Oracle Product Lifecycle Management

2013

Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Mobile

The Oracle corporation announced in September, 2013 the business application of Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Mobile with access to PLM- this page Apple iPad. The mobile solution Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Mobile for Agile is designed to satisfy these requirements and to expand support of difficult product lifecycle management processes. Being a component of the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management family, the new application allows clients quickly and just to get access to the PLM data with Apple iPad and to turn them into valuable knowledge.

The solution Oracle Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Mobile for Agile is created on the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile platform and allows partners quickly and just to develop and expand applications and processes for the clients using the products Agile PLM. The mobile business application helps the organizations to accelerate development of the innovation products and to provide their profitability, eliminating at the same time bottlenecks in procedures of statements and providing to administrators of processes flexibility for management of all product lifecycle at any time and in any place.

According to developers, Oracle PLM Mobile for Agile provides secure access, check, reaction and accomplishment of necessary actions for an extensive range of processes of Agile PLM Product Management Workflows, including the standard and configured PLM processes: management of requests for making changes and change requests from different sources, including design, production, packaging and documentation; registration of problems of quality, including customer complaints, requests from places of operation and the message about problems; quality management, including accomplishment of the adjusting and precautionary actions (Corrective Action and Preventative Action, CAPA); quality control of products of suppliers, including requests for accomplishment of corrective actions by the supplier (Supplier Corrective Action Request, SCAR) and discrepancy reports to requirements (Non-Conformance Report, NCR).

Besides, the new business application allows users to create messages about problems and to start the required sequence of actions, giving mobile opportunities for: input of results of audit and data on problems on site with dynamic links to information on product quality and the status; uses of cameras of mobile devices for record of dynamic auxiliary confirmations of any results; initiation of the connected processes of NCR, messages about problems and also processes of SCAR and CAR (Corrective Action Requests, requests for accomplishment of corrective actions) during audit.

Giving to mobile users verifiability and reactions in a protect mode where they were, the new application also supports the organizations with production on outsourcing and suppliers of processes, allowing to book audit of the supplier on site with access to the records about a product necessary for process control, the accelerated decision-making and the adoption of certification of the supplier, noted in Oracle.

Updating of January, 2013

The Oracle corporation announced new versions of the solutions Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) of for Process at the beginning of 2013. The updated solutions on product lifecycle management are designed to help the organizations of any type and scale to implement innovations, providing profit increase.

So, the solution Agile PLM allows the organizations to accelerate implementation of innovations, to create required products at the minimum costs and to quickly do them profitable, optimizing all aspects of design, development, start, service and withdrawal of products.

Among improvements and innovations of the new version of Agile PLM in corporation noted: the optimized matrix of approvals — the new opportunities connected with flows of works exclude need for expansions, improving accomplishment of typical customer requirements to use of a matrix of approvals; the optimized user interface — increases efficiency of users thanks to the improved audit screen, the expanded navigator and emergence of the block of heading with two columns; a new execution engine of regulatory requirements — with the advanced Design for Reach function and support of the new requirement about conflict minerals of the law of Dodd-Franck on reforming of Wall Street and consumer protection; ability to integrate with software tools for quality management of data of Oracle Enterprise Data Quality — scriptability of use for check and enrichment of data provides purity of corporate records about products.

At the same time, Agile PLM offers new features in Product Portfolio Management (PPM). According to developers, it became more convenient to manage programs at management of a product portfolio (PPM) due to fixing of transitions between stages of the project, options of blocking of Gantt charts, expansions of attributes of the links PLM and the improved binding at the right time in Gantt charts and also new opportunities for reproduction of interproject dependences.

Besides, the new version of Agile PLM is equipped with the optimized modules Product Cost Management (PCM) and Product Quality Management (PQM). New opportunities help to integrate users in a supply chain thanks to an option for replies to the requests of the price information (RFQ) and the improved automation in interactions with PCM. Also new version includes the table of quality control and reliability (QCR) for objects of suppliers and customers to improve product assurance.

In turn, Agile PLM for Process represents integrated solution for the enterprises of process production which manages all aspects of innovations, including product management and product portfolios, specifications, suppliers, structures and components, packaging and marking, quality and observance of legislative arrangements and also syndication of data.

The new version of the solution includes a number of improvements in modeling of structure of products and accomplishment of statutory requirements, including expansions which allow to see in real time key indicators in structure model and also an opportunity to use functional tags which help to analyze quality of the project and compliance to the regulating regulations.

