The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Cloud offers companies the opportunity to flexibly book all necessary resources as a service. Products can be developed with CAD (Computer-Aided Design) systems in the cloud and tested with CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) methods. High-performance computing resources can also be used flexibly from one of the fastest data centers in Europe.
Customer-centric solution for end-to-end PLM process
Product development environments with 3D workplaces
Vendor-neutral offering on a pay-per-use basis
High Performance Computing, base + peak load coverage
Hosting in secure German twin core data centers
Product Features
PLM Cloud Service
The PLM Cloud Service offers PLM environments with hardware and software in a transparent pay-per-use model from the cloud, available in the two editions Basic and Professional.
Software
Various software products are available to cover the product development process, PLM/PDM systems as well as CAx authoring systems, in a SaaS or a bring your own license model.
Infrastructure
Virtual CAx developer workstations, collaboration environment with backend servers and team storage as well as high performance computing on Hawk, one of the fastest HPC systems in the world in a „pay-per-use“ model.
Available Software
Software systems in bring your own license model
LS-Dyna
Ansys
StarCCM+
Software in SaaS model
Permas
Animator
Medina
PLM/PDM systems in bring your own license model
ARAS Innovator
Teamcenter
PLM systems with subscription model
CIM Database
Other CAx authoring systems (e.g. CAD software) can be installed on request and run in bring your own license model.
Service modules of the PLM Cloud
PLM Cloud was developed as an integrated, customer- and process-oriented solution that aims to cover the entire product development process from the definition of requirements for a new product to PLM, CAD, CAE E/E subprocesses, supplier integration and production preparation. Accordingly, here service modules can be found to cover the entire process. Since 2018 Open Telekom Cloud is TISAX Level 3 certified (this is equivalent to the highest security standard for development data in the automotive industry.
Benefits of PLM Cloud
Increased speed and efficiency of your product development
Focus on the core business of product development. We provide and operate the environment flexibly and according to your needs.
Support of worldwide engineering teams
Your engineers have the same flexible access to engineering data from anywhere.
Access to engineering data from office, home-office, factory floor, customer site
Easy access from any location supports collaboration scenarios with partners, suppliers and customers.
Connect with engineering data to production and field/service data (IoT), apply Big Data and AI approaches.
We support your digitization initiatives in a sustainable way.
Flexibility in hardware and software resources
Hardware and software planning and long-term capital commitment are eliminated. These resources are used as required from the Cloud and paid for on a pay-per-use basis.
Flexibility in end devices
Depending on the application, data can be conveniently accessed using a tablet, thin client, notebook or workstation. Your applications run as a managed service in the cloud, regardless of the end device.
Focus on innovation and cost reduction
Get rid of infrastructure and platform deployment tasks. Instead, you concentrate on your core business in the age of digitization.
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Cloud is not equal to cloud
Software- and software vendor-specific cloud solutions can cover lower requirements. However, if the development process is more complex, involves several disciplines and different software systems from different software vendors, such solutions quickly reach their limits because employees with highly secret and large data have to change clouds several times a day. This is where PLM Cloud comes in as a customer process-centric solution that integrates all the software systems from different vendors required in the development process in a highly secure and centrally managed environment.
Customer Journey
New challenges ahead
Dedicated answers needed to stay on top of the game
Product development belongs to the core business processes impacting a company's competitiveness in various ways - now more than ever. However, there are numerous challenges that require specific answers in order to stay on top of the game:
Customers expect mass customization coupled with extremely short product release cycles.
At the same time the complexity of the engineering process is rising, electrical, mechanical and software aspects need to be seamlessly integrated in an efficient and secure way.
Combined, this indicates a higher engineering effort per item produced and sold.
Costs need to be reduced while at the same time agility and room for innovation need to be improved.
Working in distributed teams within the company as well as cross company collaboration brings the need for higher integration of product development tools.
New competitors are disrupting industries with a complete new view on product features and integration of production and service requirements into the product.
Design processes need to be improved by utilizing digital technologies.
Winds of Change
Digitization is disrupting the future of engineering
Several trends around how products are designed, produced and used, have a direct impact on engineering. The general shift from physical to data means that product data becomes more diverse and more important:
Designing, testing and production engineering is increasingly done in the form of simulation.
Digital twins as a set of computer models provide the means to design, validate and optimize a part, a product, a manufacturing process or a production facility in the virtual world.
With additive manufacturing and upcoming concepts of on demand production, data will also replace the physically stored product.
New technologies offers opportunities as they become integrated product features. Therefore subject to PLM:
IoT, Cloud, Ubiquitous Connectivity and Security as well as
Cognitive Computing or Advanced Machine Learning
New cooperation models between business partners lead to new innovative designs.
Keep a watchful eye
Flexibility and agility are prerequisites for success
There is a clear business need to increase speed and efficiency of product development and reduce time to market. New challenges and the opportunities opened up through digitization technologies are putting new pressure on the efficient management of the time/cost/quality triangle. Flexibility and agility will be the decisive component in various dimensions.
