PLM Strategy

Traditional mechanical products are increasingly becoming software-dominated systems. For companies, this means that they need to realign their IT systems and processes in product development in order to remain competitive. They need to modernize their outdated PLM infrastructure and better integrate software development.

Our solution offering:

As manufacturer-neutral consultants, we support the modernization of your PLM/ALM infrastructure and the realignment of your digital product development.. The focus is on your processes and the supporting IT systems.

• We analyze your individual PLM requirements and document them as a heat map of your PLM capabilities.
• We determine the individual maturity level of your current PLM capabilities and develop a roadmap for the successful transformation of processes and IT systems.
• We create a catalog of requirements for selecting the optimal development environment and guide you through the selection process until the final management decision is made.
• We analyze your cross-domain development processes and develop proposals for their optimization, with a special focus on digital consistency. 
• We explore the possibilities of AI as a decisive competitive factor in your processes.
• We build bridges from CRM to ERP, from sales to production and service.

Your benefit:

Our vendor-neutral strategy and consulting approach, backed by 30+ years of experience and grounded in industry best practice, enables you to realign and future-proof your product development across processes, systems, and domains.

Buzzwords such as data linking, digital consistency, digital twin, and digital thread create uncertainty across organizations.. Companies need a clear path to address these concepts and bring them along the journey to digital transformation. 

Our solution:

Our half-day PLM coaching offers you the ideal introduction to topics related to the challenges of digitalization, PLM, ALM, and systems engineering, and creates a common basic understanding within your company.

Your benefits:

You take away your employees' fear of digital transformation. We explain the key challenges of digitalization and possible approaches, ensuring a common basic understanding within your organization and improving the acceptance of measures to be taken.

Many companies are aware of the fact that they need to improve their product development processes and integrate them more closely with processes in related areas of the business. But they do not have a clear picture of the technical possibilities of digitalization and how it is being used in other companies.

Our solution offering:

We conduct rapid assessments on topics such as digital product development, systems engineering, PLM, ALM, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

Your benefit:

You receive clear guidance on where you stand in terms of digitalization compared to your industry. This jointly developed result, which has been agreed upon with all parties involved, serves as a planning basis for the modernization of your product development.

Like many companies, you are faced with the question of whether your existing IT architectures are capable of meeting future requirements resulting from the growing E/E (electrical/electronic) and software content in your products or from new data-driven business models.

Our solution:

We analyze and optimize your current IT architecture, systems engineering, and PLM and ALM, taking your long-term business goals into account and providing concrete proposals for your future IT target infrastructure.

Your benefits:

By modeling your IT architecture, you gain a better understanding of your current IT infrastructure and create the basis for sustainable architecture, planning, and cost optimization in IT. This also makes it easier to overcome challenges such as data sovereignty, data security, and the use of AI.

Before investing in a new PLM/ALM infrastructure, many companies first want to gain clarity about their product development needs and develop a coordinated concept for redesigning their development processes and IT infrastructure.

Our solution:

We analyze your product development regarding organization, processes, data, and IT infrastructure. We define the required PLM capabilities, and create a concept for redesigning your PLM/ALM architecture.

Your benefits:

You receive a target concept that has been developed and agreed upon with your experts. It is not only the basis for the implementation of a future-proof PLM/ALM architecture, but also an important part of the change process that accompanies the redesign of product development.

Companies that want to modernize their product development need a comprehensible evaluation of the various PLM and ALM systems that is tailored to their situation. They want to include the various areas of application in the decision-making process and be able to reliably plan the project, including cost estimates.

Our solution:

Leveraging 30+ years of experience and vendor neutral partnerships, we benchmark the PLM/ALM market to identify the PDM, PLM, or ALM systems that are a best fit for you and support you through rollout planning.

Your benefit:

You design the selection process  with vendor-neutral active PLM and ALM manufacturers and receive a comprehensible system recommendation supported by your team and prepared in a management-friendly manner. You know the implementation plan and the expected costs.

Many companies face the challenge of having to adapt their processes to changing business requirements, e.g., because their engineering-to-order processes take too long or their change management is becoming increasingly complex and error-prone.

Our solution:

We analyze and optimize your PLM and ALM processes throughout the entire product lifecycle, taking into account your changing business requirements and the best practices common in your industry. We also support you in digitizing your processes.

Your benefits:

You combine your individual processes with industry best practices and make better use of the possibilities offered by your PLM/ALM infrastructure and tool landscape. At the same time, you lay the foundation for process automation with the help of AI.