Transform manufacturing processes with PLM
Build better manufacturing workflows with PLM software that seamlessly bridges the gaps between conception, launch, and servicing. With MES and AI, CLEVR's PLM solutions use the latest technology to create exactly the right workflows.
A single source of truth
Low code enhances Product Lifecycle Management by offering custom applications that seamlessly connect with other systems, often with automation. Automating certain PLM stages streamlines delivery, supports the development of mobile and native PLM apps, and helps manufacturers handle complex use cases by leveraging information from multiple sources.
End-to-end efficiency: From conception to retirement
Concept and design
Experience faster product design cycles with an advanced CAD system that features virtual prototyping in 2D and 3D environments. This system integrates robotics, 3D printing, and quality inspection operations. The NX integrated design and manufacturing capabilities offer an effective platform for efficient product development.
Engineering and development
Reducing product development errors necessitates coordinating engineering with other departments and leveraging technologies like digital twins and simulation. Teamcenter accelerates the process from design to field testing, fostering collaboration, enhancing product quality, and contributing to a faster time-to-market
People and processes
Empower teams with PLM to bridge gaps for informed decisions and seamless data flow. It features a business process modeler, change management, and an interactive dashboard to fuel innovation and enhance organizational efficiency.
Maximizing PLM with low code and CLEVR's expertise
Proper Product Lifecycle Management is what turns ideas into winning products (with the necessary support offerings and feedback loops). It's a systematic approach to managing a product’s entire lifecyle, from design and manufacturing to servicing and disposal. Importantly, it strengthens the collaboration between people, processes, and products, focusing on the big and small processes that make all the difference.
PLM stands at the forefront of Industry 4.0, integrating advanced technologies like AI, IoT, and MES. These integrations are paving the way for a smart manufacturing ecosystem.
CLEVR offers innovative solutions that enable manufacturers to effortlessly connect their digital processes with real-world operations.
Boosting the manufacturing ecosystem with AI and MES
Manufacturing Execution Systems
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) enhance Product Lifecycle Management by aligning shop floor execution with business strategy. They monitor real-time data on production orders, material consumption, quality metrics, and inventory levels, leading to improved efficiency and decision-making.
AI in Product Lifecycle Management
PLM uses machine learning for enhanced efficiency and streamlined processes, enriched by the strategic partnership between CLEVR and DFKI. Using data science, ML, and AI improves PLM so businesses can refine product development, reduce costs, and enhance overall efficiency.
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The EU battery passport: How PLM and MES get you ready for February 2027
The EU battery passport: How PLM and MES get you ready for February 2027
Four months. That is all that is left before the EU's first mandatory digital product passport goes live. From 18 February 2027, every EV battery, light means of transport (LMT) battery and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market needs a digital battery passport. No passport, no market access.
This is not just an automotive problem. Grid-scale, C&I and most home storage systems count as industrial batteries, and that market is booming. SolarPower Europe's European Battery Market Outlook 2026–2030 reports 36 GWh of new storage installed in Europe in 2025, up 48%, taking total capacity past 100 GWh. Annual installations are expected to exceed 50 GWh in 2026 and reach 138 GWh by 2030.
The question for manufacturers, pack assemblers and storage integrators is no longer whether to prepare, but whether your product and production data can deliver what the passport demands. That is where PLM and MES come in.
What the EU battery passport actually requires
The passport is created by Article 77 of the EU Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, with its content defined in Annex XIII. It is an electronic record per individual battery, reached through a QR code on the product and linked to a unique identifier.
Three categories are in scope from 18 February 2027:
- Electric vehicle batteries, regardless of capacity.
- Light means of transport (LMT) batteries, such as e-bike batteries.
- Industrial batteries above 2 kWh, including stationary storage for the grid, C&I sites and most homes.
The Battery Pass consortium translated the regulation into a data attribute longlist of roughly 90 mandatory data points, now formalized in DIN DKE SPEC 99100. They span product information, material composition, carbon footprint, recycled content, due diligence, performance and durability, circularity and dynamic state-of-health data. Access is tiered between the public, parties with a legitimate interest such as recyclers, and authorities.
What the Commission clarified in 2026
- The registry is live. The EU Digital Product Passport Registry opened on 20 July 2026. Operators verify themselves with a qualified electronic seal and register each passport's identifier.
