Viewpoints about 'Product Lifecycle Management'

Q&A: The Art and Science of Selecting the Right PLM for Your Organization – Part 1

May 9th, 2013 | by Vipin Goyal and Sergio Martinez

In today’s slow-growth consumer spending environment, companies must take market share in order to grow. Winning organizations differentiate by bringing stronger brands and better merchandise to market faster and cheaper with help from a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Whether you’re a fashion, food or hardlines retailer or manufacturer, PLM success depends on asking the right questions to select a solution that best fits your company’s unique requirements. Read More

Topics: fashion, Food and Beverage, Food and Beverage PLM, Food Manufacturing, hardlines, Mallory Engler, PLM, PLM Selection, Product Lifecycle Management, Retail, Retail Footwear Apparel, Retail Innovation, Retailer Brands, Retailers, Sergio Martinez, Vipin Goyal

Driving Innovation in BioPharma: Harnessing the Value of a Single, Compliant Product Record

May 7th, 2013 | by Frédéric Pelletier, Horst Groesser and Scott Gibbard

Global biopharma organizations are operating in an increasingly complex regulatory compliance environment with squeezed development budgets to bring more products to more markets. This white paper explores how product lifecycle management (PLM)  can accelerate innovations while ensuring cost-effective compliance by providing companies with a single, compliant Product Record. Read More

Topics: BioPharma, BioPharma PLM, Biopharma Product Development, BioPharma Product Lifecycle Management, Biotech, innovation, pharma, Pharma Industry Trends, Pharma Product Lifecycle, Pharma Product Lifecycle Management, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Innovation Trends, PLM, PLM Innov, PLM Solutions Pharma, PLM Strategy Pharma, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Record Pharma

Driving Innovation in BioPharma: From Discovery to Delivery with Product Lifecycle Management

November 28th, 2012 | by Scott Gibbard and Horst Groesser

Innovation in the biopharma industry is not going to get any easier, or any less complex. Adopting an entire lifecycle perspective to innovation will benefit the measures that matter the most – truly innovative products that generate real health benefits to patients and economic benefits to biopharma companies. This white paper explores how product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and technologies can enable this kind of real innovation in biopharma. Read More

Topics: Biopharma, Biopharma PLM, Biopharma Product Development, Biotech, Innovation, Pharma, Pharma Industry Trends, Pharma Innovation, Pharma PLM, Pharma Product Development, Pharma Product Lifecycle, Pharma Product Lifecycle Management, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Innovation Trends, PLM, PLM Solutions Pharma, PLM Strategy Pharma, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Record Pharma

PLM Success Factors: Great Expectations, Mixed Results

July 12th, 2012 | by Amy Kenly

As product lifecycle management (PLM) adoption has gone global, more companies are beginning to take advantage of features well beyond managing CAD, and the potential value has increased dramatically. Of course, any high-value enterprise solution tightly linked to broad business objectives also brings big issues and challenges. Companies expect to accomplish a lot with PLM, but so far, results have been mixed. Read More

Topics: Amy Kenly, Leadership & Learning, People, PlanetPTC, PlanetPTC Live, PLM, PLM Implementation, PLM Strategy, Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management, Strategy

Evolving with Product Lifecycle Management

May 8th, 2012 | by Bill Poston

The PLM software market continues to evolve, offering powerful new capabilities, cross-functional value and competitive differentiation. To take advantage of these benefits, companies must also evolve. Here's how to get started. Read More

Topics: Bill Poston, Evolve, Evolve Framework, PLM, PLM Evolve, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, PLM Systems, Product Lifecycle Management

PLM Maturity: How to Get More Out of Your System

December 8th, 2011 | by Andreas Lindenthal

How many of the PLM capabilities available today do companies actually use? The answer is sobering... Read More

Topics: Innovation, Manufacturing, PLM, PLM Implementation, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, PLM Systems, Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management, Strategy

10 Proven Practices for Successful PLM Evaluations

March 17th, 2011 | by Andreas Lindenthal

Selecting a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that is best suited for an organization’s immediate and long-term needs is a complex and demanding task. The right software and implementation approach can provide shortened time to value for the many benefits of PLM. What can you do to ensure your organization finds and selects the right system among the dozens of systems available today? This white paper identifies ten leading practices to guide your organization through a successful PLM evaluation and help lay the groundwork for a subsequent implementation. Read More

Topics: Andreas Lindenthal, Evaluating PLM, Evaluating PLM Solution, PLM, PLM Consulting, PLM Evaluation, PLM Implementation, PLM Implementation Consultants, PLM Implementation Consulting, PLM Partners, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, PLM Strategy Consulting, PLM System Implementation, PLM Systems, PLM Systems Evaluation, PLM Systems Selection, PLM Vendors, PLM White Paper, Product Lifecycle Management, Select PLM System, Selecting PLM

Social Media and Product Innovation

Early Adopters Reaping Benefits amidst Challenge and Uncertainty

January 31st, 2011 | by Amy Kenly and Bill Poston

This white paper explores social product innovation trends, shares results and use cases from our research and provides practical recommendations for companies looking to get started. Read More

Topics: E 2.0, E20, Enterprise 2.0, FEI, Front End of Innovation, Innovation, New Product Development, NPD, NPI, Perspective, PLM, PLM Strategy, Product Development, Product Innovation, Product Launch, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Management, Social Computing, Social Innovation, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Product Innovation, Web 2.0

PLM Emerges as the Key Innovation Driver for CPG

November 10th, 2010 | by Chip Perry

With 2010 coming to a close, the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is looking to drive innovation and improve new product success in the next decade. However, many companies are attempting to do so with fewer resources — and often with leaders who lack awareness or ability to change their old ways of doing business. Read More

