Elevate Product Lifecycle Management - The New Core way

Discover new era of Product Lifecycle Management

With growing pressure for more sustainable, cost-effective, and transparent manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is no longer a back-office tech function. Instead, it has become a strategic driver toward profitability and compliance.

The right PLM strategy can improve your business results, streamline operations, and reduce environmental impact. It means sustainability and profitability are no longer at odds.

At New Core, we bring together PLM, business, and sustainability expertise to turn lifecycle data into actionable insights and make sure your people, processes, tools, and data are connected to deliver measurable business value.

By elevating your PLM strategy, your company will take full control over product data, from concept to end-of-life, transforming it into a strategic asset.

Our three-phase approach to PLM transformations

PLM is not an optional one-time project, but a lifelong journey. To succeed and survive on the market, your business needs a solid foundation that enables sustainable progress without costly retrofitting.

That’s why we developed a holistic three-phase approach.

Our method elevates PLM into a strategic and scalable capability aligned with your business goals, grounded in real needs, compliant to sustainability regulations, and executed with a lasting impact.

Phase 1: Connect business and PLM strategy

A strong PLM system starts with alignment. In the Connect Phase, we bridge the gap between your overarching business strategy and a unified PLM vision across the organization, functions, and regions.

We work closely with top management to define a PLM strategy that supports your broader goals and empowers every part of the organization to work in a smarter, more efficient way.

Why does it matter?

Without a connected PLM strategy, cross-functional collaboration becomes fragmented and time consuming. It leads to inefficient data sharing, lack of prioritization, and slowed down decision-making, innovation, and sustainability efforts.

The outcome of the Connect Phase

A clearly owned, company-wide PLM strategy aligned with your business objectives that brings tangible value, boosts collaboration, and drives continuous improvement and performance.

Phase 2: Define actionable requirements

In the Define Phase, we set a clear direction for the PLM transformation program, based on the strategic alignment from Phase 1.

Why does it matter?

We identify your business’ most critical needs and map the dependencies between functions, processes, and product structures by engaging directly with your organization. It means we build the PLM system based on the reality of your business, not a theoretical model.

Outcomes of the Define Phase

Developed use cases: We identify concrete use cases owned by your line organization, based on strategic goals, operational pain points, and aspirations. It means your PLM system is grounded in real value and relevance for your people.

Established PLM governance: We help create a structured Business Requirements Governance framework, ensuring ownership, prioritization, and traceability across your organization.

Common language: We build a shared understanding of PLM that scales with your organization. We use concept and information modelling to align terminology and data structures across products, processes, and departments.

Phase 3: Implement the changes

We help you bring the PLM strategy to life by driving meaningful change, focused on people, processes, and long-term adoption.

Why does it matter?

This holistic, people-first approach means that PLM becomes embedded in how your organization works, not just sitting in your IT systems. By using a proven organizational change methodology, we support you to accelerate the transformational period while minimizing disruption.

Outcomes of the Implement Phase

People first transformation: We prioritize the human side of change as it is your employees who will use the PLM system in their daily work. By engaging with the right stakeholders early, we assess the impact of new ways of working, clarify business requirements, and bridge the gap between current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) processes. It leads to faster and smarter adoption and long-term success.

Collaborative delivery: We work together with solution partners who define and deliver the technical architecture. Our role is to make sure business needs remain front and center, guiding the implementation toward real, measurable outcomes.

Sustainable products

A structured PLM system is a key enabler for circular business models and sustainability strategies such as eco-design, take-back programs, product-as-a-service, sustainable manufacturing, and sustainable procurement.

Why does it matter?

PLM can drive your sustainability strategies by supporting

Lifecycle thinking: Product’s environmental and social impact accumulates throughout its entire lifecycle, from day one in development to its retirement. PLM fosters collaboration across all business functions, embedding and promoting sustainability early in the product design processes and maintaining it throughout the lifecycle.

End-to-end visibility and traceability: PLM provides centralized, structured data meaning you can trace materials, components, and processes. This visibility enables informed, data-driven decisions, and facilitates accurate sustainability assessments at the product level.

Regulatory compliance: Owning your products’ data and having control over them will become increasingly critical for companies to stay compliant to the growing number of environmental regulations and reporting requirements such as CSRD, REACH, and ESPR.

Reduced impact & improved profitability

By following the three phases of our PLM transformation framework, we support you in developing PLM capabilities step by step, avoiding the common retrofitting pitfalls, and enabling your organization to transform and evolve with confidence.

Each phase addresses a key aspect of a long-term PLM success:

• Connect secures alignment between business goals and PLM strategy right from the top
• Define translates PLM strategy into clear, actionable requirements, founded on your organizational reality
• Implement delivers change by engaging people, aligning processes, and partnering for the right technical execution

Together, these phases guide us from a vision to value, unlocking the full PLM’s potential as the driver of profitability, sustainability, and innovation. It leads to:

Smarter decisions for reduced costs

Accurate and connected data empower your teams to make faster and smarter decisions, reducing costs, improving efficiency, and minimizing waste.

Streamlined and sustainable operations

PLM removes silos and integrates your people, processes, tools, and data into one connected ecosystem – speeding up time to market, promoting collaboration, and supporting sustainable solutions at every stage of the product lifecycle.

Future-proof and compliant business

With growing regulations such as CSRD and the Digital Product Passport and customer expectations, PLM gives you the agility to adapt, trace, and innovate to stay ahead without costly disruptions.