Product lifecycle management (PLM) software enables an organization to manage all aspects of their product development process, from the initial idea through to retirement and disposal.
PLM software allows leaders to efficiently manage innovation or iterations to products, designs, or documents. It provides a centralized storage location for all product data. Automated tools streamline and simplify the lifecycle management process.
Many PLM tools tend to specialize on providing solutions for specific industries. Thus, they may provide just one or several of these things:
Change management
Design feature management, including tracking of feature requests
Design drawing revision management
Quality management
Collaboration solutions
Training management
BOM management
Compliance management
Document control or design software management
Requirements management
Item management
Supplier relationship management
Implementation with Agile methodologies
Implementation of PLM software can help an organization reduce prototype costs, increase collaboration, improve quality, shorten time to market, and ensure compliance to industry standards or regulations.
The cost to implement a PLM solution varies greatly. Some software companies offer a straightforward pricing scheme in the $13 to $150 per month range. However, the cost of most solutions must be obtained by contacting the company for a quote based on your company size, implementation complexity and number of average users.
Arena Solutions aims to help you solve problems with product realization processes. The company's unified PLM and QMS solutions help companies design, produce, and improve innovative products quickly. Product processes involve multiple teams, locations, partners, suppliers, and vendors. These di...
Siemens PLM Software (formerly UGS) is a computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. The company is a business unit of Siemens Industry Automation division, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
UserVoice collects and organizes feedback from multiple sources to provide a clear, actionable view of user feedback for product teams. With a customizable feedback portal, in-app widget, and direct integrations with your email client, CRM or support tool, it’s easy for your customers and interna...
Oracle acquired product lifecycle management specialist Agile in 2007. The product Agile PLM (now also known as Oracle Enterprise PLM) is owned and supported by Oracle. The product suite is modular and includes product data management, engineering collaboration tools, and other quality and govern...
PTC offers Creo, the company's line of computer-aided design (CAD) products that support the product lifecycle management (PLM) process with 2D and 3D design kits (Creo Elements and Creo Direct), an augmented reality module, Creo Illustrate for technical illustrations, Creo Sketch, Creo Schematic...
Sciforma is an Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management software solution for industries and companies of all sizes. Sciforma was designed to support multiple approaches to reinforce consistency at every level of the organization hierarchy to promote efficiency for everyone. Sciforma s...
The Aras Innovator software is used for product lifecycle management (PLM), advanced product quality planning (APQP), lean product development, and new product introduction (NPI). Aras switched to an open source model in 2007, where clients obtain the software for free, and Aras Corp provides tec...
PTC offers Windchill, the company's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform that includes BOM (a digital bill of materials) for cost and product quality control via parts-centric source of truth, dynamic and updated product change and configuration management to ensure up-to-date product info...
CGS’s BlueCherry Enterprise Suite has the built-in capacity to address the fundamental needs of all core management, planning, design and product development, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and sales functions. With end-to-end capabilities, the BlueCherry Enterprise Suite enables consumer li...
Dassault Systèmes S.A. is a French company and a world leader in the production of 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.
Roadmunk is a roadmap visualization platform that is designed to enable product managers and their teams to communicate the strategic roadmap throughout their organization. The vendor says product leaders can easily input milestones, roadmap data and create unlimited pivots in real time. The vend...
SAP PLM is one component of the SAP Business Suite which also includes ERP, CRM, SCM, etc.
CollabNet in South San Francisco offers TeamForge, an application lifecycle management platform.
The Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Cloud supports product development with collaboration and project portfolio tools, proposal and innovation management, scheduling tools, and other features to support product development teams priced on a monthly subscription basis per user.
Selerant PLM is product lifecycle management software for manufacturers in the food & beverages, personal care/pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals industries. The platform addresses new product development and compliance needs for global enterprises.
CogniDox is document management software for internal departments and project teams to help automate document-centric processes and find information. It is used extensively for quality certification (ISO 9001, ISO 13485) and information security.
Apptimize enables organizations to enhance their native iOS and Android apps to create user experiences, improve acquisition, engagement, and retention. The vendor says they do this with a platform that empowers product teams to efficiently run A/B tests, make instant updates, and personalize use...
TRIMIT Fashion makes it easier to run a fashion business. It is an end-to-end business software solution that automates and optimizes your business processes - from development to delivery.Some Benefits You work in one single IT system that is specific to your industry.TRIMIT Fashion is built fro...
Propel (or PropelPLM) headquartered in Santa Clara offers their Product Lifecycle Management application. Built on Salesforce, Propel is available in varying editions supporting quality management, product information management (PIM), as well as project costing, custom objects & API, product...
Mentor Graphics, a Siemens company, offers Context SDM, for system design management. Context SDM supplies an integrated and secure workspace to develop engineering projects and products.
Via a collaboration with Microsoft, PAREXEL headquartered in Waltham offers the Perceptive Cloud, a product lifecycle management platform exclusively for pharmaceuticals and life science entities and their development labs.
Bamboo Rose Retail Product Lifecycle Management, from Bamboo Rose headquartered in Boston is a PLM supporting the design and development of retail merchandise.