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profit margins. So the product line problem is most severe in these segments—and the opportunity for gaining com- petitive advantage from PLE approaches are the highest that we see.
From simple keyways to multiple, special profiles, Leistritz Polymat and Polyjet machines have the features to improve quality, shorten cycletimes and minimize set-ups.
Polymat series of CNC keyseating machine
ME: What can PLE do for developers in the aerospace and defense world, which has used PLE in the past? Krueger: The survival of A&D contractors—the winners and losers—is largely determined by who can present the best strategy for winning proposals or retaining their incumbency on existing contracts. We see the enormous com- petitive advantage that contractors can achieve using feature-based PLE. These organizations are able to deliver new members of a product family with a dra- matic reduction in time and cost, known in the A&D world as cost avoidance. We’ve seen several examples where PLE has enabled tens of millions of dollars in cost avoidance per year on large DoD programs. These numbers are sufficient to help contractors win proposals, or retain their incumbency by ensuring that their government cus- tomers are happy. In many cases, this is the determining factor for whether or not certain divisions of that contractor’s organization will survive, and retain the many jobs that are at stake.
Acquisitions E
RP software developer Epicor Software Corp. (Austin, TX) has
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acquired privately-held docSTAR (Sche- nectady, NY), a developer of document management software, in a move said to further Epicor’s cloud-first strategy. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Jan. 3, were not disclosed. The acquisition brings docSTAR’s collaborative cloud-based enterprise content management and automated accounts payable solutions to the Epi- cor ERP solutions portfolio. Founded in 1996, docSTAR has more than 20 years of experience delivering its cloud-based or on-premises solutions that enable organizations to increase productivity, reduce cost and transac-
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