One of Sun's specific focuses in manufacturing is the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) segment. PLM initiatives involve restructuring business processes, strengthening communication and empowering collaboration and information sharing. In a document on the Sun Web site, the company explains its PLM outlook and strategy as well as several of the benefits of implementing a Sun PLM solution.

Sun works closely with PLM software vendors and Systems Integrators to help customers leverage best practices and roll out deployments. PLM solution implementations often offer companies benefits such as decreased time-to-market, reduced design flaws and improved customer acceptance, which results in lower costs and increased revenues. Sun's partnerships, network computing, PLM implementation expertise and built-in scalability, compatibility, security and availability give the company an advantage in the market.

Sun offers up three reasons for choosing its PLM solutions:

• Faster time to revenue and reduced risk: Sun's iForceSM Solution Sets for PLM can help a business accelerate implementation time and reduce risk by leveraging pre-configured solutions for quick implementations and easy customization.

• A business-ready infrastructure: Sun systems offer dynamic reconfiguration, hot-swappable components and a Uniboard CPU/Memory board, allowing businesses to allocate resources when and where they want them. Sun iForce Solution Sets for PLM use a distributed systems architecture, reliable and scalable Sun systems and best-in-class PLM software components that have proven scalability.

• Lower TCO: Sun's servers are equipped with Dynamic System Domains, which allow multiple software applications to be consolidated on a single server to reduce administrative costs. Powerful management tools enable remote management for all Sun resources on the network, which simplifies administrative tasks.

A distributed systems architecture that can evolve as needed is required to deliver scalable, reliable and secure Web-based PLM services. Based on the needs of its customers, Sun has created the Networked Services Architecture to provide quick PLM service deployments while maximizing resources and lowering operational costs.

The Networked Services Architecture includes a flexible infrastructure of server, storage and software resources. It also leverages proven, reusable software components for the SunTM Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform. Hardware and software functionality can be added incrementally to the architecture over time, which enables support for additional users and new PLM applications.

Sun offers several complete, preconfigured iForce PLM Solution Sets. The solution sets are built on the Networked Services Architecture and uses a foundation of open standards and scalable technologies like the JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) and the Sun ONE platform.

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