PLM Services – Institute for Process Excellence

IpX understands the criticality, urgent timing, risks, and path to successful PLM selection, deployment, implementation, and configuration.

Setting the Standard for PLM Tool Development

IpX is not a technology provider. Rather, the IpX service model built on our proprietary CM2 methodology offers a proven pragmatic approach to guide decision making, manage the disruptive aspects of change, and reduce risk.

IpX works with tool providers to ensure that their commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products meet the requirements in our proprietary CM2-600 standard. Because of this, IpX is uniquely positioned to guide your PLM deployment to success. We have extensive knowledge of and relationships with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) providers, which will be leveraged to ensure your organization aligns with the best tool. IpX partners with the PLM community through the IpX Digital Tool Certification process, certifying PLM products based on its ability to enable IpX’s proprietary CM2 processes and workflows.

Start Smart with Structured Assessments

The first step in any successful PLM deployment is an assessment to identify current practices, gaps, strengths, and opportunities that exist both within the written procedures as well as knowledge capture from individuals – “how things really get done.” We will analyze the current state of operations, systems utilization, and provide conclusions and summaries that culminates with a detailed assessment report and an IpX executive led presentation summarizing the recommended process improvements and actions for successful PLM deployment.

HOW WE ENGAGE

Technological Evolution

IpX PLM Services are a part of our modern and modular approach that extracts the needed performance objective from new technologies, with measurable growth, productivity, and efficiency across the enterprise. The IpX True North service model offers a proven pragmatic methodology to guide decision making, manage the disruptive aspects of change, and reduce risk. This is accomplished, in part, by holistically and incrementally addressing people, processes, and the supporting technologies that create and manage the organization’s critical intellectual assets.

Process Definition and Functional Requirements Generation

IpX will work with your organization to develop PLM functional requirements and business use cases. This includes heavy consideration of the required tool functionality and needed integrations based on a closed-loop process tailored for your environment.

Vendor Comparison and Recommendation

The evaluation and selection of PLM vendors and System Integrators is anchored in a structured and objective process eliminating bias, personal opinions, and vendor persuasions. IpX weighs factors such as initial discovery, user and PLM provider reviews, overall responses and thoroughness to the provided business scenario, live demonstration results and detailed analysis, proposed deployment support team, overall leadership commitment to client, and the business process acumen of the solution integrator resources.

Implementation and Migration Strategy

IpX utilizes an Agile methodology for software development and implementation. Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster. Instead of performing a “big bang” launch, an agile team delivers work in small and easily consumable increments. Requirements, plans, and results are evaluated continuously so teams have a natural mechanism for responding to change quickly using multiple short development sprints.