OREANDA-NEWS. May 10, 2012. Fujitsu today announced the development of PLEMIA Global Edition, a new series from the PLEMIA family of technology-data management systems targeted to manufacturing customers pursuing global expansion of their business operations. The series will be available from November 2012.

In addition to featuring new product planning capabilities, the new series incorporates a host of substantially enhanced global support features. In particular, it includes functionality that enables development facilities in many different geographic regions to share relevant information and coordinate on development projects. In addition, it facilitates the formulation of effective development and production plans by leveraging a company's facilities across multiple countries. This, in turn, helps to strengthen decentralized development and production preparation capabilities. Moreover, through Fujitsu's PLEMIA Technology Data HUB platform solution, the new system can be linked to existing PLEMIA M3 solutions or other existing systems, thereby allowing customers to gradually carry out system migrations and feature upgrades, while providing global support and minimizing ICT spending.

For many manufacturers, implementing a global support structure often requires major revisions and upgrades to existing technology-data management systems in order to accommodate a business environment in which development facilities, production centers and customers are located in different countries throughout the world. As a result, the burden of large ICT expenses associated with these changes has become an issue for many companies.

In light of this, Fujitsu has developed and plans to market PLEMIA Global Edition, a solution for gradually globalizing a company's technology-data management systems.