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2. 2 What Is PLM and How Can It Help My Company?
Product lifecycle management
solutions can boost productivity for
manufacturers, and Autodesk PLM
360 brings those benefits within
reach of SMBs.
I
’m here to help you understand
PLM. This article will explain what
PLM is (and what it isn’t), how it
works, how it can be scaled to accom-
modate businesses of all sizes from
small to medium to large, and some
tips for a successful implementation.
Small companies face many of the
same process challenges that large
companies face, and PLM can address
these challenges if the solution can
be tailored to meet the unique needs
of SMBs.
I’ll discuss how you can improve
your business processes using
Autodesk’s cloud-based solution for
product lifecycle management, PLM
360, a system that is flexible and
affordable enough that it can help you
become more efficient and profit-
able no matter what the size of your
company.
WHAT PLM IS
At IMAGINiT Technologies, we define
PLM as follows:
Product lifecycle management is
an information-driven business
strategy that integrates people,
processes, data, and technology to
manage the entire life of a product
from concept to disposal.
A complete PLM solution collects
product information and guides its
flow from early requirements gathering
through development, production,
delivery, maintenance, and retirement.
I’ll dive further into the details of a
PLM solution later in this article.
I like to point out to customers
that, more than likely, they’re already
practicing PLM — they’re just not
aware that they’re doing it, or they’re
not doing it efficiently. For example,
you might have processes and tools
in place, such as spreadsheets and
forms that you distribute via e-mail
for approval by specified people. That
is a simple form of PLM. Or maybe
you already have a quality manage-
ment system (QMS), but it is stand-
alone software and its information
isn’t shared across the business and
readily available. A properly config-
ured PLM solution serves as a bridge
that captures all of your key product
business information and integrates
your tools and processes to benefit all
stages of product development and
manufacturing. Properly implemented
PLM guides business-critical decisions
throughout the business and captures
those key decisions and documents.
It’s a powerful business tool.
WHAT PLM IS NOT
One thing that I can’t repeat too many
times is that PLM is not just a software
product. There is so much more to
PLM than just installing a software
product labeled PLM. Yes, software is
part of PLM — in fact, a PLM solution
can incorporate multiple pieces of
software — but it’s really more about
the process of managing information
efficiently than it is about the soft-
ware. Software is the enabler.
PLM is not just for large compa-
nies. The belief that PLM is a solution
that can benefit only large companies
is perhaps the biggest misconception
about it. However, there was a time
when this might have been true:
Traditional PLM solutions tended to
be too expensive to implement and
too complex and inflexible to benefit
small to medium-sized businesses
(SMBs). Smaller companies that tried
to implement these PLM solutions
often failed because the solution
forced them to act like large compa-
nies, making their processes more
complex than necessary. Ultimately,
they would have to choose between
sacrificing their business agility or
abandoning the system. The expense
of modifying the tool to fit the needs
Turn to PLM
for help with:
• product items and BOMs
• quality control
• engineering change
management
• program/project
management
• supplier management
• procurement support
• field service management
3. What Is PLM and How Can It Help My Company? 3
of small businesses often scared many
SMBs away from a PLM solution.
Fortunately for SMBs, all that has
changed. In the case of Autodesk PLM
360, you have a cloud-based offering,
or software as a service, so there’s
nothing to install and you’re ready
to start configuration on day one.
You’re basically renting the software
and infrastructure, so you don’t have
the up-front costs of buying complex
software or putting in an infrastruc-
ture to support it. Ramp-up time and
expense are greatly reduced compared
with a traditional PLM implemen-
tation. Although you can use the
preconfigured apps as-is, I wouldn’t
oversimplify it and say that they will
meet all of your business needs. Every
customer will have to do some config-
uration to adapt the software to their
processes. The built-in apps are there
as a starting point to demonstrate
capability and get you off the starting
block. Also, you don’t have to try and
do every business process in PLM all at
one time. PLM 360 is flexible; you can
adopt parts of the system as needed
— for example, engineering or quality
control — and then expand use over
a timeframe that’s acceptable to your
business.
PLM is not just for engineering.
Although it’s probably true that the
engineering department is where PLM
most often gets its start within a
One thing that I
can’t repeat too
many times is that
PLM is not just a
software product.
Autodesk PLM 360 from the User’s Perspective
Users will find the Autodesk PLM 360 interface modern, easy
to navigate, and intuitive. The company’s PLM administrator
can configure some of the look and feel of the PLM 360 site,
but each user will have his or her own home page to collect
information specific to their PLM needs.