In this context PLM systems need to enable:
Flexibility in hardware and software resources: Easy scaling up and down according to business needs; independence of end devices
Agility in cross company collaboration and partner integration: being able to work efficiently on a project basis in changing partner and ecosystem constellations
Agility in working: Enable mobile working and access from anywhere with dedicated role concepts
Economic flexibilityTransforming capex to opex and paying only for the actual consumption
At the same time security and compliance regulations need to be fulfilled so that agility and flexibility can be fully exploited. Companies who do not take necessary measures to enable flexibility and agility and leverage digitalization possibilities will lose their competitive edge.
A conveyor into the future
The agile solution: PLM Cloud
T-Systems’ PLM Cloud provides comprehensive functionality (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) for all major PLM processes.
Flexible booking of on-demand hard- and software components supporting different roles in product development.
These components include PLM/PDM systems for data management, workflows and collaboration, as well as virtual desktop PCs and 3D graphics workstations for design and simulation tasks.
The offering is completed by scalable on-demand High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. Europe´s fastest super computer supports the largest demands for simulation of product behavior.
T-Systems’ PLM Cloud is vendor independent. Customers can choose from various software alternatives. Besides "Bring your Own License“ a growing number of applications can also be used in “SaaS” mode.
The service is accessible from anywhere in the world, hosted in the most modern data center in Germany, provided according to the highest security regulations based on our Open Telecom Cloud platform.
Enjoy the variety
Specific use cases for different demands
Different market players have different needs based on their business focus, their role in the PLM ecosystem, the maturity and specifics of their application landscape or the concrete business goals they are pursuing.
A SME might be interested in covering the complete simulation load with the help of the PLM Cloud solution. An OEM on the other hand might be primarily interested in flexibly booking additional HPC capacities to cover peaks in their simulation work load.
Depending on the current application landscape and project contracts with an OEM, an engineering service provider might be interested in subscribing to one specific software application only, whereas a supplier might be wanting to use a complete PLM environment from the PLM Cloud.
Project oriented working with changing requirements becomes more and more important. SMEs and engineering partners in particular can cover the required softwareW resources in a cost-efficient and flexible manner only for the required period of time and only paying according to actual consumption.
The PLM Cloud covers a wide range of specific use case scenarios which can be deployed according to the specific needs and situation of the respective ecosystem players.
Different flavors of value
Benefits for diverse stakeholder needs
Our PLM Cloud solution provides value for different stakeholders:
CEO:
faster time to market, support of new business models,
improved competitiveness and better managed rising complexity,
supporting to become a more agile organization.
Product Development:
one stop shop for best of breed functionality, chosen from wide range of applications,
flexibility in resources to keep project timelines,
high performance, right level of computing power,
easy collaboration within the engineering network, accessible anywhere, anytime, including for home workers and freelancers.
CFO:
no upfront investment, from capex to opex,
pay per use and quit at any time.
CIO:
addressing changing needs of product development quickly and cost efficiently,
highest level of scalability and security,
reallocation of own resources from standard to digital transformation and innovation related tasks.
Let's start together. Now!
Test run or go live - getting together has never been as easy
You still have doubts about the PLM Cloud?
Get your personal test environment where you can experience remote working, see if your current PLM processes can be mapped and also test if the PLM Cloud brings added value to your product development process. Our active support during this test period will help you explore the possibilities.
You need assistance getting into the cloud?
Our experts can guide you through the complete transformation process from assessing your current situation, implementing the solution and integrating it into your current systems landscape. They will make sure that this transformation will be done in an cost efficient way while safeguarding your daily business.
You have clear ideas what features you want to use in the PLM Cloud?
You can easily place your order via the eShop and you will get your working environment to fulfill your project needs.
Use Cases for PLM Cloud
Original Equipment Manufacturer
PLM Cloud provides OEMs with flexible overflow capacity and enables them to respond quickly to unplanned requirements or product development challenges. For cross-company B2B collaboration scenarios, PLM Cloud provides project-related cloud workspaces.
Supplier
PLM Cloud maps all steps in product development with all essential resources – and with flexible billing.
Engineering Provider
With PLM Cloud, engineering service providers can offer projects faster and cheaper and concentrate on their core business of product development. Service providers can now calculate their infrastructure and software costs on a per day base, just as they calculate the costs for their engineers.
Architects
With PLM Cloud, architects and architectural offices have their workstations and drawings always and everywhere available, in the office, in the home office and at the construction site.
Small and medium-sized manufacturers
With PLM Cloud, medium-sized manufacturers are extending the CAE protection process to other disciplines, because open source process chains and day-based pay-as-you-use models eliminate the entry thresholds.
Research facilities
PLM Cloud provides research facilities with direct access to on-demand high-performance computing capacities for simulations, data analytics and data discovery. The cloud work areas are the ideal collaboration platform for international projects.
Do you have any questions?
Would you like to consult, or have questions about testing, booking or using the products?
A team of specially certified cloud experts helps you with all questions & problems.
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