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- Tyson Foods, Inc. Boosts Productivity, Minimizes Risk With Product Lifecycle Management
- Tyson Foods, Inc. wanted to speed time to market for new products by streamlining workflows, scaling processes, and channeling innovative ideas and increase productivity by optimizing resources and improving access to accurate product data. The challenge was to increase traceability and compliance reporting capabilities to satisfy increasing audit demands from...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Tyson Foods Inc., Product Lifecycle Management, Process Improvement, Product Marketing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Product Lifecycle Management Solution Increases Productivity With Familiar Interface
- Siemens PLM Software offers Teamcenter, a Product Lifecycle Management PLM solution that customers use for global collaboration during product development and launch. The company opted to integrate Teamcenter with Microsoft Office programs to extend the power of PLM to departments throughout the enterprise for faster overall product development. Users also...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Product Development, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Quantum Corporation Speeds Time to Market, Reduces Costs With Product Lifecycle Management Applications
- Quantum Corporation wanted to accelerate product innovation and time to market for new storage products and upgrades, and optimize value realized on patents in the competitive data storage market and drive down development and production costs to meet market requirements and enhance competitive edge. The challenge was to gain new...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Quantum Corp., Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- U-Media Communications Cuts Time to Market 30% by Improving Product Lifecycle Management
- U-Media Communications wanted to automate the design-to-production process to ensure manufacturing workflows are not interrupted when staff leave the company or are absent from the office and ensure product item numbers are attached to each order and eliminate the need for manual intervention when product item numbers are duplicated? The...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management, Manufacturing, Process Improvement, Product Marketing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Sangfei Communications Achieves Accuracy, Efficiency, and Customer Satisfaction Goals
- The agreement with Philips, in addition to a growing original equipment manufacturing business, prompted Sangfei Communications to review its product lifecycle management processes to see if there were ways to improve efficiency. This would enable the company to meet rapidly changing market demands, manage increasingly complex product lines, shorten the...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Customer Satisfaction, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- AGA Medical Corporation Consolidates Quality System Information Into One Master Source
- AGA Medical Corporation wanted to increase and accelerate access to design, manufacturing, compliance, and other information to accelerate time to market for the company's products that require regulatory approval and replace unsustainable, paper-based processes that were put in place when the company was one-tenth of its current size. The challenge...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Compliance, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Continental Corporation, Ltd. Speeds Engineering Cycle by Accelerating Access to Designs and Models
- Continental Corporation, Ltd. wanted to accelerate design and engineering cycle time for the company's powertrain division products and remain competitive in the automotive industry, which is experiencing declining margins. The challenge was to extend and speed access to computer-aided-design documents for the engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing departments. Continental Corporation implemented...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Change Control, Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management, CAD, Product Marketing, Software, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Product lifecycle management could get boost from green manufacturing initiatives
- I've been working on a sales territory analysis for the state of Tennessee, which has been hard-hit by the current recession, especially in its biggest industry, manufacturing. But the good news is that this sector is apparently still interested in technology that can help them with their green manufacturing efforts....
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Manufacturing, Product Marketing, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-21
- IBM stresses the green-ification of product design and management
- About a week ago, I mentioned an alliance between Autodesk and Sustainable Minds aimed at helping designers reate greener products from the drawing board stage. Now, IBM Global Business Services has introduced a set of product lifecycle services intended to help companies apply that sort of thinking not just...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Design, Compliance, Product Lifecycle Management, IBM Corp., IBM Environmental Product Lifecycle Management Service, Hittner, Design, Product Marketing, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Product Lifecycle Management in the Food and Beverage Industry
- Companies in the food and beverage industry face many challenges in managing their products and competing in the industry - including retail consolidation, ineffective innovation, increasing regulatory requirements, empowered consumers, and complex supply chains. An integrated Product Lifecycle Management PLM solution can streamline and improve the fundamental processes that influence...
- Tags: Beverage, Food, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Strategy
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Product Lifecycle Management in the Medical Device Industry
- In the medical device industry, efficiently meeting U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA requirements is a key to business success. Product Lifecycle Management PLM technology ensures FDA compliance integrity by providing comprehensive content to support management decisions across the organization and individual functional groups. By uniting product information with processes,...
