Nokia goes for global PLM system

Mobile communications giant Nokia has decided to standardise on engineering data systems developer MatrixOne’s product lifecycle management (PLM) system for all its global product development and manufacturing requirements. Hitherto, the company has used multiple systems around the world, but the decision follows a move to consolidate and improve collaboration from the concept to production phases and across multiple sites. Olli Junnila, director of PDM solutions at Nokia, likes the system’s flexibility, scalability and security. She believes that by standardising on it world-wide, the company will be able to respond more quickly to changing product requirements by mapping those all the way through the product creation and manufacturing processes. “Because our product development efforts often involve partners who are also working with our competition, we needed a platform that can scale to support global usage and is secure enough to enable collaboration with external partners without jeopardising our competitive advantage,” she says. “With MatrixOne’s PLM offerings we can now reach our current and future goals, which is why we selected them as the Nokia PDM platform provider.”