1. PLM Mobility
WHITEPAPERJune 2012
Author
Karthikeyan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations 3
Introduction 4
Mobility Trends 4
Challenges on Mobility for a Manufacturing Company 5
Mobility for Manufacturing: Key Application Examples 5
HCL’s PLM Mobility Initiatives 6
HCL Mobility Solutions – An Overview 7
HCL Rapid Mobile Application Engineering – Methodology 7
HCL’s Mobile App Development Competency Matrix 8
Conclusion 8
Author Info 8

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Abbreviations
Sl.
No.
Acronyms
(Page No.)
Full Form
1 PLM Product Lifecycle Management (System)
2 ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (System)
3 CRM Customer Relationship Management (System)
4 ECO Engineering Change Order
5 WBS Work Breakdown Structure

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Introduction
PLM is an integral part of any manufacturing enterprise’s DNA today.
Needless to say that it is the fundamental repository to manage end-to-end
product development information. With consistent pressure on toplines
and bottomlines, quick and smarter information access and decision making
ease is the order of the day.
Mobile professionals as an integral part of the product lifecycle need timely
and accurate access to range of information, lack of which could deal with
costly delays and errors. They need to be always wired to the activities
around their product. With lean processes kicking in strong, all stakeholders
can never be out of the product information loop.
Advances in wireless networking – speed, reliability and coverage, it is now
feasible for the users to remain connected with the business surrounding
their product.
“The enterprise mobile workforce represented 57 percent of employees in
2010 and is expected to grow to as much as 93 percent by 2015” – Forrester
Research
Mobility Trends
Before we see the PLM best practices and end user scenarios around mobility,
let us examine a few trends and perspectives:
IT, Users, Technology & Business Views for Mobility
1. Analytics and business intelligence
2. Mobile technologies
3. Cloud computing, including SaaS
4. Collaboration/ workflow technologies
5. Legacy modernization
(Gartner) Top CIO Priorities – 2012 Smartphone Penetration is Growing
44%
Smartphone
Penetration
g y
6. IT management
7. CRM
8. ERP applications
9. Security
10. Virtualization The IT View The User View
These are
your employees.
Penetration by Platform
The Technology View The Business View

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Challenges on Mobility for a Manufacturing Company
Mobility for Manufacturing: Key Application Examples
Mobile technology provides more effective communication, timeliness,
and quality of business interactions.
Consider the following examples:
1) An engineer is away from his workstation in a problem solving session
wants to get a view of production or to see their products in the field
2) Key decision makers are on travel
3) Plant Engineers and service technicians need to access product data in
their non-conducive work locations such as the plant or the field
PLM End Users:
• Manufacturing/ Field Engineers
• Design Engineers
• Administrators
• Field Service/ Repair Technicians
• Management
Technology
Fragmentation
High Rate of
Technology Change
High Overall
Investment
Business Process have
to be Rethought
Technology
Fragmentation
High Rate of
Technology Change
High Overall
Investment
Business Process have
to be rethought

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Manufacturing
Productivity
Asset Management, Inventory Management, Shop
floor management, Process Monitoring, ECO
Process, Scheduling & Capacity Management
Sales Management/ CRM, Online
Collaboration, Approval Workflows, Product
Catalogs, R&D workflows
Service
E i i
Mobile in
Manufacturing
Process, Scheduling & Capacity Management
Field Service Management, Product
spares/ catalogs, Diagnostic
tools, Inspection and Reporting
Engineering
&
Intelligence
Customer
Experience
Manufacturing
Product Extensions on mobile, Marketing
campaigns, Interactive applications for branding, Product
configurations, Product spare catalogs
Product Information, Executive
Dashboards, Business Intelligence, Product
Analytics
HCL’s PLM Mobility Initiatives
HCL has actively invested on the PLM mobile space for a optimum mobile
user experience around the following areas:
 Search, filter, sort and browse product and related specification information
 Procure latest versions and red-lines
 Viewer
 2D/ 3D view of the Product Model and Drawings
 PLM Metadata display
Product Information
PLM Metadata display
 Markup & Annotate designs/documents for upstream design feedback
 Take notes
 Upload camera images into PLM objects from field or equipment centers
Day to Day Operations
 Task Lists, Approvals & dependency status
 Workflows, Notifications (Regular & System health alerts for Admins)
 Meeting information and Planners
 Discussion Threads
 Subscriptions to Product or any other information of interest
Day-to-Day Operations
 Project Status Dashboard
 WBS Drilldowns
 Resource allocation/ optimization decisions
Dashboards and Drilldowns
 Workflow Dashboards
 Quality Dashboard
 Metrics
 Compliance Dashboards
 Change Management Dashboard
 Per Assembly drilldown with change markups