Topics: Consumer, Consumer Goods, Consumer Products, CPG, Innovation, Perspective, PLM, Product Data Management, Product Data Model, Product Data Record, Product Development, Product Innovation, Product Launch, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Management, Product Quality

PLM Primer: Choosing the Right Solution for Food & Beverage

July 28th, 2010 | by George Young

This July 2010 Food Manufacturing column discusses the functionality to consider in evaluating PLM software for the Food & Beverage industry. Read More

Topics: Article, Dassault Systemes, Enovia MatrixOne, F&B, Food and Beverage, Food Manufacturing, Oracle Agile, PLM, PLM Software, PLM Systems, PLM Systems Selection, PPM, Product Data Management, Product Data Model, Product Data Record, Product Lifecycle Management, SAP PLM, Siemens Interspec, Siemens Teamcenter

Balance Your Product Development Process with PAM

Put an end to packaging artwork disasters

July 28th, 2010 | by Stephen Birtsas

It’s a product developer’s nightmare… a language translation error on your company’s product causes a product recall, or the 800 number on your product’s packaging connects callers to an adult phone line. These types of mistakes may seem farfetched but unfortunately, they happen far too often. Read More

Topics: Artwork, Artwork Management, Consumer Goods, Consumer Products, Consumer Safety, CPG, Label Claims, Life Sciences, Packaging, Packaging Artwork Management, Packaging Management, Perspective, PLM, PLM Systems, Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management

PLM Vivo: Rapid Deployment Product Lifecycle Management for Food & Beverage

July 1st, 2010 | by George Young

This white paper discusses current Food & Beverage industry challenges, the urgent need for traceability, the price of no visibility into the supply chain, and how product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions can drive innovation and growth. Read More

Topics: Agile PLM, Consumer, Consumer Goods, Consumer Products, Consumer Safety, CPG, F&B, Food and Beverage, Food Manufacturing, Food Recall, Food Safety, Formulation Control, George Young, Innovation, Innovation Articles, Innovation White Paper, Oracle, Oracle Agile, Perspective, PLM, PLM for Process, PLM Framework, PLM Implementation, PLM Implementation Consultants, PLM Implementation Consulting, PLM Implementation Methodology, PLM Partners, PLM Strategy, PLM Strategy Consulting, PLM System Implementation, PLM Systems, PLM Systems Evaluation, PLM Systems Implementation, PLM Systems Selection, PLM Vivo, Product Data Model, Product Data Record, Product Development, Product Innovation, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Lifecycle Management Consultants, Product Lifecycle Management Consulting, Product Quality, Product Recall, Product Recalls, Product Safety, Traceability, Vivo

Put Your NPI Process Pedal to the Metal with PTC Windchill

June 7th, 2010 | by Van Gresham | 1 comment

Time to market challenges, cost pressures, changing environmental and regulatory requirements, and ever-increasing customer expectations have companies wondering, “How can we continue to innovate while shrinking product development cycle times and reducing development costs?” Challenges like these are driving companies to reengineer their new product introduction (NPI) processes. Read More

Topics: New Product Introduction, NPI, Perspective, PLM, Product Lifecycle Management, PTC, PTC PLM, PTC User, PTC Windchill, Windchill

PLM Product Data Record Is Key To Unlocking Traceability

June 1st, 2010 | by George Young

This May 2010 Food Manufacturing article explores how F&B companies can enable traceability and guarantee compliance by implementing a product lifecycle management (PLM) system to manage the product data record. Read More

Topics: Article, Compliance, Consumer Goods, Consumer Safety, CPG, F&B, Food and Beverage, Food Manufacturing, Food Recall, Food Safety, George Young, PLM, Product Data Model, Product Data Record, Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Traceability

A Sweet Solution: Sugar Foods Sweetens New Product Launch Processes

Featured in CGT Magazine

February 23rd, 2010 | by Kalypso

Sugar Foods optimizes processes for product introduction, formulation control, and risk mitigation. Read More

Topics: Agile, Article, Compliance, F&B, Food and Beverage, Formulation Control, New Product Development, New Product Introduction, NPD, Oracle, PLM, PLM for Process, Product Development, Product Launch, Product Lifecycle Management, Risk Mitigation, Spec Management, Sugar Foods, Traceability

Increased Regulatory Compliance in CPG: 4 Reasons Why Industry Leaders Aren’t Losing Sleep

February 9th, 2010 | by Kalypso

Many companies in CPG and other highly regulated industries are experiencing increased regulatory scrutiny. This viewpoint discusses four best practices of industry leaders for managing changing regulations. Read More

Topics: Compliance, Consumer Goods, Consumer Products, CPG, F&B, Food and Beverage, Perspective, PLM, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Recalls, Regulatory Compliance

Product Lifecycle Management Transformation: The Journey to Best-in-Class Product Development

April 12th, 2009 | by Bill Poston

Maybe the collective corporate hangover from large-scale investments in information systems is starting to fade. The results of recent Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) benchmark reports demonstrate that some companies are getting over their hangovers faster than others – and have learned a few lessons along the way. Read More

Topics: Bill Poston, Innovation, Perspective, PLM, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, PLM Systems, PLM Transformation, Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management, Strategy

Thinking Strategically About PLM: Top 10 Transformational Objectives

June 20th, 2008 | by George Young

Numerous analyst reports over the years have reported that companies taking a strategic approach to PLM are the most successful in generating returns on their program investments. These best-in-class companies are thinking strategically about PLM and are delivering significant top- and bottom-line benefits. More importantly, they are outperforming their peers that are taking a more tactical approach. But what does it mean for a company to take a strategic approach to PLM? Read More

Topics: New Product Development, NPD, PLM, PLM Articles, PLM Programs, PLM Strategy, Product Data Model, Product Data Record, Product Lifecycle Management