Drive revenue growth with innovation
Automotive customers are demanding more safety, higher performance,
better quality and less fuel consumption for the same or even
lower price. To grow revenue and reduce costs at the same time,
you face challenges: vehicle individualisation, the right time
to market, first-time quality, adherence to government regulations,
as well as efficient vehicle program and risk management. IBM
PLM solutions can help you innovate by enabling collaboration
and integration internally as well as across company boundaries
for close partnerships between OEMs and suppliers.
Serve smaller customer segments by creating an ever-increasing
number of new models at an accelerated speed. Integrate PLM
with your enterprise systems and enable external partners to
access information and collaborate in real time. By joining
forces you can create value and respond to customer requirements
and changing market conditions faster. Promote new thinking
and enable your employees and partners across the automotive
value net to innovate.
Implement efficient processes and tools to support requirements
definition, relational product development, managing embedded
systems and software complexity, manufacturing and operation—through
end of life and recycling. Make smarter decisions and prevent
warranty issues within a cross-discipline environment. Automate
repetitive tasks and reuse existing knowledge to increase overall
productivity. IBM PLM solutions support design, analysis, simulation,
validation and certification processes for safer, more feasible
and profitable vehicles.
IBM's open and scalable PLM infrastructure addresses the
challenges of complex product development in a world of several
disparate systems. IBM delivers a full range of leading-edge
technology, hardware and middleware designed to work together,
and based on a service oriented architecture (SOA). It is designed
to form the best possible platform for automotive business applications
and openness. The IBM PLM integrated infrastructure is built
on proven technologies to support virtualisation and collaborative
innovation.
