LCS™ provides Executive Steering Committee Advisory ServicesSM. Principal Consultants from LCS deliver insight and knowledge to the PLM Program Governance process.
PLM initiatives should be founded on the needs of a company’s business strategy and tactics. Simple words. Enormous task. You will need advice and concrete answers on many aspects of your PLM program. Some claim that PLM enables the Design Factory just as ERP enables the Manufacturing Factory. LCS believes even this is an understatement.
PLM enables collaborative product realization. You’ll need to consider:
How PLM enables the design factory
The role of PLM in Enterprise Architecture
The role of PLM in Supply Chain Management and Secure Collaboration
The role of PLM in Business Transformation
The role of PLM in New Product Introduction and Product Portfolio Management
The role of PLM in Configuration and Change Management
The role of PLM in Regulatory Compliance
The interaction of PLM , CAD/CAM/CAE and Product Viewers
The interaction of PLM and ERP
The interaction of PLM and CRM
You’ll need to answer:
Are you collaborating securely and effectively across a globally distributed, design, supply and manufacturing chain?
Are you confident your security is not compromised once a trusted user is allowed within your firewall?
Do you have the right balance between local, offshore and near shore design, supply and manufacturing resources and operations?
Do you have the right balance between local, offshore and near shore design, supply and manufacturing resources and operations?
Are cross-functional team members following your new product introduction process?
Do you have instant, up to date access to critical data about the portfolio of products you plan or have in the market?
Have regulatory compliance demands overwhelmed your company—FDA, FAA and equivalent global regulatory bodies and eco-compliance initiatives like ROHS, WEEE and ELV?
Who on your PLM program governance team can you rely upon with PLM experience? Consider LCS™.
Advanced usage of PLM capability is complicated, often requiring a multi-phase, multi-year plan including a certain amount of business process transformation. The cornerstone of this effort is the Business Case. As product life cycles shorten, business process outsourcing accelerates, and global competition mushrooms, PLM claims the role of the essential governance engine and facilitator for collaborative product realization. The complicated dynamics throughout an extended enterprise of companies producing, upgrading, replacing and terminating their products can be coordinated under this single framework. LCS will develop a business case rationalizing the expenditures necessary and expected ROI to deploy a PLM foundation to support the business objectives.
At some point you’ll need to assess actual PLM vendors, or at least re-assess the PLM vendor you already have. LCS will provide keen insight into:
How PLM enables the design factory
