Product Lifecycle Management solutions for manufacturing
Successful manufacturers need to innovate and deliver new, high-value products to the marketplace quickly and efficiently. That means optimizing every step of the product lifecycle, from design and engineering to production and deployment.
Microsoft and its solution partners accelerate successful Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes by providing an integrated environment for engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, and customers to create, manage, and leverage product information throughout the entire lifecycle. Microsoft technologies can help people find, use and share information. People can collaborate on product designs, evaluate product portfolios, and manage product data to reduce the time and cost of developing the right products.
Using real-time information to manage complex relationships, people can explore more design options, understand design intent, effectively reuse components and subassemblies, drive rapid product development, and increase revenue by managing the entire product innovation process.
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Benefits
Because Microsoft software is familiar and easy to use, widely supported, and simple to integrate, Microsoft can uniquely enable your design or manufacturing enterprise to:
| • | Create competitive, differentiated, high-value products by managing the innovation process. |
| • | Collaborate globally to engineer, find resources for, and manufacture new products. |
| • | Help reduce new-product development cycles and reduce product cost. |
| • | Enable engineers to coordinate with suppliers and manufacturers to assure right-the-first-time product development and manufacturing. |
| • | Assess proposed new product innovations against corporate business objectives to determine the most effective investment scenarios. |
| • | Leverage knowledge management capabilities to drive intelligent business decisions, streamlined development processes, and high product quality. |
Case studies
Read these case studies to learn how manufacturing companies have benefited from Microsoft product lifecycle management solutions.
Technologies
These Microsoft technologies form the foundation for innovative, integrated solutions in manufacturing:
| • | Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution provides centralized resource management and strong coordination among projects and project managers. |
| • | Microsoft Office 2003 is the familiar, standard set of desktop tools to drive employee productivity. |
| • | Microsoft InfoPath 2003 enables organizations to collect and manage information across the enterprise. |
| • | Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 offers real-time collaboration for sharing ideas and information, seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Office. |
| • | Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007 are an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services to connect people, information, processes, and systems. |
| • | Microsoft BizTalk Server enables line-of-business data synchronization with other systems both internally and externally with partners. |
| • | Microsoft SQL Server provides the database engine for highly scalable, cost-effective solutions. |
| • | Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) is information protection technology that works with RMS-enabled applications, such as Office 2003, to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use. |
| • | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 delivers power, security, and affordability to enterprise systems. |
Partners
Dozens of Microsoft partners are working to develop tailored solutions in product lifecycle management for all sectors of the manufacturing industry. Choose a partner that can match your business needs:
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