Ensure that the “voice of the customer” is captured and enforced throughout the development process

In High Tech, a key pre-requisite to stay competitive is to be fast and accurate in constantly capturing customer and regulatory standards and market-driven requirements. More importantly, a unified requirements management is necessary to ensure consistent execution of requirements along downstream processes in engineering, test and validation.

Traceable Requirements Management enables global High Tech innovators to efficiently define, decompose and reuse requirements leveraging a shared environment. Only the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides unified traceability to have requirements captured, managed and fulfilled throughout the design, implementation and testing of final products.

Provide “Invisible Governance” for an agile development organization

To master increasing project complexities, High Tech innovators need to have world-class project management strategies that enable them to efficiently synchronize portfolio and product development roadmaps. At any time, they need to be able to map critical resources with the most profitable product innovations, while continuously evolving their platform strategy.

The Project & Portfolio Management solution delivered by Business Operation Excellence enables “Deliverable Based Project Management” capabilities by intrinsically connecting business and engineering assets within a global project architecture. This architecture is supported by dynamic project dashboards that provide real-time visibility on actual project status in terms of schedule, milestones, resources, costs and benefits, while avoiding governance overhead.

Meet global demands with customer configurable products

Managing the complexities of product variability and portfolio diversity in global markets is placing enormous pressure on High Tech innovators. However, a tight integration of global portfolio management with the right technology platform can help innovators master these complexities and bring tailored products to market faster and with less R&D investment.

The Product Variants & Technology Platform solution enables building generic product structures across product lines and establishing a library of standard features, helping to increase product variability by allowing products to be more easily adapted to different markets. The solution also helps High Tech companies evaluate the design feasibility of new product configurations to meet global market demands, while finding the right balance between reuse and variability.

Key Benefits :

• Facilitate portfolio and architecture definition with best-of-class configuration management
• Increase portfolio competitiveness by managing global variants on a common platform
• Accelerate adaptation to evolutions in demand and technology with customer configurable products
• Optimize return on R&D investment through re-use

Meet global demands with customer configurable products

Evolving global environmental, health and quality regulations make it necessary for High Tech Innovators to continuously adapt and extend their compliance practices. Whether RoHS (Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances), WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment), REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals) or ISO 26262, global regulatory mandates are generating significant risks and overhead for High Tech companies.

The Compliance Management solution enables High Tech companies to induce “Design for Compliance” as an integral part of the product development process. It provides centralized access to and analysis of material data and regulatory information throughout a product’s lifecycle, from design to disposal, and automates declaration processes. As a result, High Tech companies can more easily achieve multi-market compliance and reduce the risk of penalties, launch delays, recalls, poor customer satisfaction and a damaged public image.

Optimize global sourcing through effective component selection

In building global sourcing ecosystems to address pressure on operating margins and support “Design Anywhere, Manufacture Anywhere” strategies, High Tech innovators frequently encounter increased supply chain complexity, higher compliance risks, and a costly proliferation of components and suppliers.

The Component Supplier Management solution places global High Tech innovators back in the driver’s seat. It enables component selection strategies that maximize agility while minimizing component supply costs and complexity. It supports global standards and processes to ensure selection strategies are executed consistently, component re-use is maximized, and the right time/quality/price balance is adopted to achieve optimal economies of scale.

BOM synchronization from As-Designed to As-Built/Serviced

Globally dispersed High Tech / Electronic organizations need access to Bill of Materials and other information related to product development activities to facilitates real-time collaboration among all engineering disciplines.

The Cross-Functional Bill of Materials (BOM) Management solution enables High Tech organizations to handle Bill of Material management across the product lifecycle – from as-Designed to as-Manufactured, as-Planned, and all the way to as-Built and Serviced stages.