Unlock the Future of Product Innovation: From PDM to PLM
All design engineering, product development, and manufacturing organizations need an automated solution for managing, utilizing, and leveraging 3D CAD design data.
Your current PDM system focuses on managing design data as it relates to product development processes, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) centers on reengineering product development and manufacturing processes as they relate to product lifecycles. PDM is a design-focused technology that increases efficiencies within existing product development processes by improving the management of product design data.
PLM, on the other hand, is a strategic, process-centered approach that leverages PDM and the digital thread, to manage product lifecycles, remake processes, and increase output. As a result, PLM improves productivity across the connected enterprise rather than in a single department or a specific process.
Why PLM?
A PLM Platform goes beyond just the design and engineering departments and encompasses the organization as a whole.
Because of this, benefits can be unlocked across the entire organization, but to truly benefit from a PLM Platform, an organization needs to appreciate that it isn’t just software for the engineering and operations teams, it’s a business-wide transformation.
Learn about the key benefits of utilizing a PLM system below:
Overview
PLM for the Enterprise
PLM Capabilities and Benefits
Future-proof your product lifecycle management and help your company handle the increasing complexity of today's products.
"We looked at other PLM/PDM products, but they would require ripping out our existing system. Aras Innovator enables us to keep the software we already have and love while exposing product data in processes across the company."
Kevin Friske
MiTek Corporation
"Aras Innovator is exactly the solution I was looking for — keep SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and scale it without having to replace it."
Josh Mings
SolidSmack
"Together Aras Innovator and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional provide the ideal solution for us to streamline and simplify process complexity throughout the company."
David Baer
Spartan Motors
How PLM works
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Stages of Product Lifecycle
The product lifecycle usually includes five stages. Each of these stages can be enhanced using a PLM strategy.
- Development: PLM can aid in collaboration during the development stage, centralizing data and trackingchanges to ensure faster, more efficient development.
- Introduction: PLM can be used to track manage product data across teams, ensuring documentation and compliance, which can speed up timeto-market and reduce errors.
- Growth: As products gain market acceptance, PLM can be used to optimize production processes, ensuring efficient resource allocation and managing product variants as demand increases.
- Maturity: PLM can be used to manage product updates, optimizing supply chain management, and ensuring consistency across manufacturing processes.
- Decline: PLM tools can be used to facilitate any product phase-out processes, managing end-of-life transitions and supporting decisions regarding updates or discontinuations.
By utilizing PLM, organizations can enhance collaboration, optimize processes, reduce time-to-market, ensure regulatory compliance and efficiently manage any product changes that may occur, all of which contribute to a more successful product lifecycle.
PLM Frequently Asked Questions
PDM To PLM Service Process
Achieving successful Product Lifecycle Management requires a holistic, all-encompassing view of a business's processes, and technologies, as well as its business goals.
To do this, our team works closely with you to ensure you have a clear understanding of your current business situation to provide an optimal route forward to achieve your business goals while reducing costs and delays, increasing efficiencies, and eliminating silos.
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