Consumer products companies must transform to handle dramatic shifts in the market.

Globalization, increased regulatory demands, mobile commerce and changes in consumer behavior are driving consumer products companies to redefine speed-to-market and the required agility of supply chains.

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.