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Welcome to our presentation called The Difference Between PDM and PLM, and why you need both.
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For your convenience, we did split the recording in three parts.
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My name is Klaus Loerincz and I'm a Senior Implementation Consultant with Autodesk,
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and it will be my pleasure to guide you through this presentation.
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I work with our customers, mainly focusing on Product Data Management, often referred to as PDM,
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and Product Lifecycle Management, often referred to as PLM.
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With 15 plus years of industry experience,
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I like to work with our customers and their requirements, both from a product and a process point of view.
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In the first part, we're going to be taking a look at what these acronyms PDM and PLM mean,
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and what they mean for you and your business.
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We're going to talk about common challenges that we can all relate to.
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Time - how to save time, or how to improve time, which would equal time to market,
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how to make best use of the time, which would be time to value.
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We're going to talk about quality issues that we may have,
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and how products from Autodesk can help to improve the situation.
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And ultimately, this all leads to cost. Time as we all know is money.
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So we are going to talk about cost and how to reduce costs.
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What are the inefficiencies that you deal with in your company?
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Globalization, inadequate data sharing, process bottlenecks, lack of collaboration, or manual efforts.
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Well, I'm sure there are others you could add to this slide.
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It's a small world, and we have the ability to work with other teams and people that are outside our organization.
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There are not only different file formats,
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there are different paradigms of file sharing and getting data to someone else without having to re-key it,
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retype it, resend it, or tell somebody about it.
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We're going to identify process bottlenecks and ways around it.
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This starts in design.
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It can start in concept, and may go all the way through to supply chain and supply collaboration.
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Speaking of collaboration,
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we're going to talk about how we can overcome the lack of collaboration and make sure everybody is on the same page.
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Make sure that everyone is working with the same set of data,
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not doing additional manual efforts when working and looking for the latest set of data.
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I think everyone can relate to manual efforts.
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I've done this before.
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I didn't just tell you that in those type of things.
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What we're talking about are different moving parts of the product development, manufacturing, and product lifecycle.
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How a product comes to market is sometimes a mystery that it even got out the door, got in the crate, or that it's got assembled.
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But this is not the way it should happen, as you want more structure and control around the process.
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And not everything goes out the door as planned.
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Change happens sometimes.
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So how do we get our arms around all these moving parts in the process?
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The goal still remains that we want to know which product was shipped in which configuration to our customers,
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as this will help delivering a high-class service to the customers later on.
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And the answer is a couple of different tools, which will be needed to help achieving that.
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We're going to talk about PDM and PLM to identify how they can help and which systems does what in terms of roles and responsibilities.
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Let's take a look at a typical development process.
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Now, this is not everybody's.
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But at a general level,
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we have a sale or interest from a customer at the beginning that could be a new product interest or a new product idea.
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Something has to kick off the genesis of a design.
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And then there is engineering and that is something that Autodesk excels in,
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is the engineering with a variety of tools that help you get the job done.
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It's not just design, but it's also simulation, analysis,
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and machining where our tools will help streamline the engineering or PDM workflows.
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At the center of the product lifecycle, we have pre-production and production,
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where the development will turn into real goods.
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At the end of product lifecycle, we see service.
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And finally, but not shown on this lifecycle here,
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there will be the retirement of a product.
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So this is a generic view and you can plug in your own word or phrases there to make it look and sound more familiar.
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But what we see a lot is that we have these different systems and acronyms for the various parts of the process.
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And today we're mainly looking at and talking about PDM.
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There is often time spent at the front end of a sales process in a CRM (or Customer Relationship Management) system.
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And on the back end, time will be spent in the ERP (or Enterprise Resource Planning),
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MRP (or Material Requirements Planning),
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MES (or Manufacturing Execution System) if they are in place.
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Some of these systems or tools might be homegrown and in use for many years already.
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Looking at the alphabet soup of all these different acronyms,
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it's not hard to see how inefficiencies can happen when information resides in separate systems.
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In such a case of different divisions governing the data, that holds some potential there.
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It is probably not an efficient process in place to share information from one system to the next.
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That's where usually PLM comes in.
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Product Lifecycle Management is a methodology first-hand,
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and will need a tool to deliver the desired support to its users.
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It means one place to look for all that is involved in the product data.
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What is the product? Where is it?
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What is it made up of?
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Which exact version of the product sits with a given customer?
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It's about the process which is the decision-making about changes.
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The workflow to follow developing or releasing, or also the place to define the what happens next,
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or to look for what happened to get to this point where we're at.
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Autodesk has its own cloud-based PLM system to support this methodology.
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And then the enterprise integrations - PLM, CRM, PDM, all of these different acronyms, they should integrate.
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Any time that you are re-keying or resending or importing data
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can lead to human errors,
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which you want to avoid building trust with the customers of the PLM system and ultimately even the customer.
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But we are going to focus in our talk about PDM. Right there down at the bottom, keep your eye on PDM.
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With PDM, what we are talking about are some commonly known icons.
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If you're an Autodesk customer, you'll see that V is for Vault.
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Vault is our PDM tool.
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I'll deep dive into that in a minute.
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That is a tool that manages the engineering and design data and other file formats.
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There is Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, and Navisworks, and the list goes on and on.
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Vault is there to understand, to compile and collect everything that we make.
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It's not just design anymore.
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Keep in mind that it could be other file formats as well as other CAD products,
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and things like Microsoft Office products or production related products like PowerMill or Netfabb,
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as this data is getting more and more attention to be presented in the product development process from an engineering point of view.
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we want to make sure we can produce and reproduce the exact version of a product we shipped to a customer.
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PDM is about managing this.
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It's also the place where your design and engineering bill of materials are structured, organized, and managed.
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If we were to take a survey and ask what does this mean to you, this is the type of word cloud we would see.
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It's about product development.
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But what about libraries in concurrent design?
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We see a couple of other acronyms in there.
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BOM, that's your bill materials.
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Version and revision.
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It's about having a single source of truth.
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The one place to look for all your designs and your engineering bill materials.
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And that's the goal of PDM. It's more than just check in and check out.
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It has a lot of other responsibilities within an organization.
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As we said before, PDM at Autodesk is done with our product Vault.
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There is a couple of different versions of Vault.
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One of them is actually included with product design and manufacturing collection.
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You might be entitled to it through a number of other products. And that's called Vault Basic.
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Vault Basic is a tool that's supporting your engineers, better managing your designs than Windows Explorer,
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network drives, Dropbox, Google Drive, or things like that.
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It allows you to do some of the things you see here on the word cloud.
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And if you desire more, you can work your way up to Vault Professional.
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Vault Professional will fully support the PDM functionality.
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We can see it represented by this word cloud on this page.
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This concludes our Part 1 of the presentation.
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Please watch the Part 2 and Part 3 to capture the complete content provided.
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