- Tags: FDA, Product Lifecycle, Medical Device, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Lifecycle Management Technology, Product Marketing, Federal Government, Marketing, Government
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Product Lifecycle Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies are under severe pressure to improve product pipelines, accelerate time to market, and improve margins on existing products - while also maintaining strict adherence to quality principles and regulatory requirements. However, drug development is a long process with significant risks, and pharmaceutical companies are faced with...
- Tags: Marketing, Pharmaceutical Company, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Enhancing Product Lifecycle Management With Critical Message Governance (CMG)
- For global manufacturing organizations seeking time-to-market reductions, it is essential to integrate development, production, logistics, and maintenance operations while providing insight into all product and project information over the entire product lifecycle. This strategy of Product Lifecycle Management PLM efficiently organizes and manages processes and procedures to achieve measurable ways...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Marketing
- White papers 2007-12-19
- Haemonetics Corporation Achieves $1.9 Million Cost Savings With Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
- Haemonetics Corporation is the world's leading supplier of blood processing systems. Haemonetics Corporation wanted to replace inefficient, manual paper-based processes and decentralized systems to improve collaboration and enable best-practice integration to improve product development processes and accelerate time to market. The challenge was to reduce operating expenses with fact-based decision...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Oracle Corp., Cost Savings, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Product Development, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Pratt & Whitney's Very Visible, Highly Successful Engineering Data Transformation
- Pratt & Whitney (P&W) has built more than half of the 34,000 commercial aircraft engines in service today and more than 40,000 military engines. To meet ambitious cost and cycle time reductions targeted by top management, Pratt & Whitney's engineering organization needed to revitalize its handling of product data. Rather...
- Tags: Software, Product Lifecycle, Siemens AG, Aircraft, Product Lifecycle Management, Pratt & Whitney, Product Development, Product Marketing, Aerospace & Defense, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Social computing and product lifecycle management
- The blogs are full of praise for soon to be minted Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's thought piece about applying social computing to product lifecycle management. While I like the generality of Jeremiah's argument, I'm nervous about applying the ideas in a number of markets. At least...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett, Information Technology, Jeremiah, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, SAP AG, Social Computing
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- From Shape Creation to Manufacturing Geometry, SurfaceInk Found NX to Be "The Perfect Product Lifecycle Solution" for Every Stage in the Development of a Video Game Accessory
- SurfaceInk Corp., founded in 1999, is a mechanical engineering and design consulting firm. SurfaceInk wanted to develop ergonomic grip accessory for Zodiac game consoles. The challenge was to have prototype ready for trade show just two months away. The company performed entire digital development process within NX and imported game...
- Tags: Geometry, Product Lifecycle, Siemens AG, Accessory, Video Game, Video, Manufacturing, Game Console, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Technology Plays a Critical Role in Bringing Safe and Sustainable Power to the World
- The initial rationale behind PBMR is simple - there is a huge global requirement for sustainable energy. PBMR wanted to develop a nuclear reactor capable of providing safe and sustainable power. The challenge was to build a demonstration unit by 2011. The PBMR solution is a High Temperature Reactor HTR,...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Siemens AG, Product Lifecycle Management, PBMR Solution, Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- The Value Proposition of Product Lifecycle Management Software Solutions
- The ability to deliver a fast-changing range of quality, relevant customer-facing products is of paramount importance in the race to retain customers and increase loyalty. There is increasing focus on product differentiation for converged mobile services. Reducing new production introduction lead time and cost is a key objective for service...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Mobile, Product Lifecycle Management, Ceon Design & Development Centre, Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Services, Marketing
- White papers 2006-12-14
- Completely Digital Product Lifecycle Management
- Established in 1926 as a manufacturer of components for the new radio transmissions industry and then converted to the automotive industry during the Second World War, Ducati is a prestigious brand in the world of road and race motorcycling. The company wanted to create products that combine high technological content...
- Tags: Management, Marketing, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Marketing, Siemens AG, Strategy
- Case studies 2006-12-01
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