Agile Product Lifecycle Management and Engineering Change Management

Introduce agility into the management and optimization of your products' lifecycle and change processes (such as ECRs and ECOs). Increase process collaboration and visibility while reducing cycle times and time-to-market.

As the complexities of products and engineering organizations are constantly rising, the approach of simplifying and standardizing processes and managing them with first-generation workflow automation tools has reached its limits. Directly specifying all possible process configurations and reconfigurations is not only slow and costly, but often impossible. The consequences are ill-fitting processes and soaring process development and improvement costs.

A PLM or ECM solution with the Living Systems Process Suite delivers more agility in two key areas: process design and process execution. A goal-oriented process model can be changed whenever it becomes necessary, for instance to adapt to new regulations. Goal-oriented process execution also means that the process management system autonomously adapts the process path whenever it benefits the achievement of process goals. Individual ECRs, for instance, can be treated in a customized manner to adapt to resource availability, strategic priorities, etc.

Since goal-oriented process models are intuitive to read and understand, they also build a strong foundation for a real-time Engineering Management Information System (MIS) to check on cycle times or identify areas of quick wins for process improvements, such as bottlenecks.

Benefits

• Align process metrics with business goals. Factor the bigger picture into the process' DNA with goal-oriented BPM which lets you model a process that strives to fulfill its objectives in variable conditions.
• Reduce manual efforts. Goal-oriented processes automate the composition and execution of the process path to limit the amount of human intervention.
• Get real-time actionability. Make and immediately deploy process improvements in-flight when the necessity or opportunity arises.
• Reconcile business goals and regulations. Goal-oriented processes use software agents to autonomously optimize the achievement of process goals while always respecting the modeled boundary conditions.
• Seamlessly integrate external systems and services. Set-up goal-oriented processes to coordinate among each other or to leverage existing applications and services within one dynamically generated user interface.