For smaller to mid-sized businesses like AeroTEC and some customers , third-party partners like Applied CAx sell and support customers using Siemens software . Product Lifecycle Management ( PLM ), through their product Teamcenter , is how they measure success . By understanding a customer ’ s problems , they can understand what is needed . A software foundation is configured based on the customer ’ s requirements . “ We have many options we can choose and configure for a customer ,” Saul said .
Any company with a significant engineering base starts with product data management ( PDM ). Product lifecycle management takes the design / data they are managing and turns it into a relational database .
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