Product Lifecycle Management [PLM]

Deliver on the promise of innovation.

SoftExpert PLM Suite provides the necessary requirements

and capabilities skills companies need to successfully

manage information and facilitate communication and

collaboration across throughout the entire product lifecycle,

from its conception, through to design and manufacturinge, to

service and final disposal. In addition, SoftExpert PLM Suite

also helps manufacturing engineering companies to develop,

describe, manage and communicate product-related

information about their products (PDM).

SoftExpert PLM Suite provides a centralized product

development database which that helps companies eliminate

effort duplication by maintaining other product information

such as costs, characteristics, specifications and

development status in a single place.

SoftExpert PLM Suite also helps enforce ensure consistent

product development procedures and policies, eliminating

confusion and lost time working "against" the process. With an

integrated workflow system, SoftExpert PLM Suite allows

organizations to easily determine where a process is held

upbottlenecks. And, by providing a complete audit trail for

changes, companies can also save time when searching to

find what data was changed, by whom, when and why.

Some The following are some of the benefits organizations

may can expect with SoftExpert PLM Suite include:

• Reduced engineer cycles through re-use of master data;

• Reduced rework and waste;

• Improved product quality;

• Reduced time- to- market;

• Gain onImproved processes conformity;

• Improved Boosted productivity;

• Better use of equipment assets.

By adopting SoftExpert PLM Suite as their PLM

solution, organizations can be resthave the

guarantee assured that their products will be

aligned with their business strategy, which will

help them to managefacilitating the

management of the complex challenges

associated with bringing new products to

market.

Most importantly, SoftExpert PLM Suite

enables allows organizations to improve

overall quality and reduce the costs and risks

associated with a growing number of

regulatory compliance and corporate

governance processes, such as those related to

the ISO 9000 Quality Guidelines, Sarbanes-Oxley,

FDA 21CFR Part 11 - Electronic Record

BookkKeeping, Good Manufacturing Practices and

OSHA Regulations, and among others.

Portfolio Management

•Capture, classify and evaluate all sources of

demand so managers can appropriately prioritize

work and allocate resources to the highest value

opportunities.

•Identify strategic decisions criteria, defining

business objectives.

•Formalize and drive proposal submission and

assessment processes, preventing incompletev

information and manual hand-offs, and

accelerating the decision-making process.

•Produce a sound business case by capturing all of

the expected estimated and actual financial values

of the initiative, within different scenarios.

•Use Scorecards to aAssess how well a new

proposal is aligned withto the business goals using

scorecards.

•Analyze company's product portfolio of products

along multiple dimensions using a variety of chart

types.

•Compose the organization's portfolio based on

business objectives, risks and other criteria.

Product Data Management (PDM)

•Capture complete item specifications, including

any number of custom attributes and quality control

characteristics.

•Capture all critical BOM (Bill of Materials), multiple

levels of the product structure, and completeand

complete product assembly and subassemblyies

data in a revision-controlled product structure.

•Import item file and data, assembly relationship

data (product structure) and quality control

dimensions directly from through SolidWorks, Solid

Edge and other CAD Solutions.

•Manage and secure thesecure CADthe designCAD

objectsdesign objects (assemblies, parts,

drawings, etc.), track engineering changes, and

maintain the appropriate relationships between the

CAD design objects and the PLM's product

structure.

•Send automatic notifications any time an with every

new item, BOM or document is versioned.

•Easily identify changes between the revisions of an assembly and subassemblies related to a specific item.

•Easily view affected assemblies for items added to a change order, and mitigate blind revisioning by notifying sub-s users

that a changes to an item will affect parent assemblies.

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Quality Management

•Anticipate and minimize poor performance or

unexpected failures, and, identify corrective actions to

ensure the highest possible yield, quality, and

reliability through an advanced FMEA tool.

•Ensure customer satisfaction by assuring product and

process consistency through Statistical Process and

Quality Control applications.

•Assess the quality of a measurement system through

the utilization of a set of procedures, statistical

methods and metrics that estimate and evaluate the

statistical properties of the system.

