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PDM to PLM - Transforming your business in a digital world
We've been spending some time over the last couple of weeks thinking about and reviewing all of the information that was presented by Concurrent Engineering on their "From PDM to PLM - Business & Process Transformation" seminar, which was held at the National Motorcycle Museum.
We had an excellent session packed full of valuable and considered insights into how to shape your enterprise in the digital world, reaping the benefits of allowing all the stakeholders in the enterprise to be digitally connected to all of the data and detail they need to effectively and efficiently perform their part in sustaining and growing the business.
The event was expertly hosted by Concurrent's Lee Edmunds, who presented a number of aspects of the subject matter alongside Ian Cassell from PTC, with support from Adrian Lowe on certain relevant elements of the PTC Windchill application. James Anderson from Roxel Rocket Motors delivered a presentation explaining how Roxel had started on the path of adapting itself and developing its processes to enable all the company stakeholders to better access the core connected data within the enterprise.
Without getting into all the 'nitty-gritty' of the subject and the finer detail, we could really summarise the whole subject by saying that there needs to be a shift away from only engineering functions within an enterprise having and using data in a managed and controlled way (PDM), to the whole enterprise having and being able to access the whole of the data, in the relevant way on the products that the business makes (PLM).
With the digital 'thread' becoming more prevalent and forming all the connections to the various functions within the business, utilising the tools and opportunities that it provides will improve the effectiveness of the enterprise, as, put really simply, all of the 'stakeholders' will be able to 'see' what is going on.
We are certainly assessing our own processes and internal and external opportunities, to get better connected and build intelligence into the products we work on, carefully considering whether the 'old' more manual methods of sharing information need to be updated by utilising a digital interface.
We'd be delighted to talk to you more about the many aspects of this transformation and how to implement appropriate solutions into the future for our design engineering customers with the excellent assistance of Concurrent Engineering.