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HCL Mobility Solutions – An Overview
HCL Rapid Mobile Application Engineering – Methodology
High Performance
Native
Applications
Cross-P
Ap
form
ng
Mobility Roadmap
Consulting
Solutioning&Mobile Application&
Devices
Mobile OS’ es
Mobile
Solutions
Partner
PlatformHybrid
pplications
HTML 5 and Web
Applications and
Widgets
MobilityPlatf
Engineerin
Prototyping
ApplicationDesign,
Development& Integration
ApplicationQuality &
Certification
pp
Device Management
Technologies
Enterprise Systems
HCL’s depth and breadth of mobility services
enables us to be your “Enterprise Mobility
Centre of Excellence”.
Mobility Platforms
HCL offers a business & market-driven approach to Mobile application development
which includes a proven Agile based application engineering methodology which
enables execution of a business aligned cross-platform Mobile application
roadmap.
HCL Mobility Ecosystem
AMP – Agile Engineering for
Mobile Platforms
Mobile Application Engineering
Business Requirements
Mobile Readiness
Assessment (MRA)
Rapid Mobile Application
Testing
Mobility Testing, Compliance
& Launch
1 2 3
Re-engineering / Migration /
Porting
Technical Feasibility
Usability Study
g
Compliance & Certification
Release & LaunchEnterprise Mobility
1. Achieve focus on the right
segments
2. Adopt latest trends in
mobility
1. Achieve near-simultaneous
multi-platform releases
2. More than 30% reduction in
time & cost
1. Consistent experience across
platforms
2. Certified across multiple devices
3. Industry specific certifications

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HCL’s Mobile App Development Competency Matrix
Conclusion
You need to leverage advantages of mobile technology as the product
development process continues to evolve. Project teams that are mobilized
enjoy superior responsiveness by decreasing the time needed to respond.
HCL’s mobility solutions facilitates on-the-fly smart decisions that result
in better, cost effective and quicker products to market. Our solutions will
evolve with the mobile device and emerging platforms.
Author Info
C
Rapid Mobile Application Development
Standard
IDEs/ HCL
tools &
optimized
processes

Apple iOS
V3.1 to
5.x
Android
V1.5 to 4.x
Windows
Mobile
V5.x to 7.x
Blackberry
V4.5 to 6
Objective C
Platform Specific
Application Languages/
Technologies
Cross
Platform
Migration &
Porting
Java (Android API)





processes
Third Party
Tools:
PhoneGap,

Cross Platform
Application Technologies
Java (Blackberry API)
Net/ C#
Silverlight

 
Titanium
Appcelerator,
Sencha,
Rhomobile,
Adobe CS

Enterprise/ Middleware
Platforms
Sybase, Antenna, SAP/ Oracle, Custom Development
HTML5 + CSS3 + JS
Adobe Flash/ Adobe AIR
 
 
MEAP
Platforms:
Antenna
AMP, Syclo,
Verivo, SUP

Karthik is a Product Manager at HCL PLM group. He
has extensive experience in PLM Consulting, Solution
Architecting and Business Analysis across various
industry domains.
Please mail him at karthikeyan.palaniswamy@hcl.com
for further queries.

9. About HCL
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