Leveraging PLM and Digital Threads (hosted by Aras)

In today’s competitive landscape, businesses are under constant pressure to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and deliver value to customers faster than ever. Value Stream Management (VSM) is one of the strategies that helps to achieve that. This discussion reveals how VSM can benefit from data captured by a digital thread and process-related models managed by Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.

Explore how leading organizations are extending the value of PLM workflows and gaining leverage from the “digital exhaust” they create to measure innovation throughput, eliminate bottlenecks, optimize processes, and accelerate time to market. This expert panel featuring Patrick Hillberg (Oakland University), Stephen Walters (VSM Consortium), Craig Statham (SAS), and Marcellus Menges (SICK), share their perspectives on how value stream analytics programs are helping business leaders uncover hidden inefficiencies, gain enterprise-wide visibility, and make data-driven decisions that align organizational structures and operations with strategic goals.

What will you learn:

• How to extend PLM workflows to support value stream optimization

• Ways to leverage digital thread data to expose hidden inefficiencies

• The evolution of VSM from lean manufacturing to software to product development

• Best practices for applying VSM to drive cross-functional collaboration and data-driven decision-making

Explore how the proven principles of Value Stream Management, from its roots in lean manufacturing to its success in modern software development, can revolutionize product development in discrete manufacturing.