The home page opens with a dashboard of reports/charts,
which update in real time, that the user may be interested in
following. Each user can configure the reports/charts that
display, and those reports/charts can be private or shared with
other users.
The dashboard also displays the user’s Outstanding Work.
In this section, the user can quickly see which tasks or assign-
ments are currently waiting for input, each marked with a
color-coded flag that indicates whether the task is on time, has
a deadline coming soon, or is late. The user simply selects a
task to provide the necessary input.
The remaining sections of the home page are what you
would expect to find in any PLM solution, such as:
• saved bookmarks/links to items of interest,
• recently accessed/viewed items, and
• attachments/files that are currently checked out by the user.
Working with the rest of the PLM 360 application is like
navigating a typical website. Hyperlinks throughout the
records connect to information and make it easy to traverse
through the system of related information. Users also can
search for data instead of navigating through workspaces,
making it simple and fast to find the exact information you
need.
The PLM 360 site can be securely configured so that users
only see the information they need or have access to. PLM
360 administrators can hide tabs, menus, records, and
even sections of information to help users focus on relevant
information.
Even though it is relatively easy to navigate through PLM
360 to determine what you need to work on, when you need to
work on it, and to just simply review information, users can be
notified via e-mail when they are assigned to a task. The e-mail
workflow notification includes information about the task and
a hyperlink to the item and workflow in the PLM 360 site.
Users will have a hard time using the “I didn’t know I had
work to do” excuse anymore because of how PLM 360 keeps
every worker informed of project status and who is responsible
for a particular piece of the puzzle.
Each Autodesk PLM 360 user has his or her own dashboard that
provides a window into project status, notifications about tasks
waiting for action, and access to key project information in the
form of private or shared reports, charts, and graphs.
4. 4 What Is PLM and How Can It Help My Company?
company — typically in an effort to
improve bills of materials and change
management — it isn’t solely an
engineering solution. PLM manages
processes well before the engineering
stage of product development, such
as market analysis and requirements
gathering, and then extends through-
out product development encompass-
ing all the processes and projects that
are necessary to bring a product to
market, all the way through product
retirement and disposal. The end of a
product’s lifecycle is just as important
as the other phases and is often over-
looked in SMBs for efficiency gains and
process improvements. By establish-
ing a sound PLM strategy within your
business, attention will be brought to
processes such as Warranty and Prod-
uct delivery, for example.
HOW IT WORKS
The product development lifecycle
involves numerous processes, tools,
and personnel that must be man-
aged. PLM extends across the entire
business to connect and manage all
these components. PLM provides
information access to the appropriate
personnel at the appropriate stages. It
can automate certain steps — such as
information flow and visibility, process
triggers, and electronic sign-off — and
improve efficiency by automatically
notifying users when input or review
is needed.
The accompanying chart shows
the five primary stages of the product
development processes along with the
personnel and PLM-based processes
involved with each.
Autodesk PLM 360 can build on
your company’s existing software
foundation, integrating with product
data management (PDM), change
management, ERP, and more. You
may already have solutions in these
BUILD
Business Areas
• Manufacturing
• Quality
• Purchasing
Processes
• BOM Management
• Supplier Management
• NCRs and CAPAs
• Change Management
DESIGN
Business Area
• Engineering
Processes
• Product Management
• Change Management
• Item Management
• Bill of Materials (BOM)
Management
• RFQ Management
PLAN
Business Areas
• Sales
• Marketing
• Engineering
Processes
• New Product Introduction
• Program Management
• Quote and Costing
• Customer Management
• Requirements Management
DISPOSAL
Business Areas
• Service
• Manufacturing
Process
• ROHS
SUPPORT
Business Areas
• Service
• Quality
• Manufacturing
Processes
• Incident Report
Management
• Warranty Management
• RMA Management
• Service Request
Management
Stages of
PLM
This chart shows the five primary stages
of the product development process
along with examples of personnel and
business processes involved at each
stage.
5. What Is PLM and How Can It Help My Company? 5
areas, and a flexible PLM solution such
as PLM 360 will integrate well into
your existing systems. You don’t have
to replace what’s already working.
However, if you don’t have a system in
place for processes such as project/
program management, CRM, QMS,
and supplier management, then PLM
360 offers a platform for those busi-
ness functions.
