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A new reality is now present in our industry. To be competitive market leaders, businesses must cut production and development costs, reduce time-to-market, and maximize resource use while remaining on the edge of innovation. The manufacturing of new products now calls for the involvement of each of the company's different departments: engineering, marketing and sales, planning and production, procurement, finance and human resources. To achieve these goals and integrate all of these various departments, better tools and solutions are now available to support a collaborative product development and engineering process throughout the product's life cycle and across the extended enterprise. These solutions are oriented toward the digital enterprise model, which facilitates the simultaneous work and collaboration of all departments. It is now possible to create, manage, simulate, share and communicate digitally all the information related to the company's products, processes and resources, optimizing its overall performance.

Processia Solution's mission is to support your company in the realization of this vision, by giving you a world-class service which is adapted to your needs. To achieve this goal, we specialize in the implementation and the support of multiple Dassault Systèmes solutions.

Dassault Systèmes is the world leader in PLM solutions.

PLM Explained

What is PLM?
"Product Lifecycle Management is the next major wave of opportunity for manufacturers looking to improve business performance." Gartner Research

In summary, the purpose of PLM is to manage the entire product data information and workflow, from design to disposal, while having a complete collaboration throughout the design phase and the maintenance of the project.

The goal is to provide access to the product's history and data for a company-wide audience at any time in its life cycle. Furthermore, it consolidates the diverse business activities, such as procurement, sales, marketing, manufacturing operations, field services and executive management, into a common IT framework for the creation, modification and use of data.

PLM helps a company innovate by enabling knowledge reuse and a quicker time to market. Also, it encourages communication and collaboration by sharing ideas and information across the extended enterprise and the supply-chain. Moreover, by offering integration with CAD systems and with ERP, the complete engineering information is managed in one system.

Ultimately, PLM should enable a company to predict more efficiently its activities and costs, and facilitate its decision making by giving the enterprise the ability to monitor activities, analyze bottlenecks and enhance project management.

Key Capabilities
- Product Innovation & Development Management
- Collaboration Management
- Project Management
- Quality Management
- Regulatory Compliance Management
- Maintenance Management
- Product Life Cycle Analytics
- Supply-Chain Integration

Why do I need PLM?

The aim of PLM is to reduce life cycle costs and time to market, while increasing the enterprise's profits, financial resources, and its ability to innovate and be more competitive.

Objectives
- Central, quicker and more accurate information access
- Business processes management and workflow
- Concurrent engineering
- Product innovation
- Better costs control with a knowledge reuse
- Globalization and collaboration
- Collaboration with extended enterprise and suppliers
- Lifecycle control
- Teamwork
- Gain in market shares
- Better quality from a better control
- Shorter and less expansive development cycles
- Design, manufacturing and support through the web

For whom?
- Engineers
- Marketing
- Technicians and shop-floor employees
- Sales
- Clients
- QA and maintenance
- Procurement
- Management
- Suppliers

"Bottom Line: Supported by software, PLM practices will deliver competitive advantage through 2005 and become an imperative by 2007. Manufacturers who have not begun PLM deployment should get started now, because it will be a multiyear effort." Gartner Research