Panasonic has started to adopt Teamcenter X, a Software-as-a-Service cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to accelerate its digitalisation in product development and design.
Through this large-scale implementation, Siemens Digital Industries Software is helping Panasonic to integrate data management processes across product design and development, reduce lead times, and to support continuous, rapid market availability of the products.
By migrating legacy IT assets and traditional on-premise data management to the cloud, Panasonic aims to reduce IT infrastructure maintenance labour-hours and the total cost of ownership.
Panasonic also wants to enable rapidly deployed access to updated versions for the latest PLM functionality and IT infrastructure capabilities, and access secure systems across locations in Japan and its locations around the world from a variety of device types and via remote access.
Panasonic has quickly migrated to Teamcenter X by eliminating the customisations that had previously been built on-premises and rebuilding business processes based on standard functions (OOTB) at the same time.
In addition, Siemens’ Mendix low-code platform, which is closely linked with Teamcenter X, quickly implemented Panasonic’s unique requirements.
Teamcenter X enables constantly to incorporate the latest technology, improve operational efficiency, and improve business resilience and continuity. Further, it is aimed to realise an engineering environment that can flexibly and quickly respond to reorganisation of business and user transfers between divisions.
“Panasonic has positioned digital transformation as a key strategy for strengthening its management foundation and is working on it under the company-wide name of Panasonic Transformation,” said Hideyuki Miyazaki, Panasonic CIO.
“As one of our key measures, we are collaborating with Siemens to promote the shift to cloud computing and adopting digital threads for product design and development data management,” said Miyazaki. “By expanding this transformation in the future, we expect to enhance our market competitiveness and increase our enterprise value.”
