{"id":1000,"date":"2010-10-27T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Designing-the-Product-for-the-Factory-and-Vice-Versa\/ba-p\/334517"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:04:10","slug":"designing-the-product-for-the-factory-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/designing-the-product-for-the-factory-and-vice-versa\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing the Product for the Factory and Vice Versa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>In going through my notes from last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm-europe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PLM Connection Europe<\/A> event, there were a few more highlights I wanted to share.&nbsp; I was able to record a few minutes of Chuck&#8217;s presentation that touches on &#8220;designing the product for the factory and the factory for the product.&#8221; It was a part of his presentation where he highlighted the way PLM has moved beyond just discrete manufacturing to hybrid and process industries like CPG, retail, energy, chemical, etc. Below is the slide and soundbite.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-3599 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/designing-the-product-for-the-factory-and-vice-versa\/chuck-plm-industry-expansion\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3599\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/10\/Chuck-PLM-industry-expansion.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;siemens plm&quot;, &quot;product development&quot;, engineering, manufacturing\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8Mu47ec6_No\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>You need an integrated approach to product and production definition to design the product for the factory and the factory for the product. Below is a slide from Chuck&#8217;s presentation that shows how those lifecycles begin to integrate through that common definition.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-3596 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/designing-the-product-for-the-factory-and-vice-versa\/chuck-integrated-product-and-production-lifecycles\/\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/..\/files\/2010\/10\/Chuck-integrated-product-and-production-lifecycles.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;product and production&quot;, &quot;product development&quot;, &quot;siemens plm&quot;\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>The key to integrating product and production is open technology. In my previous post and video interview with Chuck, he shared comments on<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/chuck-grindstaff-shares-siemens-plm-vision-and-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Siemens PLM vision and strategy<\/A>. In regards to open technology, he explained &#8220;future-proof architecture.&#8221; (See the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H2XiEVkLQaM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> video Q&amp;A at 6 minutes in<\/A>). Below is a slide to visually explain how open architecture is organized.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-3598 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/designing-the-product-for-the-factory-and-vice-versa\/chuck-fool-proof-architecture\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3598\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/10\/Chuck-Fool-proof-architecture.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;open plm&quot;, &quot;product development&quot;, &quot;siemens plm&quot;\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Last but not least, while we announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/definition\/hd-plm.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">HD-PLM<\/A> in May, some of the underlying technology had already been appearing in NX and Teamcenter in recent years. Chuck shared a slide on the &#8220;Evolution of HD User Experience&#8221; that explains this in more detail.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-3597 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/27\/designing-the-product-for-the-factory-and-vice-versa\/chuck-evolution-of-hd-slide\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3597\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/10\/Chuck-Evolution-of-HD-slide.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;HD-PLM&quot;, &quot;siemens plm&quot;, &quot;product development&quot;\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>I hope you find these slides and soundbites from Chuck&#8217;s presentation useful. If you have more questions for Chuck, let me know in a comment.<BR \/><BR \/>Dora<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In going through my notes from last week&#8217;s PLM Connection Europe event, there were a few more highlights I wanted to share.&nbsp; I was able to record a few minutes of Chuck&#8217;s presentation that touch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}