
Turning innovative ideas into market-leading products requires flexible business processes supported by integrated PLM solutions. Product Lifecycle Management solutions can help you be more efficient in specific business process areas. By tying IBM's solutions together, you can streamline operations across your enterprise to make even faster and better design, manufacturing and product support decisions.
Our IBM PLM solutions by segment
| Segments | Solutions |
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Collaboration and Integration Provides open-standards based middleware to integrate people, partners, processes and applications on a common infrastructure. |
• Enterprise Integration • Express Advantage for Business Integration • Integrated Product Change Management • SOA for PLM • Product development collaboration portal • Supply Chain Collaboration |
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Design and Engineering Provides computer-aided techniques for product definition and software engineering. |
• Product Design • Integrated mechanical product development • Styled Plastic and Packaging • Systems and Software Development |
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Manufacturing and Production Enables companies to develop and simulate optimal processes for their manufacturing needs. |
• Digital Manufacturing |
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Process and Data Management Manages the creation and sharing of product data such as 3D models, bills of materials, plans, and drawings. |
• Product Data Management • Integrating enterprise asset management |
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Program & Portfolio Management Enables companies to manage product portfolios, develop program priorities, monitor risks and decisions throughout the PLM processes. |
• Product and Portfolio Innovation |
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Simulation and Analysis Provides a framework for evaluating anticipated real-world behavior. |
• Simulation and Analysis |
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Systems Engineering Offers open, service-oriented IT infrastructure, dedicated consulting and implementation services and effective product development tools to help validate requirements to detect errors early in the design process. |
• Model-driven systems development • Requirements Engineering • Collaborative Systems Engineering • Embedded Systems Development |

