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Razorleaf is a consulting & systems integrator that specializes in product lifecycle management (PLM) to help the world’s most innovative manufacturing organizations bring new products to market. Led by a highly skilled and seasoned team of experts worldwide, Razorleaf transforms businesses by offering comprehensive consulting, professional services, and proprietary software products focused on gaining business efficiencies around PLM, Design Automation, Model-Based strategies, and Integration.

CLOVER: An Advanced Digital Thread Platform

The Digital Thread: A Key Enabler for PLM Success

Razorleaf: Making Complex Digital Transformations Work

Products

The CLOVER platform is a family of products that enable the exchange of product information across your organization, partners, and suppliers. This vendor-neutral platform can integrate, migrate, and exchange product data across any application, database, and enterprise system, whether on-premise or in the Cloud.

• CLOVER CollectIT allows users to extract and package PLM files and data for use outside of PLM. This easy-to-use file management website quickly extracts product information for distribution to employees, vendors, and clients, including part and BOM representations, related CAD files, and technical documents. CollectIT automates the manual extraction process for creating Bid Packages, Product Specifications, End Item Data Packages (EIDPs), and Technical Data Packages (TDPs) to simplify data and file extraction processes, reduce costs, and improve productivity.
• CLOVER IntegrateIT enables PLM connections to enterprise systems for a smarter, more reliable data exchange. IntegrateIT provides multiple out-of-the-box PLM end-point integrations that simplify the way files and data synchronize between PLM and PDM, ERP, CRM, MRP, and other enterprise systems. With IntegrateIT, product data and information are delivered to every area of the organization to ensure data accuracy, reduce implementation costs, and mitigate risks by providing access to the most current data set.
• CLOVER MigrateIT enables the bulk transfer of files and data between PLM and other enterprise systems quickly and with less effort than Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) or generic Extract/ Transform/Load (ETL) tools. MigrateIT uses the CLOVER migration architecture for environment preparedness, data analysis, and pre-migration rehearsal, along with batch processing, job orchestration, and error handling. In addition, this software can orchestrate migration efforts to ensure a more flexible and accurate data transfer process.
• CLOVER PassIT provides an interface between messaging platforms and PLM systems. PassIT distributes only the required files and data to other systems based upon what is needed and previously defined in the iPaaS APIs. Perform complex data transformations, file rendition creation, product revision selection, and other process-oriented logic without changing the existing iPaaS implementation or requiring complex API changes. PassIT maximizes investment to boost end-point performance and free the service bus from complex operations.

