Data and Database Management Software
PLM Software facilitates collaboration across value chain.
Press Release Summary:
IBM/Dassault Systemes (IBM/DS) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) v5.16 optimizes end-to-end product development process by managing relationships between products and their manufacturing processes and resources. In addition to allowing engineers to validate products in real time, it lets users capture, share, and reuse company-specific knowledge to improve decision-making, optimize product designs, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize product standardization and quality.
Original Press Release:
PLM Solutions V5.16 - Empower Your Innovation Network
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions help you expand your revenue streams with innovative products that meet or anticipate customer demands. They increase the speed and agility of your product development while reducing risk.
V5.16 allows you to:
Collaborate across the value chain and work as one with your customers and business partners to develop industry-leading products.
Optimize the end-to-end product development process to reach the market at the ideal time with products that customers demand.
Manage the relationships between products and their manufacturing processes and resources - helping you master product development complexity and increase understanding.
Capture, share and reuse your company-specific know-how to improve decision-making, optimize product designs, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize product standardization and quality.
Utilize the openness of PLM Solutions to leverage your existing investments and to extract and share information across your extended enterprise.
Overview
Collaborate across the value chain: Using IBM/Dassault Systemes (IBM/DS) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), you and your partners can work as one in a mutual product development environment. You can foster collective creativity and minimize costly engineering and manufacturing changes - all while protecting your intellectual assets.
V5.16 extends relational design throughout the value chain by improving exchange and reconciliation of product definition and manufacturing data, including analysis results and manufacturing process plans. Additionally, V5.16 expands the 3D XML format by embedding 3D information such as annotations, animations, sections, and measurements.
Streamline processes to accelerate innovation: IBM/DS PLM helps you to optimize participation of all disciplines in the end-to-end product development process. You can drive innovation within your company to reach the market at the ideal time with products that your customers demand.
V5.16 strengthens virtual product simulation, including finite element analysis assembly. Engineers can validate products in real time, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone data translations, and facilitating rapid design iterations.
V5.16 further extends PLM within the enterprise by delivering valid engineering product configurations to sales and marketing.
Optimize product development and production processes: IBM/DS PLM manages the relationships between products and their manufacturing processes and resources. You can master product development complexity and increase understanding with on demand propagation of design decisions to all affected stakeholders.
V5.16 further integrates the engineering and manufacturing disciplines by ensuring that requirements such as tolerancing can be shared between design and manufacturing - without translations. Additionally, VPM Navigator expands beyond design to access enterprise information, enhancing decision-making based on corporate knowledge.
Capture, protect, and re-use intellectual property: IBM/DS PLM applications not only have industry process knowledge built-in, but can capture, share and reuse your company-specific know-how. This helps you improve decision-making, optimize product designs, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize product standardization and quality.
In V5.16, Business Knowledge Templates promote reuse of company business process knowledge and increase productivity in design generation.
Extend the reach of PLM: IBM/DS PLM solutions are built on standards, are open for extension by customers and software development partners, are easy to customize, and easily integrate with your enterprise applications. The solutions help you extract and share information across your extended enterprise.
V5.16 increases support for enterprise integration and interoperability by extending 64-bit support to Windows(TM), by leveraging the openness of Web services, and by improving SMARTEAM interoperability with multi-CAD environments.
Planned availability date
December 2, 2005
