Streamline product development to deliver greater innovation                

PLM of the Future 

      Regardless of your industry, a common trend impacting every product developer is that products are getting much more complex, comprised of mechanical, electronic, and software components.   In addition to increased product complexity, most product developers feel the pressures of globalization:  

• Increased customer requirements and the growth of government and industry regulations.
• Global development environments supporting internal and external design & supply chains. 
• Demand for more options and product customization. 
• Customer expectations of higher quality and greater reliability.
• … as well as the ability to manufacture and deliver your products faster

  To be competitive, you need to manage, integrate and optimize your engineering processes ….     

How is the software you are using today helping you?

    The question is: How is the software you’re using today helping you handle the increasing complexity of global product development?   Many product developers are held back by the limited capabilities of their design, PDM, and PLM software … people may be working in organizational and software silos. Your software tools may lack the solution breadth required to keep you competitive … Or they may not support global product development and collaboration at the level of sophistication you need.   

Barriers to innovation and product development Requirements not tied to product results Difficulty searching and re-using information Barriers due to errors with the bill of materials Slow, costly and error-prone change process (ECOs) Design process take too long

  Do these issues sound familiar:   

• Schedule delays, poor market acceptance or non-compliance because requirements weren’t tied to product design and delivery
• Design teams can’t find or re-use the right design information when then need it
• Tedious design review processes and the late discovery of issues
• Transition to manufacturing delayed because the BOM had errors or was incomplete
• Slow, error prone change processes (ECO) that fail to account for cross-domain impacts

  If you’re seeing these issues in your business, it’s time to re-think your approach to product development.      

Teamcenter – Accelerate product innovation

      For many of our customers, the first step to getting started with Teamcenter is to take control of product development information and processes, ensuring comprehensive and accurate collaboration across product design disciplines – mechanical, electronic and electrical, software, and simulation – and between engineering and manufacturing. The immediate results you’ll see getting started with Teamcenter are:  

• Ensure design compliance
• Accelerate product development
• Easily transition from engineering to manufacturing
• Drastically reduce rework
• Reduce delays and improve quality

     

 Solutions for engineering process management

        Let me show you how we can help you get started with our Teamcenter portfolio of PLM solutions:  

• Ensure compliance by connecting requirements to product development …  
• Support cross-domain design management through the integration of tools, data and processes to find, share and re-use information
• Define and share a complete understanding of the product and its variants that streamlines the transition to manufacturing …
• Eliminate late-stage rework by visually collaborating to correct issues early using the digital twin …
• Reduce delays and improve quality with configurable closed-loop change processes …

  Let’s take a look at our portfolio of solutions to manage, integrate and optimize your engineering processes ….     

Requirements-driven development

      Let’s begin by talking about product requirements … requirements carry the voice of the customer to every decision-maker across the product lifecycle, including design teams, so people can make the right product decisions.   It’s easy to see what happens when companies fail to keep track of product requirements.  

According to Gartner, “Only 55% of all product launches take place on schedule. Product managers who typically launch on time are more likely to meet their internal targets within a year of launch. For the 45% of product launches that are delayed, 20%, on average, fail to meet their internal targets.”

   

Requirements-driven development Challenges

     

1. Poor collaboration and planning
2. Incomplete understanding of requirements
3. New test cycle needed with every change
4. High expenses due to compliance issues

  Do these issues sound familiar to you?   In many companies, you can see how they’re losing track of their internal targets because they have:  

• Poor cross-domain understanding, collaboration, coordination and planning of product development activities
• Fragmented requirement validation due to no cross-domain traceability
• … and difficulty tracking changes to requirements or changes to the design affecting requirements

  Taking control of requirements can help you hit your product development targets.    

Take control of product requirements

    With Teamcenter, we can help you easily capture, securely manage, accurately verify and reliably maintain requirements information.   But it’s not just about managing requirements … It’s how Teamcenter connects requirements with people and processes to achieve requirements-driven product development. You can provide all engineering decision-makers and downstream stakeholders – including suppliers — with a common understanding of the product and what they need to create.   Teamcenter captures, shares and maintains requirements in a centralized PLM system, helping ensure that everyone in the organization and across the supply chain has access to the latest, most accurate information.     

Continuously connect requirements with decision-makers

            With requirements managed alongside the rest of your product data, you can tie requirements to product implementation. By allocating requirements to the various multi-domain design and analysis functions you can ensure implementation meets the product requirements as well as ensure you have the resources to address highest priority projects, and mitigate the risks associated with missed delivery dates   This centralized source of requirements, linked to implementation can help you verify the design meets the requirements. Functional areas of the company such as QA can better establish the product verification plans, parameters and test cases, as well as provide the visibility needed to monitor product status and quality.      

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