With a rapidly changing global economic climate, capital-intensive manufacturers of heavy equipment machinery face an immediate challenge that is compounded by increasing global competition. How do you ensure profitable growth in a globally competitive environment? How do you improve operational performance and reliability while meeting escalating requirements for greater productivity? How do you meet the demand for higher constant product throughput, more capacity, better quality and lower lifecycle cost? How do you build a trusted relationship with your end-users and dealer networks

Your company also faces an increasing number of new requirements, such as emissions regulations that your new products need to meet and that may need to be integrated in your current machines. Another pressing challenge involves the drastic drop in the development and manufacturing time it takes to bring machines to market. As this takes place, the basis for competition is shifting, requiring you to drive business performance through parts management and service excellence.

These factors combine to require you to continuously innovate and optimize the products that you manufacture and sell. The product development process for heavy equipment machinery is highly complex; it is a process that requires you to deliver products with higher speed and confidence, with hundreds of decision points and parallel workflows that take place in a global context. To manage this process, heavy equipment machinery manufacturers require a software-driven platform that can support a high level of complexity. Siemens PLM Software addresses this reality by providing a heavy equipment management software platform, with a collaboration backbone that helps you:

• Deliver products that meet ever-increasing requirements from customers, the market, your business, regulatory compliance and the industry
• Visualize the effect of your decisions before they are made, so that you can make informed product decisions
• Have a completely integrated view of all product data including product scope, schedule, resources and cost, enabling intelligent decision-making
• Enable globally distributed product development teams to work together
• Implement flexible manufacturing on a global scale
• Connect suppliers into your process no matter where they are located
• Optimize service execution, capture aftermarket service revenue stream, and have a closed loop with product development so that you can capture issues and ideas from the field and improve product performance

Our heavy equipment software solutions help companies like yours flourish in today’s complex business environment, enabling you to build the right product and build the product right.