Proactive Environmental Compliance Using PLM: Part 1 Understanding the Basics - Apr 25
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: April 13, 2007
Event Date: April 25, 2007
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
Guests: Michael Wurzman
If you are producing a product for the international stage, RoHS, WEEE, REACH and perhaps even ELV are already a factor in your product introduction process. Experts project that this is just the beginning of the convergence of political action and environmental concerns. Regardless of an organization’s social aptitude, the shear weight of regulatory compliance will doom the unprepared and provide a competitive advantage to those equipped to cost effectively incorporate environmental compliance. This 3 Part series explores the technical, political and regulatory aspects of environmental compliance with enterprise technology expert, Mark Silvestri, LCS, and environmental compliance expert, Michael Wurzman, RSJ Technical Consulting.
How CM2 Enables A Successful PLM Implementation – Dec 06
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: November 15, 2006
Event Date: December 06, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
Guests: Rebecca Rettig, VSEA and Chairman NE CM2 Users Group
Can the expected benefits of Product Lifecycle Management software be achieved without configuration management? CM2 organizes Configuration Management, Quality and Project Management under a cohesive process infrastructure. Many CM & PLM expected benefits are the same: reduced time-to-market; improved design productivity; improved design and manufacturing accuracy; better use of creative team skills; data integrity; better control of projects; better management of engineering change. Come join our PLM Simulcast, and discuss the use of PLM technology to support a CM2 business approach.
PLM Savings and Investments: The PLM Business Case – Oct 18
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: September 26, 2006
Event Date: October 18, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
Your Business Case, Believable or Not? This PLM Simulcast provides a detailed treatment of the savings and investment sources for PLM. Modern PLM initiatives emphasize not only how to cut costs and yield productivity enhancements, but also how to support the generation of revenue by collaborative realization of new products and entry into new markets. We will explore Life Cycle Solutions approach to cost justification using the LCS Cost Justification Toolkit. The industry-tested, LCS approach recognizes that advanced usage of PLM capability is complicated, often requiring a multi-phase, multi-year plan including a certain amount of business process transformation. No such enterprise level project survives without a full understanding and disclosure of the total expenditures and ROI projections.
Optimizing Your Product Portfolio – October 4
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: September 26, 2006
Event Date: October 4, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
Guest: Alex Kostovetsky
70% of products do not meet their market projections. How do you balance the product mix that you provide your customers? There are always trade-offs and multiple alternatives. Are you driven by corporate goals like maximum market share or minimum time to market or maximum total revenue or maximum profit? Imagine an index that weighed the fitness of your product portfolio to achieve those goals and even provided a blue print to optimize your product portfolio mix. Many companies deploy a Phase-Gate model, but the Gate often represents a checklist and a lot of gut feel. Alignment with business strategy is often subjective. Formulating the perfect product mix involves optimizing a variety of constraints like market windows, resources, process entitlement sometimes even in a counterintuitive manner. Explore the use of constrained optimization to provide proactive decision support to assist those Gate decisions.
Re-establish a Solid PLM Project Architecture– Sept 13
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: August 22, 2006
Event Date: September 13, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
The task is inevitable. Re-establishing a solid PLM project architecture is now a must. If your PLM project architecture and business workflow process is any older than 5 years, your PLM project is exposed to complications only now being grasped by the PLM community.
As new technologies arise, better development, performance, risk mitigation and security measures are now available to PLM and at a rate so unprecedented, for PLM Product Vendors to try to simply upgrade their technologies to fit today’s user standard just will not cut it. In fact, your PLM project may be at risk.
The importance of understanding these new ways of implementation relies solely on your desire to preserve your PLM project architecture.
How Much Does A PLM System Cost – May 31
Developing A PLM Business Case
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: May 1, 2006
Event Date: May 31, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
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 a single PLM framework. Answering the question “How Much Does a PLM System Cost” involves a detailed analysis of the business strategy and tactics; development of a business case rationalizing the expenditures necessary and expected ROI to deploy a PLM foundation to support the business objectives; and a plan for the PLM solution execution and deployment.
Are You Really Ready To Deploy A PLM System – May 24
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: May 1, 2006
Event Date: May 24, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
Life Cycle Solutions, Inc. created a unique methodology around the Seven Key Acceptance Factors™ designed to quantify an organization's readiness to undertake a PLM implementation initiative. Through the years, this innovative, yet extremely practical project assessment tool has been successfully used to save millions of dollars and many careers by giving PDM/PLM project leaders a clearly defined activity by which to expose and closely monitor many pitfalls and potential disaster points as their initiatives launch and progress.
Should you begin the effort to bring PDM or PLM into your organization? That may seem to be an odd question to ask yourself once you have been enlightened to what PDM and PLM can do for a company's ability to rapidly and efficiently develop and produce products.
The truth is, however, that not every company is ready for the changes that these technologies and business processes can introduce. You need to take a good hard look at your company before you even take step one to ensure that you will not be doing more harm than good. Of course, your organization can be brought into proper alignment but the first step is to determine what kind of situation you are starting with.
How to Select A PLM System – May 10
2006 PLM Simulcast Series
Posted Date: May 1, 2006
Event Date: May 10, 2006
Host: Mark J. Silvestri
Today even small companies, with only moderately complicated products struggle to compete in a global economy while engaging a global network of suppliers to produce products with much lower operating and labor costs. The response has been to outsource everything from call centers to product design and manufacturing. All of these strategies require secure collaboration among various supply chain partners. How do you effectively collaborate with global partners in an accurate and timely manner while protecting corporate intellectual property and the processes and methods that are your competitive advantage?
The answer: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Selecting the correct PLM system for your initiative is a multi-dimensional inquiry. There is a lot to consider both qualitatively and quantitatively. Do you require a benchmark? Who should be involved? How long does it take? How do you crystallize your requirements? How do you stay focused enough for your organization to commit to a PLM deal?
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