PLM Tech Talk Blog
In the previous posts regarding PLM ROI ( Part 1, and Part 2, we introduced the hierarchy of strategic objectives, business targets and business costs. Examples were provided of all these categories. In this post, lets look at some examples of how to calculate business costs and how savings can be derived from these. We will look at two examples:
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In our previous blog post Does PLM Pay? Part 1, we set the stage for calculating PLM return on investment and defined the hierarchy of Strategic Objectives, Business Targets and Business Costs. Lets look at an example of this hierarchy: The strategic objective is reducing time to market. The example shows two ways this can be done: Improving your bid
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Here is a scenario familiar to many PLM professionals:- a project is initiated to implement or enhance a PLM system within an organization. All the participants are excited and everybody can clearly see the benefits to processes, collaboration and data security. All the pieces are in place; pricing, implementation schedule, software requirements, training plan – down to the last detail. The
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In the last several years, there hasn’t been a lot of ground-breaking additions to most 3D CAD software. One of the more recent Autodesk Inventor developments in the last couple years has been the addition of the “Direct Edit” tool. This recent addition can be used to edit models independently of any feature history. This means you can edit models that
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