Strategic PLM Development
Strategic and process-oriented:
Consulting for your product development
Understand structures. Develop processes in a targeted manner
A sustainable product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy does not begin with a tool selection, but with a clear understanding of processes, roles, and target visions. As your strategic consulting partner, CENIT supports you in taking a holistic approach to digital transformation through in-depth analysis, realistic target models, and a consistent process architecture.
With thorough consulting, technological expertise, and a system open approach, we lay the foundation for sound decisions and sustainable change – from assessing your current situation to end-to-end process design.
Analyze the current situation: Assess maturity level and identify potential
How digitally mature is your organization today – and where are the greatest value drivers for further development? As part of a Lean PLM Check, CENIT analyzes your current PLM and engineering landscape based on a structured maturity model. The focus is on organization, IT systems, data flows and methods. This enables a fact-based assessment of your current position, making strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities visible.
- Realistic assessment of digital maturity
- Comparison with branch companies to classify your processes
- Defined action areas for organization, systems, and methods
- Basis for a structured digitalized roadmap
Development of target picture and process architecture (PLM target operating model)
The next phase: a strategic goal as a compass for your further development. Along with you, CENIT develops a target operational model that clearly describes how your future PLM process landscape should be structured – including roles, methods, data flows, and system landscape. This model provides a solid foundation for decision-making and enables a focused, realistic transformation.
- Hand-on process and organization model
- Coordination of target structures across system and domain boundaries
- Sequenced steps for gradual implementation
- Confidence in IT investments and processes change
Connecting end-to-end processes: from development to operation
For turning strategy into everyday practice, processes must work seamlessly across the entire value chain. CENIT shows you how you can connect development, production, and service processes through consistent end-to-end structures, for example, through clear bill of materials (BOM) logic that consistently replicates data from engineering (E-BOM) through manufacturing (M-BOM) and service (S-BOM). Together, we identify gaps and breaks in the value chain, creating the foundation for smooth operations and improved product quality.
- Designing seamless transitions between engineering, production, and operations
- Identifying media and system breaks
- Advising on process integration across PLM, ERP, and manufacturing data
- Achieving quality and efficiency gains across the entire value chain
Methodology Strategy for Your Development Processes
With our advice on Multiphysics simulation applications, you can optimize your strategy specifically for the challenges of product creation. CENIT provides extensive expertise across diverse simulation disciplines and industries, covering manufacturing, CAD, and engineering. This enables you to accurately identify suitable calculation methods for your use case and integrate simulation-driven processes effectively into your product development.
We support, for example, the end-to-end digitalization of your engineering processes using Model-Based Definition (MBD). Manufacturing-, quality-, and function-relevant information (PMI) is anchored as a machine-readable Single Source of Truth directly in the 3D model. This reduces errors, simplifies handovers, and accelerates downstream processes such as production and inspection, eliminating media breaks and improving collaboration with suppliers and customers.
CENIT guides you through the implementation of simulation solutions such as MBD with proven methods, practical consulting, and pre-configured ready-to-use packages – enabling a phased transformation with predictable effort and measurable value.
- Objective assessment of your current methodology usage
- Structured integration of relevant standards into your processes
- Increasing transparency, maturity, and reusability
- Building methodological competence within your expert teams
CENIT – Consulting with Substance and Implementation Expertise
Digital transformation requires more than software: it requires process clarity, a strong target vision, and the right partner by your side. As an experienced consulting company, CENIT guides you toward a future ready PLM strategy – strategically grounded, methodically elaborated, and ready for practical implementation.
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