{"id":604,"date":"2008-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-06-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:00:00","slug":"plm-spanning-all-areas-of-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/plm-spanning-all-areas-of-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"PLM: Spanning All Areas of the Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have always been used in manufacturing companies, but PLM is moving from the engineering back rooms to touch all parts of the manufacturing organization.  PLM systems are creating centralized hubs of product information available to the entire organization.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by the Aberdeen group called <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Aberdeen Grouip:  Integrating the PLM EcoSystem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberdeen.com\/summary\/report\/benchmark\/4646-RA-integrating-plm-ecosystem.asp\">Integrating the PLM Ecosystem<\/a> surveys how &#8216;Best-In-Class&#8217; organizations use PLM and how PLM positively affect their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\nJim Brown of the Aberdeen Groups <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jim Brown of the Aberdeen Group\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/marketwire\/0394657.htm\">said <\/a>that &#8220;based on our research, industry leaders are integrating business processes and product data across the multiple product development, data management, design, and analysis applications that make up the extended Product Lifecycle Management suite. PLM integration improves efficiency, helping companies meet product launch dates and revenue targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The survey found that Best-In_Class companies use PLM to centralize their product information and use PLM systems as the primary &#8220;system of record&#8221; for that data.<\/li>\n<li>Best-In-Class companies use a &#8216;multi-dimensional&#8217; approach to integrating PLM with external systems.  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