How PLM for Manufacturing Enables Collaboration

Gain manufacturing efficiencies with PLM

If you’re like most manufacturing leaders, your company’s success depends on your ability to digitally transform operational processes and teams. This becomes close to impossible if you’re using complex or manual data management practices. How do you decrease time to production if constantly faced with rework? How do you reduce operating costs if burdened with excessive scrap and labor?

The key is to provide a seamless flow of real-time, accurate information between engineering and manufacturing, enabling teams to work concurrently. The result? Higher quality products get to market faster.

Watch the video from Groupe Beneteau for a real-world example of PLM for manufacturing success.

Drive excellence with PLM for manufacturing

By enabling collaboration with PLM, you create associative, traceable manufacturing BOMs that are derived from engineering data. With the right process plans and work instructions, plants can accelerate time to production, minimize disruptions, reduce line failures and improve manufacturing output.

See how our customers are benefiting:

Reduce Operational Costs

Reduce
operational costs

Reduce annual manufacturing costs by up to $18 million for billion-dollar manufacturers.

Reduce Time to Production

Reduce time
to production

Improve time-to-industrialization by 20%-30%.

Increase Operational Efficiency

Increase
operational efficiency

Improve resource productivity by 50%.

PLM capabilities for manufacturing

For manufacturers embarking on a digital transformation, PLM provides a solid foundation for the smart, connected enterprise by enabling a digital thread of information.

Manufacturing Process Management

Quality Management

Change and Configuration Management

BOM Management

Manufacturing Process Management

Enable concurrent planning and development of products to accelerate your time-to-manufacture.

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Quality Management

Continually improve the quality of the product and reduce service instances to improve customer satisfaction.

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Change and Configuration Management

Make dynamic, fast-paced, and coordinated changes throughout the product lifecycle to ensure all stakeholders are accessing the most up-to-date product information.

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BOM Management

Provide full traceability between engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service with comprehensive out-of-the-box BOM management.

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Real-world applications

U.S. Marine Corps

See how the USMC's additive manufacturing repository grounded in Windchill provides a secure digital thread and end-to-end product lifecycle capabilities.

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