Enterprise PLM

Innovative companies are particularly dependent on the effectiveness of their product creation process: How unerringly do they manage to turn ideas and requirements into successful products? PLM - Product Lifecycle Management - expands this perspective additionally to the utilisation phase and product disposal.

"Real" products entail particular requirements in terms of geometry, industrial design, environmental protection, production, etc. Furthermore, many products develop into mechatronic systems with a significantly enhanced wealth creation proportion from software, ICs, sensors and actuators.

Globalisation and the division of labour lead to increasing requirements for undertaking tasks in the product process in a spirit of partnership and not only in an interdisciplinary manner but also across geographical and organisational boundaries.

In summary, it is a matter of designing the development process in the optimum way "from cradle to grave", as well as promoting and supporting cooperation.

There is no off-the-shelf solution available for this! Every company is unique and is characterised by its customers, products and its particular company culture. The objective is to tap this special potential, to address one's own customers in a particular way and to develop successful products that are differentiated from the competition. Only a solution that takes account of these requirements will lead to optimum results.

The title of "Enterprise PLM" therefore represents a platform for companies to use in order to represent their PLM strategy flexibly, sustainably and in a way that is guaranteed to have a bright future. It also allows them to provide optimum support for their workforce. It is made up of:

• Technology modules with extraordinary scalability and adaptability. Their integration capability permits a consistent approach to business processes in conjunction with ERP systems, for example.

• Application modules based on this for supporting the central tasks in the product process.

Based on this, we work together with our customers – following a well planned roadmap – to prepare a tailor-made solution that takes account of the special ways that their company goes about making money. This is always based on the tried-and-tested CIM DATABASE Enterprise PLM platform. The abilities to introduce high-performance software in a targeted manner and to look after their application are just as important as the software itself!