SPARK Plus: Advancing Product Lifecycle Management in Discrete Industries
New Standard in Product Lifecycle Management: Analyst credibility Converges with End-user Verification under SPARK Plus™ PLM’s Enlarged Mandate in the Discrete QKS Group defines Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in discrete industries as a strategic-enterprise-system that helps organizations manage the entire lifecycle of physical, part-based products electronically, from ideation, design, and engineering through manufacture, service, and eventual decommissioning. It is the unifying centre back-engine that coordinates multiple discipline-based product data, providing the basis for ensuring traceability, regulative compliance, and real-time engineering, manufacture, quality, and supply-chain collaborative work. By harmonizing product and process information, PLM enables manufacturers to innovate faster, be leaner, reduce risk, and bring high-quality, compliant products quicker and more effectively, to market. It is not incremental, but rather, transformational. It is what ...