The Importance of Comprehensive Product Data Governance

• Escalating Product Complexity: Product complexity continues to increase across all aspects of mechanical, electrical, and electronic subsystems, embedded software, and cloud-based software systems, providing more data and improving product usage understanding.
• Narrow Domain Expertise: Companies developing products generally do not have a good understanding of systems of systems processes across domains—they tend to specialize in one aspect. They rarely consider measurements from product use as a source for incremental improvements.
• Challenges in Mastering Systems of Systems: Managing systems of systems is far more daunting than handling individual products. Yet, for those who master it, the rewards include a formidable competitive edge. Achieving this mastery hinges on robust product data governance practices.
• Increasing Strain on Digital Solutions: Today’s digital solutions must handle many more types of processes and data, with essential links among those aspects (subsystem domains, the required engineering disciplines, and measurements from the product in use).

• Navigate Product Complexity: Understand why the complexities of today’s product systems are forcing changes in strategies for using PDM with ALM to achieve Comprehensive Product Data Governance.
• Achieve Seamless Integration: Historically, PDM stored mechanical CAD and drawings (including wiring schematics). ALM manages software content and often requirements. These and the other product data management solutions must work seamlessly together. Discover how SysLM’s Team Data Management and Process and Product Backbone can provide a cohesive architecture for integrating all xLMs across the entire product lifecycle.
• Extend Governance Across the Lifecycle: Gain insights into why it’s essential to expand Comprehensive Product Data Governance beyond design and manufacturing, ensuring consistent control and governance across the entire product lifecycle.

Attendees can come from every part of the organization since systems have cross-functional impacts on product design, manufacturing, service, and other downstream product processes, and product operations. People from multiple levels will find the information pertinent and valuable: senior and middle managers, development engineers, operations and customer service, IT—anyone enabling or impacted by how an organization adopts new digital strategies to support product programs.