Design and manufacturing of modern industrial products is inherently complex. As customers’ requirements increase and suppliers assume greater design and manufacturing responsibility, estimating total production costs, bidding accurately and protecting profits becomes ever more important. These become especially difficult challenges in a slow economy. Product Lifecycle Management is a proven strategy for making companies more efficient, effective, innovative and successful.
With Dassault Systemes PLM solutions, businesses can be more successful competing at all stages of the industrial equipment industry: bidding, design and engineering, manufacturing and assembly, installation and commissioning and maintenance.
PLM improves collaboration allowing all stakeholders to be involved in reaching decisions faster with fewer life cycle delays. PLM allows companies to accurately access requirements and costs delivering more confidence in a project’s profitability. Faster more accurate bidding helps to increase bidding capacity and win more business.
A fully integrated environment that supports Design-for-Manufacturing allows concurrently optimized design and manufacturing processes that provide down-stream benefit. Planning, scheduling, simulation and virtual commissioning of digital manufacturing can be defined to reduce or eliminate errors that might otherwise go undetected until installation when rectification can be most costly.
Supporting Design-for Maintainability brings together design optimization, installation, operation and maintenance processes. Design with maintenance in mind supports a total life cycle solution with optimised after-sales and service for the customer while the supplier minimizes warranty costs.
Using PLM Industrial Equipment manufacturers can offer their customers lifetime value to maximize return on investment for the full life of a product. A product offering becomes a turnkey solution that includes product, installation, operational and maintenance services ensure ongoing value.
