Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting the
Needs of Collaboration
Steve Wobschall – Director, Product Management, QAD

Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Safe Harbor Statement
The following is intended to outline QAD’s general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, functional capabilities, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functional capabilities described for QAD’s products remains at the sole discretion of QAD.
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Agenda
• What is PLM
• PLM challenges
• Who needs PLM solutions
• Aligning PLM with ERP
• Our partner, PTC
• PTC’s Windchill
• QAD integration
• Q&A
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
What is PLM
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
CIMdata defines PLM as:
• A strategic business approach
• Supporting the extended enterprise
• Spanning from concept to end of life of a product or plant
• Integrating people, processes, business systems, and information
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PLM: The Source of Truth
CRM
Product
Development
PLM
ERP
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Fundamental Concepts of PLM
• Universal product definition information
• Integrity throughout the life of the product
• Business processes to manage the information
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Key Components of PLM
Document
Mgmt
Workflow Distributed
Collaboration
Embedded
Visualization
Heterogeneous
CAD Data Mgmt
Complete BOM
Management
Change &
Config. Mgmt
Communities of Practice
Program Portfolio
Management
Requirements
Management
Supplier &
Component Mgmt
Manufacturing
Process Mgmt
One architecture
High performance
Secure & open
Service
Information
Quality
Management
Interoperable

Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
PLM Challenges
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Challenges
• Increasing pressure from global competitors
• IT environments are fragmented
• Constant need to save money
• Changing workforce demographics
• More regulatory requirements
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Product Development Challenges
Global competition
IT fragmentation
CHALLENGES
Economic factors
Workforce demographics
Regulatory pressures
Global product development
IT consolidation
Lean product development
INITIATIVES
Web 2.0 technology
Compliance management
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Medical Devices
• Demand for innovation
• Strict environmental/regulatory requirements
• Shrinking price premiums
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Industrial Equipment
• Diverse customer requirements
• Extremely cost competitive
• Geographically dispersed customers and facilities
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
High Tech & Electronics
• Quick time-to-market
• Falling prices
• Environmental regulations
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Aligning PLM and ERP
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
PLM and ERP are Complementary
Product
Planning
Product
Definition
PLM
Requirements
Management
Sourcing
Manufacturing
Execution
Mfg
Planning
ERP
Financial
Maintenance
& Repair Logistics
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
PTC & QAD: A Natural Fit
Time to
Market
Time to
Customer
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Our Partner, PTC
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
A Global Leader
• 4,725 employees in >30 countries
• 57,000+ customers/850,000+ users
• World Class PLM
• World Class
• Revenue $1010M (FY10)
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Benefits of the Partnership
• Industry leading products
• Reliable implementations
• Integrated PLM & ERP
• Scalable solutions
• IT consolidation
• Globalization capabilities
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Integration Without Compromise
• Best-of-breed desktop Product families
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Mathcad
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Pro/ENGINEER
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Arbortext
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ProductView
• Integral architecture
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Windchill
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
PTC’s Windchill
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
What is Windchill?
• Manages all forms of product data
• Secure data vaulting/sharing
• Easy to use features
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Open & Interoperable
• Web-based, secure access from anywhere
• Integrations with all major CAD systems
• Microsoft Office Integration
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
QAD Integration
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Windchill/QAD Integration Benefits
• Process benefits
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Eliminates manual data transfer
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Synchronizes BOMs
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Changes communicated automatically
• Architecture benefits
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Closed-loop transaction management
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Leverages web services architecture
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Workflow based
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Advanced administrative tools
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Potential Touch Points
• Items
• BOMs (by site)
• Routings
• Item templates
• Configurator rules
• Co/By products
• Supplier/item
• BOMs (by domain)
• Routings
• ECOs (PCC)
• Alternate
BOMs/Routings
• Service
BOMs/Routings
• Compliance attributes
• Document attachments
• Quality specifications
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Metrics Affected
Process
Product Development
Process
Benefit
• Time To market
• Product cost
• Engineering cost
Value
+10 to 20%
-20 to 50%
+10 to 20%
+10 to 25% Product Maintenance • Engineering change
• Parts re-use
• Inventory reduction
Document
Management
• Document retrieval time
• Document distribution time
• Re-use and duplication avoidance
-20 to 50%
+10 to 20%
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Next Steps
• Ask your account manager for information about the PTC/QAD partnership
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Product Lifecycle Management: Meeting Needs of Collaboration
Questions & Answers
• Steve Wobschall: swo@qad.com
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