Product Lifecycle Management
We support the implementation and further development of PLM/PDM, from business preparation through to productive use.
For end customers, resellers and implementation partners. Focus: Siemens Teamcenter.
Services
Are you planning an implementation, replacing a PDM system or developing an existing environment? Abexis provides consulting and project leadership on the customer or provider side. Our work covers PLM/PDM generally, with particular expertise in Siemens Teamcenter.
Preparation
We analyse your starting point and describe the future working and data organisation. From this, we derive requirements and support system selection. If Teamcenter is already selected, we assess coverage and open points.
You receive: A coherent business concept, testable requirements and a sound basis for your system decision.
Project leadership
We lead the project on the customer or provider side, or reinforce your existing project management. We align business teams and the implementation team, prepare decisions and track agreed deliverables.
You gain: Additional leadership capacity and transparent steering – even when your project is progressing to plan.
Solution architecture
Together with technical specialists, we translate the business concept into an implementable solution. The focus is on the data model, system boundaries and business rules for changes and releases.
You create: An aligned foundation for configuration, integration and testing.
Independent assessment
We assess the preparation or current state of your initiative. Interviews and document reviews reveal missing prerequisites, emerging risks and decisions that need to be made.
You receive: A clear assessment with prioritised risks and concrete next steps.
Engagement models
We support your organisation from business preparation through to productive use. As customer-side project leadership, we represent the agreed project objectives and coordinate collaboration with the implementation partner.
We complement your consulting capabilities and take on provider-side project leadership. Depending on the mandate, we develop business concepts with your customer, coordinate the implementation team or lead the introduction project.
Key areas
The required functionality follows from your business model. We clarify what belongs in the first implementation step and which foundations must support later extensions.
Future development, change and release workflows, including responsibilities, decision paths and handovers.
Clear terms, identities and relationships between parts and documents, with ownership for cleansing and maintenance.
Alignment of CAx data and business bills of materials, including features and permitted combinations in the product architecture.
Clear system ownership, defined transfers, release rules and error handling within the integration concept.
Early involvement of key users and process owners, with training based on new workflows and concrete system tasks.
Business acceptance across complete workflows, proven migration and cutover, and clearly organised support and operations.
Our principle
The future way of working determines the business concept. The business concept determines the software requirements.
Approach
We combine the overall perspective with a clearly bounded, achievable first scope. Use cases make requirements concrete and help validate the concept.
Clarify objectives and the starting point. Describe future processes, roles and data organisation independently of any system.
Test requirements with concrete cases. Map the selected solution to the business concept and decide necessary adaptations.
Prepare the intended data scope. Test releases, changes and system handovers with real product data.
Move into production after business acceptance. Enable users and support, hand over operations and prioritise next steps.
Master data organisation starts with the current-state analysis and continues as a dedicated workstream in parallel.
Benefits
Requirements and open points are traceable. Management can see which decisions and resources are needed.
It is clear which product state may be used for each process, creating reliable handovers.
Priorities and dependencies are visible. Extensions are assessed for their impact on effort and timing.
New tasks are practised before launch. Contacts and responsibilities are clear after cutover.
Our role
Product Lifecycle Management connects engineering with downstream value-creation processes. It requires a shared view of the product and a project organisation that turns decisions into action.
Abexis brings the business and organisational topics together. Depending on the mandate, we work for the user organisation or the PLM provider and coordinate delivery with business teams and technical specialists.
The engagement may cover preparation, a focused assessment or project leadership. At the outset, we agree which side we represent, which responsibilities we take on and who makes binding decisions.
Frequently asked questions
PLM/PDM guidance
Explore the differences, the implementation approach and the specific role of Siemens Teamcenter.
Independent Teamcenter consulting and project leadership in Switzerland—from business concept and solution architecture to implementation and productive use.
Read guide →Implement PLM/PDM successfully: from business concept and system selection through data, pilot and testing to productive use.
Read guide →What is the difference between PLM and PDM? Clear definitions, a practical comparison and decision guidance for industrial companies.
Read guide →Next step
Are you planning or leading a PLM/PDM initiative as a business, reseller or implementation partner? Together, we will clarify where support would be useful and which responsibilities Abexis can take on.
