In today's fast growing economy, Enterprises are increasingly looking at improving their product development efficiency, there by bringing their products faster to market and create more variants. Managing the growing complexity of the products along with globally distributed design environment, results in strong demand for robust Product Lifecycle Management system.
Wipro offers comprehensive solutions across the entire product lifecycle and our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) practice enables customers to reduce product lifecycle timelines through seamless integration of people, data, processes and business systems. This practice offers full range of PLM services from Consulting, Implementation, Integration, Data Migration, Sustenance and Upgrade. Wipro has engaged with more than 45 clients across industry verticals including Automobile, Aerospace, CPG, Industrial Automation, Hi-Tech, Medical Devises and Semiconductor sector for delivering various PLM services including large End-to-End implementations. Wipro has expertise in leading PLM solutions like Teamcenter suites of products from Siemens PLM, Agile PLM from Oracle, Enovia V6/MatrixOne from Dassault Systemes, Windchill/PDMLink from PTC, ARAS Innovator from Aras, Mentor Graphics DMS and SAP PLM. Wipro has alliances with all these major PLM product vendors.
PLM Readiness Assessment
Wipro provides PLM Readiness Assessment services to check the willingness of an organization to implement PLM to improve its product management capabilities. We offer services to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of existing IT investments, systems and processes used during product lifecycle. The assessment report generated highlights the following areas:
- PLM investments and ROI
- Organizational Change Management Requirements
- Applications consolidation through PLM
PLM Strategy & Roadmap
Since PLM implementation is an enterprise-wide strategic initiative, proper prioritization of the processes targeted for implementation can accelerate ROI realizations. Wipro helps customers create their PLM strategies by identifying the key pain areas in the current processes and the roadmap to be adopted for effective PLM adoption. We help establish KPIs to measure the improvements in the processes in terms of profitability, time-to-market and product costs. Our consultants provide the complete roadmap of PLM implementation with timelines and milestones for the customers to track effectively.
PLM Solution Evaluation
Most customers face difficulty in identifying the right PLM product for their business needs without incurring significant costs for implementation. Wipro uses its well-tested product evaluation methodology to evaluate product capability to meet business requirements in various aspects such as scalability, availability of support, cost considerations etc. Each product is ranked on each parameter and the final recommendations are made considering the current as well as the future needs of the organization. We also help customers in preparing RFQ, floating it to short-listed vendors and evaluating the RFQ responses.
Accelerated PLM Solution Implementation & Rollout
Most of the PLM implementations run into multi-year projects due to various issues. Wipro adopts its successful PLM implementation cookbook methodology, which provides continuous RoIs for customers. In the first phase, we implement the key process areas and gain maximum benefit. This helps the end users like designers, product managers and top management adapt to the new system. Subsequent phases target other business units and processes thereby improving the enterprise capability to manage product lifecycle. By the end of the final phase, all the product lines and business units would be on board.
PLM Migration
Most often, the PLM solution rollout is not complete until data stored in the legacy systems has been migrated to PLM. In addition to data migration, Wipro also provides services to help customers to migrate from an older version of the PLM to a newer version, without loss of integrity in the data or the loss of functionalities.
PLM Performance Assessment & Enhancements
As with any IT solution, PLM applications also face the issue of performance degradation. Wipro provides consulting services on assessing the performance of the PLM implementation, identifying the root cause for the performance degradation and providing recommendations. Performance of a PLM application degrades over a period due to accumulation of redundant information and phantom objects, bad non-scalable algorithms, incorrect database and application server tuning parameters, networking and hardware issues. Wipro has tools and utilities to assess the performance and provide recommendations accordingly.
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