Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Solutions to accelerate engineering lifecycles for global products

Whatever a product might be, for each step in the product engineering process, engineering teams can benefit from a global information management solution to accelerate the product lifecycle and shorten time-to-market.

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An automobile. A cell phone. A robot. A steel mill.

Whatever a product might be, for each step in the product engineering process (design, development, documentation, manufacturing, QA testing, and customer support), engineering teams can benefit from a global information management solution to accelerate the product lifecycle and shorten time-to-market.

Working with many of the world's leading engineering companies, SDL has developed best practices in the localization of product lifecycle information. That experience combined with sophisticated and highly effective systems and processes addresses a broad range of sector challenges, including:

Reducing time to market cycles for new product introductions
Ensuring compliance with local legal and manufacturing requirements (e.g. ISO9000, CE Mark, CMII, TQM)
Removing delays in releases of localized products, localized sales and marketing material, localized websites
Ensuring consistent terminology, collaborative content, design and manufacturing documentation
Reducing the overheads and inefficiencies of decentralized processes
Increasing Customer Satisfaction and improving Global Support while reducing costs
Shortening translation turnaround times for web-based service information

SDL helps shorten product lifecycles

Organizations involved in global product delivery use SDL to achieve simultaneous shipment to regions worldwide, improving company revenues while reducing costs. Our customers:

Save weeks of authoring, localization, and QA work through reuse of globalized content across documents, projects and development teams;
Significantly accelerate research dissemination, regulatory compliance, and product rollouts;
Optimize accuracy and consistency of product-related information across all languages;
Prevent errors, simplify engineering, and increase quality.

Webex

Accelerating the Delivery of Worldwide Product Information

Are your regional organizations dissatisfied with local product information, and diverging from the company’s global messages and branding? When providing product information such as brochures and product manuals to global audiences, it’s critical that you communicate corporate messages while addressing local business and cultural requirements.

Using XML for Product Information Publishing--The Road to Success at Siemens Medical Solutions

Join Astoria, SDL, and guest host Frank Gilbane, publisher of The Gilbane Report, for an online web seminar and learn how Siemens Medical went from strategy to solution implementation to publish its 2,200 product operation and maintenance documents in over 22 languages.

Shortening Time-to-Profit for Global Markets

Time-to-profit for global markets is dependent on many different factors: time-to-revenue in each market; costs incurred getting to market; relevance and consistency of communications for each market; economies of scale across multiple markets. All these factors impact the profitability of global markets.

Case Studies

Philips, faster to market with SDL's content localization solution

Philip's partnership with SDL has enabled more than 30% reduction in translation costs and improved time-to-market for multilingual product marketing communications. It used to take 4 months for new product information to reach local web sites, now it is available for publication within weeks.

White Papers

Managing Brands Globally through Operational Brand Management - Exec Briefing Paper

It's no secret that a well-managed brand adds value to an organization. Many studies have been performed around the creation, evolution, and valuation of brands. This 1-page Executive Brief gives an introduction to the key issues.