In today’s extended enterprise world, real time coherent communication with the actors driving your company’s performance has never been so important. By facilitating exchanges among the various entities in your company, your production sites, your sub-contractors, service suppliers and customers, PLM provides a competitive collaboration solution for your projects, from start to end. In a common environment built around a central data repository, each actor is able to fully play his part, working together to continuously improve your product development processes.

To enable each member of your team to bring forth his best, you must provide them with the means to easily, comfortably access information, whenever they need it. By centralizing the comprehensive data of a project in a common, secure space, PLM enables the concerned functions of your company to do their job efficiently with no lost time when processing information. Full control of data flows and confidentiality is ensured through authentication for access to the exchange platforms, secure safe boxes and user profile management.

A PLM solution will allow you to capitalize and manage the comprehensive information concerning a product from start to end of its lifecycle. This centralized original data then becomes valuable re-usable data which can be plugged into other projects, saving significant amounts of time for everyone involved in the PLM system. No need to start all over each time, your company will use its existing resources for a higher level of responsiveness. On a wider level, PLM enhances your company’s intellectual assets by facilitating exchanges and sharing know-how across the company. A company’s performance is essentially driven by its human resources. The building blocks of your company’s collective intelligence lie in the individual trade skills, experience and knowledge of your company’s staff.

A PLM solution gives you the advantage of setting up a common, central data repository accessible by all the actors of your company or the extended enterprise. Incoherent information is eliminated by this centralized system. The risks of errors are identified in real time to solve problems faster. With an accurate, comprehensive vision of your information, you will make better product development decisions. This decision making feature translates time and money savings.

Implementing a PLM project will also give you the opportunity to line up your product development people on deliverables : specifications, price lists, data repository, configuration management, documentation format.

Customer feedback is often referred to as a marketing approach corner stone. With PLM, you can interact with your customer during the design phase (by digital models and mockups), during deployment and use (customer service) powerfully driving product adaptation, change process optimization and product road map design. PLM gives you the capacity to interact, from the designer to the product user.