PLM for Home and Lifestyle
For transforming consumer trends into innovative, sustainable products.
Incorporate insights from consumer preferences, embed sustainability at every stage, and support seamless collaboration across design and manufacturing processes. Our solutions help you balance complex design requirements, material selection, and ergonomics so that you can bring innovative, eco-friendly products to market faster.
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Product development
To meet demand for modular, customizable, and sustainable products while navigating regulatory requirements and maintaining brand identity, home and lifestyle companies require detailed user research, virtual prototyping technologies, and sophisticated engineering tools.
Modular design
Creating flexible, adaptable designs that can quickly respond to changes in specifications or customer requirements poses challenges with managing complex relationships between parameters and ensuring design intent is maintained throughout iterations.
Enables designers to create flexible, reusable components that can be easily modified and combined. CATIA’s assembly features allow for efficient management of complex product structures, ensuring seamless integration of modules. Its collaborative environment facilitates communication between design teams, streamlining the modular design process.
Provides parametric modeling capabilities that allow designers to create adaptive components that can be easily reconfigured. SOLIDWORKS assembly management tools enable efficient organization and modification of modular structures, while its visualization features help designers communicate modular concepts effectively.
Sustainable materials
In order to balance environmental impact with performance, cost, and availability, companies must navigate complex supply chains, material certifications, and strict regulations while meeting consumer expectations.
Offers comprehensive tools for sustainable material selection and management. Its materials informatics capabilities enable companies to analyze and compare material properties, including environmental impact and performance characteristics. BIOVIA data management features facilitate the organization and tracking of sustainable material information, ensuring compliance with regulations and certifications. Its simulation tools allow designers to predict material behavior, optimizing sustainable material usage in product designs.
Engineering services
Our engineering teams help companies identify and evaluate sustainable material options, considering factors such as lifecycle analysis, recyclability, and sourcing. By integrating sustainable material considerations into the design process, we help businesses develop eco-friendly products that meet performance and cost requirements.
Durability testing
To ensure products meet quality standards and customer expectations for longevity, companies must carry out accurate simulations of real-world usage conditions, manage test data across multiple iterations, and balance thoroughness with time and cost constraints.
Abaqus
Enables engineers to model complex loading scenarios and material behaviors, accurately predicting product performance over time. Abaqus fatigue analysis features allow for the evaluation of long-term structural integrity, while its multi-physics capabilities enable the simulation of various environmental conditions.
Engineering simulation services
We offer expert support in conducting virtual durability testing, helping companies develop and implement effective simulation strategies. Using advanced tools like Abaqus to predict product performance under various conditions, our simulation engineers enable businesses to improve product durability while reducing physical testing time and costs.
User research
To effectively inform product design decisions, companies must balance depth of research with time and budget constraints. But - without the right tools - gathering accurate, actionable insights from diverse user groups, translating qualitative feedback into quantitative data, and ensuring research findings can significantly drain resources.
Apply advanced analytics and natural language processing to gather and analyze user feedback from various sources, including social media, surveys, and product reviews. NETVIBES visualization tools help translate complex data into actionable insights, facilitating informed design decisions based on user preferences and behaviors.
Virtual prototyping
Creating accurate digital representations of physical products and the ways in which they operate in real-world environments can effectively inform design decisions and reduce physical prototyping needs.
Enables engineers to create highly accurate digital representations of products, simulating various physical phenomena such as structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, and thermal behavior. SIMULIA’s multi-physics integration allows for the evaluation of complex product interactions, while its visualization tools support effective communication of virtual prototype performance to stakeholders.
Engineering simulation services
Our teams of expert simulation engineers use advanced simulation tools like SIMULIA to create realistic virtual prototypes, develop effective testing scenarios, and interpret results. By integrating virtual prototyping into the product development workflow, we enable businesses to reduce physical prototyping costs, accelerate design iterations, and improve overall product quality.
Manufacturing
Home and lifestyle companies often rely on PLM to help streamline operations, maintain quality, and manage suppliers efficiently while meeting consumer demands for innovative, high-quality products.
Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing aims to minimize waste while maximizing productivity. However, implementing lean principles can be challenging for Home and Lifestyle companies due to diverse product lines and varying demand.
Virtual modeling and production process optimization capabilities enable companies to simulate and refine workflows, identify bottlenecks, and eliminate waste before physical implementation. Improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance product quality by creating a digital twin of manufacturing operations.
In-line inspection
Implementing effective in-line inspections can be challenging due to cleanliness requirements, tool compatibility, balancing inspection with production speed, and diverse product ranges. But implementing a robust digital manufacturing solution can help maintain quality standards without slowing production.
Supports in-line inspection processes by enabling the design and simulation of quality control checkpoints within the production line. Its digital manufacturing capabilities allow companies to optimize inspection placement, simulate various scenarios, and integrate inspection data with overall production metrics. This ensures that quality control measures are effectively implemented without compromising production speed.
SPC (statistical process control)
Implementing effective statistical process control systems to monitor and improve product quality can be complex, especially with diverse product lines.
Enables real-time data collection, analysis, and visualization of process parameters, allowing manufacturers to monitor quality trends and detect variations quickly. DELMIA SPC tools help companies establish control limits, generate statistical reports, and implement corrective actions promptly, ensuring consistent product quality across diverse production lines.
