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Product Lifecycle Management

“Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a component and its associated data from conception, through design and manufacture, to service and maintenance, and finally disposal.” “…provides an engineering information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise.”

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Product Lifecycle Management

“Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a component and its associated data from conception, through design and manufacture, to service and maintenance, and finally disposal.” “…provides an engineering information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise.”

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Product Lifecycle Management

“Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is


the process of managing the entire
lifecycle of a component and its associated
data from conception, through design and
manufacture, to service and maintenance,
and finally disposal.”

“…provides an engineering information


backbone for companies and their
extended enterprise.”
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Introduction (cont’d)

• Why choose PLM?


• PLM systems, such as PTC Windchill, manage all aspects of the product
lifecycle, from concept design to product retirement. PLM can be used to
increase output with constant resources, to increase revenues or to reduce the
resources used to produce a constant output. This all helps to improve the
bottom line. PLM helps organisation to achieve this through:
• Efficiency improvements
• Improving development for new products
• Reduced costs
• Increase productivity
• Improved quality of products

• PLMs can also be used for regulatory purposes as well as for quality
assurance by supporting traceability, which is required in a wide range of
industries.
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Introduction
• What is PLM?
• Software tool to help us do our jobs better
• Commercial, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software
• Document and Process centric relational database
• Used by many large, internationally based engineering and manufacturing
organizations

• Who will it affect?


• Technical, procurement and fabrication staff
• Scientists, engineers, designers, technicians, machinists, QC,
ES&H & Procurement personnel
• Mechanical, electrical, and civil disciplines
• Used for projects and for internal engineering data
• Allow access for Collaborators (project-related eng. documents)

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Introduction (cont’d)
• What type of documents will be stored in PLM?
• Focus on engineering documents and data
• CAD files, specifications, requirements documents, engineering
calculations & analysis, safety documents, QC reports, vendor data...
• Manufacturing
• Service
• Sales & Marketing
• Financial

• Will this be the only Document Management System?


• No. There is the option to integrate into a more general DMS
• PLM can be integrated with SharePoint
• There are a few other systems that can be integrated as well

Goal is one common access point for documents


“one stop shopping”
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Introduction (cont’d)
• What problems are we trying to solve?

• Lack of a common EDMS  Many DocDB instances and ad hoc systems


• Makes collaboration (even between Divisions) difficult

• CAD files are disjointed  mechanical, electrical, civil all handled differently

• Hard to find information, engineering reports, analysis on previous designs…


• “Reinvent the wheel” far too often

• Loss of data/information when people retire or move to another project

• Reviews and Signoffs require a manual process


• Often without full information available to the approver

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What’s the ROI?

• Manage data better


• Central location of all data.
• Easily accessible by all.

• Make better decisions


• Visibility into calendars and plans
• Collaboration and monitoring of performance

• Enable more effective sourcing processes.


• Tracks new product & supplier development.

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THANK YOU!

THANK YOU!

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