Project Collaboration

Benefits

• Tie projects to the product record to ensure accurate and detailed tracking of development activities in the context of changing product information.
• Give product team members instant project visibility and the ability to update information across organizational and geographic boundaries.
• Track and analyze project status at any level of the project or product structure.

Details

• Template-driven project definition: Define project templates that represent your high-level business processes, with milestones and phases for various types of projects (e.g., New Product Development / Introduction, RoHS Compliance).
• Item-type task sets: Define task sets for specific types of items (e.g., electronic, mechanical, high-risk) and specify the appropriate phase for each task.
• Auto-generate project plans: Select phases and milestones, then assign key items to be tracked for the project. Arena PLM will then generate the appropriate time-phased tasks for all appropriate components and subassemblies.
• Tailor projects to individual requirements: Add, delete, or change phases, milestones, and tasks as required to support unique projects.
• Bulk update and assign tasks: Update scheduled deadlines for tasks, reassign tasks, and update completion status in bulk.
• Quickly identify schedule problems: Perform "on-the-fly" problem analysis by displaying the earliest deadlines for parent items and latest deadlines for their child items.
• Auto-notification: Notify users (including suppliers) of late phases, milestones, and new task assignments.
• Track project documentation: Upload all relevant project files to a central location your extended team can access. Collect additional project information at the item level or at any level of the BOM.
• Manage the project portfolio: View and compare the schedules and statuses of a portfolio of projects by template, program or project manager. View task assignments across multiple projects by status, item, deadline, and project template.
• Root cause analysis: Identify and drill down into problems at the portfolio, project or tracked item level. Navigate the full project schedule and up or down the product structure.
• Summary project status: View a summarized graphical representation of phase and milestone status and roll up key metrics for a project or tracked item in a project.
• Detailed project status: Filter status metrics to view subsets of tracked items. View the status of individual items, tasks, and milestones, or view the status of rolled-up tasks.
• View upcoming and recent events: Receive and view alerts regarding recently completed activities or pending activities for a project or for individual items.
• Project "problem finder": View late, unassigned and behind tasks associated with a project or tracked item in a project.
• Task-level comments: Add task notes to capture task-specific information or decision rationale.

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