Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Mergers, Partnerships, Industry Reports, & Financial Developments
Zero Wait-State and Propel Announce Strategic Partnership to Modernize CAD and PLM in the Cloud
Zero Wait-State and Propel today announced a new strategic partnership that combines Zero Wait-State’s proven Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementation services and integration solutions with Propel’s modern cloud PLM software. The partnership will help manufacturing companies to more easily collaborate on product designs, modernize their business systems, and deliver better products to their customers, ultimately resulting in higher revenue, margins, and customer adoption…
Global Cloud-Based PLM Market Analysis and Forecast to 2022 | Growth Opportunity Assessment
The Cloud Based PLM Market is expected to grow from USD 18.65 Billion in 2016 to USD 40.55 Billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 16.80% during the forecast period. Rising need for integrated PLM solution, effective management of supply chain, and increasing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) are driving the cloud PLM market…
Global PLM in the Automotive Sector - Increasing Product Recalls to Boost Demand
Technavio’s updated research report on PLM in the automotive sector for 2018-2022 will present an up-to-date analysis of the market with regards to the current competitive landscape vis-à-vis the global environment. It will also provide new forecasts based on recent developments in the automotive market…
New Product Releases Impacting PLM
Creo 5.0, the latest release of PTC Creo® computer-aided design (CAD) software, enables users to go from concept to manufacturing in one design environment. Creo 5.0 introduces five new capabilities for the fast-changing world of product design and features key productivity enhancements.
Creo enables companies to accelerate product innovation and build better products faster by reusing the best designs and replacing assumptions with facts. With Creo 5.0, concepts can be transformed into smart, connected products, bridging the physical and digital worlds with augmented reality (AR) capabilities in every seat. Creo 5.0 also introduces exciting capabilities in the areas of topology optimization, additive and subtractive manufacturing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and CAM.
Tutorials, Strategies, & Thoughts on PLM
PLM Still Struggles To Break Out of Engineering Ranks
Despite years of positioning and decades worth of new functionality, product lifecycle management (PLM) remains grounded in the engineering department, still struggling to take flight as an enterprise hub for managing the complete product lifecycle…
PLM Recognition & Events
Webinar On-Demand: AGILE PLM SECURITY BEST PRACTICES
Presenter Bob McDuffee, Certified Ethical Hacker and System Engineer for Zero Wait-State, has more than 30 years of industry experience. By watching this webinar, you will learn security basics as they apply to Agile PLM, see Admin techniques to improve the security of your Agile PLM, and gain an understanding of security patches for Agile PLM and WebLogic.
Training On-Demand: Keeping Oracle Agile PLM Relevant While Carving a Path to the Cloud
Building on our last webinar hosted by Dries D’hooghe, this 60-minute training class will teach you how to keep Oracle Agile PLM relevant in a cloud ecosphere. By attending, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to extend the life of your Agile PLM investment by making it work for your specific company needs, all the while planning your path to the cloud.
Webinar On-Demand: PLM Built for YOU: UNLOCK the True Value of Agile PLM
This 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how automation and customization frameworks from Zero Wait-State unlock the true value of Oracle's Agile PLM system. Did you know you can tailor Agile PLM to meet your specific business needs without needing hard-coded, one-off Process Extensions? Attend this webinar to gain an understanding of what "customizations done the right way" are, and, find out how to extend the life of your Agile PLM investment by making it work for YOU.
Webinar On-Demand: Planting Seeds: Teleflex Agile PLM Plant Specific BOM Customization via Automation
Featuring Teleflex, a medical device manufacturer, and hosted by Zero Wait-State, this webinar will demonstrate how Teleflex was able to fully enable plant-specific bills of materials (BOMs) by leveraging Zero Wait-State’s PLM Automation Software Suite in 10 weeks. This automation supported Teleflex's cost savings objectives of nearly a million dollars a month.
Webinar On-Demand: Smashing Through the Wall: the Barriers Between Design and PLM
Featuring Cisco and hosted by us and Perception Software, this 45-minute webinar will highlight the "wall" between Design and PLM, the impact of this wall, and solutions to smash through it. Anthony Burton, Tech Lead at Cisco Systems, will share his challenges with this wall and how he built a bridge to connect Design and PLM.
Webinar On-Demand: Revolutionize Your PLM Reports By Taking Control of the Design
Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how simple and cost-effective it can be to unlock and share the power of your Oracle® Agile PLM data in a format that meets your specific company's document requirements using DocState, one of the software products in ZWS' PLM Automation Suite. DocState can also extract relevant Agile PLM data, use a report template to transform it into a format such as CSV or XML, push it into another business system and later perform the reverse
actions to pull data updates back into Agile PLM.
Webinar On-Demand: Expedite the Compliance Data Validation and Collection Process
Hosted by Zero Wait-State and lead by our PLM compliance expert, Dries D’hooghe, this 60-minute webinar will cover validating and loading compliance and environmental information into Oracle Agile’s PLM to ensure your products are compliant with RoHS, REACH, Conflict Minerals. LoadState, one of the software products in ZWS' PLM Automation Suite, dramatically improves compliance data loading productivity and accuracy by allowing business users to manage updates to the collection and validation criteria themselves without having to wait weeks or months for IT to initiate a project to make the necessary changes. Thus, LoadState not only protects your PLM investment but also your accountability over time.
Webinar On-Demand: Seamlessly Connect CAD 
Systems with Enterprise PLM and Maximize NPD Data Value
Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how you can easily implement a flexible and cost-effective integration framework that connects CAD Data Management systems with enterprise PLM systems using DesignState, one of the software products in ZWS' PLM Automation Suite. DesignState works with Oracle’s Agile PLM, PTC Windchill’s PDMLink, and Dassault’s SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. The powerful XML-based rules engine increases customization opportunities and sophistication. Seamless bidirectional integration between PDM and PLM improves everyone’s productivity.
Webinar On-Demand: Personalize the PLM Experience Through Secure, Modern Interfaces and UIs
Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how you can easily and efficiently develop integrations and create user interfaces that are customized for key purposes using RestState, one of the software products in our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Automation Suite. As a result, RestState helps increase NPD productivity and extend and protect your Agile PLM investment. And, you will have simple, technology-agnostic access to your Agile PLM data.
Webinar On-Demand: Increase NPD Productivity by Automating & Customizing Your PLM Processes
Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how you can customize your Oracle Agile PLM system to automate Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes using AttributeState, one of the software products in ZWS's PLM Automation Suite. Based on configurable templates with embedded business logic and plug-and-play macros, AttributeState allows you to tailor your Agile PLM system to your unique business needs, without developing hard-coded Java based extensions.
