Supplier Integration: Integrating Direct Materials Sourcing into Your PLM Processes

Without early collaboration, sourcing strategies are limited to “cost containment” techniques such as consolidating suppliers, combining volumes across plants, and developing new suppliers in emerging markets. Cost containment techniques are of course essential, but purchasing must grow past its transactional origins

Integrated Product Definition

At its core, the Integrated Product Definition approach in Teamcenter promotes engineering authoring and formal release of product definition data

Service Plan to Service Execution – Right Job, Done Right, First Time

Service execution is successful when service events are complete, accurate, quick, and affordable which means based on service requirements in service plans linked to product and as-maintained configurations

Getting a Handle on Design Data Exchange and Supplier Program Management

Best-in-Class companies realize that it all starts with how they manage and store their design or CAD data, it must be centralized and managed holistically to provide optimal support for collaborative engineering processes

The Future of Change Management

Next generation PLM systems will support more efficient change processes by supporting the following

Service Planning or Service Documentation

The investigation determined that the cause was a degraded ability to manage the configuration and technical documentation for the fleet of assets being operated

Service Lifecycle Management with PLM

What I’ve noticed is more manufacturers look to maximize the revenue and profits through establishing or expand their service and support business

Product Architecture Breakdown Guides Product Engineering

The use of product architectures for managing product complexity is a practice that is growing across more and more industries

Release and Configuration Management Best Practices

Whether using a basic release process or effectivity, the mainstream Bill of Material definition should be maintained as simply and elegantly as feasible to meet the business process needs of the organization