PLM Services

Lower costs through improved operational execution
Product lifecycle management solutions from IBM address integration of innovation into your value chain. Our service offerings include:

• PLM Application Implementation Services - provides consulting and implementation services for leading CAD and PDM applications. Offering includes process integration and system integration across the enterprise. Benefits can include:
  • Optimisation of product development processes with consistent data management throughout the whole product lifecycle.
  • Support of a virtual and distributed development process by CAD integration, digital mockup, workflow and supplier integration.
  • PDM system-based configuration management to handle large numbers of product variants.
  • Integrated management of product data from mechanical, electrical, and software to help increase product quality and reduce warranty costs.

• IBM Product Lifecycle Management Services: Implementation for ENOVIA Smarteam (US)

• Embedded Systems Lifecycle Management - delivers a cohesive and comprehensive set of business and engineering consulting services, development and integration services, architectural frameworks and engineering tools for the entire vehicle system and software lifecycle.
  • Improve time-to-market with increased innovation.
  • Manage costs and product quality for increasingly complex products.
  • Reduce warranty costs.
  • Reuse software across car platforms.
  • Increase predictability of the entire software-development process.

• Embedded systems overhaul: It's time to tune up for the future of the automotive industry (US)

• PLM managed services offering - strategic outsourcing and application management services that provide the high-quality resources innovative companies need to stay competitive, helping enable:
  • Immediate access to specialised resources globally means projects start faster.
  • The ability to turn best–of–breed, industry–specific resources on and off as projects start and end.
  • Better access to global skills results in lower costs for skilled resources.

Leverage the complete breadth and depth of IBM, including strategic outsourcing, technology infrastructure, software and our exclusive research organisation. We also have a PLM micro-practice with our research organisation to solve specific issues. Other significant credentials that differentiate us in the PLM services marketplace include:

• Industry points-of-view
  • Comprehensive future-oriented industry points-of-view grounded in customer experiences
  • Recommendations for client-specific actions to generate success
  • Recently published research on various aspects of PLM business transformation
• Highly skilled staff
  • Over 3,000 PLM consultants.
  • Over 25 percent of staff has advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, mathematics and business.
  • Average PLM experience is over ten years.
• Partnerships with IBM research and development (R&D)
  • Value modeling tool developed by IBM R&D provides a financial quantitative framework for analysing initiatives, offering visible financial impact to balance sheet.
• Partnership with Yamato software development lab provides collaborative PLM software.
• Integrated system design project with IBM R&D provides state-of-the-art architecture for product development using modular reusable simulation for quantitative analysis.
• Industry–specific best practices that leverage combined portfolio of IBM and Dassault Systèmes.
• Fixed price, gain sharing and on demand contracting models to mitigate client risk and improve investment cash flow.