- Whoever finishes the battery owns the passport.The Commission's battery passport FAQ (September 2026) places responsibility with the operator that completes the working battery, usually where the BMS is fitted. Suppliers can enter data on its behalf, but legal responsibility stays with the operator.
- Second life means a new passport. A repurposed battery, such as an EV battery turned into stationary storage, needs a new passport linked to the old one.
- The date is not moving. The Environmental Omnibus (Omnibus VIII) amends parts of the regulation, but not the passport deadline. EUROBAT and RECHARGE are lobbying for a phased rollout; that is a position, not law.
What is still open
The implementing act on who may access restricted data missed its 18 August 2026 deadline; Taylor Wessing expects adoption in Q4 2026. Carbon footprint and recycled content follow their own timelines, and due diligence reporting starts in August 2027. In short: the deadline is fixed, the rulebook is not, so your data architecture must absorb changes without a rebuild.
A data problem, not a QR-code problem
It is tempting to treat the passport as a labelling exercise: generate a QR code, host a page, done. But the QR code is the easy part. The hard part is the data behind it, which lives in many places:
The pattern is clear: the designed product lives in PLM, the produced product lives in MES. The passport needs both, per battery, consistent and up to date across a life that can span a decade or more.
The companies that will struggle in February are not those without a passport platform. They are those with product data in spreadsheets, as-built records that cannot be traced to a design revision, and no clear view of which cell lot went into which pack.
PLM: The product backbone of the passport
A battery passport is a structured description of a product, and your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform already owns that description. With PLM for manufacturing on Siemens Teamcenter or Teamcenter X, PLM delivers four things the passport needs.
- One trusted source for the as-designed battery
Chemistry, capacity, weight, cell format and pack structure are all defined in the engineering BOM. Pulling passport data from PLM instead of spreadsheets gives every field an owner, a release status and a revision: data you can defend to a market surveillance authority. - Material compliance built into design
Capturing supplier material declarations against parts in PLM means hazardous substances and critical raw materials are checked while the design is still changeable, not after the first production run. The same structure supports recycled content reporting later. - Carbon footprint as a design parameter
The carbon footprint is declared per model and plant, and future rules foresee performance classes and maximum thresholds. That makes CO₂e a design constraint, just like cost and weight. Teamcenter Product Cost Management lets engineers compare the cost and carbon footprint of alternatives early, as we explored in AI in product cost management and sustainability. - Change management that keeps the passport up to date
A new cell supplier, a firmware update or a different cathode blend can all change passport data. Formal change management in PLM ensures every relevant change triggers a passport update, with a full history of who changed what and why, including the dismantling and spare part information recyclers need.
MES: The production evidence behind every passport
PLM describes the battery you designed. But a passport is issued for each individual battery, and only the shopfloor knows what went into it. That is the job of your MES, part of a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) landscape built on solutions such as Siemens Opcenter.
- A unique identity per battery
Every passport needs an ISO/IEC 15459-compliant identifier linked to the QR code. MES assigns it when the battery is completed and ties it to the work order and the date and place of manufacture. - Full genealogy from cell to pack
Because the passport sits with whoever finishes the battery, pack assemblers and storage integrators inherit the data work for components they did not make. A complete as-built genealogy connects supplier data on incoming cells to the finished product, and answers a recall or an authority's question in hours, not weeks. - Test results as performance data
Capacity, internal resistance, power and round-trip efficiency are measured at end-of-line testing. Captured in MES, they become passport performance data and the baseline for later state-of-health reporting. - Plant-level data for the carbon footprint
The footprint is declared per manufacturing plant. Energy use, scrap and yield from MES, combined with IoT data from Siemens Insights Hub, turn estimates into measured figures.
The real value: Closing the loop
Released designs flow from PLM to the shop floor; as-built data, deviations and test results flow back. When a battery deviates from its released design, its passport reflects it. That digital thread from as-designed to as-built is exactly what the regulation asks you to prove.
From compliance to the agentic enterprise
PLM and MES give you the data, but a passport is a living record: created at production, updated on change, extended on repurposing, closed at recycling. Across thousands of batteries, dozens of suppliers and an evolving rulebook, manual processes will not keep up.
This cross-system, rule-heavy, auditable work is what the agentic enterprise is built for: humans and AI agents working side by side on trusted data, inside governed processes. Enter Siemens Intelligence Center X (ICX), announced at Realize LIVE 2026 and built on Mendix. As our colleague Gerrit Kiefer explained in Make processes intelligent, ICX combines four capabilities on one governed foundation. Here is how they map onto the passport.