New opportunities of the module Agile PQM for Process allow clients: create corporate culture of quality, providing availability of information on quality and shortcomings of products to all concerned parties for all product lifecycle — from development before removal from production; to freely reveal and analyze defects in products, to adjust them and to improve products of new generation; it is better to perform statutory requirements, to raise customer satisfaction and to save money thanks to effective management of processes of audit and a withdrawal of products.

2012: Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3.1

Solution Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3.1 allows the pharmaceutical companies to rationalize development processes of medicines, to exclude unnecessary expenses, to effectively use global networks and to implement practice of ensuring quality of the products Quality by Design (QbD).

The solution includes the cross-industry functionality supporting all chain of formation of cost of products. For example, Agile PLM 9.3.1 provides deeper analysis of product lifecycle, offers integration tools with modern automated design engineering systems, control functions by difficult technical documentation and managements of execution options and also a set of other improvements in such areas as convenience of using and functionality.

The Oracle Product Value Chain family including the solutions Oracle Agile PLM, Oracle Product Hub, Oracle AutoVue Enterprise Visualization and Oracle Product Data Quality allows the companies to manage all information on products, to integrate processes within product lifecycle and also to use advantages of well-tried remedies of collective work, ensuring quality of data and knowledge management.

The existing and new functionality of Agile Enterprise PLM for the pharmaceutical organizations includes:

• Management of a portfolio of the developed medicines — allows to conform to requirements to project deliverables and the regulating regulations, improving development processes of medicines, project management and interfunctional cooperation.
• Complete documentation of development processes of medicines — the structured records about development processes simplify reuse of documentation for registration and the statement of drugs (Common Technical Document, CTD) thanks to storage of difficult, multidimensional data about materials, the equipment, productions/recipes and analytical methods in one system.
• Effective management of resources for clinical trials — allows to accelerate clinical trials by means of effective management of distribution of materials, reservation of the equipment and change of recipes.
• The accelerated technology transfer — simplifies reaching the commercial production volume of medicinal products, providing the analysis of a chain of formation of cost of medicines covering suppliers, materials, the equipment and processes.
• The integrated quality management and risks — allows to apply the new principles and practicians of QbD from the very beginning of development to the accelerated and more effective obtaining permission to product output.
• The integrated management of packaging and marking — improves ensuring compliance of commercial contents to the regulating regulations, providing a global repository for storage of all elements of packaging, digital assets and accompanying marketing materials.
• Global registration of products — provides information necessary for receiving from regulating authorities of permission to product output. This information is used for global distribution of products. Reuse of registration information allows to raise considerably an investment payback in new product development.

For a customer support from such industries as high technologies, the industry, production of the packed consumer goods, retail and medicobiological sciences, the new version also includes:

• The improved Agile Product Lifecycle Analytics component — allows to prioritize and monitor works and project costs, to reduce risks and to provide continuous improvements, providing valuable knowledge of product development, diagrams of project implementation and processes of transition to the next stages.
• Means of interface of new generation between Agile and a CAD — give extensive opportunities for management of design data and collective work, including the managed working spaces, external reference books and exchange of assembly units for all modern cross-disciplinary environments of electronic and mechanical design.
• Agile Design Variant Management — manages integration using the pointer of a byte order (byte order mark, BOM) models/options and copies with Oracle applications of Product Hub and Oracle Configurator, providing the full-function environment for mass adaptation of products to specific needs.

Besides, Agile PLM 9.3.1 supports the dynamic publication of difficult documents on products and offers significant improvements in such areas as personalisation, workflows, management of intellectual property and security, management of diagrams and resources, the configured management of pricing and also the analysis and the choice of suppliers.

2011: Agile PLM for Process 6.1

The Oracle company announced the new version of the Agile PLM for Process system which is a part of a solution package on product lifecycle management of Oracle Agile PLM in November, 2011. In version 6.1 the module of the analysis of lifecycle and the new user interface is implemented and also functions of increase in efficiency are upgraded. According to in Oracle, it will help to turn data of corporate systems of product lifecycle management into valuable business information.

Agile PLM for Process 6.1 integrates management tools efficiency, operational analytics and the reporting in one packet with previously configured industry dashboards. The modern graphical interface with Web 2.0 functions, information representations, role-based, and smart navigation is optimized for qualified users and simplified for temporary. The new API interfaces, interfaces to other programs and special functions will allow clients and partners of Oracle to expand possibilities of the PLM platform of the company.