Siemens PLM Software offers a full line of solutions to manage your consumer and over-the-counter (OTC) product development lifecycle:

Plan
Project planning for consumer and OTC products is difficult, and making best use of resources is key to growth. Limited resources like people, time and money are a company’s greatest assets and investment strategy must be based on metrics to support agile decision-making. The traditional budgeting process can consume management’s time. Ongoing visibility with a powerful product lifecycle management (PLM) solution is vital to success in this complex industry.

Siemens PLM Software’s solutions for portfolio, program and project management give you a way to compare return on investment (ROI), cost, resources and project schedules so you can make informed decisions, keep track of projects and compare them against plans.

Develop
Consumer and OTC products vary widely, from bandages to knee braces. Each product requires attention to detail to ensure the highest quality design and customer satisfaction. Product line complexity adds to the need for an over-the-counter product development solution that is integrated, proven and powerful.

Siemens PLM Software is the industry leader in industrial design and digital simulation. Synchronous technology, found in NX and Solid Edge, is a history-free modeling tool that can save companies time and resources.

Digital simulation is also the key to reducing risk and ensuring consumer and OTC product requirements. Siemens PLM Software offers a completely integrated environment for simulation modeling and analysis in concert with simulation data and process management. You can incorporate simulation much earlier into the product development lifecycle to alleviate the bottleneck that often occurs later in the development cycle.

Detailed computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis requires highly specialized engineers, who are in short supply at most consumer and OTC product manufacturers. Simulation-driven design empowers designers to simulate the basic behaviors of their components and assemblies for immediate feedback as they are being developed. Behaviors designers can analyze are:

• Structural strength and durability
• Vibration
• Buckling
• Therlma
• Dynamic motion
• Flow/computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Simulation gives designers confidence that they are delivering a more robust part to the engineering team for detailed analysis, resulting in fewer iterations between CAE analysts and the design team. This allows you to deliver your products to market faster.

Manage
Managing product knowledge and compliance processes is core to the success of consumer and OTC product companies. The ability to effectively re-use knowledge and manage processes gives companies a competitive advantage. It also reduces risk, ensures successful supplier collaboration, and increases product development success. A strong and flexible PLM backbone is vital to managing product knowledge.

Siemens PLM Software offers an end-to-end PLM solution to manage everything from product knowledge, collaboration between teams and regulatory documentation. Our proven, flexible and open solutions allow companies to synchronize efforts, improve productivity and increase innovation.