Overview
Engineering Excellence in manufacturing has moved beyond tool optimization. Manufacturers now need connected, software-defined and intelligent product ecosystems that link design, manufacturing, supply chain and service into one traceable lifecycle
Birlasoft helps enterprises modernize PLM and ALM, build a scalable digital thread, apply AI-enabled engineering, and embed compliance into product data and workflows. The result is a stronger digital engineering foundation built for speed, quality, collaboration and measurable business value.
Birlasoft helps enterprises modernize PLM and ALM, build a scalable digital thread, apply AI-enabled engineering, and embed compliance into product data and workflows. The result is a stronger digital engineering foundation built for speed, quality, collaboration and measurable business value.
Recognized as a Leader in ISG’s Manufacturing Industry Services & Solutions 2025 Report
Core Capability Areas
Engineering Excellence at Birlasoft Enables Manufacturers To
| Core Capability | Enables |
| Unify PLM and ALM | Modernized PLM/ALM platforms, integrated multi-discipline workflows, and traceability from requirements to release. |
| Establish a Scalable Digital Thread | Connected PLM, ALM, ERP, MES, and downstream systems with real-time visibility and lifecycle feedback. |
| Accelerate AI-Enabled Engineering | AI-assisted requirements, testing, validation, quality risk identification, and faster new product introduction. |
| Engineer Compliance, Quality, and Sustainability | Shift-left compliance, regulatory traceability, governance, and traceable product/material data. |
| Enable Continuous Engineering Excellence | Cloud-ready platforms, analytics, monitoring, optimization, and managed PLM/ALM services. |
Quantifiable Gains Across Engineering Ecosystems
Up to 80%
Reduced PLM Assessment Effect
70–80%
Faster Assessment Cycle time
Up to 30%
Reduced PLM Total Cost
10+
Solution Accelerators
85+
Real-time Manufacturing KPIs
Select Your Key Challenge
Explore our Approach and Value Delivered
Modernize Legacy Platforms
Challenge: Legacy PLM/ALM platforms, aging customizations and fragmented engineering workflows slow down product development, migration and modernization.
Our Approach: Birlasoft uses 10+ solution accelerators and proven frameworks such as IMPACTA, LEGEND 10™, iLink™ and Technotes to accelerate assessment, integration, migration and modernization.
Value Delivered: Reduced transformation effort, lower migration risk, improved platform performance and a scalable digital engineering foundation.
Converge PLM and ALM
Challenge: Complex products now combine mechanical, electrical, embedded and software capabilities, but disconnected PLM and ALM workflows limit traceability and speed.
Our Approach: Birlasoft enables PLM-ALM convergence to create an integrated engineering foundation across product, software, requirements, validation and release workflows.
Value Delivered: Improved end-to-end traceability, faster engineering change cycles, better collaboration and stronger control across complex product development.
Connect Digital Thread
Challenge: Disconnected PLM, ALM, ERP, MES, SCADA, field service and analytics systems create manual handoffs, limited visibility and delayed decisions.
Our Approach: Birlasoft brings strong integration DNA across engineering, enterprise and plant landscapes, helping manufacturers establish a scalable digital thread across the value chain.
Value Delivered: Better visibility from design to manufacturing to service, faster root-cause analysis, improved operational alignment and closed-loop engineering feedback.
Scale Manufacturing Expertise
Challenge: Engineering transformation needs more than technology implementation; it requires deep understanding of industry workflows, product complexity and operational priorities.
Our Approach: Birlasoft brings manufacturing domain expertise across manufacturing, high-tech, communications, media and entertainment, industrial and automotive sectors.
Value Delivered: More relevant transformation roadmaps, practical adoption, reduced execution risk and solutions aligned to real manufacturing business priorities.
Accelerate with Partners
Challenge: Manufacturers work across diverse engineering tools, cloud platforms, enterprise applications and product data environments that require ecosystem alignment.
Our Approach: Birlasoft works across an extensive partner network including PTC, Siemens, Dassault Systemes, IBM, AWS, Intland, Microsoft and Oracle.
Value Delivered: Improved platform fit, faster implementation, stronger interoperability and future-ready engineering architectures.
Measure Engineering Value
Challenge: Engineering excellence programs often remain technology-led and fail to show measurable business value across throughput, quality, cost, reliability and compliance.
Our Approach: Birlasoft follows an outcome-driven engineering maturity approach aligned to KPIs such as throughput, quality, cost, asset reliability, engineering change cycle time and product compliance.
Value Delivered: Measurable improvements across engineering and manufacturing performance, stronger executive visibility and sustained value beyond one-time transformation.
Accelerate Engineering Transformation with Birlasoft Solutions
Birlasoft combines assessment, migration, integration and compliance accelerators to help manufacturers modernize engineering platforms, connect product data and sustain lifecycle value.
Description
An automated discovery and impact assessment tool that analyzes PLM configurations to provide clear, data-driven guidance for upgrades, cloud migration, AMS health and modernization.
Features / Highlights
- Instance profiling and data assessment with insight into PLM data structures
- Analysis of PLM configurations, subclasses and object entities with advanced analytics
- Assessment of process extensions, customizations, integrations, user activity and historical usage
- Quick deployment with zero impact on the client instance space
Benefits
- Up to 80% reduction in effort required for PLM assessment before cloud migration
- Detailed assessment data for efficient planning and project sizing
- 70–80% reduction in assessment cycle time through automated assessment data capture
- Proactive risk mitigation through extensive data and configuration discovery
- Minimal prerequisites, zero risk and no impact on existing workflows
A PLM cloud migration accelerator that supports data integrity and reliability. Augmented by Birlasoft’s Path-to-Cloud tool, it enables efficient extraction and migration of data and configurations from on-premises PLM systems to cloud environments.
