PLM solutions aim to increase efficiencies with goals such as "reduce Product development cycle time" or "shorten time to market".
Reality check
Paradoxically many cases PLM systems rolled out have deep performance issues that cause user frustration and can nullify collaborative benefits of PLM .. If it takes longer to search part.. or longer to rollup cost , users are annoyed and consequence is inefficiency in product development.
The User Expectation ..
Unfortunately, comparisons are with consumer IT .. Once a user asked me how come Google searches and delivers millions of results in fraction of seconds .. while you take minutes to load few thousand parts ?
To an IT educated person, answer could be explained giving myriad of explanations. Nevertheless I think the question, why PLM systems cannot improve to the level of consumer applications need to be thought. Even with perceived benefits of PLM, I think it is not unreasonable for users to expect performance of lotus notes and excel with PLM solutions. Since this is one thing they cannot wait for .. getting data in shortest time.
Of course there are advances, for example embedding indexed searches, yet I have not seen PLM solutions truly scale up to the level where performance issues are not the top concerns. Performance coupled with usability causes even more trouble.
Top Performance issues :
What are the top 5 challenges with PLM solutions with regards to performance ?
.. based on my experience here is one list I could come up with :
Pl share your thoughts ..
-Mahesh
Reality check
Paradoxically many cases PLM systems rolled out have deep performance issues that cause user frustration and can nullify collaborative benefits of PLM .. If it takes longer to search part.. or longer to rollup cost , users are annoyed and consequence is inefficiency in product development.
The User Expectation ..
Unfortunately, comparisons are with consumer IT .. Once a user asked me how come Google searches and delivers millions of results in fraction of seconds .. while you take minutes to load few thousand parts ?
To an IT educated person, answer could be explained giving myriad of explanations. Nevertheless I think the question, why PLM systems cannot improve to the level of consumer applications need to be thought. Even with perceived benefits of PLM, I think it is not unreasonable for users to expect performance of lotus notes and excel with PLM solutions. Since this is one thing they cannot wait for .. getting data in shortest time.
Of course there are advances, for example embedding indexed searches, yet I have not seen PLM solutions truly scale up to the level where performance issues are not the top concerns. Performance coupled with usability causes even more trouble.
Top Performance issues :
What are the top 5 challenges with PLM solutions with regards to performance ?
.. based on my experience here is one list I could come up with :
- Navigation: BOM Tree navigation , multi-level hierarchical navigation, structured navigation unique to PLM
- Search: Based on attribute combination and displaying result information, structure compares
- Rollups: Cost, Compliance, mass rollups, Bulk operations release ECO
- Document Access : Vaulting, Upload/ Download file data
- Integration : Product Data exchange with upstream and downstream enterprise systems
Pl share your thoughts ..
-Mahesh
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