Siemens PLM Software Expands "Fast Track to PLM"

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software (Plano, TX; siemens.com/plm) is expanding its "Fast Track to PLM" SMB (small to medium-sized business) educational seminar series to help manufacturers understand how to implement a commonization and reuse strategy that provides global access to reusable products and processes.

According to "The Design Reuse Benchmark Report – Seizing the Opportunity to Shorten Product Development," a report from the Aberdeen Group (Boston, MA; http://www.aberdeen.com), top performers are more likely to dedicate resources to simplify and verify designs for reuse. More than 70 percent of these performers integrate the preparation and verification of designs for reuse in the design phase and are twice as likely to track the amount of time required to change existing designs into new ones.

The report further explains that while all engineering organizations that filled out questionnaires report that they are currently reusing designs, top-performing groups are further along in the deployment of techniques and technologies to capitalize on design reuse.

Siemens PLM Software "Fast Track to PLM" seminars highlight how best-in-class companies address commonization and reuse through PLM to enable and automate proactive communization, prepare MCAD models for reuse, provide global centralized data access across the value chain, and integrate cross-functional teams on one standard platform.

"Many manufacturers find that commonization and reuse gives them the ability to reduce costs, improve quality and bring products to market at a faster pace," said Bruce Boes, vice president of Velocity Series Marketing at Siemens PLM Software. "Making key data readily available for reuse provides efficiencies in design, manufacturing, testing, and compliance."

For more information on the Fast Track Reuse webinars, visit Siemens PLM Software, http://www.siemens.com/plm/smb. Aberdeen reports are available from the Aberdeen Group. http://www.aberdeen.com.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.