The manufacturing industry must comply with Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical (REACH) regulation in the European Union. According to our experts, a holistic view of REACH requirements reveals that an...
integrated PLM backbone can achieve REACH compliance through its functionalities. They demonstrate how the Infosys PLM solution can be leveraged to achieve REACH compliance and eventually help organizations to reduce time-to-market and deliver process improvements during product creation.
Manufacturers must reduce the cost of product development and R&D to compete effectively in the Flat World. Automotive, machine tools and equipment, and mechanical and electronic sub-system manufacturers have successfully adopted...
outsourcing strategies. Companies, however, continue to face challenges when they outsource design and engineering projects. Before embarking on an outsourcing initiative, companies must evaluate issues such as governmental regulations, incentives and permissions, organizational culture towards outsourcing, and management support. In this white paper, Infosys' expert provides a practitioner's perspective of the challenges that manufacturers face when they outsource design and engineering activities.
Adopting the right sourcing model – captive center vs. vendor partner – can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and provide long-term flexibility for engineering product development.
This paper highlights some of the key problems that the Aerospace industry faces in managing part information. It proposes a solution framework to address those problems....
The paper also suggests how the proposed solution can be enabled through technologies like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
Global sourcing has become a change agent in high-technology manufacturing — causing dramatic shifts in how and where product components and capabilities are sourced, and where work gets done. ...
High-technology companies are facing mounting pressure on basic R&D and product development operations, due to increasing consumer demand for innovative, feature-rich products, accompanied by shrinking product lifecycles and declining price points. Global sourcing offers an increasingly attractive proposition to address these pressures. Globalization of product development is the inevitable next stage to enhance the competitiveness of high-tech companies in the Flat World.
High-tech companies achieve success not only when they bring their products to the market quickly, but also when they create and develop products to meet customer needs, at the right time. ...
This paper identifies key characteristics that predict a company's ability to successfully leverage global sourcing partners for new product development and new product introduction activities.
The Integrated Product Management (IPM) approach must address more than functional improvements in the design phase. It must integrate applications, processes and people across functions and throughout the product lifecycle