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PLM Mobility

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PLM Mobility | June 2012

TABLe OF COnTenTS

Abbreviations 3

Introduction 4

Mobility Trends 4

Challenges on Mobility for a Manufacturing Company 5

Mobility for Manufacturing: Key Application Examples 5

HCL’s PLM Mobility Initiatives 6

HCL Mobility Solutions – An Overview 7

HCL Rapid Mobile Application Engineering – Methodology 7

HCL’s Mobile App Development Competency Matrix 8

Conclusion 8

Author Info 8



Abbreviations

Sl. No.

Acronyms (Page No.) Full Form

1 PLM Product Lifecycle Management (System)

2 ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (System)

3 CRM Customer Relationship Management (System)

4 ECO Engineering Change Order

5 WBS Work Breakdown Structure



Introduction

PLM is an integral part of any manufacturing enterprise’s DNA today. Needless to say that it is the fundamental repository to manage end-to-end product development information. With consistent pressure on toplines and bottomlines, quick and smarter information access and decision making ease is the order of the day.

Mobile professionals as an integral part of the product lifecycle need timely and accurate access to range of information, lack of which could deal with costly delays and errors. They need to be always wired to the activities around their product. With lean processes kicking in strong, all stakeholders can never be out of the product information loop.

Advances in wireless networking – speed, reliability and coverage, it is now feasible for the users to remain connected with the business surrounding their product.

“The enterprise mobile workforce represented 57 percent of employees in 2010 and is expected to grow to as much as 93 percent by 2015” – Forrester Research

Mobility Trends

Before we see the PLM best practices and end user scenarios around mobility, let us examine a few trends and perspectives:

IT, Users, Technology & Business Views for Mobility

1. Analytics and business intelligence 2. Mobile technologies 3. Cloud computing, including SaaS4. Collaboration/ workflow technologies 5. Legacy modernization

(Gartner) Top CIO Priorities – 2012 Smartphone Penetration is Growing

44% Smartphone Penetration

g y6. IT management 7. CRM8. ERP applications9. Security10. Virtualization The IT View The User View

These are your employees.

Penetration by Platform

The Technology View The Business View



Challenges on Mobility for a Manufacturing Company

Mobility for Manufacturing: Key Application Examples

Mobile technology provides more effective communication, timeliness, and quality of business interactions.

Consider the following examples:

1) An engineer is away from his workstation in a problem solving session wants to get a view of production or to see their products in the field

2) Key decision makers are on travel

3) Plant Engineers and service technicians need to access product data in their non-conducive work locations such as the plant or the field

PLM End Users:

• Manufacturing/ Field Engineers

• Design Engineers

• Administrators

• Field Service/ Repair Technicians

• Management

Technology Fragmentation

High Rate of Technology Change

High Overall Investment

Business Process have to be Rethought

Technology Fragmentation

High Rate of Technology Change

High Overall Investment

Business Process have to be rethought



Manufacturing

Productivity

Asset Management, Inventory Management, Shop floor management, Process Monitoring, ECO Process, Scheduling & Capacity Management

Sales Management/ CRM, Online Collaboration, Approval Workflows, Product Catalogs, R&D workflows

Service

E i i

Mobile in Manufacturing

Process, Scheduling & Capacity Management

Field Service Management, Product spares/ catalogs, Diagnostic tools, Inspection and Reporting

Engineering &

Intelligence

Customer Experience

Manufacturing

Product Extensions on mobile, Marketing campaigns, Interactive applications for branding, Product configurations, Product spare catalogs

Product Information, Executive Dashboards, Business Intelligence, Product Analytics

HCL’s PLM Mobility Initiatives

HCL has actively invested on the PLM mobile space for a optimum mobile user experience around the following areas:

Search, filter, sort and browse product and related specification information Procure latest versions and red-lines Viewer 2D/ 3D view of the Product Model and Drawings PLM Metadata display

