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Calculation Save: 1662300
Calculation Original Cost of Project: 3324600
Calculation CSP: 1662300
Calculation TP: 19.98
Calculation AP: 34.6
Calculation AP Graph: 69.3
Lookup AP Years: 5
Calculation PUI: 0
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Calculation SUI: 0
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Exceptional products are critical to any company's success. Likewise, engineers are crucial to ensuring products have what it takes to succeed in the market. Therefore, empowering engineers is key to the successful execution of business strategies. Unfortunately, engineers report spending too much time on non-value-added work, taking them away from critical innovation work. Tech-Clarity research finds that PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions reclaim some of that lost time such that the investment will pay for itself. This report will help you calculate the potential ROI of PLM at your company.


Guest Company's Information

You have told us that your products are: Complex
and your company's growth goal is to: Improve margins and profitability

You are looking to achieve it by: Being a low-cost provider

Yet, Too many interruptions (answering questions, providing data, status updates, etc.) is holding you back.

Our survey results show that PLM can help companies like yours.

Tech Clarity

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is a software-enabled strategy to improve processes to conceptualize, design, develop, and manage products. PLM includes PDM (Product Data Management) which is a structured, collaborative solution that helps manufacturers control, access, and share product data. PLM extends PDM by managing the processes that use and support the data.

Guest Company's Expected Improvement with PLM

Based on your responses and the experiences of companies similar to yours, PLM can help your company achieve the following:

1 Time Savings

50%Less Time

Reduction in your development time, allowing you to reduce development projects from 30 weeks to 15 weeks.

2 Cost Savings

$1.6mPer Project

Development costs you will save on a single product based on time savings.

3 Increased Revenue Opportunities

34.6More Projects

These savings will allow you to complete 34.6 more projects in 5 years.

The time savings will allow engineers to spend more time improving products to boost profitability and the cost savings will help to improve margins.

How These Results Will Be Achieved

These results will be achievable because of the following expected improvements due to implementing PLM. These improvements are based upon the results of companies similar to yours with similarly complex products. The metrics reflect their experiences after implementing PLM:

1Satisfaction with collaboration improvements

98% report satisfaction with collaboration improvements since implementing PDM/PLM.

Most companies report satisfaction with PLM's impact on improving collaboration. The percentage reflects an average of those who say they are satisfied with how PLM improved various collaboration activities such as collaboration with engineers within the same discipline, other disciplines, other departments, and third parties. Improved collaboration will lead to greater efficiencies so engineers can spend more time on efforts that will lead to superior products that will support a higher price and will boost margins.


2Change in time spent managing changes

37% less time managing changes

Engineering change orders require lots of collaboration to execute the change properly. PLM can help automate much of the change workflow, enabling better collaboration to execute changes far more efficiently.


3Change in time spent on rework

35% less time on rework

Poor collaboration often results in rework because engineers don't have access to the latest information or don't realize there have been changes that impact them. PLM improves collaboration, and as a result, companies report that PLM helps them spend less time on rework. PLM capabilities such as traceability, version control, and a single source of truth improve collaboration and consequently reduce rework.


It can be easy to dismiss all the hidden costs associated with wasted engineering time.

However, imagine how much better off your company would be if you could get even more value from your engineers. Many companies similar to yours have addressed this by implementing PLM, and they experience significant benefits. PLM allows them to minimize many manual tasks engineers hate to do. They can also unlock more value from their engineering data. As a result, they save money, reduce development time, and can complete more projects to create additional revenue opportunities. This leads to a healthy return on their PLM investment, plus more competitive, profitable products.

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