What is PLM?
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is first and foremost a concept – not a system, which aims to achieve efficiency in your business processes. We call our approach lean PLM, as we help our Customers become lean in their operations.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is first and foremost a concept – not a system. To achieve efficiency in your business processes throughout the entire product´s lifecycle you may apply PLM as a concept and implement a PLM tool in terms of a system; software and hardware. PLM is defined in numerous ways; one way of describing PLM is stated by CIM data:
“A strategic business approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions in support of the collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of product definition information across the extended enterprise from concept to end of life—integrating people, processes, business systems, and information.”
- CIM Data, 2002
We make it lean – we help you become lean
The purpose of PLM is various. We call our approach lean PLM the aim of which is to remove waste from business processes. Waste is commonly related to four areas within a company´s business:
- Process inefficiency
- Quality problems
- Low productivity
- Increased costs
We offer your company consulting services within the lean PLM area. We eliminate waste in different functional areas in your company by our enterprise PLM solution SOVELIA.
Three Principles
We always work with our three principles in mind:
- Customer in Focus
- Safe Investment
- Easy Implementation
We move focus towards the customers´ delivery process and product definition. We make the investment safe-to-own, with a minimum of risk for the customer. We prepackage the solution and make a fixed price delivery.