Managing the product development process from design through manufacturing is a complex task that is further complicated by the need to incorporate sub-tier support and low-cost country operations. Today’s automotive and transportation companies need to ensure that their suppliers, customers and business partners keep their information synchronized throughout the entire process regardless of organizational or geographic boundaries.

Siemens PLM Software technology provides a PLM platform for launching an information exchange and synchronization initiative by providing open solutions leveraging industry standards. The result is an environment that ensures dispersed teams to collaborate freely and confidently across heterogeneous systems while still enforcing the proper security and supporting the appropriate interoperability.

Information exchange and synchronization is an integral function of a PLM Strategy that facilitates your ability to:

• More Innovation - By automating the information exchange process gives team members the time needed to create innovative products and solutions.
• Faster To Market - By getting the right data to the right people at the right time.
• Be Compliant - By reducing the number of unique design environments that you have to maintain while still complying with the information exchange requirements of your customers.
• Get Optimized - By significantly reducing the number of unique design environments that you have to maintain.
• Go Global - By sharing information across global operations.

Implementing a PLM vision that includes a comprehensive information exchange component is imperative to enabling your other process improvement initiatives. It will enable a broad spectrum of potential customer interaction models: from fully automated product structure synchronization to simple "mailbox" file transfers.

Siemens PLM Software portfolio of solutions provides an integrated PLM platform that makes it possible to implement information exchange, synchronization and interoperability initiatives.