Business Requirements

High Tech and Electronics companies walk a tightrope between the imperative of delivering innovative, quality products and the need to meet margin and cost goals while staving off pricing challenges from global competitors. The shared knowledge base that can be leveraged by all segments of the company such as strategic partners, suppliers and customers.

Faster to Market

Reduce your time-to-market through lean processes, a higher yield on designs and faster cycle times. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Does success depend on bringing new products or models to market?
• Need better control on schedule slippage?
• Interested in reducing physical prototypes?
• Concerned about time to full scale production readiness

Compliance

Ensure compliance by incorporating customer and regulatory requirements into your product lifecycle. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Need to manage material information to support environmental directives (RoHS, WEEE)?
• Want to exchange compliance data with partners and suppliers?
• Are you required to show due diligence in supporting regulations and directives?
• Want to verify compliant parts were used in manufacturing?

Resource Optimization

Optimize your resources through digital product and process validation. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Are product costs putting pressure on already thin profit margins?
• Need to manage quality in high mix production?
• Need to manage production changes efficiently?
• Need to manage manufacturing changes quickly?

Globalization

Leverage globalization through real-time collaboration. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Finding it tough to stay in synch with value chain partners?
• Need better integration with partners during WIP?
• Design and build product in the most efficient global cost centers?

Solutions

Developing and delivering more innovative products to market quickly, at lower cost, while operating in distributed global environments are imperatives that challenge this industry. Siemens helps High Tech and Electronics companies answer the industry’s toughest questions – questions about how to get to market faster than ever, how to stay compliant with environmental requirements and how to get maximum profitability for your portfolio of products and services.

Strategic Product Planning

Because time-to-market, cost control, globalization and environmental compliance are driving imperatives in this industry, organizations must look for ways to focus enterprise resources on only the highest value projects and then execute within budget, schedule and quality targets. This is a constant priority in the quest to deliver profits to increase shareholder value.

Virtual Product Development

The High Tech and Electronics industry faces the perfect storm. Time to market pressures, the focus on cost & profits, increasing environmental regulations and product complexity is impacting industry participants with more force than ever. Many customers are demanding more sophisticated and innovative products which is in turn making the high tech product development lifecycle challenging. Many companies are looking at for solutions to help manage the distributed complex development lifecycles of software, electronics and mechanics.