Knowledge graph: One connected view of every battery
Graph Studio connects the design revision in Teamcenter, the genealogy in Opcenter, supplier declarations in ERP and BMS field data through one ontology, instead of copying them into yet another database. The passport becomes a governed view on that graph, with lineage for every field.
Machine learning: From records to predictions
AI Studio runs models on that contextualised data: predicting state of health from test and field data, flagging production anomalies that may affect durability claims, or identifying the best second-life candidates in a storage fleet.
Agentic applications: Let agents do the legwork
With the Mendix AI platform, teams build agentic applications such as:
- A passport readiness agent that checks each model against Annex XIII and flags missing or inconsistent fields before release.
- A supplier data agent that requests, validates and chases material and carbon footprint declarations.
- A change impact agent that detects when an engineering change affects passport data and proposes updates.
- A regulatory watch agent that maps new implementing and delegated acts to your data model.
Orchestration and trust: Humans stay accountable
Legal responsibility stays with the company placing the battery on the market, whoever enters the data. Mendix Workflows orchestrate agents and people in one traceable process: an agent prepares, a human approves, the system publishes. The ICX trust layer adds guardrails, logging and access control, so every update has an owner, a timestamp and a data lineage. That is how AI becomes a compliance asset instead of a risk, and what we call intelligent enterprise orchestration.
A practical roadmap to 18 February 2027
Four months is tight but workable. We recommend this sequence:
- Confirm scope and role (now). Which products are EV, LMT or industrial batteries above 2 kWh? For modular storage, check whether units share a BMS, since their combined capacity then counts. If you finish the battery, the passport is yours.
- Assess data gaps (November). Map the roughly 90 attributes against PLM, MES, ERP and supplier data, with a source, owner and quality level per field.
- Secure supplier data (November–December). Agree written authorisations, data clauses, formats and update triggers with cell, module and material suppliers.
- Connect the digital thread (December–January). Link released PLM data with serialisation, genealogy and test data in MES. Start your EU registry verification early.
- Pilot one product family (January). Create, publish and update a passport end to end, including an engineering change and a repurposing scenario.
- Go live and scale with agents (February onwards). Roll out across product families and automate with governed agents, ready for due diligence reporting from August 2027 and the obligations that follow.
Meanwhile, watch the access rights act: its draft, expected around year-end, decides who can read the restricted parts of your passport.
How CLEVR helps you get passport-ready
The battery passport is the EU's first mandatory digital product passport, not its last: the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation extends the same logic to many more products. A quick QR-code fix means starting over for every next regulation. Connected PLM and MES data, orchestrated by governed agents, builds a foundation for better traceability, faster recalls, smarter design and new second-life business models.
As the largest dedicated Siemens and Mendix partner in Europe, with more than 30 years of industry experience, CLEVR helps manufacturers and energy and utilities companies connect Teamcenter, Opcenter and existing systems into one digital thread, extended with agents through Intelligence Center X. We start where you are: A scope and data gap assessment, a pilot, and a roadmap to scale.
February 2027 is closer than it looks. Let's make sure your data is ready before your batteries are.
The right Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform can supercharge your company's engineering, manufacturing, collaboration, and time-to-market. Choosing the wrong one, on the other hand, can lead to costly integration challenges, poor user adoption, and a failure to realize the expected return on investment.
Among the leaders in the PLM space, Dassault Systèmes' ENOVIA and Siemens' Teamcenter are two of the most powerful and widely adopted solutions.
Each platform provides comprehensive features that serve customers by industry with specialized workflows. This guide provides a detailed comparison to help you make the best choice.
Short on Time? Here's a Brief Overview
- Teamcenter excels in complex manufacturing with best-in-class multi-CAD support and deep integration into production processes, making it ideal for large, diverse enterprises.
- ENOVIA's strength lies in its integration within the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform, making it a native fit for organizations using CATIA and other DS tools.
- The choice often depends on your existing technology ecosystem; aligning your PLM with your primary CAD and enterprise software vendor can prevent costly and complex integrations.
Side-by-Side Feature Comparison
A PLM system serves as the operational hub for all activities related to a product, from its initial concept to final retirement.
