It’s widely recognized that Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) brings benefits in four main areas:

• Financial Performance - for example, PLM should lead to increased revenue from earlier market introduction of products, and to reduced product development costs
• Time Reduction - PLM should, for example, reduce project overrun time, and reduce engineering change time
• Quality Improvement - PLM should help, for example, to reduce manufacturing process defects, reduce the number of returns and recalls, and reduce the number of customer complaints
• Business Improvement - for example, PLM can lead to an increase in the innovation rate, increase the part reuse factor, increase product traceability, and ensure 100% configuration conformity

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IBM Siemens PLM Case Study

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) is a leading company for home and office communication devices. The company sells its products in more than 50 countries.

Business challenge
Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) has several engineering and manufacturing disciplines are located at one single site, which is unique in Germany. Mechanical design development, mold tooling development, manufacturing and assembling are all done in Bocholt, Germany.

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Customer:
Airbus UK

Industry:
Aerospace & Defense

Deployment country:
United Kingdom

Solution:
Grid Computing, Innovation that matters, Openness, Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Management, Transforming IT

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For nearly four months I have become very attached to my Blackberry since I bought it as part of my Verizon upgrade.  One of the features I found very useful is the web access where I can get the New York Times, the weather and even Google maps.  Granted the viewing area is small and not easy on my old eyes as the popular iPod Touch and iPhone would be. It seems as everyone is following Apple’s lead with their own version of touch-screen phones like the latest Blackberry Storm and other versions from Samsung, LG and Motorola.

Even with my Blackberry Curve - I can still access and interact with a lot of mobile-ready web content. When I recently added my email account from work to deliver emails to my Blackberry while away from my desk, I began the realize some real possibilities.  A lot of my emails are Teamcenter related, some of them notification messages with the hyperlink to the Rich Client and Web Client versions.

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PLM

What’s in a product lifecycle management (PLM) system? Some authoring tools, computer-aided design (CAD); large dollops of simulation and visualization; lots of manufacturing data systems (e.g., computer-aided process planning (CAPP) and configuration management); heavy-duty infrastructure stuff (database management systems (DBMS) and data communications); and plenty of behind-the-scenes infrastructure utilities, such as web-based user interfaces and application programming interfaces (API).

No one-size-fits-all exists in terms of PLM components, data requirements, or implementation, but here’s a brief description of the essential components for an effective PLM system.

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