A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

PLM Definition and ERP Implementation Patterns

PLM Definition and ERP Implementation Patterns
Oleg
Oleg
15 October, 2011 | 2 min for reading

Product development and manufacturing is very different from company to company. Therefore, I’m not surprised anymore when I see multiple ways companies are defining what is Product Lifecycle Management. Some time ago, I started to gather these definitions in order to share with the readers of my blog. I was reading Aras’ blog and watching Nexteer presentation by David Lien and Bob Lipscomb about strategies, selection and implementation process of Aras PLM.

PLM Definition – Nexteer.

PLM is a global system that manages the complete set of product and process definition data, information, business processes, and the roles of peoples assigned with with a product through all stages from its creation to retirement.  The PLM system is the central information hub for everyone associated with a given product, streamlining product and process development and facilitating communication among those working with a product.

You can watch the following presentation to see more about PLM implementation at Nexteer, which I found very interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRNATYojq_Q

PLM and ERP Implementation Patterns

The presentation made me think about the pattern of “singularity” in PLM implementation. I call it ERP-pattern. Look on the following slide. The idea of customer to centralize all data related to product and processing isn’t very new. This is so called “single point of truth” implementation is still very popular.

At the same time, future explanation about keeping PDM implementation and synchronizing between PLM, PDM and ERP shows some weakness. To move all data to a single place is very complicated process. To make it in steps is probably a viable strategy. Keeping PDM and ERP “as is” just a confirmation of that.

What is my conclusion? Manufacturing clearly wants to optimize product development processes across the enterprise. The single point of truth is leveraging the simplicity of SQL-database experience for the last 20 years. At the same time, centralization and replication of data are complicated and expensive processes. Managing phased implementation creates a set of new problems related to the ability to maintain the data transformation and synchronization within the time. I’m interested to know your opinion. Do you see any alternatives the singularity in PLM? Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
26 August, 2021

Data is one of the most precious assets in the modern business world. Manufacturing companies are sitting on piles of...

19 April, 2012

I captured an interesting news earlier today. Amazon launching AWS Marketplace. Navigate to the following article to read more. What...

24 May, 2013

Product data is one of my favorite topics. People in product development and manufacturing organizations are surrounded by digital data...

29 August, 2016

SAP is acquiring big data startup Altiscale for about $125M. Altiscale is developing technology to bring “Hadoop as a Service”....

19 May, 2015

It is hard overestimate the importance of Bill of Materials for product development. In my keynote at ProSTEP iViP symposium...

26 September, 2012

People are creating ‘chaos’ by the nature of our work. This is a reality in many situations. In my view,...

5 December, 2013

One of the core capabilities of Product Lifecycle Management is the ability to define and manage a variety of information...

15 January, 2025

I’m sure you’ve been thinking about hiring product lifecycle management consulting during the journey of PLM strategic planning and implementation....

28 March, 2011

Last week Autodesk made a series of significant announcements related to their 2012 product lines. Autodesk is shifting to suites....

Blogroll

To the top