Overview

PLM, or product lifecycle management, is an essential element in effectively creating and utilizing Global Innovation Networks, as it empowers businesses to make unified, information-driven decisions at every stage (plan, define, build and support) in the product lifecycle.

Plan

Early stages of product lifecycle influence up to 80 percent of your product costs. Our planning solutions provide the ability to rapidly configure and design new products that maximize reuse in order to reduce cost.

Develop

Siemens PLM Software provides companies the ability to design and deliver innovative products to market faster than their competitors, test and validate product designs cost-effectively, respond quickly to engineering design changes, develop partnerships with teammates in different organizations, using different systems and processes.

Execute

The execution phase of the product lifecycle is more complex, less structured and less automated than other phases. Technology solutions in this phase are typically "silos," encompassing such disciplines as quality validation, process improvement, plant design, resource management and manufacturing simulation.

Support

The release of a product may be the end of the development cycle, but it's only the beginning in terms of the customer's user experience. For the people who develop, deliver and support those products, it's essential to consider the user experience in every phase of the product lifecycle.
Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter, NX, Solid Edge, Tecnomatix, PLM Components and Velocity Series™ product suites offer capabilities that span the lifecycle and support key lifecycle processes. Hover over the product lifecycle on the left explore how our products and solutions can help you transform your process of innovation.

Teamcenter

Teamcenter powers innovation and productivity by connecting people and processes with knowledge. Teamcenter's comprehensive portfolio of proven digital lifecycle management solutions is built on an open PLM foundation. Teamcenter solutions link users with secure, global access to a single source of product knowledge, enabling process excellence through the lifecycle, while providing you with a unique opportunity to:

• Maximize innovation throughout your product lifecycle, which translates into higher revenues, greater market share, faster take-to-market times and improved portfolio success rates.
  
• Transform the decision-making processes you use to determine what products you should offer, how these products should be brought to market and what participants perform most effectively in your product lifecycle.
  
• Increase the value of your product and marketing knowledge by managing this diverse intellectual property on an enterprise basis and leveraging it across multiple programs and revenue-generating initiatives.
  
• Minimize lifecycle cost by replacing time-consuming traditional processes with fully digitized, accelerated solutions.

NX

Developing high-quality products quickly and cheaply is no longer a strategic business objective - it's a basic requirement for manufacturing organizations in the global economy. To sustain a competitive advantage, companies must transform their core business process: product development. In an increasingly competitive world, NX helps you to meet your product development challenges.

NX is a next-generation solution that powers innovation through digital product development and transforms the entire product development process to reduce wastes and design in quality. With the industry's broadest suite of integrated CAD, CAE and CAM applications, NX addresses the full range of design, engineering and manufacturing activities to transform the product development process.

NX goes beyond individual and departmental productivity to improve efficiency in the overall process and at each step in the process. A comprehensive solution, NX is built on an open foundation and advanced technologies that directly support initiatives to transform business processes.

To learn more about NX, click on "Plan" or "Develop" in the product lifecycle to the left.

Tecnomatix

Tecnomatix delivers innovation by linking all manufacturing disciplines with product engineering including: process layout and design; process simulation/engineering and production management. Tecnomatix' comprehensive portfolio of digital manufacturing solutions is built on an open product lifecycle management (PLM) foundation called the Teamcenter manufacturing backbone that offers manufacturers the most versatile solution set available on the market today. By associating product, process, resource and plant data, manufacturers have a full arsenal of process oriented technology recognized as the leader in the digital manufacturing domain.

A key component of a robust PLM strategy, Tecnomatix bridges the gap between product design and product delivery by managing both the design and execution of manufacturing processes in a fully associative data model. Tecnomatix maintains the crucial digital continuity of the product lifecycle and therefore helps manufacturers bring more innovative products to market faster, leverage the power of global manufacturing operations, improve production efficiency, maintain quality and boost profitability.

To learn more about Tecnomatix click on "Execute" or "Support" in the product lifecycle to the left.