Every automotive manufacturer must prove its compliance with government, industry and customer-specific requirements. These requirements change constantly and every country has its own. Companies must move aggressively with planning and managing to compliance throughout the product lifecycle to avoid the risk of penalties. By establishing an integrated PLM platform you are able to manage your product and process information in an integrated manner so that product decisions that affect compliance are traceable back to the defining requirements:

The European Union End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive requires that vehicle manufacturers provide the information needed for dismantling a vehicle, such as details of vehicle components and location of hazardous substances, to authorized recycling facilities. In order to achieve these targets, Member States must have systems in place no later than 2007.

Obtain Value Chain Synchronization

Most OEM’s require suppliers to deliver design information back to them in a specific format. To comply with this requirement, suppliers maintain unique design environments aligned to each customer. Learn how an integrated PLM platform can help you significantly reduce the number of unique design environments that you have to maintain while still complying with the information exchange requirements of your customers by enabling an Information Exchange and Synchronization Business Process Improvement Initiatives.

To ensure you meet your compliance requirements, the supplier you work with must be able to meet those same requirements. Learn how an integrated PLM platform can help you evaluate suppliers against compliance criteria by enabling a Strategic Sourcing Business Process Improvement Initiative.

Harness Knowledge / IP Management

Automotive manufacturers often develop one-off solutions to meet local compliancy requirements instead of creating common solutions that satisfy a wider range of requirements. Learn how an integrated PLM platform can help you leverage your company’s knowledge and best practices to satisfy compliance requirements on a global basis by enabling a Knowledge Driven Automation Business Process Improvement Initiative.

Commonization and Re-Use

Every time automotive companies choose to create a new part they must revalidate the design for compliance. Learn how an integrated PLM platform can help you re-use pre-validated designs by enabling a Commonization & Re-use Business Process Improvement Initiative.

Enterprise Data Management

Assessing the impact on compliance of a proposed change is difficult for most automotive companies. Learn how an integrated PLM platform can help you quickly determine change impact by enabling a Change Management Business Process Improvement Initiative.