The status quo for product development is no longer acceptable. Manufacturers and their supply chains have to continuously improve their ability to design, develop, and introduce products around the world or lose relevance to stiff global competition.
Today, leading manufacturers compete on speed and innovation. At the same time, they cant afford escalating complexity to impact their productivity or quality.
Enhanced integration of engineering software suites allows engineers to stay immersed in designs and their design tools so they can focus on innovation instead of navigating multiple systems, searching and validating information and managing files.
Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations:
Implement todays best practices for PDM and PLM
Expand PLM beyond technical design to incorporate a richer view of products
Understand the limitations of the PLM architecture most manufacturers have in place today
Explore the possibilities available from the latest generation of integrated product design and development environments
Expand beyond todays PLM to improve the business of product development, incorporating unstructured information, big data, and social knowledge
www.symetri.co.uk is a Digital Design Consultancy within Airbus Defence & Space, helping businesses of all sizes to address those challenges which impact on performance and profitability.