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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