Services

• Design Automation - Engineers, sales teams, distributors, and customers may design, engineer, and configure to order on any device. Experienced consultants offer various services to automate the creation of order-specific sales documents, part and assembly drawings, and models, and manufacturing data to reduce repetitive tasks, eliminate errors, increase sales, and deliver custom products.
• Digital Thread MBE Maturity Assessment - A structured interactive consulting session to help identify key integration points or process gaps required to manage the digital thread and/or MBE throughout the client’s organization. Razorleaf identifies the focus areas for investigation and provides a detailed report summarizing the client’s digital thread and/or MBE maturity, short and long-term vision, and recommendations to improve processes and production efficiency.
• Implementation - Understand that implementation is not a one-size-fits-all approach and the need to carefully integrate and safeguard complex data sets that contain the organization’s proprietary product and customer information. Razorleaf has the knowledge and experience to perform detailed architecture planning and the experience to differentiate between “suggested requirements” and the realities of specific enterprise systems.
• Integration - Razorleaf's consultants have been defining, developing, configuring, and integrating enterprise systems for decades, including CAD, PDM, PLM, MRP, ERP, CRM, SharePoint, legacy systems, and custom applications. Razorleaf understands the critical characteristics of point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integrations. In addition, Razorleaf has developed its own proprietary integration platform called CLOVER, designed specifically to synchronize, integrate, and manage product development data processes.
• Migration - Razorleaf's project managers, developers, and consultants have been cleaning, transforming, and migrating legacy data for decades and have developed an internal set of guidelines and techniques for legacy data migration and ETL projects. Razorleaf provides expertise in migrating version history, CAD structures, and object relationships coupled with a process to identify scope, assess data quality, define transformations, plan iteration and testing models, and document success criteria.
• PLM Health Check - Interactive work sessions, role-based interviews, and system analysis to gather client’s PLM data (infrastructure, usage, processes, practices, adoption) compared to Razorleaf’s PLM best practices. Razorleaf analyzes the systems current state, identify areas of exposure, and discovers opportunities for improvement. Razorleaf provides a detailed report that summarizes recommendations to improve the health of the client’s PLM environment.
• PLM Managed Services - Eases the burden of managing a PLM environment by enabling organizations to responsibly contract out their PLM maintenance, support, and infrastructure. Razorleaf keeps PLM platforms optimized for operation, improves usability, and removes the IT burden for maintaining accurate product data. Offers flexible, scalable service level agreements (SLA) to fit both PLM environment requirements and budget – no matter what size the business, from Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) to Application Management Services (AMS).
• PLM Tool Selection - Unbiased consulting session to identify the right PLM tool for a client’s engineering data and process. Comprehensive assessment of the core requirements and priorities to support an RFP and vendor evaluation, including requirements gathering, PLM platform summary, and vendor product demonstrations. Razorleaf provides a detailed report that summarizes recommendations to help choose the right PLM system for an organization.
• PLM Road Map - A collaborative consulting session to define and analyze client’s strategy and objectives to select the right technologies and define the necessary milestones. This session identifies key stakeholders, business objectives, data, and application landscapes that link business requirements, technical constraints, and timelines. Razorleaf provides a clear, defined road map to help clients avoid the common pitfalls to achieve business goals.
• PLM POC Quick Start - Proof of Concept (POC) is necessary to validate PLM technical feasibility (technology and vendor) and analyze financial viability. It identifies the gaps, risks, and roadblocks to successful implementation. Razorleaf will create a POC for a 3DEXPERIENCE installation (1 environment): a 3-week planned-non-operation (PnO) requirements definition, out-of-the-box (OOTB) configuration, and 1-week to stage data and train team. Additional options for configuration and integrations are available to help align the client’s product development transformation.
• Consulting as a Service - A consulting and delivery model that enables clients to evolve and adjust their agreement to meet the resource and budget needs to support the progress and completion of a project. This subscription model allows clients to take advantage of volume pricing, control and predict budget, engage technical resources as needed, and maintain continuity and intellectual property of consulting resources across multiple projects to achieve product goals.
• Test Automation - Automated testing and validation software and services for enterprise business systems, including PLM, that ensure quality and compliance and guarantee successful upgrades and system updates. By automating repetitive, time-consuming tests, teams can remove bottlenecks and increase test coverage to address bugs and improve user experience. Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances and expands tests enabling companies to perform more comprehensive tests.

Razorleaf has strategic alliances with Ansys, Aras, Arena, Dassault Systemes, DriveWorks, Infor, Microsoft, OpenBom, and more. Razorleaf works closely with partners to enable clients to solve their most complex problems and extend the PLM ecosystem to drive digital transformation. Our clients include Arjo, Atlas Copco, Blue Bird, BWI, Flexco, LAIRD, L&M Radiator, Novares, Oceaneering, ORBIS, Parata, Stone Aerospace, ST Engineering.

With over two decades of experience in PLM services, end-to-end capabilities across the product lifecycle, solutions and offerings across the value chain, and best-in-class partner ecosystem, HCL is uniquely positioned to enable enterprises to realize their digital vision through our Digital Design and Innovation Services

Accelerating Digital Engineering via System Architecture Integration

Digital Fabric for the Extended Enterprise

HCLTech's xLMCloud: Accelerating Digital Transformation

Accelerating Innovation in Embedded Systems by Adopting DevOps

HCL DFMPro: A Critical Digital Transformation Element

HCL Enabling Digital Engineering for the Next Decade, Today - 2020 HCL Analyst & Advisor Day

HCL’s 1PLMCloud: Transforming PLM for the Next Normal

HCL’s Secure by Design Approach Accelerates Organizations’ Digital Transformation

