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Siemens PLM Software has announced the expansion of its Fast Track to PLM educational seminar series for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses), which aims to help manufacturers understand how to implement a commonization and reuse strategy that provides global access to reusable products and processes.
The need for reuse is the focus of a recent report issued by the Aberdeen Group (available at www.siemens.com/plm/reuse) which states that top performers are more likely to dedicate resources to simplify and verify designs for reuse. More than 70 percent of these performers integrate the preparation and verification of designs for reuse in the design phase. In addition, top performers are twice as likely to track the amount of time required to change existing designs into new ones.
Siemens PLM Software Fast Track to PLM seminars
(see www.siemens.com/plm/smb) highlight how best-in-class companies can address commonization and reuse through PLM to:
• Enable and automate proactive commonization
• Prepare CAD models for reuse
• Provide global centralized data access across the value chain
• Integrate cross functional teams in one standard platform
“Many manufacturers find that commonization and reuse gives them the ability to reduce costs, improve quality and bring products to market at a faster pace,” said Bruce Boes, Vice President, Velocity Series Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “Making key data readily available for reuse provides efficiencies in design, manufacturing, testing and compliance. Engineers can quickly search part libraries, make minor changes to fit new product designs and automatically test for manufacturability.”
