A key challenge in product development organizations is capturing and harvesting your company’s "Knowledge" about your own design and manufacturing processes. The benefit in harvesting this knowledge is that each one of your employees will consistently apply your company's best practices.

PLM solutions from Siemens PLM Software, provides the launching point for this kind of initiative. Not only can it help individual processes such as product design, tooling design, and manufacturing process planning, become more efficient, it also provides the comprehensive data management and collaborative backbone to tie those processes together.

PLM provides the platform upon which a company can leverage knowledge-driven automation to:

• More Innovation - By capturing and reusing knowledge, junior level personnel can work on complicated tasks freeing up senior people to work on the strategic level solutions.
• Faster To Market - By increasing your development productivity through capturing the knowledge of your experts throughout your engineering and manufacturing processes.
• Be Compliant - By connecting your global product requirements throughout your enterprise at the point where your design and manufacturing decisions are being made.
• Get Optimized - By providing the ability to maximize the capacity and utilization of your people, plants and manufacturing resources.
• Go Global - By assuring that the engineering and manufacturing best practices are applied consistently and a- ccurately on every program, no matter where you design or build your product.

As world leader in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions, Siemens PLM Software develops and markets PLM solutions that support industry processes and provide a virtual vision of the entire life cycle of products from conception to maintenance.

Siemens PLM Software portfolio of solutions provides an integrated PLM platform that makes it possible to automate the design and manufacturing process with your company’s knowledge.