Siemens Digital Industries Software recently announced that Panasonic Corporation (“Panasonic”) has started to adopt its Teamcenter X software, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) solution from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to accelerate its digitalization in product development and design.

Through this large-scale implementation of Siemens Xcelerator as a Service, Siemens helps Panasonic to integrate data management processes across product design and development, reduce lead times, and to support continuous, rapid market availability of the high-quality products. By migrating legacy IT assets and traditional on-premises data management to the cloud, Panasonic aims to reduce IT infrastructure maintenance labor-hours and the total cost of ownership, enable rapidly deployed access to updated versions for the latest PLM functionality and IT infrastructure capabilities and access secure systems across locations in Japan and its locations around the world from a variety of device types and via remote access.

Panasonic has quickly migrated to Teamcenter X by eliminating the customizations that had previously been built on-premises and rebuilding business processes based on standard functions (OOTB) at the same time. In addition, Siemens' Mendix low-code platform, which is closely linked with Teamcenter X, quickly implemented Panasonic's unique requirements. Teamcenter X enables constantly to incorporate the latest technology, improve operational efficiency, and improve business resilience and continuity. Furthermore, it is aimed to realize an engineering environment that can flexibly and quickly respond to reorganization of business and user transfers between divisions.

The ability of Siemens Xcelerator as a Service to grow with the needs of customers enables Panasonic’s global foundation for digital twin and digital thread in the development and design domains to be expanded in its scope of application in the future, with the aim of improving productivity throughout Panasonic's comprehensive manufacturing domain.

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