Product Lifecycle Management technology is nothing new but analysts and vendors claim 2011 has brought a tipping point to its importance as an enterprise asset. Here, Jim Hepplemann CEO of leading PLM provider, Parametric Technology Corp explains why.
The context Modern manufacturing has succeeded in delivering levels of quality, safety and sheer variety that would have been inconceivable to the enterprise owner of even 20 years ago. The “flattening” of the manufacturing world, to borrow a phrase from Thomas Friedman, has availed today’s manufacturer of versatile new labor pools, expanded sources of raw…
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