Product and Asset Lifecycle Management
Solutions for leveraging enterprise knowledge and product information
The new product challenge
PLM
(Product Life Cycle Management) technologies support companies
throughout the lifecycle of their products, from conception all the way
through to product retirement.
All companies' products (and
services) age and ultimately lose their attractiveness: the development
of new products therefore becomes a major challenge for every company
if they want to remain successful - sounds obvious but managing these
‘lifecycle' issues is complex both in terms of planning and design.
Design
and development are very important steps where 80% of decisions
regarding the cost of both manufacturing and maintaining the new
product will be taken.
Why choose Thales for defining, implementing or maintaining your PLM system?
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Thales brings its experiences acquired during many large complex
implementations both for its many customers in the aeronautics,
electronics, defence and automotive sectors, as well as for itself - we
practice what we preach!
• Thales has developed a focused
methodology, based on the leading software packages, which allows for
accelerated deployment of the application by capitalizing on the re-use
of predefined industrial processes.
• Thales adopts an iterative method which helps our customers to align their users needs on standard product functionality.
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Thales not only understands the back office repository PLM systems, but
is also a market leader in key enabling technologies (such as RFID)
which ensures a continuous stream of information during the life of the
product.
Supply Chain Management
Thales helps its customers to manage their supply chains with expertise, IT, key technologies and logistics services.
Our offers bring strong benefits, especially for critical supply chains in complex international environments.
- Supply Chain Integration for In-Service/MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul)
- Technology enablement of SCM processes (eg RFID for container management)
- Import / Export management and reporting
- Revenue Management
Mission Critical IT Outsourcing
Managing IT systems that are critical to our customers’ business success.
Managing
critical applications and infrastructures, or operating critical
solutions, requires a secure and safe but flexible service to meet the
specific business needs. Thales combines its industrial-strength
processes and infrastructure with its outstanding security capabilities
and methodologies to mitigate and manage the risks of operating complex
information systems - so Thales can guarantee to deliver the
availability, security and safety that your business needs.
Because
of our strengths in IT and security processes, Thales also provides
security-relevant BPO services (business process outsourcing), such as
authentication, access and competency management.
Our services include:
- Business continuity plan
- Critical IT Infrastructure Operation
- Critical Application Management
- Access and Competency management
- Transport Information systems and process management
- Financial Transaction systems and process management
- Disaster recovery plan
Compliance
Non-compliance with legal requirements can stop business
Businesses
today are faced with a mass of regulations for quality, safety,
security and governance. Complying with these regulatory requirements
is mission-critical, because non-compliance can immediately stop the
business.
Thales provides industry-specific solutions to ensure
compliance, for example for transportation and aerospace companies, as
well as offering compliant corporate financial applications or ensuring
compliance to corporate governance regulations, such as Sarbanes Oxley.
- Corporate Applications
- Corporate Governance (eg. Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance)
- Compliant Reporting Solutions (eg via XBRL)
- Financial Risk Management Systems