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PLM Personalized
22 Jul, 2010 By: Nancy Spurling JohnsonModular 360 Enterprise lets companies build a solution to suit unique product-development needs.
Like the younger sibling of a star athlete or a class clown, product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions often have to overcome the reputation of those that came before. Specifically, older PLM solutions were thought by many to be technology overkill, expensive, or too challenging to implement. The new kids on the block, however, are challenging that notion by offering modular and scalable functionality, more affordable pricing, and improved ease of use. One such solution — and possibly the newest — is 360 Enterprise Software.
When it came out of the gate last year, 360 Enterprise was christened PLM360. But as its developers began to introduce the enterprise solution to potential customers, they found that a name focused on "product lifecycle" was limiting and sometimes confusing. General manager Morty Smolash explained, "We elected to change the name to 360 Enterprise because we were not conveying the true ability of the software. We’re saying engineering does not live by itself. For PLM to be meaningful, vital data must be utilized across departments."
360 Enterprise is an offshoot of Montreal-based Mecanica Solutions, a company that has been providing engineering services and technology — including research and development, engineering services, PLM solutions, and other engineering software — to the aerospace, automotive, and AEC (architecture/engineering/construction) industries for 30 years.
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360 Enterprise can work in an environment with any CAD solution or solutions and promises many of the benefits that are common among PLM solutions on the market today:
- improved on-time and on-budget project performance
- improved time to market
- minimized design errors and recalls
- consistent capture and reuse of best practices
- improved productivity and collaboration
- overall increased efficiency, reduced costs, and improved profits
Like many PLM systems today, 360 Enterprise is designed to facilitate communication, workflows, and document management among all parties in a company who contribute to the product-development process.
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About the Author: Nancy Spurling Johnson
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