Product development is very complex, involving multiple stakeholders and multiple enterprise systems, distributed across multiple companies. No company’s PLM solution is perfect. But it can always be smarter. Changing markets and economics are forcing all businesses to re-examine their processes. Traditionally PLM has been engineering-centric. Today, it’s a strategic business process, integrating product development with other business operations from concept to retirement. Executives need a single view of product and project information on which to base business decisions. Stakeholders require visibility to make informed assessments across the entire value chain.
This video introduces a set of solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) based on a flexible and scalable SOA-based architecture that enables a consistent Product Development Integration Framework (PDIF) across the globally integrated enterprise. The PDIF connects disparate systems, data, processes and people across the extended value chain in order to better manage the end to end product lifecycle management business processes, and to enable better business decision support, flexibility and responsiveness, and integration with the value chain.