Features / Highlights
- Real-time monitoring of data flow progress with reconciliation framework and smart dashboards
- Automated template generation to support data compatibility with Oracle cloud formats
- Ability to handle large-scale PLM migrations without impacting the existing instance space
Benefits
- Up to 30% reduction in data extraction and migration effort
- Available as an end-to-end service covering data extraction and migration
- Pre-configured and tested approach to reduce migration risk
A PLM adaptor that connects leading PLM applications with ERP systems such as JDE, SAP and EBS to bridge engineering innovation with operational execution.
Features / Highlights
- Integration between PLM applications and popular ERP systems
- Support for multi-branch plants, organization inventory and plant propagation
- Adaptability across business sizes, operating models and organization structures
- Email notification system to manage synchronization errors
Benefits
- Easy installation, user-friendly interface and simplified maintenance
- No additional hardware or middleware required for implementation
- Improved cost, delivery and operational predictability
- Increased productivity through better connection between innovation and operations
A cloud-based solution to monitor material compliance and Material Data Sheets in alignment with standards such as RoHS, REACH, Conflict Minerals and WEEE.
Features / Highlights
- Simple interface to monitor material compliance against updated standards in real time
- Automation capabilities to integrate data collection, reporting and material compliance management into existing PLM solutions
Benefits
- Ability to track and conform to environmental regulations
- Support for environmentally responsible practices
- Compliance without impeding operational efficiency
- Reduced burden of data management in compliance
Proven Real-World Impact
PTC Windchill Cloud Modernization for an Automobile Components Manufacturer
- Case Study: PTC Windchill Upgrade, Migration to Cloud and Management for an Automobile Components Manufacturer
- Challenge: The client needed to modernize its PTC Windchill environment and move to a scalable cloud platform while improving availability and reducing infrastructure overhead.
- Solution: Birlasoft upgraded, migrated and managed the PTC Windchill environment on cloud with a scalable architecture and continued application management support.
- Impact: Delivered 30% TCO reduction, 99.99%+ service availability and a scalable cloud implementation to support evolving PLM needs.
- Case Study: From Factory Floor to Smart Core: Reinventing AI-Enabled MedTech Smart Manufacturing
- Challenge: Disconnected PLM, MES and ERP systems created manual handoffs, limited visibility, compliance pressure and production inefficiencies.
- Solution: Birlasoft integrated PLM, MES and JDE ERP into a closed-loop manufacturing framework with Windchill modernization and AI-enabled scheduling.
- Impact: Delivered up to 30% production efficiency improvement, up to 50% faster changeovers, 40–60% less scrap and rework, and 100% traceability.
Integrated PLM-MES-ERP for Smarter Manufacturing
Data-Driven Digital Thread for Engine Manufacturing
- Case Study: A Case Study on Transforming Engine Manufacturing Operations
- Challenge: High volumes of PLM, ERP, MES, SCADA and OT data were underutilized, limiting plant visibility and operational decision-making.
- Solution: Birlasoft built an Azure-based analytics solution integrating enterprise and plant-floor systems with digital twins, digital threads and KPI intelligence.
- Impact: Enabled 85+ real-time KPIs, improved OEE, enhanced worker productivity, reduced cost of quality, and improved throughput and machine uptime.
Why Birlasoft?
Birlasoft is a trusted engineering transformation partner for manufacturers looking to modernize product lifecycle platforms, connect engineering and enterprise systems, and build a scalable foundation for intelligent, compliant and future-ready products.
Engineering and Manufacturing Context
Experience across manufacturing, high-tech, industrial, automotive, communications, media and entertainment environments, with understanding of engineering-to-manufacturing workflows and enterprise integration needs.
Accelerator-Led Execution
10+ accelerators and reusable frameworks to support faster assessment, migration, integration and modernization while reducing delivery risk.
Ecosystem Alignment
Platform experience across PTC, Siemens, Dassault Systemes, IBM, AWS, Intland, Microsoft and Oracle, enabling delivery across complex multi-vendor landscapes.
Outcome
Orientation
Orientation
Engineering maturity aligned to business KPIs such as speed, quality, cost, throughput and compliance, supported by managed services, monitoring and analytics.
Partnerships & Collaboration
Ready to transform your engineering function with digital?
Ready to transform engineering into a connected, intelligent and compliant value driver?
Let’s build the future of manufacturing engineering—together.
Let’s build the future of manufacturing engineering—together.
FAQs
Engineering Excellence helps manufacturers modernize engineering systems, standardize workflows, connect PLM and ALM environments, and enable traceability across product design, manufacturing, service and compliance.
As products become more software-defined and connected, manufacturers need a unified engineering foundation that brings mechanical, electrical and software development workflows together.
A digital thread connects data and decisions across the product lifecycle, enabling traceability, faster engineering changes, better quality and closed-loop feedback from manufacturing and service.
Birlasoft supports assessment, planning, data extraction, migration and validation through accelerators such as IMPACTA and LEGEND 10™.
Birlasoft supports integration across PLM, ALM, ERP, MES, SCADA, field service and analytics systems, depending on the client environment and transformation roadmap.