Supplier collaboration
Managing global supply chains can pose numerous challenges to the assurance of quality, timely delivery, and innovation cycles.
Enhances the integrity and quality of shared product data, ensures contractual compliance, and improves overall supplier performance by providing a secure, centralized platform for data sharing and communication. Exchange Hub’s real-time monitoring capabilities allow companies to maintain visibility into supplier activities, supporting timely decision-making and risk mitigation in global supply chains.
Inventory optimization
Balancing inventory levels to meet demand while minimizing holding costs and avoiding stockouts is a persistent challenge in the home and lifestyle sector.
Enables companies to analyze historical data, market trends, and production capacities to optimize stock levels across multiple locations. DELMIA’s real-time visibility into inventory status and movement helps prevent stockouts while minimizing excess inventory, balancing cost efficiency with customer service levels.
Regulatory compliance
Companies are dealing with stringent safety standards, emissions regulations, and pressure to minimize waste throughout product lifecycles. Failure to comply can result in significant penalties, reputational damage, and market access restrictions.
Certifications and testing
Obtaining necessary certifications and conducting comprehensive testing for home and lifestyle products can be time-consuming and costly, potentially delaying market entry and increasing development expenses.
Allows for the simulation of wide-ranging scenarios, including structural integrity, thermal performance, and electromagnetic compatibility. The ability to simulate real-world conditions helps ensure products meet or exceed safety standards, streamlining the path to certification and reducing overall testing costs.
Enables companies to track and manage all certification-related documentation, test reports, and compliance data in a single, secure environment. ENOVIA’s workflow management features help streamline the certification process by automating tasks, assigning responsibilities, and tracking progress. This ensures that all necessary steps are completed efficiently and that there’s a clear audit trail for regulatory compliance.
Engineering simulation services
Our simulation experts can assist in developing custom workflows tailored to specific product categories and certification standards. This expertise helps companies maximize the benefits of simulation, reducing physical testing cycles and accelerating the certification process while maintaining high confidence in product safety and performance.
Environmental regulations
Keeping up with and adhering to rapidly evolving environmental regulations across different markets can be complex and resource-intensive for home and lifestyle product manufacturers.
Allows companies to incorporate environmental considerations from the earliest stages of design through to manufacturing and disposal. 3DEXPERIENCE helps companies track and report on environmental metrics, facilitating easier compliance with reporting requirements and enabling proactive adaptation to new regulations.
Allows companies to create and maintain a centralized repository of regulatory requirements, linking them directly to affected products and processes. ENOVIA change management capabilities ensure that when regulations evolve, the impact on products and processes is quickly assessed, and necessary changes are implemented efficiently.
Waste minimization
Implementing effective waste minimization strategies throughout the product lifecycle while maintaining product quality and cost-effectiveness is a significant challenge for home and lifestyle product manufacturers.
Provides powerful engineering tools for optimizing material usage, reducing part complexity, and improving manufacturing efficiency, all of which contribute to waste reduction. Virtual prototyping capabilities enable designers to iterate and refine designs digitally, minimizing physical prototypes and associated waste.
Enables companies to identify inefficiencies, reduce material waste, and optimize resource usage before physical implementation. Lean manufacturing tools support the implementation of waste reduction strategies on the factory floor, while quality management features help reduce defects and associated waste.
Engineering services
Our design engineering teams provide expert guidance on implementing DfE (design for environment) principles, focusing on waste minimization throughout the product lifecycle. Additionally, we can assist in developing design guidelines that prioritize recyclability, reusability, and efficient material use.
Time-to-market
Balancing speed with quality is essential for successfully increasing market share, improving customer satisfaction, and improving financial performance. However, rushing products to market without proper testing or quality control can result in defects, recalls, and damage to your brand reputation.
Working in parallel
Complications through simultaneous product development stages can put you at risk of delays and inefficiencies, despite concurrent engineering’s potential to reduce lead times and costs.
Enables concurrent engineering by allowing multiple team members to work on different aspects of a project simultaneously. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s real-time data sharing and version control features ensure that all team members have access to the latest information, reducing errors and miscommunication.
Engineering services
Our team of specialists can work alongside your in-house teams, contributing to multiple aspects of product development simultaneously. We implement efficient design processes that allow for parallel activities, such as conceptual design, detailed engineering, and manufacturability optimization.
Additive manufacturing
Fragmented software and hardware ecosystems, quality control inconsistencies, and design complexities often hinder rapid prototyping for home and lifestyle products.
Offers tools for end-to-end modeling, business-based optimization, and advanced analytics to enhance visibility, control, and synchronization across global operations. DELMIA enables virtual simulation of production processes, allowing companies to identify ideal organizations and validate options for optimal productivity. It also supports agile planning, scheduling, and execution of complex business processes
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Essential PLM software for home and lifestyle companies
For end-to-end PLM (product lifecycle management) and collaborative innovation.
For robust product data management, business analytics, and decision support.
For complex engineering design and assembly modeling.
For virtual testing, analyzing, and optimizing product performance.
For optimizing manufacturing processes, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing product quality.
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