Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM): Time for a New Approach
Introduction to CLM
What is Configuration Lifecycle Management
Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) is not a system or solution; it’s an approach to solving product configuration challenges.
This approach helps manufacturers tackle complex configuration challenges and streamline their product customization processes across all stages, from design to service.
Companies That Are on a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) Journey
What Does CLM Do
Managing Complexity Across the Product Lifecycle
Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) manages the complexity of designing, manufacturing, selling, and servicing customizable products.
It ensures end-to-end alignment, efficient automation, and zero errors, providing manufacturers with the tools needed to meet growing customer demands for personalization.
How Does CLM Work
Creating a Shared Source of Truth for Customizable Products
CLM establishes a “shared-source-of-truth” for configurable product options and rules.
This enables these options and rules to be defined collaboratively and consumed efficiently by all departments, ensuring consistency and reducing errors across the entire organization.
Key Benefits of CLM
Why CLM is a Game-Changer for Manufacturers
Holistic View
Gain a comprehensive view of all configurable options and rules across product design, sales, manufacturing, and service.
End-to-End Insight
Achieve full visibility for product portfolio analysis and optimization across the entire lifecycle.
Traceability
Track product configurations over the entire lifecycle using Digital Configuration Threads, ensuring end-to-end traceability.
Error Reduction
Identify inconsistencies, misalignments, and gaps in product configuration data from different systems, ensuring zero errors during product configuration.
Automation and Acceleration
Automate and speed up the delivery of new products and the addition of new rules and options, allowing users to make changes seamlessly.
CLM (Configuration Lifecycle Management) is really helping us to adopt the digital way of working to change our processes. Having in mind the best-in-class processes which are already embedded in the CLM approach."
Digital Transformation
Enabling Digital Transformation Across the Enterprise
Digital transformation often fails when implemented in isolated silos across engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service.
Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) connects these functions by providing a shared, cross-functional view of all product configurations without replacing existing systems.
By establishing a common, trusted shared source of truth that each department can understand and use, CLM enables true enterprise-wide collaboration and maximizes the value of digital transformation initiatives.
A Unified CLM Foundation for End-to-End Value
A CLM approach simplifies complex product configurations by unifying data and rules across the product lifecycle.
It enhances existing systems by creating a shared source of truth without disrupting current operations.
Built to scale, CLM enables adaptability and future-proofs your business as customization demands grow.
Simplify Product Configuration Complex
A Unified CLM foundation for end-to-end value
Aligns product data and rules across departments
Unified view from design through service
Enhance Your Existing Systems
Complements current IT infrastructure
Integrates data from multiple systems
Establishes a shared source of truth
Minimizes disruption while enabling new capabilities
Scale for Long-Term Adaptability
Supports increasing customization demands
Scales and adapts as products and processes evolve
Strengthens long-term manufacturing competitiveness