CIOTechOutlook >> Magazine >> November - 2016 issue

Digital Innovation & Future Technology: Driven Product Life cycle Management

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The PLM market is very positive and growing at a faster rate with the duration of impacting both short term and long term. There are more major factors influencing the environment specifically to all the upcoming relevant areas. Growth seems to be substantial and quality at the phase is required. The PLM market has experienced strong overall growth across specific sectors.

Growth will vary across global regions, with India and APAC projected to maintain good growth in the PLM market. PLM business and deployment models are undergoing changes due to cloud-based PLM solutions offered by most leading suppliers. PLM in the cloud still fits the exact requirements which offer small-to-medium-sized PLM users more options to tailor solutions to their specific business and engineering requirements.

The rapidly growing need for product development; based on systems engineering, emergence of availability and product complexity, continued growth of manufacturing in emerging economies and expanding adoption of a more holistic end-to-end PLM solutions will contribute to growth in
our country.

All Product vendors, the largest players or small medium players who provide the technical design and management software focus its EDM/PDM effort on the tougher areas of the community. Further multiple expectations from the product have pioneered more technical document management with reference products in multiple fields, procurement, construction and management (EPCM), manufacturing and mining.

The third party vendors combine business process based approach with in-house re-engineering business expertise. Product focus is Motivation towards the purpose of delivery integrated with either Microsoft solutions or with external AutoCAD.

We are looking forward to implementing an end-to-end solution set from designing through manufacturing for automation and demand market base operations. The scope of PLM and the product lifecycle has expanded to include all operations and all major aspects of the specified solutions. This helps and enables the multiple modules to close the circle from as-calculated to as-built.

Main trend that will impact multiple industries involve developing and processing the next generation of smart, IoT-connected products. While all of us across all industrial sectors are ramping up to meet demand for this growing smart product market, they face major challenges in developing and manufacturing new and significantly more complex products.

Generally a Successful management of product lifecycle, from basic design to full-fledged development is a very essential aspect of product compute development. We need a robust solution that can assist them throughout the product lifecycle, i.e., from ideation to recycling and retirement. We need to have a very open significant enterprise-wide approach to empower towards enhancing our product lifecycle management abilities.

The main aspect of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions offered by external Business Solutions enables easy deployment of PLM and realizes early returns on investment (ROI). It offers integrated processes and automates workflow in product lifecycle management. It also aids clients in successfully tackling shorter product life spans and ever spiralling manufacturing costs. With its enviable experience in the PLM domain, external solutions and Business Solutions deliver a product lifecycle management solution that can be a strategic contributor to your business goals.

The PLM solution by requirement demands optimization of the best practices from your current PLM system. It also enables clients to manage complex, cross functional processes. The clients can increase profitability by merging numerous product development processes as the exact solution focuses on various key PLM areas such as design, manufacturing and services.

PLM - A necessary strategic initiative to create innovative products. The advantages that PLM offers like transparency across stakeholders, collaboration and predictability make it a necessary strategic initiative for globally focused which leads to creating innovative products. In general, strategic decisions are driven mostly by financial decision makers. In order to create a globally competitive product, With this change, PLM became a part of the company's competitive strategy, Providing another viewpoint to the strategy behind implementing PLM, "In an environment where knowledge is being generated in conjunction to innovation, PLM is extremely important as a tool to capture and store this information, so that it can be re-used".

Given that innovation is more a necessity than a luxury today, you have to employ the right technologies to help foster this process of development. Innovation can be explained as a process of adding differential value; if companies get a bigger frame of reference in respect to a particular object, the change in point of view often leads to innovation. The visibility provided by PLM to all the stakeholders alters their earlier view of a process. With this added visibility, innovation automatically becomes a part of the game, PLM is a process that is very lightly taken or understood or managed or described. It’s purely the product knowledge and the alignment with the areas of relevancy that will put us beneficiary to get the best out of it.

For any real strategic proposal, it is very clear to define the main ROI which can be complicated, As PLM is a strategic initiative, and it should not be looked at in traditional financial terms. Knowledge base rise to provide more information and opportunity to network and exchange information and collaborate with domain experts and practice managers and analysts with other professional in the PLM community.




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