White Papers

This buyer's guide comes loaded with key considerations, common pitfalls to avoid and practical questions every business should ask when choosing a test automation solution.

This white paper will show the unique value provided by a PLM system with embedded project management to successfully execute product development projects.

Although access to simulation tools and their high-performance computing requirements has always been limited, the greater barrier to mainstream use of simulation has been the failure of existing simulation process and data management (SPDM) tools. This paper proposes a platform-based approach, guided by key tenets, to create a sustainable SPDM capability, paving the way for simulation to fully enter the mainstream and deliver the value required to drive future growth and market success.

Traditional PLM systems aren’t able to keep pace with the ever-accelerating demands from manufacturers of smart,connected products. The solution for manufacturers is to base their PLM applications on a resilient, industrial, low-code platform designed to adapt and grow with the market. No one can predict the future, but those companies that can meet tomorrow’s challenges are in a better position to dominate their industries.

Most would agree that integrating two or more business systems together is a wise business decision. A solid integration will eliminate duplicate data entry, reduce errors, save time, lead to more accurate data and therefore improve productivity and the bottom line. Razorleaf recently sponsored an article on Engineering.com that talks about the reasons, challenges and solutions related to PLM system integrations

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) helps manufacturers in many ways ranging from operational efficiencies to top-line financial improvement. But PLM is just one of many systems in the engineering and enterprise software ecosystems, and provides greater value when it shares data and connects workflows with other software. As reported in Product Lifecycle Management Beyond Managing CAD, “Top Performers are much more likely to integrate PLM with a host of other systems.”

PLM is the set of business processes involved in designing, building, selling, and supporting a product, and there are corresponding software tools (known as PLM software) to automate and optimize these processes. Most companies today want to deploy PLM software to enhance their PLM processes, but struggle with how to define, pursue, and reach reasonable PLM goals.

SharePoint is poised to become an ubiquitous document and content management system with great capabilities for ad hoc collaboration, whereas Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a similar but more structured system focused on product development content.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software can help businesses of any size proactively manage their mission-critical intellectual property and control their product definitions to help them avoid problems and lost design cycle time due to unmanageable design and change processes.