Siemens Keeps Up with Innovation
June 7, 2012
Many industries rely on product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions to streamline processes, save unnecessary waste, and connect departments as items begin in research and development and make their way through the manufacturing process. Since PLM solutions are not easy nor are they inexpensive many within the PLM community are realizing that add-ons must be created to introduce the latest technological advancements. Siemens has done so with their Active Workspace, designed to work cooperatively with their PLM platform according to the article, “Siemens Steps Up Search & 3D Data Sharing”, on Design News.
The article explains the decision to create the program as:
“The idea for Active Workspace was spawned from the fact that there is increasing complexity surrounding product development across the board and across industry segments. The other reality is that no one PLM system holds all product-related data, meaning that development teams are often moving between siloed systems and data sources, with no real guidelines or roadmap to where the data they need to effectively make decisions resides.”
There is no PLM solution that can anticipate all of the problems a company may encounter during the next decade (the average lifespan of a PLM solution). There is also not a platform that can anticipate innovations in technology. These realities combined make it necessary for all PLM solutions adopted across industries to be flexible and able to easily incorporate new features such as Active Workspace.
Catherine Lamsfuss, June 7, 2012
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