Product life cycle management (PLM) is a philosophy, process and discipline supported by software for managing the life cycle of products through the stages from concept through recycling/retirement. As a discipline, it has grown from a mechanical design and engineering focus to being applied to many different vertical-industry product development challenges. The market for PLM software includes vendors that: - Provide product data management (PDM) software to capture, cultivate and manage technical product-related content. That content defines the products’ specifications and designs and their allowable product configurations. It includes technical descriptions of the parts, materials and allowable product configurations expressed as 3D models, drawings and other related content. All PLM vendors deliver PDM functionality. - If software providers support only PDM functionality, Gartner does not consider them PLM vendors. PLM vendors support complementary applications that enable the PLM discipline to various degrees. Gartner considers a vendor a PLM provider if it supports at least three complementary software categories that enable the PLM discipline. Table 1 provides insight into the complementary categories of software that support the PLM discipline. Those additional software categories help manufacturers create, deliver, maintain, service and discontinue products.
"Terrific PLM Tool"
After taking the training courses and working with Aras as a user, the ability to build custom solutions to handle data objects from very niche processes became extremely easy she clear.
"Teamcenter: Best PLM Tool Ever for Handling Complexities Efficiently"
Including Teamcenter as a PLM tool in our complete product life cycle has made the work of Product Development Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers and Sourcing Leads much easier as it synchronizes the different aspects of the complete product like BOM Creation and Maintenance, Item or Part Creation and its Revision, Information of the Manufacturing Part and the Manufacturer, etc.
"Windchill: Bets PLM Solution for Great Customization Features"
The overall experience with Windchill as a PLM tool has been exceptional as it provides a lot of critical and complex tools and capabilities to handle/manage the different versions of a single part even at the phase when the part is not released. This helps in many phases where we want an older version of the model.
"Unveiling the Connection Between Product Design and Manufacturing"
Platform provide a real native integration between Product Design processes and Product Manufacturing Process
"Propel - Propels your business forward!"
Great team at Propel which makes the product and customer experience exceptional! The flexibility to create and administer processes on the fly has come a long way since the early days of Propel. Would definitely recommend Propel to anyone looking for a PLM solution.
"A good Plm solution but."
a good Plm solution but I still prefer Cas vendors solutions (Siemens, Dassault,..)
"Manage the quality and compliance using Arena PLM"
Arena PLM offers cloud-based product lifecycle management which makes it very easy to collaborate with the suppliers in the value chain. The OEM can define the changes and notify the suppliers easily using the application. Real time product lifecycle management, can be done without any hassle using the application.
"Optimizing Product Continuum with Surefront's One-Stop Solution"
Surefront provides an excellent platform that allows me to manage the lifecycle of my products from development to shipping. This is a one stop platform that is extremely beneficial when working with multiple vendors and customers.
"A great tool for the product development process"
A great tool for end-to-end product life cycle management, document sharing, and storing within the organisation. We can enhance our operational efficiency by deploying this tool. Integration of CAD tool is very much required to have reviews, data backups etc. Helps in task assignments, billing of materials, material databases, and change management.
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See All Alternatives"a solid PLM solution, but be careful of the support offering"
Centric is an enterprise level PLM solution which is perfectly positioned for the SMB space, however the application is not the easiest to use, the support services are not the best and if you are not careful you can very quickly and easily start to incur a lot of costs in support and maintenance.
"Remarkable Platform"
Comprehensive platform, flexible backend logic engine, multiple environments
"Fusion 360 - Perfect Tool for On Cloud Product Design"
Fusion 360 is a perfect solution for all the product design organizations who want to have their designing in the cloud platform and easy to access from anywhere.
"UpChain - A Good fit for cloud based PDM solution"
Upchain is a go-to solution for any organization that wants to use a product data management tool but needs it on the cloud.