Increase the innovation capacity of your company for new product introductions by getting maximum value out of existing components and processes. Be able to re-use information on an ad hoc basis and as part of a proactive strategy focused on commonizing platforms, standardizing parts and designing modular systems. Today’s leading manufacturing companies are focused on achieving proactive commonization of product portfolios, efficient capture and preparation of reusable content for down stream re-use, productive access to globally distributed information, and synchronized re-use across the extended enterprise. UGS’ Product Lifecycle Management solutions enable strategic commonization & re-use by providing the ‘digital product platform’ for in-process content re-use and capture, including knowledge-enabled frameworks, global in-context search, and an integrated re-use and capture environment.