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Accelerate machine building innovation with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

By Blake Snodgrass

The process of machine building and equipment manufacturing is moving faster globally with increasingly more complex machinery and equipment.

Software as a Service Product Lifecycle Management (SaaS PLM) solutions enables this process. It provides a specialized solution to accelerate innovation with every process step, from design to manufacturing and service.

View the free infographic and learn what the industrial machinery industry can achieve with a SaaS PLM solutions created specifically for machine builders.

The SaaS PLM Solution for machine builders utilizes three crucial areas for a complete solution.

  • Project, process, and requirements management
  • Machine configuration and reuse
  • Blended ETO/CTO functionality

These save time and improve productivity, and together they accelerate all the PLM steps. Through a multidisciplinary industrial machine design optimization process, machine builders improve manufacturing productivity and efficiency with correct project management tools that enhance collaboration.

Product lifecycle management solutions provide machine and equipment builders with the ability to monitor and deliver on project markers via real-time dashboards.

Also, this process increases transparency using integrated multidisciplinary design tools that allow engineers to work more collectively to design and build better machines in a quicker timeframe with lower cost.

In return, companies are witnessing more innovation and competitive growth in their market share with improved multidisciplinary machine design. 

A Software as a Service (SaaS) PLM solution improves industrial manufacturing productivity and efficiency to assist the industrial machinery industry to move closer to smarter, more flexible machines.

Learn more in the infographic about how globally revolutionary companies are embracing PLM solutions to experience myriad benefits.


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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/thought-leadership/2022/06/23/accelerate-machine-building-innovation-with-product-lifecycle-management-plm/