PLM suite has global appeal for LG

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 14, 2007

LG Electronics is deploying Enovia MatrixOne solutions to streamline product design processes and promote innovation across its 40 global R and D centres and 36 manufacturing facilities.

Dassault Systemes has won a major software and services contract to implement 12,000 seats of its Enovia PLM suite for South Korean electronics conglomerate LG Electronics.

The US $38.5 billion international corporation will deploy Enovia MatrixOne solutions to streamline product design processes and promote innovation across its 40 global R and D centres (including 35 R and D and five design centres) and 36 manufacturing facilities and strengthen its market leadership in the highly competitive global electronics market.

LG, the world's largest producer of CDMA handsets, residential air conditioners, plasma panels, optical storage products, and DVD players, will use Enovia MatrixOne as a central repository for all of its product information.

Centralising product information will make cross-functional innovation faster and easier by giving development teams an arena for viewing and commenting on each others' work.

It will also support a "design anywhere, manufacture anywhere" strategy and enable the company to scale to meet expanding market opportunities while enforcing consistent development processes for LG's facilities all over the world.

"LG Electronics is fully committed to GSI (global single instance) of enterprise-wide backbone systems to establish IT infrastructure where global operation and management are supported effectively".

"To this end, LGE decided to implement a new PDM system supporting global product development with Enovia PLM.

This is an important step forward from the existing PLM systems per business unit", says Tae Keuk Kim, CIO, LG Electronics.

"With the change, R and D organisations across the world can follow a globally standardised best process and share information on any change in the product development process real time".

"We expect significant improvement in time to market of new products and great reduction in product development cost".

"With global competition, increased supply chain collaboration and renewed pressure on profit margins, LG Electronics understands how critical innovation and collaboration are to maintaining an edge in the consumer electronics market".

"Companies have to move quickly to design and develop new products in order to maximise the relatively short windows of profitability", says Joel Lemke, CEO, Enovia.

"Enovia's approach to product lifecycle management supports LG's "design anywhere, manufacture anywhere" philosophy by enabling its development teams to collaborate and innovate across geographies and time zones".

The Enovia solution will leverage a broad array of central products to implement a series of collaborative product development business processes.

This approach will facilitate synergies between divisions, improve operational excellence and enhance time to innovation, which will help to significantly reduce the infrastructure costs.

As a key component of the "design anywhere, build anywhere" LG will implement Engineering Central, Product Central and Library Central products to streamline design process and promote collaboration between its 40 worldwide research and development centres.

To promote greater openness and interoperability LG will deploy the Enovia Designer Central product to manage data in a variety of CAD and ECAD applications including Unigraphics NX3 and NX5, Mentor Graphics, Zuken as well as the suite of Pro/E products from PTC.

The Enovia solution will also integrate with a variety of enterprise software platforms including Oracle ERP and Microsoft Desktop to facilitate greater collaboration between product engineering and manufacturing operations.

LG plans to complete its Enovia implementation in 2008.