Teamcenter, from Siemens, is one of the most widely used PLM systems globally, recognized for its comprehensive capabilities and robust performance in managing complex manufacturing environments. Its architecture is designed for scalability and is well-regarded for its deep integration with manufacturing operations, as well as its exceptional support for a wide array of third-party design tools, making it a frequent choice for large, diverse enterprises.
Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA functions as the collaborative innovation engine of the broader 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Its primary strength is its native integration within this unified environment, creating a single source of truth that connects people, data, and processes. It’s often favored by design-centric organizations in industries such as aerospace and automotive, particularly those that utilize CATIA and other Dassault Systèmes applications.
To understand which platform might be right for your organization, it’s useful to compare how they approach important PLM functions.
Bill of Materials (BOM) management
A Bill of Materials is the complete list of all parts, components, and raw materials needed to build a product. Managing the BOM accurately is fundamental for coordinating purchasing, manufacturing, and assembly.
Teamcenter is built for deep manufacturing process integration, excelling at the complex task of reconciling engineering BOMs (eBOMs) with manufacturing BOMs (mBOMs). Its feature set is particularly advantageous for discrete manufacturers who need to manage make-versus-buy definitions and substitute parts in detail.
ENOVIA, by contrast, prioritizes a unified BOM within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Its strength is ensuring a single, consistent product definition is used across all Dassault Systèmes (DS) applications, from design to simulation. This is a considerable advantage for organizations heavily invested in the DS ecosystem that need absolute consistency, though it may require more configuration to achieve the same depth of manufacturing-specific BOM definition found out-of-the-box in Teamcenter.
Change management
Product designs are rarely static, and a formal process for tracking, approving, and implementing modifications is necessary to avoid errors and costly rework. Both platforms offer robust, industry-standard change management.
ENOVIA offers industry-standard Engineering Change Request (ECR) and Engineering Change Order (ECO) processes that often require minimal customization, making it a suitable choice for organizations seeking to adopt standard practices quickly.
Teamcenter provides highly configurable, guided workflow processes for managing changes, giving organizations greater flexibility to model the system precisely to their unique operational needs. Companies with established, non-standard change procedures will appreciate this versatility.
Document management
A product’s lifecycle generates countless documents—from technical specifications to compliance certificates. A robust PLM system must organize, secure, and control the version of every file. Here, the platforms offer different functional strengths.
ENOVIA has a deep, metadata-rich integration with the product structure. It supports documents with unique IDs, revisions, maturity states, and defined ownership, and it offers direct integration with CAD packages for version control of design files.
Teamcenter provides strong, core capabilities for document identification and version control, integrating with standard enterprise tools like Microsoft Office to manage related documentation. Its functionality is built to handle the essential tasks of securing, organizing, and tracking the progression of all files associated with the product lifecycle.
Quality & risk management
Ensuring product quality and complying with industry regulations are non-negotiable, and PLM systems are instrumental in embedding these processes into the workflow.
Teamcenter offers a dedicated, specialized "Teamcenter Quality" module, which functions as a comprehensive, standalone QMS with specific tools for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), audit management, and control planning. This modular design is a distinct advantage for organizations that require deep, pre-packaged quality management functionality.
ENOVIA integrates its quality and compliance tools across the entire 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This ensures quality metrics are visible and consistently applied across all disciplines, creating a more holistic view of compliance, though it may not have the same depth of specialized tools as Teamcenter's dedicated module.
Analytics & reporting
To improve processes, companies must be able to measure them. Analytics and reporting features within a PLM system collect data from across the product lifecycle to help identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
While both platforms provide analytics, Teamcenter offers an impressive ability to integrate data from diverse enterprise sources for comprehensive analysis. It's particularly powerful for organizations that need to consolidate reports spanning the PLM system, ERP, MES, and other business software.
ENOVIA's analytics are intrinsically tied to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, providing detailed information from the data managed within that ecosystem. This is ideal for analysis focused on the product lifecycle within the DS environment, but may require more configuration for extensive external data integration compared to Teamcenter.
Collaboration & user experience
ENOVIA is designed to promote collaborative innovation through shared digital mockups and streamlined design reviews. Its web-based interface on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is intended to be accessible from any device. User reviews for certain modules, like Engineering Central, have been positive regarding user-friendliness.
