toyota found itself dealing with after acceleration problems caused crashes, injuries and …
PLM and Process Improvement: Building Bridges to Ensure Enterprise Value
When working to improve product lifecycle management, companies often struggle to gain full value from their initiatives because they fail to focus on cross-enterprise change. For example, companies seeking to accelerate product development often focus on improving tools and processes for collaboration. But they put most of their energy into changes within individual departments instead of also looking across them. …
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Achieving Faster Product Development with Integrated PLM
Getting new products to market faster is typically a top priority for manufacturing firms, and the companies that respond more quickly to the latest market trends and demands usually come out on top. But accelerating time to market is not so easy when companies are developing increasingly complex products, such as those featuring embedded software. This is especially true when …
PLM Learning and Adoption: A Strategic Approach to End-User Acceptance
Most companies invest in PLM to improve important business metrics, such as time to market with new products, product quality, and product development cost. But they often struggle to achieve their goals because they end up focusing more on implementing new software features and functions and less on process change and efficient ways of working. If end users resist the …
How to Boost Your Productivity with Process-Based Training
When you’re dealing with an entirely new way of working, how do you efficiently and effectively organize a training program so it doesn’t cause enormous downtime? That’s the challenge facing many organizations as they implement a modern PLM system. After all, training can be time-consuming and distract from day-to-day tasks. And that’s a tremendous concern for engineering leaders and PLM …
How a Strategic, Big-Picture Approach to PLM Pays Off
Even with the best of intentions, it’s easy for organizations to lose sight of the big picture when embarking on a PLM program. Program and IT managers get bogged down in the weeds of tactical project management; business sponsors move on to other priorities once the basic direction is set. But it is the companies that sustain a strategic approach …
