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PLM Transformation

Transformation: Consulting for Industrial Organizations
CIMdata's Consulting Methodology for Industrial Organizations Transforms Your Business for Competitive Advantage

Based on 40+ years of PLM consulting best practices and experience, CIMdata’s consulting methodology for industrial organizations—Transformation— supports your organization’s target of achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage. Embedded in every step and phase of PLM-related business process and technology transformations, education is at the heart of CIMdata’s consulting methodology.

Transformation - Support for Industrial Organizations

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Strategy Development

The development of a consistent, well-thought-out, and executed PLM strategy is critical. CIMdata delivers on this because of its extensive experience with industrial organizations around the world. The strategy is not about deploying technologies, but rather about clarifying internal and external collaboration and robust decision-making processes and capabilities needed to achieve the business objectives as the first step.


Solution Definition

CIMdata’s consulting methodology for industrial organizations includes several customized activities that support the development of a detailed PLM solution definition based upon a client’s specific PLM strategy.

CIMdata takes a business-centric approach to ensure that business needs are met with the most appropriate combination of PLM-enabled business processes to support the client’s needs.

CIMdata deploys best-practice oriented tools, such as PLM-focused technology and process maturity models, and a benefits-appraisal model to help define the solution.


Solution Evaluation & Selection

CIMdata’s extensive understanding of commercially available PLM solutions dramatically reduces the time needed to evaluate and select the most appropriate solutions.

CIMdata’s evaluation and selection approach helps a company focus on the business and technical issues that are most critical for achieving its PLM strategy and vision.

By leveraging CIMdata’s knowledge of the available solutions and a client’s specific requirements, we can provide a short-list of appropriate solutions.

CIMdata’s comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP)/Request for Quotation (RFQ) template has been proven to transform business requirements into technical requirements.

This list of three to six solutions is then evaluated with the help of technical and business-oriented templates and associated methodologies.

CIMdata helps facilitate final selection by making sure all strengths and weaknesses are measured and considered, so the best business solutions are recommended.


Implementation Planning

After selecting the appropriate PLM-enabling solutions, CIMdata’s support continues throughout the implementation-planning phase of a PLM/digital transformation project.

We offer best-practice support in implementation rollout, statement-of-work development, contract negotiation, implementation team structuring, “to-be” process definition, systems definition, cultural/organizational change management, and training, to name a few.

Our best practices cover PLM-related business processes, such as configuration management, engineering change, data modeling, and classification schema development.


Implementation Support

CIMdata’s implementation support services are extensive.

CIMdata is an independent and unbiased PLM management consulting firm and can provide strategic implementation consultants and program managers who always place the client’s interests first.


Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

CIMdata provides a robust set of services designed to maximize each client’s ability to gain the most advantage from their PLM solution.

CIMdata leverages a set of assessment techniques and other best-practice experiences to identify areas requiring improvement and then recommends roadmaps to move forward.

CIMdata’s extensive PLM industry experience plays a vital role during this PLM project phase. Our consultants, who each average more than thirty years of experience in the PLM business, leverage their knowledge of hundreds of PLM implementations in numerous countries, companies, and industries to help our clients succeed.

CIMdata takes a practical approach, ensuring that our clients not only know where improvement is required but also the recommended course of action.


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