Teamcenter's user experience has been a topic of discussion. While the modern Active Workspace Client (AWC) offers an intuitive, role-based interface, some feedback on TrustRadius indicates the older Rich Client (RAC) is perceived as cluttered and outdated. The choice of client can significantly impact user adoption and customer service interactions.
Integration & Ecosystem Fit
Teamcenter is a central component of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, ensuring tight integration with Siemens tools like NX and Solid Edge for CAD, Simcenter for simulation, and Opcenter for manufacturing.
A key differentiator is its multi-CAD support, efficiently managing data from a wide array of systems, including CATIA V5, Creo, and SolidWorks. So, it's a strong choice for companies with a diverse design environment. Integration with ERP systems, such as SAP and Oracle, is well-supported through partner solutions.
ENOVIA's primary integration strength is its native connection to the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This creates a unified environment for companies using CATIA for design, SIMULIA for simulation, and DELMIA for manufacturing.
For organizations committed to the Dassault ecosystem, ENOVIA offers an integrated workflow and a single source of truth. Integration with third-party CAD and ERP systems often relies on solutions provided by partners.
Deployment, Scalability & Cost
Teamcenter offers exceptional deployment flexibility, including traditional on-premise, cloud-hosted (IaaS), and a full Software as a Service (SaaS) solution via Teamcenter X. This scalability makes it suitable for organizations from mid-sized businesses in the United States to the largest global enterprises.
While some user reviews mention high costs for certain licenses, a 2024 Total Economic Impact study by Forrester Consulting found that a composite organization using Teamcenter X could potentially achieve a 90% ROI over 3 years.
ENOVIA is primarily delivered through the cloud-native 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which offers SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS packages managed by Dassault Systèmes, simplifying deployment and maintenance. The licensing model is typically subscription-based per named user, with casual licenses available for part-time access. While pricing is customized, the cloud model is designed to lower the total cost of ownership by reducing internal IT overhead.
User Ratings & Satisfaction
On G2, Teamcenter holds a rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars from over 700 reviews, while ENOVIA has a 4.1-star rating from around 80 reviews. Teamcenter consistently scores higher in detailed feature comparisons for BOM management, document management, and data quality. On TrustRadius, Teamcenter has a score of 8.2 out of 10, where ENOVIA sits at 6.8 out of 10.
Common positive themes for Teamcenter include its robustness, stability, and strong integration capabilities. For ENOVIA, users praise its deep integration with CAD tools, such as SolidWorks, and its user-friendly interface for specific tasks. Both platforms have strong customer bases in the automotive and aerospace industries.
Choosing Based on Your Needs: Scenarios
The decision to switch platforms is significant, and your organization's specific profile and strategic priorities, as well as observations of recent customer movements, should guide your decision.
For large enterprises prioritizing deep manufacturing integration and robust multi-CAD support, Teamcenter is often the preferred choice. Its end-to-end lifecycle coverage and proven scalability are well-suited for complex, global operations. Current customers, such as Nel Hydrogen, have successfully implemented Teamcenter to automate and modernize their production processes.
For organizations deeply invested in the Dassault Systèmes ecosystem, particularly with CATIA, ENOVIA offers the most seamless and native PLM experience. The unified 3DEXPERIENCE platform eliminates many integration hurdles.
The CLEVR Support Framework
Selecting a PLM platform is only the first step. A successful implementation requires a partner with deep industry and technical expertise. CLEVR supports organizations through the entire process, from initial evaluation to long-term governance.
We provide platform-agnostic assessments to help you define your requirements and choose the solution that best fits your business goals. Our services include developing pilot projects, creating detailed cost models, and designing robust integration strategies. By focusing on adoption roadmaps and comprehensive training, we ensure your team can leverage the full power of your chosen PLM system.
Conclusion and Next Steps
Both ENOVIA and Teamcenter are formidable PLM platforms capable of managing the most complex product lifecycles. The best choice depends on your company’s strategic alignment, existing technology landscape, and core business priorities.
ENOVIA offers a deeply integrated, collaborative environment for those within the Dassault Systèmes ecosystem. Teamcenter provides a powerful, highly scalable, and manufacturing-focused solution with exceptional openness to a multi-CAD world.
Your next step should be to conduct a thorough internal assessment of your functional requirements, integration needs, and long-term vision. Engage with implementation partners who can provide expert guidance and help you navigate the complexities of a PLM transformation.
