Overview
PLM 2.0, ‘PLM Online for All’, is the next step in the evolution of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and the V6 ‘Online for All’ platform is the smart way to get there.
The V6 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) portfolio delivers a single, open, and scalable service oriented architecture (SOA) platform that spans the complete business enterprise. It natively delivers the engineering, manufacturing, and simulation applications needed to enable users to remotely create and collaborate online.
V6 solutions provide industry-proven capabilities and strategic ROI for your enterprise to:
- Empower successful global collaborative innovation
- Accelerate cycle time and reduce development cost via lifelike virtual simulation
- Unify access to critical data, across disparate infrastructures
- Support integrated, end-to-end product development processes
- Leverage the collective intelligence and expertise of your enterprise
- Ensure effective complex systems integration
- Reduce overall cost of ownership.
Global collaborative innovation
V6 gives anyone who has a stake in the product the ability to participate in its life cycle. It offers unparalleled breadth of collaboration because it embraces the product's creators and its ecosystem, such as people in procurement or marketing inside or outside the enterprise, as well as consumers. Because it uses the universal language of 3D, everybody can participate in a product's life cycle.
V6 enables viral collaboration. Online communities can form in an ad-hoc fashion, allowing people to connect, exchange views, chat, and act on-the-fly in 3D.
With global collaborative innovation, companies can maximize their intellectual assets to drive the best innovative practices.
Lifelike experience
V6 allows the virtual product to mirror real life. Products look realistic (through rendering) and behave as they would in real life because the model contains the physics.
Additionally, the V6 interface is intuitive. Any user can easily search for information, communicate, collaborate, and experience products online in 3D.
A single PLM platform for intellectual property management
The sheer volume of intellectual property (IP) necessitates strong IP management capabilities across a product's life cycle. The V6 PLM platform delivers a federated view and access to all relevant knowledge, whether the information is in the PLM system, another enterprise application, or from an unstructured data source. This harnesses the collective intelligence of the extended enterprise. V6 merges the various ENOVIA collaboration capabilities, including those of prior versions of MatrixOne, VPLM, and SmarTeam, into a single ENOVIA collaboration solution.
Online creation and collaboration
Product authoring and collaboration are enabled for real-time, concurrent work across multiple remote locations over the Web. For example, a designer with CATIA on a laptop working from home can log in and directly edit a model residing on a server in the office. Online collaboration also applies to the various views of product definition:
- Requirements view
- Functional view
- Logical view
- Physical view
Online creation and collaboration are also critical to any company seeking to implement a global engineering and manufacturing strategy.
Ready-to-use PLM business processes
V6 covers PLM processes across a wide range of industries and unifies engineering processes and all enterprise business processes. V6 industry accelerators capture the value within each industry and provide industry-specific PLM product development best practices and capabilities. As a result, deployments are faster and deliver a return on investment sooner.
Lower cost of ownership
Having a single database for all applications dramatically reduces the cost of ownership and spurs efficient collaboration. From a CATIA perspective, design methodologies remain similar to those employed in CATIA V5, minimizing retraining costs. In addition, embracing SOA standards allows easy integration with existing systems and modeling of business processes without requiring programming skills, supporting an adaptable business model.
