PLM Consulting Services
John Stark Associates provides consulting services for all aspects of PLM. Examples of areas for which consultancy is provided are shown below.
Organisation
PLM Vision and Strategy development
Project budgeting; Project cost-justification; Risk analysis
Planning of PLM Initiatives and PLM Projects. Project management and participation. Team leadership. Preparation of articles and publications. Moderation of seminars and workshops.
Enterprise Change Management
Post-merger operational integration
PLM Status Review; PLM Audit
Applications
PLM application architecture development
Selection and implementation of PDM, CAD/CAM/CAE and other applications
Definition of interfaces and workflows
Applicated-related education, feasibility studies, analysis, specification of requirements, benchmark preparation, system evaluation, implementation, performance review
Processes
PLM business process architecture development
Process mapping and design
Development of portfolio management, idea management, product development, product modification, product phase-out and engineering change management processes
Development of quality management, intellectual property management and risk management processes
Products
Product structuring ; part proliferation reduction
Data
Data modelling ; data cleansing
Methods
Introduction of techniques such as Stage and Gate; QFD
Human Resources
Coaching; training strategy and course development
Metrics
Development of PLM metrics ; performance metric development