PLM Capability & Maturity Assessment
Understand exactly how effective your PLM practices, processes and technologies are — and where the greatest improvement potential and business value lie.
Why Assess PLM Capability and Maturity
Product Lifecycle Management is an all-encompassing approach to innovation, new product development and product information management — from ideation through end of life. PLM systems act as the enabling technology, connecting people, data, processes and business systems into a single product information backbone across the extended enterprise.
The Reality in Most Organizations
Most companies have deployed a PLM system and automated a subset of their engineering and design practices. Yet serial, fragmented, manual and paper-based processes remain widespread, alongside generic tools such as personal drives, network folders, FTP, file-sharing services and spreadsheets. As a result, these organizations realize only a fraction of the value PLM can deliver and forgo substantial benefits across the product lifecycle.
How Effective Are Your Practices, Processes and Technologies?
The PLMadvisors PLM Capability & Maturity Assessment gives you a clear, evidence-based understanding of how effective your PLM practices, processes and technologies are — compared both to best-in-class organizations and to peer companies in your industry. The assessment is conducted across the capability areas of the PLMadvisors PLM Framework, spanning strategic, integration, extended and foundational capabilities.
A Clear View of Process and Technology Maturity
For every capability area in scope, we determine the current maturity of your processes and supporting technology on a five-level scale — from undefined, manual and paper-based ways of working through to closed-loop, optimized and fully integrated enterprise processes. The higher the maturity, the more effective and efficient your organization becomes in innovation and new product development, and the higher the business value realized.
Where the Value Is
Frequently, small and targeted process or technology improvements unlock disproportionate benefits. The primary goal of the assessment is to identify the capability areas with the highest improvement potential — informed by peer and best-in-class benchmarks in your industry — and to quantify the value and benefits achievable by raising maturity in some or all of those areas.
What You Receive
You receive a documented current-state maturity profile per capability area, industry and best-in-class benchmarks, a prioritized set of improvement opportunities with an appraisal of the associated value, and a pragmatic set of recommendations you can act on. The outcome is the clarity required to make confident investment decisions and to strengthen your innovation and new product development capabilities.
Highlights
- →Independent, vendor-neutral assessment across the PLMadvisors PLM Framework
- →Capability-by-capability maturity rating on a five-level scale
- →Benchmarking against peer and best-in-class companies in your industry
- →Identification of the capability areas with the highest improvement potential
- →Appraisal of the value and benefits achievable by increasing maturity
- →Prioritized, actionable recommendations to guide investment decisions
Schedule an Assessment for Your Organization
Tell us about your organization and we will outline the scope, approach and timeline of an assessment tailored to your business.
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