PLM and ERP Drive Digitalization
A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with John MacKrell, Chairman, CIMdata
January 9 2020
11:00 EST | 08:00 PST | 17:00 CEST
Do any of the following statements sound a little too familiar?
- Our product information is not managed throughout the lifecycle—as a tangible, valuable asset.
- Digitalization is difficult to achieve since our data tends to be scattered, dirty, and inconsistently available.
- Our digitalization efforts are often broken by the product development.
- Implementing PLM and ERP without a full understanding of how each impacts my organization’s ever-evolving strategy breaks the digital thread.
- Digitalization breaks down when data is always being re-keyed.
- Rework is aggravated by slow processes and errors.
In the drive to digitalize a broad-based view is needed. Too often companies look at their issues from the perspective of siloes of information creation and use. This approach creates an environment in which it is difficult to understand what information has to flow from the conception of a product until that product reaches its end of life—each lifecycle stage is considered in isolation with critical information being handed over a virtual wall to the practitioners in the next lifecycle stage. A digital thread of lifecycle information that supports digital twins is critical to delivering and supporting today’s increasingly complex and customized products. This webinar will present insights into how to organize data and process flows to support digitalization and help organizations increase product success.
What will I learn by attending this webinar?
- You will gain an understanding about how optimizing the roles of PLM and ERP in digitalization can solve real business issues—cost, quality, time-to-market.
- You will get a clear view of the roles of ERP and PLM along the product lifecycle—from conception through manufacturing to end of life.
- You will understand how PLM and ERP support the concept of Industry 4.0, the digital twin, and the digital thread.
- You will be able to explain how these two critical product-supporting initiatives positively impact how well companies deliver products that their customers want.
- You will learn about the benefits of adopting a formal PLM-ERP strategy that provides the information your organization needs to develop a digitalized, Industry 4.0-enabling process that leads to higher quality and profitability.
- You will be able to articulate the value of digitalization throughout a product’s life to others at your company.
Who should attend?
Regardless of where you are along the digitalization journey you will find this webinar to be timely and informative. Attendees can come from many parts of organizations—PLM is cross functional and feeds ERP, manufacturing, and other downstream processes. People from multiple levels will find the information pertinent and valuable: managers, product engineers, manufacturing planners, installation and services practitioners, IT, purchasing—anyone impacted by how an organization defines, uses, and communicates product information.
During the webinar you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.