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Manufacturing companies face increased complexity with their new product development and introduction process. Faster product commoditization, increasing complexity of product design, globalization, cost pressures and business growth pressures are all challenges confronted by manufacturers today. Given this environment it is no surprise that many companies struggle to consistently hit their targets for product development cost, total product cost, product launch date, product quality and projected product revenue. For small and medium sized manufacturers especially, there is an opportunity to address these business challenges by improving their product life cycle management.
NPI360 by Xtenza Solutions is a web based Product Lifecycle Management application with extensive New Product Introduction features that can automate and streamline many parts of the new product development process. With Xtenza's collaborative PLM solution, current manual tasks that overlap department and enterprise boundaries can be simplified and improve alignment among all functional teams. Implementing NPI360 will provide significant benefits from:
- Reduced design time and accelerated release and change cycles
- Reduced product costs from more collaborative design and elimination of production errors and rework and minimizing excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory
- Reduced overhead by simplifying regulatory and contractual compliance, and by reducing process administrative and clerical costs
Xtenza Solutions enables your design and manufacturing engineering teams (both in house and third parties) to maintain a single screen overview of the status of all projects and products, easily updating the team (via email) with design information or automatically send reminders of future meetings and action item deadlines. BOM and ECN change management, project documentation and schedules are tracked and shared by all team members via a web browser interface. With strong coordination and cooperation among all of the members of your product development organization, the process of delivering a quality new product on time and on budget is simpler, easier and saves time and money.
- Create and manage multiple new product projects from design to prototype, pilot, production and end of life
- Configurable workflow and phase approvals in parallel or serial fashion
- Integrated with MS Project files using MPP format
- User definable PLC and document templates
- User definable email alerts and reminders for action items and target dates
- Interface with existing ERP or legacy systems from SAP and Oracle using intelligent connectors
- Deployable in a variety of environments: On-Demand via the internet, hosted by an ASP (Application Service Provider) or licensed and installed behind your company's firewall
- Standard processes for PLC phases, deliverables and phase exit requirements
- Display KPI's, project status and reports in a summarized format
- Online immediate access to all project documentation
- Online management sign offs of deliverable and phase exits
- Manage meeting minutes, action items and status, escalate actions needing assistance
- Document and track all ECN, PCN, drawing and schedule changes
- Secure access through passwords and 128-bit SSL encryption for on-demand users
- Easy to configure
- Quick to implement - be up and running in a less than 10 days
- Support for legacy data integration and customization
- Easy to learn, accessible from any intelligent device with full browser capabilities
- Flexible payment terms - monthly, annual, one time license fee. With On-Demand implementations, pay only for the number of users you need with no long term obligations
With NPI360, you can have a full product life cycle application up and running in no time to improve your organization's efficiency, profitability, regulatory compliance and risk avoidance with help from your extended enterprise software partner; Xtenza Solutions.
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- Web based collaborative New Product Introduction
- Accurate tracking of PLC phase management (Concept, Lab proto, Pilot, Mass production, EOL) and Release to Manufacturing (RTM) process
- Collaborative project management, action items and meeting minutes
- Product configuration management
- FMECA Analysis (Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis)
- Auto messaging through e-mail and/or SMS alerts
- User defined workflow approval
- Dash board for KPIs, status and reports
- Performance metrics and tracking of resources
- Collaboration with third party design houses for design process
- Collaboration with suppliers for critical custom components in design phase
- Collaboration with contract manufacturers for lab proto, pilot and production
- Track design changes, ECNs, PCNs, drawings
- Collaboration with third party testing houses and regulatory agencies for samples, test results, approvals, certifications
- Procurement system integration
- Project scheduling
- Shipment system integration
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