Product Lifecycle Management Solutions

TCS’ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions help customers across the world to focus on bringing newer, better and more efficient products and services. TCS implements PLM solutions using a Multi Generation Business Plan (MGBP) that enables customers to target low-risk, high-impact solutions, increase the maturity of the PLM implementation and realize early returns on investment (ROI).

Client Challenges

Convergence of technologies, saturation in the developed markets and  opening up of new markets in developing countries have thrown up new challenges such as:

  • Need for product innovation and faster time to market
  • Increase in compliance requirements
  • Shorter product life spans and rise in costs
  • Increase in product variety and complexity
  • Disparate product development processes across divisions after Mergers and Acquisitions

What TCS Provides

While you focus on introducing new products and services, TCS can manage the evolution of the product from design through manufacturing and to services - by integrating data, knowledge and business processes that are accessible across the extended enterprise.

Functional Offerings

  • PLM for New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI): Solutions to manage your product portfolio, product innovation, product development and your customer’s needs
  • PLM for Service Lifecycle Management: Solutions to manage service data and processes, maintenance and operational process support

Service Offerings

  • PLM Consulting: Our domain experts and PLM consultants help you identify process improvements for your organization and map these processes in PLM
  • PLM Implementation: Our extensive PLM implementation experience helps customers realize value for their PLM investment
  • PLM Support: We leverage ITIL-compliant support processes to improve user satisfaction and, using Six Sigma, reduce the number of defects and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Technical Offerings

  • PLM Integration: We help integrate PLM to CAD, ERP, CRM and legacy applications, thereby helping you break silos in your organization
  • Infrastructure: We help customers achieve the delicate balance between TCO and Performance-Reliability ratio by optimizing infrastructure requirements
  • Upgrades: Our consultants ensure a hassle-free upgrade to latest versions of your PLM software
  • Migration: Our tool-based methodologies help customers quickly migrate data from existing applications to PLM

Technology Stack: We can help you with various technology stacks such as Teamcenter, Windchill, eMatrix, SAP, Agile and others.

Business Value

  • Faster response to market changes and reduced time to market
  • Increased innovation and better product management
  • Seamless integration with enterprise systems
  • Improved collaboration with other technology groups
  • Compliance to industry standards and regulations

Client Thoughts

"TCS has been a strategic partner to Johnson Controls; adding business value globally through participation in critical business initiatives and providing professional and cost effective resources. Our partnership continues to mature and evolve to a higher level for mutual benefit." 
-Johnson Controls Inc., Sam S Valanju, Chief Information Officer   
 
“TCS has been an invaluable resource for the good implementation of our large scale, customized PLM system here at MAN B&W Diesel A/S. TCS has had the capability to understand our business model and the deep technical and conceptual knowledge of TeamCenter Engineering required.

The sense of quality and dedication of the team towards our goals has been of the outmost importance for our successful launch of the project. Furthermore has the availability and scalability of resources that TCS can provide been an important asset for our success. “
-MAN B&W Diesel A/S, Hans Oxvang Mortensen, Senior Manager, Engineering Systems.

Alliances

  • Siemens PLM Software (SI Partnership)
  • Dassault Systemes (DSP)
  • Oracle
  • SAP

Associated Products

Teamcenter for Medical Devices Industry: The first fully integrated PLM solution for the medical device industry. Developed on Siemens' product Teamcenter, it encapsulates predefined compliance needs of the industry thus making it easy to deploy and reliable to use.

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Product Lifecycle Management

TCS’ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution enables you to enhance quality, improve efficiency, quicken time-to-market, and reduce costs by allowing you to focus on product development, while managing all aspects of your product evolution. Learn how