CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
19 April 2007
Product News
Apriso Announces FlexNet Integration with PLM
Apriso Corporation announced availability of real-time integration between PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and Apriso's FlexNet®. By combining FlexNet's Business Integrator, Global Process Manager and Quality Execution with Advanced SPC capabilities, it is possible to establish a closed-loop synchronized relationship between development and operations, helping manufacturers to achieve shorter development lifecycles, higher quality production and faster 'time to volume' and 'time to global market' metrics.
New Product Introductions (NPI) can be a costly and time consuming endeavor, especially for those manufacturers with distributed, global product development and operations. By integrating Product Lifecycle Management with Manufacturing Operations Execution, it is possible to condense the timeframe required for NPI. This process compression is achieved by implementing platform to platform communications between PLM and Apriso's FlexNet for an efficient transfer of knowledge and data between product design and production.
Manufacturing processes have grown increasingly complex due to global production, international regulatory requirements and continuous improvement and quality initiatives, such as Lean, TQM and Six Sigma. A successful approach to reducing this complexity may be achieved by integrating FlexNet with PLM to create a combined MES-PLM platform with global business process authoring capabilities, easily adapted for integration across all areas of manufacturing.
FlexNet Advanced Statistical Process Control (SPC) integrates complex analytics calculations into production, engineering and Quality processes, while providing the results within a single platform to achieve quality assurance program objectives. No longer is it necessary to support multiple 'silo' programs, each designed for a specific task, often lacking real-time data transfer between systems, contributing to further complexity surrounding the launch or update of a production line.
Creating an integrated platform between PLM and operations execution shortens the product lifecycle by reducing time spent transferring operations results to product design and engineering. This process consolidation ultimately reduces the critical "Time to Volume" and "Time to Global Market" performance metrics.
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