Streamlining the Product Journey with PLM to Make It Fast, Efficient, and Transparent
In innovative industries, it’s crucial to manage the product journey with full transparency from concept to completion. To ensure real-time visibility into operations, centralizing product data and processes has proven invaluable for enhancing decision-making and efficiency. This is also needed for automated compliance checks and robust reporting capabilities to further streamline operations with minimal effort.
These were also the challenges faced by a leading green energy solution provider. The company wanted to streamline its product journey from concept to completion, ensuring efficiency and excellence every step of the way. To reach this objective, the company aimed to use an state-of-the-art Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system focused on three main areas: Supply Chain, Regulatory Compliance, and Product Innovation.
- Optimize product innovation to stay ahead of the curve. Achieve a faster time-to-market by reducing the product life cycle for development. Gain a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving industry by focusing on emerging technologies and evolving customer needs.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards while enhancing your public image through demonstrable green processes. Adhering to legal requirements and obtaining ISO certifications, such as ISO 14007, not only meets sustainability and ESG needs but also solidifies your commitment to environmental responsibility.
- Effectively manage supply chain complexity to achieve improved operational efficiency and cost savings. Reduce resource consumption, such as water and energy, and minimize disposal costs. Enhance data transparency with a "Digital Thread" to support informed decision-making processes.
Tenthpin’s Approach: A combination of Business Advisory, Technology Consulting, and Organizational Change Management!
Tenthpin has an integrated project management approach that combines PLM expertise with Organizational Change Management (OCM) and decision-making.
Tenthpin’s approach centers on a clear understanding of business requirements, ensuring data quality, and rigorous solution testing. Strong, hands-on senior project management is provided to guide multiple implementation partners effectively. Utilizing a Rapid Deployment approach, a pre-configured and ready-to-use PLM solution is offered, enabling businesses to quickly adapt. Additionally, organizations are empowered with robust training and change management, ensuring smooth transitions and sustained success.
Achieving scalability in terms of users, functional capabilities, and cross-system integration requirements, the implementation is based on a SaaS platform. This includes seamless integration of MCAD (SolidWorks) and ECAD (EPLAN) with PLM, ensuring comprehensive Engineering Change Management (end-to-end including SAP). The solution also features robust Product Document Management with version control, enabling efficient Part/BOM Management and Release within the Product Lifecycle Management framework. Additionally, the resilient Aras-SAP interface supports seamless EBOM-MBOM integration, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
Strong “hands-on” senior project management & methodology
Tenthpin’s integrated project approach, using best practice processes and data models, helps to kick-start and accelerate the digital transformation journey over all phases.
The basis of success: A pre-configured PLM solution to build on
Starting with a pre-configured, “out-of-the-box” and ready-to-use PLM solution and extending the solution with further releases. Features include:
- General Navigation and Search
- Engineering Change Management
- Bill of Material Management (BOM)
- Article Management
- Document Management
- CAD Document
- Revision Management
- SolidWorks Integration
Enable Success: Training and Change Management
Project success was driven by a precise Training Management concept and excellent change management support through all project phases.
Major business benefits achieved by PLM introduction
The successful delivery of a state-of-the-art PLM system helps address the challenges associated with the hydrogen industry and positions the client for long-term success in a growing market.
- The implementation has empowered the company to effectively manage the entire life cycle of products, seamlessly navigating from ideation and design phases through to production and beyond.
- Centralizing product data and processes has provided invaluable real-time visibility into our operations, enhancing decision-making and efficiency.
- Automated compliance checks and robust reporting capabilities further streamline operations, ensuring regulatory requirements are consistently met with minimal effort.
