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Did you know that a lack of collaboration can hinder innovation?
Innovation in products, services and markets commands top attention from CEOs. They recognize that sustainable growth requires several different types of innovation, and based on the IBM Global CEO Study 2006, are allocating their innovation emphasis accordingly:
- Products/services/markets (42 percent)
- Operations (30 percent)
- Business models (28 percent)
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables collaboration for innovation whether for industrial companies such as aerospace, auto or electronics or for medical devices, consumer products, and food and beverage. Product design collaboration applies to both customers and suppliers. It is also across functional boundaries with a company, such as marketing, sales, product design and after sales services.
Your organization can also reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market, and help improve new product introduction success with IBM's PLM services. PLM combines software, services and consulting to enable the integration of a company's product content across business functions and processes. The PLM solution manages the development and support of complex products and services throughout the entire lifecycle, from product design to product build to post-sale service.
Business challenges
- Is intensified competition creating additional risk?
- Are your clients escalating expectations for new products or services costing your business?
- What impact do market shifts in your industry have on your organization?
- Are you lacking technological advances that could help improve business process innovation?
- Have you thought about how to both apply and improve your business capabilities at the same time through regulatory compliance?
- Do you have distributed design teams working seamlessly across geographical and organizational boundaries?
Product lifecycle management services that we offer
Our supply chain management (SCM) services comprise a full range of product lifecycle management offerings, including:
1. Transformation services assist companies in:
- Market planning
- Product development pipeline management
- Product portfolio management
- Product change management
- Component/platform/asset commonality
The techniques used with PLM transformation services include effective engineering and procurement integration, product development process re-engineering, and digital engineering best practices.
2. Implementation services — Integration and implementation services for leading edge PLM offerings, from leading technology suppliers such as Dassault Systemes, Oracle Agile, PTC, SAP, and Siemens PLM Software.
3. Management services — These services leverage the breadth and scale of IBM Global Business Services outsourcing capabilities to the PLM environment. To improve cash flow and provide a cost-effective PLM systems environment, we can specifically address infrastructure and application support and hosting needs.
Why IBM
PLM is an integral part of the depth and breadth of IBM Supply Chain Consulting and Systems Integration Services helping clients realize significant benefits. We offer twenty years of PLM experience with a comprehensive offering portfolio of end-to-end solutions including services, hardware and software.
IBM's own research and development experience is made available to our clients. With over 3,000 researchers located in eight labs around the world, first-of-a-kind solutions are delivered to clients. Recent PLM work has been concluded in the area of Model Driven Systems Engineering (MDSE) and Whole Vehicle Simulation.
There is considerable synergistic value for clients when IBM PLM Services, PLM Software Solution Providers and clients work together. This includes deep PLM process and industry knowledge from IBM and PLM independent software vendors (ISVs) added to client knowledge and experience base, accelerated deployment and solutions implementation with best practices adapted to client company and products, and reduced project risk.
