PLM for Manufacturing: Enable Collaboration and Alignment With Engineering
Access a continuous flow of product data and work concurrently with design using PLM for manufacturing
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Gain manufacturing efficiencies with PLM
If you’re like most manufacturing leaders, your company’s success depends on your ability to digitally transform operational processes and teams. This becomes close to impossible if you’re using complex or manual data management practices. How do you decrease time to production if constantly faced with rework? How do you reduce operating costs if burdened with excessive scrap and labor?
The key is to provide a seamless flow of real-time, accurate information between engineering and manufacturing, enabling teams to work concurrently. The result? Higher quality products get to market faster.
Watch the video from Groupe Beneteau for a real-world example of PLM for manufacturing success.
Drive excellence with PLM for manufacturing
By enabling collaboration with PLM, you create associative, traceable manufacturing BOMs that are derived from engineering data. With the right process plans and work instructions, plants can accelerate time to production, minimize disruptions, reduce line failures and improve manufacturing output.
See how our customers are benefiting:
Reduce operational costs
Reduce annual manufacturing costs by up to $18 million for billion-dollar manufacturers.
Reduce time to production
Improve time-to-industrialization by 20%-30%.
Increase operational efficiency
Improve resource productivity by 50%.
PLM IT capabilities
For manufacturers embarking on digital transformation, PLM provides a solid foundation for the smart, connected enterprise by enabling a digital thread of information.
Manufacturing Process Management
Enable concurrent planning and development of products to accelerate your time-to-manufacture.
Quality management
Continually improve the quality of the product and reduce service instances to improve customer satisfaction.
Change and configuration management
Make dynamic, fast-paced, and coordinated changes throughout the product lifecycle to ensure all stakeholders are accessing the most up-to-date product information.
BOM Management
Provide full traceability between engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service with comprehensive out-of-the-box BOM Management.
Real-world applications
Volvo CE
Learn how Volvo CE is extending PLM into manufacturing to drive efficiencies.
e.GO
e.GO’s Tech-First Approach to Closed-Loop Manufacturing
Lufthansa Technik soars to new heights in manufacturing
Lufthansa Technik discusses their journey to enterprise product lifecycle management with Windchill.
U.S. Marine Corps
See how the USMC’s additive manufacturing repository grounded in Windchill provides a secure digital thread and end-to-end product lifecycle capabilities.
VCST
VCST’s Smart factory imperative
Vestas
Learn how Vestas has taken a digital-first approach to manufacturing, from part production planning, to collaborating with OEM partners, and physical turbine creation.
Additional PLM manufacturing resources
Streamlining success through enterprise solutions
Learn how to drive efficiency and innovation by integrating your PLM, ERP, and MES solutions.
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