If you lean towards Teamcenter, CLEVR is ready to help you make it work from day one. Get in touch with CLEVR’s experts to help define your PLM strategy and ensure the platform you have selected works with your needs in mind to drive your business forward.
Research Methodology
This comparison is built on extensive analysis of official vendor documentation, independent industry reports, and aggregated user feedback from trusted software review platforms like G2 and TrustRadius. We prioritize recent information and user reviews to provide a current and accurate perspective on both PLM software platforms.
From Fragmented Systems to Future-Ready: CLEVR’s Step-by-Step PLM Integration Guide
Product lifecycle management (PLM) software plays a key role in managing every aspect of your manufacturing process—from design to delivery. However, a PLM can only do its job properly if it serves as a single source of truth for your organization.
If your company’s manufacturing process is fragmented across multiple PLM platforms and other systems, you’re not alone. Many organizations begin with a streamlined PLM but lose their digital cohesion over time due to mergers, growth, and internal process changes.
The good news is that you can re-establish your PLM as a unified, organization-wide platform through integration—and CLEVR PLM engineers Joana Nunes Silva and Lars Erik Haajhem have deep experience helping companies achieve just that. We gathered their insights to help you transition from fragmented systems to a future-ready state, step by step.
Why Is PLM Integration Necessary?
Before we dive into the steps to integrate your PLM system, it’s important to understand how a fragmented environment can arise, why it’s a problem, and how a PLM solution can help.
How fragmented systems develop
According to Joana and Lars Erik, one of the most common reasons organizations end up with multiple PLM systems is the acquisition of smaller companies, each with its own pre-existing PLM systems and ways of working. The goal in these cases, as they put it, is “to go from two companies using two systems to one company using a single platform for production.”
They also see many situations where companies begin taking on more customers without having a PLM system in place. These businesses often resort to ad hoc methods to manage a growing volume of data, resulting in disconnected systems and disorganized digital files. In such cases, it becomes necessary to have a PLM system that can seamlessly integrate existing data.
Whether through acquisition or accelerated growth, both scenarios are ultimately unsustainable. They require a PLM system to serve as a unified platform, one that enables clear communication of product designs, easy information sharing with suppliers, and accurate specifications for manufacturing processes. Relying on disconnected systems can lead to poor collaboration during design, manufacturing delays, and quality control issues.
Fragmentation also poses a barrier to keeping systems up to date. As Lars Erik and Joana point out, this is a major challenge because “these applications are evolving really, really fast.” Organizations without unified, standardized systems miss out on the latest upgrades, and implementing advanced features in the future becomes more costly due to the need for custom development.
Why your business needs an integrated PLM system
An integrated PLM system dramatically improves the entire manufacturing process, from collaborating on designs to managing supply chains to creating and delivering finished products. It reduces costs, speeds up time to market, and improves product quality.
Joana and Lars Erik emphasize these benefits of PLM: “With a PLM, you have much more traceability of your products and your assets. You start to really see your product and your full data, and a PLM can solve all the duplicates and issues and inconsistencies that your company had before. You can see the full history of your product, which [you] might not have had knowledge about before doing this integration.”
They also point out that having this structured data has a real impact on your business’s bottom line and ability to innovate. “You can see how your product has gone from an idea many years ago to how it's living right now. It gives you an overview of what your business is actually selling and what you can make more money on. The rewards from having a streamlined PLM system come very fast.”
Integrating Your PLM System: Step-by-Step Guide
Based on their experience helping companies deploy, integrate, and customize PLM systems, Joana and Lars Erik offer a four-step guide to PLM integration:
Step 1: Assess the current PLM environment
The first thing companies need to do to achieve a streamlined PLM is to understand their current situation and how a PLM can help. The integration process can vary significantly depending on a company's current stage in its digital journey.
For example, if your organization aims to unify several PLMs that are already in use, “you have to make some decisions,” Lars Erik and Joana continue. “Do you move all the data to one of your already existing applications? Or do you create a new application and migrate your data there?” Which approach is better for your business will depend on whether one of your PLM platforms fully meets your business’s needs and whether it is easily upgradeable as new features become available.
If your company doesn’t have a PLM at all, you’ll need to select a software vendor and identify what data needs to be migrated to the new system. Joana and Lars Erik recommend Siemens Teamcenter because of its advanced collaboration tools and customizability for a wide range of industries. They also praise its steady stream of updates, which help ensure businesses future-readiness.
