Tips on building an ROI for 3DEXPERIENCE product lifecycle management.

1. adaptivecorp.com
BUILDING AN ROI FOR 3DEXPERIENCE PLM
1
Business
Challenge:
Difficulty sharing information
between departments and/or
locations
Design intent is not accurately
maintained during manufacturing
Difficulty coordinating all product
development stakeholders
Business
Implication:
• Designs are getting accidentally
overwritten, which causes rework.
• Product development staff is not
reusing existing designs, which
causes rework.
• Some design data is being
exposed to people that should not
see it resulting in the product
being manufactured with outdated
information, which causes rework.
• Product engineering does not
define permissible changes to
make in manufacturing, which
impacts product quality.
• Manufacturing make part changes
that alter design intent and impact
how desirable product feature are
delivered to customers.
• Rework occurs because all
impacts of a product change are
not evaluated.
• The company is having difficulty
bringing products to market on-
time and on-budget with the
planned product scope.
Metrics to
Quantify
• Lost productivity due to poor
reuse
• Lost productivity from rework
• Cost of merchandise returns
• Lower sales achievement due to
missed product capabilities
• Rework and quality costs due to
poor change impact analysis
• Lower sales due to late product
launches
• Suck cost of non-viable projects

2. adaptivecorp.com
QUESTIONS TO ASK FOR DETERMINING ROI METRICS
2
Business
Challenge:
Difficulty sharing information between
departments and/or locations
Design intent is not accurately
maintained during manufacturing
Difficulty coordinating all product
development stakeholders
Questions
to Ask
• Do CAD assemblies ever have
unresolved component references
because they have been overwritten or
stored in an incorrect location? What
is the cost of this rework?
• Are designers unnecessarily working
on designs that already exist because
they cannot easily search for
completed designs that fit their needs?
What is the cost of the time spent on
this redesign effort?
• Do you have issues where employees
are accessing design data before it has
been released from engineering, or that
is no longer the latest revision? What
is the cost of rework due to tasks
done with outdated data?
• Do manufacturing personnel make
decisions due to production issues that
cause parts to manufactured differently
and affect quality? What is the cost of
merchandise returns due to
avoidable quality issues?
• Are changes made in manufacturing
that affect design intent and the
delivered product capabilities? Did
product sales decrease because the
manufactured product did not
deliver specified capabilities?
• Are you able to coordinate changes
across different engineering disciplines
(mechanical, electronics and software,
manufacturing, etc.? If not, what is the
rework and quality costs due to not
properly assessing change impact?
• Are you having difficulty tracking the
development project progress and
resolving bottlenecks proactively?
What is the missed revenue due to
late product launches? Have you
had project cost overruns that affect
margins?
• Are executives able to easily track
when to abandon projects that are not
achieving necessary milestones for
profitability? What has been the sunk
cost of these projects?