HOW IT HELPS
Compared with traditional PLM imple-
mentations, Autodesk PLM 360 is
more affordable and easier to deploy
and use — but the potential business
benefits are the same, including:
• greater visibility to critical
information
• more efficient business processes
• improved supplier collaboration
• faster time to market
• improved standards compliance
• improved product quality
• faster response to market dynamics
• improved program and project
visibility
• reduced waste
• greater component reuse
Complete project visibility to every-
one in the business is a tremendous
benefit of PLM. For example, if a prod-
uct has to change because of a defect,
PLM can provide complete visibility
into how the defect was identified and
what the corrective action plan is to fix
the defect, and it can follow the entire
change process from engineering
updates to the release of the improved
product.
Collectively, these benefits lead to
better and more profitable products.
In addition to lower start-up costs,
the cloud-based nature of Autodesk
PLM 360 equates to reduced or no
cost for long-term ownership, includ-
ing the following:
• infrastructure upgrades (hardware
and software)
• implementation of operating system
(OS) and application service packs
• project management for software
and hardware upgrades
• daily hardware management/
maintenance
• OS and database licensing costs
and maintenance
• external access cost (VPN manage-
ment) and mobile access
This last point is especially import-
ant as workers become increasingly
mobile and IT personnel grapple with
the bring-your-own-device (BYOD)
trend. The browser-based nature
of PLM 360 means staff can access
information at any time from any
Internet-connected location, with all
the built-in security that Autodesk
provides.
WHAT IT COSTS
As I’ve been saying all along, the effi-
ciency and economies of scale of cloud
technology make Autodesk PLM 360
easier and more affordable to imple-
ment and operate than traditional
PLM systems, bringing PLM 360 within
reach of companies of virtually any
size. Autodesk has stated that PLM
360 is roughly one-third the cost of
traditional PLM systems, while achiev-
ing substantially the same benefits.
Autodesk PLM 360 facilitates simple process workflow mapping. User can create business processes with easy-to-use tools.
Complete project
visibility to everyone
in the business is a
tremendous benefit
of PLM.
6. 6 What Is PLM and How Can It Help My Company?
Even training costs are lower in my
experience, because the browser-based
system is so easy to understand and
use.
Customers subscribe to individual
seats of Autodesk PLM 360 on an
annual basis, making it easy to fore-
cast and adjust expenses based on
use and current needs. Professional
seats allow users to create, edit, and
manage data for an unlimited number
of business processes. Lower-priced
Participant seats are designed for part-
ners, suppliers, and managers or other
users who do not need to add or edit
PLM content but do need to review
and approve data and documents,
run reports to better understand the
context of information, and perform
workflow activities or make comments
on submitted work as part of the
approval process.
Need further justification for your
PLM investment? Here’s how we see
it: PLM in an SMB is a strategic tool
that will help your business grow
by enabling key business processes.
As one example of many, PLM can
realistically help a company to gain
15%–30% efficiency in its new prod-
uct introduction (NPI) process over a
traditional NPI process of documents,
e-mails, and paper.
HOW TO SUCCEED
As I’ve mentioned, Autodesk PLM 360
gives SMBs an edge in the effort to
successfully implement a PLM system
because of its flexibility, ease of use,
and affordability. But success doesn’t
come automatically. Like most soft-
ware integrations, success with PLM
requires a clear business strategy,
good planning, and dedicated support
for and execution of that plan.
Plan well. When we at IMAGINiT
Technologies implement PLM 360, the
first step is to sit down with the client
to define the processes that make
up that company’s product lifecy-
cle — what we call process discovery.
It’s critical to PLM success that you
identify, validate, and define those
processes. This doesn’t mean that the
processes have to be perfect, and it
doesn’t mean that they can’t change
along the way, but it is a recipe for fail-
ure if you go into a PLM implementa-
tion without having a process baseline
documented and agreed upon.
We also identify the points in your
product development process where
key decisions are made. PLM excels
at knowledge capture, documenting
the key decisions that take place,
and managing the information that
supports these decisions. Some com-
panies need just a little assistance
with defining these elements of their
new system, and others need a lot.
The IMAGINiT data management
team has decades of experience with
customers of all types and sizes in
the manufacturing market, as well
as extensive knowledge of product
development best practices, so we
excel at identifying what companies
need to do to succeed and provide
recommendations on how to do it.