Here partnering with PLM experts can be incredibly beneficial. “We have experience working with a lot of different customers across different industries,” say Lars Erik and Joana. “That knowledge helps us advise businesses on how to align the way they work with how their PLM software can best be used.”
Step 2: Develop new PLM systems in parallel
Instead of rolling out a new PLM all at once, Joana and Lars Erik recommend that companies should develop their integrated system in the background. “By not touching the legacy system and instead setting up a completely new PLM, we can work in parallel. Users can still use the existing applications while we develop a new system based on a new way of working. In time, we can migrate different products into the new system and train employees how to use it.”
This approach has a number of benefits. It minimizes disruption to your company’s operations while the integrated PLM system is being developed. The new system can also be thoroughly tested and fully functional before it’s rolled out across your organization, and individual products or teams can be migrated to the unified PLM one at a time, making the change management process much simpler.
There are several ways to manage this parallel development. One example Joana and Lars Erik provide is creating an integration layer—a database that receives information from multiple existing PLM and other applications—using low code. “You can then integrate or migrate data from your legacy environments to the new environment.”
Using a low code platform such as Mendix can simplify integration work, especially when dealing with multiple legacy systems, and can provide added flexibility, making PLM systems even more powerful.
Step 3: Train employees on your new PLM
Before new PLM systems can be rolled out, team members need to be trained on how to use them. This is crucial for ensuring employees can hit the ground running with your integrated PLM and earn buy-in, ensuring engineers, product designers, and manufacturing leads actually use the system. Without this buy-in, employees could end up using workarounds that result in more fragmentation.
“We do a lot of training,” Joana and Lars Erik add. “Usually, before we even have projects starting, we show how Teamcenter works out of the box, the different modules in Teamcenter, and what capabilities the different modules offer. This gives them a touch and feel for the system before they start using it.”
Training offers an opportunity to identify needs that can be incorporated into the development and software configuration process. “We go into this discovery period where we sit together and we discuss the behavior of the system to understand how it fits with their way of working. We also ask about the requirements that different teams have so that we can configure the system to work as best as possible to meet them.”
Step 4: Deploy and scale
Once your integrated PLM system is ready and employees are prepared for the switchover, you can deploy the new software. However, instead of rolling out the new PLM across your entire organization all at once, it’s a good idea to introduce it to individual teams first or implement it for specific projects. That way, you have an opportunity to identify any speed bumps or bugs before they cause significant issues.
Once you’re confident in the system, it can then be deployed more widely and scaled across all your business’s projects. At this point, you can back up data from legacy PLM systems that will no longer be used and decommission them.
Lars Erik and Joana emphasize the importance of listening to feedback from employees once the new PLM is implemented. “We get quite a lot of good feedback,” they say, which can help identify opportunities for new features or additional integrations.
Tips for a Smooth PLM Integration
In addition to sharing details about the approach they use for PLM integration, Joana and Lars Erik offer several tips to ensure your integration process is as smooth as possible:
Get your team on board by letting them know how their collaboration impacts the rest of the business.
Changing PLM systems often requires employees to adapt to new ways of working, which can be difficult, especially if they’re coming from an acquired company with a completely different software approach. Invest time in explaining the broader value of the change, and involve teams early to increase engagement and reduce resistance.
PLM is changing incredibly fast. So make sure that the platforms you build are ready to be upgraded with new features and integrated with additional systems in the future.
Choose a PLM solution that can grow with your business. Your system should be capable of integrating with future PLM tools, third-party platforms, or compliance software—especially in cases of future mergers or supply chain expansion.
Configure your systems to fit in your framework so that you always have that possibility of upgradeability.
One of the key benefits of integrating fragmented PLM systems is that it enables the use of standardized software platforms with regular software updates. So, while adapting your PLM to your business’s specific needs is important, it’s equally important to remain within the bounds of your software.
Be patient and go step by step to achieve a good end result.
Moving from multiple applications to one common system is not an overnight process. Take a phased approach, set realistic expectations, and focus on long-term results rather than quick wins.
Integrating Your PLM System: Step-by-Step, Side-by-Side With CLEVR
For organizations looking to go from fragmented systems to a single, unified PLM system, CLEVR serves as your expert partner. We offer a step-by-step approach guided by experts like Joana and Lars Erik, and we work by your side throughout the entire integration process.
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