Varian’s PLM Changes Indicative of Global Shift in Data Management
February 7, 2012
Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) plays an important role in many industries with the medical industry being a prominent one. A recent article, Varian Slashes Redesign Time for RoHS, REACH Compliance, on Environmental Leader, announced a breakthrough by Varian Medical Systems in regards to their PLM effectively reducing their engineering changes from eighteen days to five days.
Of the changes the article explains,
“Using the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management application with product compliance functionality and the SAP Product Life Cycle Management application, Varian says it’s been able to understand the chemical composition of its products, more easily redesign components and products…The SAP software embeds compliance checks into the design process, which Varian says helps it avoid late-cycle changes. The software also makes it faster and easier to adjust administrative functions to any corresponding engineering change, Varian says.”
The need to improve PLM is an issue facing all industries, not just the medical. With companies across the globe facing increasing manufacturing prices and lower sales changes must be made across all divisions to cut costs. Improved PLM with integrated cloud services is, currently, the best option for companies. A truly redesigned PLM approach will include a new data management solution and enterprise search to reduce duplicity in design and man hours lost to inadequate searches.
For companies in all industries data has changed and is continuing to change. The difference between thriving despite tough economic times and closing the doors for good could be as simple as how the new, massive influx of data is searched and managed. Adopting new PLM solutions such as Varian is not only prudent but absolutely necessary to compete globally.
Catherine Lamsfuss, February 7, 2012
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