The purpose of PLM Center of Excellence (PCE) is to bring together industry experts, incubate new ideas and develop best practices in managing product data through out the life cycle of the product. PLM technology has become an accepted standard for data management, across industry and is also continuously evolving with every new implementation. Such intense metamorphosis in PLM solutions is creating a need for a center of excellence, which will focus on identifying newer technologies and develop expertise around the same.

PCE will work as a strategic partner with clients to identify PLM solutions that can best fit their specific needs. PCE will also continuously build relationship with domain and technology leaders in PLM industry and create a hub for best practices in these areas.

The main goals of PCE are:

• Develop practices around industry standard PLM solutions
• Evaluate PLM readiness factor
• Evaluate risk and returns
• Conduct system study, define solution and draw implementation plan
• Program management
• Education, training and support

PCE is also supported by a technology center that provides

• Customization services
• Application development
• Utility development and adapters to enterprise class application
• Data migration services
• Software maintenance