•Facilitate the communication with everyone involved

with in the process of product quality planning process

in order to focusing resources on customer

satisfaction, early identification of required changes,

and ensuring quality products delivered on time and at the lowest possible cost.

•Measure supplier quality, delivery, service performance, as well as incoming/outgoing inspection of goods across

company's entire manufacturing process.

•See View all of company's non-conformances conformities in one standard location, including. Eeverything from

customer complaints to internal audit findings, supplier issues to warranty returns, organizing all issues and helping

quality managers take corrective actions.

Project Management

•Describe, qualify, quantify, estimate, and track

everything from the project scope statement to the

project acceptance criteria.

•Plan key tasks, stages or phases separated by gate

reviews or other key milestones, use Work

Breakdown Structure (WBS) hierarchies,

estimates, dependencies, and deliverables, and

staff assignments. All project resource and cost

accounting activities are fully integrated, allowing

for seamless management throughout the project

life cycle.

•Resource management tools help managers

quickly find not only resources availability, but also

how well they match the skills and competencies

required. Resources can beare not only people, but

can also be machines, tools, manufacturing

equipment, etc.

•Timesheets allow team members to record their time and resource usage on the projects and incidents to which they are

assigned. Once a timesheet is submitted, managers review it for accuracy and completeness before approving it.

•Record non-conformities, complaints, improvement opportunities, and preventive or corrective actions associated withon

new product development.

•Use electronic forms to eEasily collaborate with suppliers, customers, consultants and other external third parties involved

in the product development process through electronic forms.

Process Management

•Manage enterprise business processes and

workflows.

•Automate all steps of the business process

lifecycle, from modeling and publishing to

execution and control, combining the tools to

effectively create, manage, optimize and

improve processes.

•Provide process participants with the

information and tools they need to stay informed

and complete their work faster and more

accurately.

•Use sSmart forms to pre-populate key

information, perform input validations and,

support digital signatures, and moreamong

other tasks.

•Allow administrators to monitor process

instances in real time and react to problems as

they occur.

•Record non-conformities and preventive /

corrective actions related to processes and

activityies instances. Provides several quality

tools, such as Ishikawa, The 5 Whys, and

Pareto.

Document Management

•Organize files into user-defined

categories that make it easy to identify

and group related documents.

•Associate an unlimited number of

documents with one or more items,

BOM, suppliers, requests, and

changes.

•Ensure the accurate updating [check-

in / check-out] of shared documents in

a collaborative environment.

•Track and view markup f i les

independently for each file edition.

•Find documents by performing

powerful attribute searches or by

searching associations including

items, suppliers, requests and

changes.

Service Management

•Manage planned maintenance, installation,

training and other post-sales related projects.

•Easily plan, schedule, allocate and manage

field resources.

•Guarantee uUniform, centralized process for

the receipt, processing and tracking of

cus tomer requests , compla in ts and

suggestions.

•Handle incidents safely securely and quickly

while providing continuity ofcontinuously

providing service to users and customers,

assuring guaranteeing that their business

processes are not affectedimpacted.

•Address the causes of the incidents which that

pose the greatest risk and focus on reducing

incidents and their impact on the organization's

operations.

•Know Realize how well customers perceive a

company's product and services, and glean

capture ideas from them about how better this

company can better meet their needs through

customer satisfaction surveys.

Supplier Management

•Centrally manage identification and

account information for all suppliers and

manufacturers, including company data

and unlimited key contacts.

•Track full supplier and manufacturer part

specifications, including number, name

and custom attributes.

•Track whether components are

purchased off-the-shelf as a commodity

product or made to your custom

specificationsorder.

•Track, store and associate manufacturing

documentation in a single centralized

location, such as datasheets, compliance

documentation and application notes in a

single centralized location.

•View BOM identifying to identify all

manufacturersthe manufacturers and

suppliers for all sourced items.

•Automatically notify suppliers any time

one of their parts is affected by an change

order change, and selectively include them

in collaborative approval process

workflows.

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