22./23.02.2012 PLM Innovation Congress in Munich, The Westin Grand Munich

KARER CONSULTING Key Sponsor

As the only independent Product Lifecycle Management event in Europe, this Congress provides the opportunity for stakeholders of the industry to discuss latest developments and opportunities that the recession has created for PLM.

The event features discussion panels with leading international speakers and PLM experts. It presents insights into cost-saving strategies using PLM, deploying intelligent PLM solutions to launch compliant products cost-efficiently and on time to support a company’s growth prospects and overcoming collaboration issues in the development and supply chain network.

Workshop Session - KARER CONSULTING:

Collaborative Product Development and its interface to the ERP System

Modern manufacturers operate in complex process and system landscapes with customised databases. Integrating Engineering, Manufacturing and Procurement processes and outside partners with the right interfaces can drive cost-efficiencies while making the best use of solutions already in place.

This session explores how designing and implementing a bi-directional PLM/ERP interface to accommodate flexible Engineering Change Management processes can:

• increase data quality by enforcing a rigorous change and configuration control on design data previously uncontrolled;
• improve data retrieval and designs reuse, reduce redesign and close the product validation loop while protecting IP;
• shorten time to market by ensuring that design data is released right first time.

The session will also discuss the organisational change challenges and process-driven training programmes used to prepare the organisation.

Dennis Peters, Global Business/IT Transformation Lead, Siemens Energy Sector, USA
Volker Fruetel, Lead Change Agent and Project Manager, Siemens Energy Sector, Germany
Christian Hehl, Managing Director, Karer Consulting UK LTD, UK