Comprehensive PLM Assessment
TriStar’s PLM Assessment offers product development organizations a clear path to align their business processes and technologies with their goals and PLM maturity. By identifying gaps and opportunities, this assessment helps teams optimize operations, streamline workflows, and stay on track to achieve success.
PROCESS ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW
What Does the Process Involve?
TriStar’s PLM Assessment takes a collaborative approach to tackling specific product development challenges. Our consultants work closely with your team to align your unique processes and development environment with PLM maturity. Together, we create a detailed action plan designed to deliver measurable results.
Maximizing profits becomes achievable when critical business strategies—such as boosting revenue, cutting costs, and attracting new customers—are connected directly to operational excellence and improvements in product development and PLM maturity.
IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING ASSESSMENT
How effective is your PLM Implementation Planning?
Are you ready to map out a clear three to five-year vision for your PLM Deployment?
TriStar’s PLM Implementation Planning service is designed to address detailed work activities, including milestones and risk management
Do you lack adequate management support and buy in for your PLM plans?
Our assessment is presented in a form that can be presented with confidence to senior management for their approval and commitment
Are you looking to plan beyond the next release or implement a major upgrade?
Our plans can be created as part of a stand-alone PLM assessment or as part of broader 3 to 5 year PLM Vision Plan
OUR PROCESS
PLM Assessment and Long-Term Roadmap Planning
| Assessment | Step 1: Project Preparation | Step 2: Best Practice Reviews | Step 3: Blueprint Development | Step 4: Blueprint Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | Confirm business case approach and rules | Identify benefit areas and define improvement baselines | Quantify benefits and document risks and assumptions | Generate the business case with cost, ROI and define skills, estimate deployment resources |
| Business Process | Review as-is process, pain points, business process blueprints | Conduct workshops to draft PLM business concepts. Derive PLM area and PLM service requirements | Develop the PLM business blueprint | Validate the business blueprint and establish a phased deployment. Define the governance structure |
| IT Architecture | Extract core PLM architecture questions and assess as-is architecture pain points | Draft the first application map | Develop interface, integration, and migration path scenarios | Define technology blueprint |
