How Connected Systems Make Change Management Simple
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Design changes can be both costly and time-consuming. Because the manufacturing industry relies on diverse processes, methods, tools, and systems, it can be difficult to fully understand the scope of product changes. Without an effective change management strategy, manufacturers risk losing their competitive edge.
Change management vs. manual legacy processes
Implementing a company-wide change management system minimizes manual intervention and enables faster adaptation to new market demands. The change management capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, for instance, support a standardized, enterprise-wide change process. All affected business units can evaluate, approve, and confirm changes before implementation.
A collaborative change management process boosts productivity, enhances cooperation, and ensures timely communication among all stakeholders, reducing the risk of errors. It also fosters innovation and drives global product development by promoting the best organizational practices.
Ensuring seamless change management across connected systems
When implementing a standardized, enterprise-wide change process, change management must operate as a seamless, connected system. Integration should be designed so that asynchronous processes across different systems can be completed either simultaneously or not at all. Each process must also remain traceable and reportable.
Simple, efficient enterprise system integrations
Connecting enterprise systems using Integration Framework offers the following advantages:
- Systems remain fully operational during implementation. Other tasks can continue as integration teams work on the Integration Framework server—an independent, standalone application.
- Change management processes can run in the background, with all operations traceable through monitoring tools. The administration interface displays detailed usage statistics, current integrations, and success or failure rates. Improved traceability reduces the number of iterations and makes debugging faster and more reliable.
- Project complexity decreases because everything is managed through configuration. This approach applies to process creation and updates, as well as to document and specification transfers from 3DEXPERIENCE to target systems.
- You maintain full control over response times, adjusting them based on the requirements of partner systems.
- The Integration Framework operates on an event-driven architecture for handling errors or successes and sends push notifications to support real-time runtime management.
- Data integration ensures that existing systems remain untouched and independent. Any modifications to those systems do not affect the change management process.
- A large portion of each process can be automated, reducing manual effort and increasing overall productivity.
- A typical integration can be completed within just a few days – establishing a unified, cross-domain change process that significantly accelerates the product release cycle.
How can TECHNIA help?
Organizational change management enables companies to efficiently define, standardize, and implement change management processes from planning through production. A unified approach – even within a PLM (product lifecycle management) framework – helps companies save time and reduce costs by improving efficiency. Because the change management implementation is largely automated, businesses experience minimal operational disruption and can quickly realize the benefits of a standardized, streamlined change management process.