Businesses want to automate the connection between Product Design and Operations to be more efficient and innovative throughout the product lifecycle. But traditional, top-down approaches to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) are often too complex, time-consuming, and costly— making PLM impractical for many businesses. Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. has radically simplified the approach to Product Lifecycle Management—just as we simplified product design by making parametric 3D design easier to use and available on Windows.