Product Information

PLM Metadata display Markup & Annotate designs/documents for upstream design feedback Take notes Upload camera images into PLM objects from field or equipment centers

Day to Day Operations Task Lists, Approvals & dependency status Workflows, Notifications (Regular & System health alerts for Admins) Meeting information and Planners Discussion Threads Subscriptions to Product or any other information of interest

Day-to-Day Operations

Project Status Dashboard WBS Drilldowns Resource allocation/ optimization decisions

Dashboards and Drilldowns

Workflow Dashboards Quality Dashboard Metrics Compliance Dashboards

Change Management Dashboard Per Assembly drilldown with change markups



HCL Mobility Solutions – An Overview

HCL Rapid Mobile Application Engineering – Methodology

High Performance Native

Applications Cross-P

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Mobility Roadmap Consulting

Solutioning& Mobile Application &

Devices

Mobile OS’ es

Mobile Solutions

Partner

Platform

Hybrid

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HTML 5 and Web Applications and

Widgets

Mob

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Application Design,Development & Integration

Application Quality & Certification

ppDevice Management

Technologies

Enterprise Systems

HCL’s depth and breadth of mobility services enables us to be your “Enterprise Mobility

Centre of Excellence”.Mobility Platforms

HCL offers a business & market-driven approach to Mobile application development which includes a proven Agile based application engineering methodology which

enables execution of a business aligned cross-platform Mobile application roadmap.

HCL Mobility Ecosystem

AMP – Agile Engineering for Mobile Platforms

Mobile Application Engineering

Business Requirements

Mobile Readiness Assessment (MRA)

Rapid Mobile Application Testing

Mobility Testing, Compliance & Launch

1 2 3

Re-engineering / Migration / PortingTechnical Feasibility

Usability Study

g

Compliance & Certification

Release & LaunchEnterprise Mobility

1. Achieve focus on the right segments

2. Adopt latest trends in mobility

1. Achieve near-simultaneous multi-platform releases

2. More than 30% reduction in time & cost

1. Consistent experience across platforms

2. Certified across multiple devices3. Industry specific certifications



HCL’s Mobile App Development Competency Matrix

Conclusion

You need to leverage advantages of mobile technology as the product development process continues to evolve. Project teams that are mobilized enjoy superior responsiveness by decreasing the time needed to respond.

HCL’s mobility solutions facilitates on-the-fly smart decisions that result in better, cost effective and quicker products to market. Our solutions will evolve with the mobile device and emerging platforms.

Author Info

C

Rapid Mobile Application Development

StandardIDEs/ HCL

tools & optimized processes

Apple iOSV3.1 to

5.xAndroid

V1.5 to 4.x

Windows Mobile

V5.x to 7.xBlackberryV4.5 to 6

Objective C

Platform Specific Application Languages/ Technologies

Cross Platform

Migration & Porting

Java (Android API)

processes

Third Party Tools:

PhoneGap,

Cross Platform Application Technologies

Java (Blackberry API)

Net/ C#

Silverlight

Titanium Appcelerator,

Sencha,Rhomobile, Adobe CS

Enterprise/ Middleware Platforms Sybase, Antenna, SAP/ Oracle, Custom Development

HTML5 + CSS3 + JS

Adobe Flash/ Adobe AIR

MEAP Platforms:

AntennaAMP, Syclo, Verivo, SUP

Karthik is a Product Manager at HCL PLM group. He has extensive experience in PLM Consulting, Solution Architecting and Business Analysis across various industry domains.

Please mail him at [email protected] for further queries.

About HCL

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing’, underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ which empowers our 82,464 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, has reported consolidated revenues of US$ 4.0 billion (Rs. 19,412 crores), as on 31 March 2012 (on LTMbasis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com

About HCL Enterprise

HCL is a $6.2 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India’s original IT garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom & package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of information and communications technology (ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team consists of over 90,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 31 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has partnerships with several leading global 1000 firms, including leading IT and technology firms. For more on HCL, please visit www.hcl.com

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