Product Lifecycle Management Solution
Increase Engineering Productivity, Reduce Design-Engineering Changes and Deliver Innovative Products To Market Faster At a Lower Cost
The global marketplace is becoming increasingly competitive, meaning that you have to introduce new, innovative products to market faster. Customers are demanding more choice and higher quality. And competition from global manufacturers can exert pressure on your margins. To maintain your edge, you have to change your product development processes and technology so your virtual design, engineering, manufacturing and support teams can collaborate simultaneously anywhere around the world, leverage knowledge and design next-generation products faster.
Our Product Lifecycle Management Solution Gives Your Company The Agility You Need To Capitalize On Market Opportunities and Achieve Measurable Results
EDS can help you streamline product development, improve product lifecycle management systems and processes, and enable your virtual engineering teams to collaborate in real time so they can accelerate the process from concept to production faster. By offering a full range of product lifecycle management capabilities – from consulting to business process improvements to managing complex IT engineering applications – we can help cover your product development needs from end to end.
Not only will we help you develop a strong plan but we'll implement and modernize your applications, integrate your systems and fine-tune your product development environment. With EDS' proven solutions, program management expertise, skilled resources and manufacturing experience, we can equip you to capture market opportunities and achieve measurable results.
We Have a Flexible Product Lifecycle Management Solution No Matter What Your Company Manufactures
We can create a customized, tailored solution, regardless of what industry segment you're in. Whether you select some or all of the following components of our Product Lifecycle Management Solution, we can integrate them so they work together seamlessly, providing you new levels of innovation, efficiency, visibility and collaboration:
- Design Collaboration
- Makes multi-CAD and other product information available to your multisite design team, in real time, over a secure global network
- Product Design and Validation
- Provides the mathematical information, engineering and analytics, and product definition artifacts needed to design and validate products
- Knowledge-Based Engineering
- Helps you speed product development and preserve intellectual property by consistently capturing and reusing key practices and information
- Manufacturing Process Planning
- Provides real-time information, business processes and work flows so you can digitally design, test and simulate production environments
- Process Management
- Provides a seamless environment for monitoring, controlling and reporting product development productivity
- Lifecycle Data Management
- Architects, implements and provides hosting support for bills of materials maintained through a consistent configuration and change management control system
Components of the EDS Solution
- Managed storage
- Network management
- Security
- Hosting
- Content management
- Application implementation and management
- Application development
Here's how EDS can help your industry:
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- Improve operational effectiveness
- Speed time to market
- Manage complex global supply chains
- Develop new services to improve market share
- Build revenues
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- Manage costs
- Protect margins
- Innovate product development
- Improve customer and dealer relations to gain market share
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- Speed time to market
- Manage eroding margins
- Connect with customers
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- Optimize business and asset performance
- Gain market share
- Free up capital for reinvestment
Product Lifecycle Management Solutions Provide Your Manufacturing Process More Muscle
Using the power of Product Lifecycle Management, you can:
- Reduce costs and increase speed to market by integrating market intelligence and product development data
- Develop more products faster by increasing engineering productivity up to 15 percent
- Cut product development cycles in half by using digital prototypes that can be shared and easily revised
- Reduce cost of goods and manufacturing-related costs by 30 to 60 percent by reducing the need for retooling and increasing reuse
- Boost engineering capacity and eliminate redundant parts by increasing component reuse by up to 75 percent
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GM
EDS is behind the continued success of GM. Our Product Lifecycle Management Solution helped the automaker accelerate product development and reduce plant start-up time, and enabled its global design teams to collaborate in real time.