SEO-Optimized Description
In this session, Dave Fets, Solution Consultant for Infor PLM, delivers an in-depth overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its critical role in modern discrete manufacturing organizations. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience working with CAD technologies and over a decade specializing in PDM and PLM solutions, Dave explains how Infor PLM aligns engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise systems to solve today’s most pressing manufacturing challenges.
The presentation begins with an overview of current manufacturing pressures, including cost reduction, faster time-to-market, regulatory compliance, and the need for improved product quality. Dave explains why many traditional PDM and PLM solutions fail—primarily due to poor ERP integration, disconnected data silos, and manual handoffs between engineering and the rest of the business.
Dave highlights how Infor PLM Discrete overcomes these challenges by delivering true product lifecycle intelligence, tightly integrated with Infor SyteLine ERP. Unlike standalone or CAD-vendor-only solutions, Infor PLM provides a single version of the truth, ensuring real-time synchronization between CAD, engineering data, bills of material (BOMs), workflows, and ERP processes.
Key topics include CAD-neutral PLM support, enterprise-wide collaboration, revision control, workflow automation, regulatory compliance (RoHS, REACH, APQP, FDA 21 CFR), and secure management of all electronic product data. Dave also demonstrates how PLM extends beyond engineering to support manufacturing, procurement, quality, sales, service, and marketing—eliminating disconnected systems and manual processes.
This session is ideal for manufacturers looking to improve product accuracy, standardization, collaboration, and data integrity while accelerating product development and reducing operational risk.
SEO Keyword List
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