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Data and Information Becomes Your Competitive Advantage
The need for shorter product life cycles is being driven by competitive pressures, customer demands and the need to cut operating expense. Infor XA PLM solution gives you the tools to collaborate with supply chain partners for faster time-to-market, reduced manufacturing costs, higher quality products and improved customer satisfaction. Everything you need to design, make, deliver and support your products is included- product data management, multimedia attachment capabilities, integrated workflow and powerful inquiries.
Use The Portal To Accelerate Projects
Using Infor XA Portal, you can set up secure access and share information on a many-to-many basis to accelerate large, team-driven projects. Workflow-enabled routing capabilities keep the review process moving quickly, saving substantial time and money. With Infor, engineering change management is improved by offering the ability to incorporate multiple types of changes at one time. Comprehensive tracking and control capabilities provide the type of audit trail that makes ISO and FDA style certifications manageable. Plus, at any time during the design or production process, you can view the as-designed, as-built, and as-installed bill of materials for any part.
Simultaneously Build Multiple Revisions
In today's fast-paced environment, manufacturers are competing not only on speed, but on innovation. The driving need to create better products quicker creates a never-ending product development cycle. Products are frequently changing revisions while in production. Some applications only allow you to build one revision at a time, but Infor provides the speed you need. You can build multiple revisions of the same product in production at any time, and you can designate different degrees of control.
Meet Regulatory Standards With Ease
In today's global environment, many companies compete by being the fastest at delivering new product innovations. At the same time, regulatory pressure such as QS9000, FAA, FDA and global quality standards such as ISO 9000, are requiring more formal documentation and procedures. Infor has product data management in its foundation, seamlessly incorporating engineering into the enterprise. PDM items such as documents, parts, engineering BOMs or manufacturing BOMs can be controlled by using revision, ECN, serial, or lot control. Engineering changes can be communicated internally and externally with a secure approval process and can include workflow and e-mail notification.
Erase Barriers To Timely Product Design
Infor XA PLM is designed with deep functionality to assist you in all aspects of the process. The manufacturing sector typically experiences more engineering changes and produces more make-to-order products, requiring rapid response to product changes, careful understanding of cost implications and expertly managed workflow and approval processes. With Infor, you get the tools to perform collaborative engineering, view multimedia attachments, track engineering changes and more. Plus, a powerful workflow engine keeps the process moving quickly.
At the heart of Infor XA PLM is the ability to facilitate collaboration between everyone involved in the product design process. Online tools encourage timely participation and input from your global engineering, marketing, sales, field service and finance team, plus a whole array of external resources. Now you can involve customers, contract manufacturers and contract design houses in the process.
Enhance Revision Control
Design input can come from a wide variety of resources, including customers, suppliers, contractors, the engineering department, and design and manufacturing engineers. With so many users collaborating on the same items, it's essential to tightly manage the revision process. Our solutions provide complete control of engineering changes, from prevention of duplicate changes to the development of online change histories.
Manage Documents Effectively
Document management is an equally important part of managing your collaborative design efforts. During the development process, you create a wide variety of computer-aided design drawings, illustrations, spreadsheets, word processing documents, graphs and other multimedia attachments that must be stored and carefully monitored during the revision process. All this information is retained in a single location where these attachments are checked in and out by users. Infor even tracks different revisions to a product across several manufacturing sites - whether they are your sites or those of a contract manufacturer.
Infor XA PLM enables you to: - Improve time-to-market
- Slash design costs
- Reduce manufacturing costs
- Produce higher quality products
- Improve production planning and control
- Eliminate redundant changes
- Enhance revision control
- Easily customize data without programming
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