{"id":2656,"date":"2009-06-01T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T05:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Helmuth-Ludwig-on-Productivity\/ba-p\/333948"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:22:31","slug":"helmuth-ludwig-on-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/helmuth-ludwig-on-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmuth Ludwig on Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P>Also today, Dr. <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/leadership\/ludwig.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Helmuth Ludwig<\/A>, our president, shared his thoughts on productivity in this economy. He discussed key drivers of optimization:<\/P>  <UL>&nbsp;  <LI>Reducing cost<\/LI>&nbsp;   <LI>Increasing productivity<\/LI>&nbsp;   <LI>Increasing quality<\/LI>&nbsp;   <LI>Removing waste and non-value processes<\/LI>&nbsp;   <LI>Optimizing product portfolio<\/LI> <\/UL>&nbsp; <IMG style=\"width:0px;height:0px\" border=\"0\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyNDM5MDkyODgzMjEmcHQ9MTI*MzkwOTI5MTYwNiZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9c3NfZW1iZWQmZz*yJnQ9Jm89NDFjYzRkNTk*MTU3NDRkMzliOGZiY2NhNTA4YTIyYjAmb2Y9MA==.gif\" \/><DIV style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_1519288\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/SiemensPLM\/productivity-focus-helmuth-ludwig?type=presentation\" title=\"Productivity Focus - Helmuth Ludwig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Productivity Focus &#8211; Helmuth Ludwig<\/A><DIV style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px\">View more <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">OpenOffice presentations<\/A> from <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/SiemensPLM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SiemensPLM<\/A>.<\/DIV><\/DIV> <P>He also shared some research results on waste from <A href=\"http:\/\/lean.mit.edu\/index.php?\/products\/lai-products\/product-development-value-stream-mapping-pdvsm-manual.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">MIT\u2019s Lean Advancement<\/A> Initiative, where they still find 77% waste and only 12% in value-add activities.<\/P>  <P>He gave a customer example which happened to be Siemens itself as it looks to increase productivity with an integrated PLM-IT toolset to unify product and production platforms.<\/P>  <P>His challenge to our customers was to be champions of change in their organizations. <\/P>  <P>I asked what feedback he has gotten from our customers the past two days and he said he was impressed with the positive feedback on the power in our toolset. <\/P>  <DIV class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b77a8b0a-2068-47e3-9801-dc1917795a8e\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;float: none;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/plmconx\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">plmconx<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/PLM+Connection\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PLM Connection<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/PLM+World\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PLM World<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Siemens+PLM\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens PLM<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Helmuth+Ludwig\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Helmuth Ludwig<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/productivity\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">productivity<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/MIT\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">MIT<\/A>,<A href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Lean+Advancement\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Lean Advancement<\/A><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also today, Dr. Helmuth Ludwig, our president, shared his thoughts on productivity in this economy. 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