Technology Selection: Decision Criteria for PLM Applications to Support Sustainable Manufacturing

This Manufacturing Insights report explores the current attitudes and trends toward the adoption of applications to support compliance management within the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region and the different types of applications available. This report also provides a decision framework through which companies can evaluate the different solutions available.

"Compliance management has moved beyond the capabilities of spreadsheets and requires a much more sophisticated tool to manage the material data, from both internal and external (supplier) sources, and increasingly provide decision support to engineers and designers to enable them to make decisions far earlier in the design process with regard to achieving compliance. We expect more and more companies to invest in compliance management applications, as the cost of getting it wrong is huge," says Christopher Holmes, Eng.D, vice president, Manufacturing Insights, Asia/Pacific.