Speeding Your Digital Transformation Journey (eBook)

HCL’s DFX Insights’19

HCL Enables After Sales Monetization through Digital Thread

Glovius: A Modern CAD Viewer

HCL's DFx Insights '18

Introducing HCL’s GeometricPLM—Empowering the Digital Ecosystem

GeometricEDGE—Enabling Secure Data Exchange for Global Collaboration

Geometric’s PLM+ Methodology Enhances PLM Business Value

Geometric Brings Knowledge-Based CAM Software to Solid Edge

Consulting & System Integration Services and Managed Services for core engineering applications and processes delivered on industry-leading platforms across:

• Product Lifecycle Management - Empowering digital enterprises of the future to develop best-in-class PLM strategies through consulting, implementation, consolidation, integration, and migration services.
• Systems Engineering – Facilitating integrated development of complex, multi-disciplinary products through consulting, implementation, and data integration services.
• Software Lifecycle Management - Powering Industry 4.0 Smart Connected Products with Enterprise-grade ALM & DevOps for Embedded Strategies through Consulting, Cloudification, Implementation, Customization, Integration & Adoption Services.
• Service Lifecycle Management - Enabling digital solutions to improve end customer experience with timely and efficient product services.
• Digital Thread and Digital Twin - Establishing enterprise-wide digital connectivity across Engineering, Manufacturing, Services, and Product Experience and enabling Digital Twins.

HCLTech PLM Solutions

• 1PLMCloud - Enable a fast, secure, and high-performance CAX and PLM environment on the cloud for enterprise users.
• MPMAccelerate - Templatized solution for Manufacturing Process Planning, Validation, and MES Integration.
• Active Tester - Configurable Test Automation framework for different PLM platforms for quick development of test automation.
• ECCO Digital Thread - Semantic-based enterprise platform to improve visibility and traceability of data by establishing the digital thread.
• ECCO DEX - Collaborative tool for integrated model-based systems engineering and multi-disciplinary product development.

HCL drives partnerships with the world’s leading technology firms to create new and differentiated IPs/Solutions to help meet new market demands and accelerate the digital journey of its clients. Key partners include Siemens Digital Industries Software, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, Aras, INFOR, Oracle, Selerant, SAP, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

CONTACT connects people, teams, and companies.

CONTACT’s mission: Energizing great minds, instead of rigid systems, we create a working environment in which employees can concentrate their skills on providing better products and services. Where collaboration runs more smoothly, processes become more efficient, and routine work becomes easier. And where a guiding framework provides both the security and freedom that allows agile interaction between individuals and teams in complex projects.

Primary Markets and Focus

Automotive & Mobility, Mechanical & Plant Engineering, Medical Engineering, Consumer Products, High-Tech & Electronics, and Logistics & Infrastructure.

Embedding Product Sustainability within PLM

Beyond MES

The Transformative Impact of SPDM: Stitching simulation data into the enterprise digital thread

The Digital Product Highway: Enabling digital threads across the product lifecycle