Set realistic goals. Another big key
to PLM success is setting attainable
goals, not setting the project scope
too broadly and trying to do too
much at once. We help customers
make sure that the project is focusing
in the right area. Develop a chrono-
logical timeline that details where
you want to start, what you want to
accomplish, and when — including
when you’d like to reach your ulti-
mate goal.
Establish high-level support. Exec-
utive sponsorship is critical to PLM
success as well. With an undertaking
such as PLM that affects people and
processes across the business, you
have to take a top-down approach.
Workers need clear messaging from
the executive level that change is
coming and that their cooperation
is necessary for success. They need
to understand the changes that will
affect their jobs and how the com-
pany is going to benefit from imple-
menting a PLM solution. If you don’t
have that support at the top, people
tend to fight change, and it will be
difficult to ever find success.
Know what to expect.It’s import-
ant to be honest and realistic about
what to expect during a PLM imple-
mentation. At IMAGINiT, we’re
up-front with our customers about
the ups and downs of the implemen-
tation process. We help set realistic
expectations and educate our cus-
tomer as to how dedicated resources
— staff and a budget — are important
for a successful implementation.
This isn’t something that people are
going to be able to do in their spare
time, to put an hour or two of work
each week toward the project for
the next six weeks. IMAGINiT lays
out a project plan with the customer
so they understand key milestones
in the implementation, how they
PLM in an SMB
is a strategic tool
that will help your
business grow by
enabling key business
processes.
7. What Is PLM and How Can It Help My Company? 7
Journey to PLM
Behlen Building Systems opts for Autodesk PLM 360 to automate an antiquated process.
At Behlen Building Systems, a business unit of
Behlen Manufacturing Company, the inside team
was getting bogged down by an antiquated
product-development workflow based on paper
file folders and manual checklists that ultimately
constrained the unit’s capacity. The team knew
automation was the answer and considered repro-
gramming several systems developed in house that
did not work with Windows XP or find an off-the-
shelf solution to replace as many of those in-house
systems as possible.
Shane Wemhoff, a member of the Process
Improvement Team, discussed the group’s journey
to — and results of — implementing Autodesk
PLM 360.
Which automation solutions did you consider?
Wemhoff: We engaged IMAGINiT to review our
process, what systems were connected, and get our
feedback as to what direction we wanted to take
the business. The solution they suggested was PLM
360. Discussions with IMAGINiT and Autodesk
involved a couple of competitors which we inves-
tigated as well as both freeware solutions and the
option of reprogramming ourselves.
Why did you choose Autodesk PLM 360?
The functionality of PLM 360, our existing rela-
tionship, as well as the personalized demos, and
on-site interactions [with IMAGINiT and Autodesk]
led us to choose PLM 360. The big benefit we
see is knowing where a project is in the process
without having to track down a paper folder. By
having an electronic process, we can also elimi-
nate several checklists. Using states and actions in
the flow allows us to document those tasks being
completed. Currently, in Phase 2, we are working
on feeding PLM 360 from our design software,
MBS [Metal Building Software]. In a future phase,
we plan on feeding our ERP software [Oracle JD
Edwards World] from PLM. Both processes will use
Jitterbit [for cloud integration] as middleware.
How was the implementation process?
Planning, implementation, and training steps are
well defined and thought out. Autodesk has a good
methodology for addressing these and IMAGINiT
works well with it. The Autodesk/IMAGINiT team
steps through each process that is going into PLM
360 and maps out the process and which func-
tional team is responsible. This creates a nice visual
for defining process states and actions. Towards
the end of the initial phase, these duties are turned
over to our technical team so that we could con-
tinue the process and build on the methodology;
we basically turned our daily tasks into an elec-
tronic process. Our technical team took 3.5 days of
training, and the initial mapping phase took about
two weeks. Our Phase 1 took about 3.5 months,
with significant consulting from both IMAGINiT
and Autodesk. Phase 1 rolled out to approximately
75 team members contributing to the flow on a
daily basis.
What’s your assessment of the new system at
this point?
We went live with Phase 1 on June 16, 2014. All
those involved are adapting to doing things a little
differently, although there is apprehension about
giving up paper. Benefits include the removal of
paper, which has led to improved customer service
with information being integrated into the PLM
workspaces or electronically filed in a central
location for each project.
“Benefits [of the new system]
include the removal of
paper, which has led to
improved customer service with
information being integrated
into the PLM workspaces or
electronically filed in a central
location for each project.”
— SHANE WEMHOFF,
Behlen Building Systems