PLM software to assure Product Safety, Quality and Regulatory Compliance

Companies across manufacturing sectors are faced with complex legislation that places constraints on the design of their products. Meeting compliance challenges today has resulted in increased product development cost, decreased ability to innovate, and added staffing. Find out AberdeenGroup's key business value findings and recommendations for action.

You will learn how Best-in-Class companies:

• Consolidate and provide visibility to regulatory requirements from all applicable regulations.
• Develop and centralize a source of accurate product data that reflects both as-designed and as-built product configurations.
• Collect detailed compliance information from suppliers and determine detailed material content.
• Document compliance to support customer requirements and potential audits.

Infor10 PLM Process (Optiva) includes:

• Global infrastructure with integrated governance and business process management that can continually change without coding. Supported methodologies include Alignment Gate, LEAN and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
• Global intellectual property and specification management solution that provides secure access to relevant and increased reuse
• Advanced formula-based manufacturing and modeling tools for comprehensive formula management
• Integrated packaging management with formula and package compatibility and stability support
• Comprehensive identification capabilities regarding critical-to-customer and critical-to-quality characterizations, which help reduce R&D costs and non-value added activities
• Integrated vendor and supplier enablement and collaboration, resulting in improved quality, increased innovation, increased agility and reduced lead times
• Simulation of marketability, scalability, repeatability, reliability and manufacturability from concept through launch to reduce the time to scale, reduce stock outages, improve promotional effectiveness, increase revenue and profits
• Modular design and global infrastructure is designed to easily add new SBUs, business processes, product lines, acquisitions and support for new regulations

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