IoT Transforms Operations & Maintenance

Product Value Management in the Age of Disruption

CONTACT Cloud - Bringing CONTACT Elements to the Cloud

CONTACT Elements for IoT: An Operating System for Smart Business

Platforms for a Smart Connected World: CONTACT Cloud Connect 2020

CONTACT’s InSync Helps Deliver High Quality User Experiences

CONTACT Elements: A Future-Proof Digital Platform

Products

• CONTACT Elements
  Elements is the world's best platform to design and operate smart products. It combines the best open technologies and special applications with a unique user experience. Flexible like Lego^®, the modular principle of Elements stands for solutions that are much more than the sum of their parts: each impressive in its own right – combined outstanding!
• CIM Database PLM
  CIM Database is an open and highly scalable system for Product Lifecycle Management. Better collaboration and faster processes within projects and across disciplines, systems, and organizational boundaries are key benefits. CIM Database's component architecture, consisting of open technologies such as Python, core services, and comprehensive standard applications, simplifies implementation. It helps companies to react agilely to new requirements.
• Collaboration Hub
  Numerous partners such as suppliers and engineering offices contribute to product development. Users also use a wealth of engineering tools for design, validation, and data management. Processes function optimally when data is available across organizational and system boundaries. CONTACT Collaboration Hub simplifies the data flow through intelligent data sharing and supports continuous processes.
• Project Office
  Project Office makes hybrid project management, i.e., the combination of classical and agile processes, the standard. The principle: planning, control, and execution by self-organized teams work hand in hand with the same information and specifications - everywhere in a worldwide project and program organization. The advantage: better collaboration and up-to-date data at all times according to the Single Source of Truth principle for management, controlling, and project teams.
• Elements for IoT
  With CONTACT Elements for IoT, companies quickly provide solutions that intelligently evaluate the data of industrial assets using a Digital Twin. Elements is a complete platform from edge connectivity to business applications for customers on the web. Elements is ideal for creating agile solutions according to the low code principle and fulfilling comprehensive requirements for security, cloud, and multitenancy operation as well as integration into the company's IT.

Professional Services

CONTACT’s services ensure software solutions that work in the real world of day-to-day business and fully exploit the specific strengths of our customers. Clearly defined objectives ensure a reliable ROI and future market success. Learn more at https://www.contact-software.com/en/global-ecosystem/overview/

Automotive: MANN + HUMMEL, BOSAL Group
Consumer: Sennheiser electronic, ABUS August Bremicker Söhne
High Tech: Weidmüller, LPKF Laser & Electronics
Infrastructure: EWE, Transtec Gotthard
Machinery: ANDRITZ Sundwig, Enercon

For more information, visit: https://www.contact-software.com/en/industries/overview

Sample Strategic Alliances/Partnerships

IBM, IGS, ISKO, Unity, Adobe Solutions Network, Bosch India. Learn more at https://www.contact-software.com/en/global-ecosystem/overview/

Industry X helps companies deal with complex issues related to the ideation, design, launch, manufacturing, and distribution of products in as many as 20 industries. We digitize, optimize and transform clients‘ traditional R&D and engineering processes and tools, combining our deep knowledge of engineering process excellence with empowering tools. This optimization and digitization infuse AI, machine learning, AR/VR, and security to increase returns on R&D investment. With new R&D and product engineering capabilities, our clients can experience sustainable innovation, increase product development performance, and reduce costs. Industry X serves clients throughout the following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive (Mobility), Banking, Capital Markets, Chemicals, Communications & Media, Consumer Goods & Services, Energy, High-Tech, Health, Industrial, Insurance, Life Sciences, Natural Resources, Public Service, Retail, Software & Platform, Travel, US Federal Government, Utilities

Engineering and Generative AI: A Perfect Match

Accenture and PTC

Strategic Sustainability: Accenture and Siemens

Strategic Sustainability: Accenture’s approach to sustainable product engineering

Taking to the Cloud: Accenture’s Cloud-Powered Product Engineering

Accenture Develops MBSE Practice: Helping Clients Transform to Manage Growing Product Complexities

Responsible Value Chains Help Reach Sustainability Goals

Industry X.0 and Reinventing the Product: A Conversation with Accenture

Accenture’s Prescription for Driving Healthcare Disruptions

Optimizing Enterprise Operations Using Agile

Transforming Value Chains: Accenture in Retail, Footwear and Apparel

Using PLM to Simplify Business Complexity

Accenture Unveils Digital Product Development Framework: Every business is a digital business

Accenture offers comprehensive product lifecycle services – Consulting, system integration and outsourcing services, solutions and technologies customized to industries and modernized to respond competitively to the dynamic landscape. Some of these capabilities include:

• Digital Twin
• Digital Thread
• PLM (including PDM, CAD, CAE)
• End-to-End integration (ERP, ALM, MES)
• MBSE
• Artificial Intelligence
• Analytics
• Generative Design
• And more

Accenture has longstanding partnerships with all major PLM technology vendors, including Siemens Digital Industries Software, Dassault Systèmes, SAP, PTC, Oracle, Aras, and a broad ecosystem supporting Accenture Initiatives Cloud vendors AWS, Microsoft, and Google. See all of our partners here.