Managing Complexity Through All Aspects of Your Product Lifecycle
Against a background of evolving requirements, unforeseen technology challenges and pressures to control costs and timescales, managing new product development projects and programs can be very challenging. Leading organizations achieve success by combining proven project management approaches, stage-gate methods and comprehensive risk management.
Complexity, Simplified
Parts Management provides complete control over the lifecycle of parts including automated workflows to manage the approval processes. Links to CAD models, drawings and documents are automatically maintained. Classification schemes may be implemented to support search and reuse.
Key Features
- Project templates based on PMI principles provide best practices
- Stage-gate processes
- Project collaboration workspaces
- Forward, backward and milestone scheduling
- Interactive dashboard summarizes entire project portfolio
- Intuitive, easy-to-use scorecards, KPI metrics and reports
- Gantt charts
Benefits
- Managing tasks and deliverables in a single environment simplifies processes and improves adoption
- Enhanced schedule visibility can optimize use of resources, reduce project costs and increases profit margins
- Improved task accountability can shorten product development cycles and help manage and mitigate risk
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Project Management Resources
Resource Library
A single product structure can handle numerous configurations by using effectivity that identifies what is valid to be used under different conditions. Managing such a configurable structure is more efficient than managing a structure for each unique instance.