
Consumer Products & Retail
Consumer products companies must transform to handle dramatic shifts in the market.
Globalization, increased regulatory demands, mobile commerce and changes in consumer
Companies can no longer manage complexity without a digital business imperative. Our best practices and software solutions advance the digitalization of consumer products across the enterprise value chain.
SIMATIC IT R&D Suite is a well-considered answer to the real-life requirements expressed by existing SIMATIC IT customers. Major players in the process industry voiced their interest and need for a platform that would manage their entire R&D process in a structured, yet flexible manner to enable fast and successful new product development and time-to-market.
SIMATIC IT R&D Suite achieves this by optimizing the development of innovative, high-quality products, managing the processes and the information flows, aligning R&D processes with other steps in the product life cycle.
SIMATIC IT R&D Suite shares a common system platform with production processes. This does not only facilitate the transfer of new product designs to production; the integration of R&D and production processes will allow for production process improvements to optimize product and production costs and quality.