Product Lifecycle Management

Propel PLM

Propel's AI-powered PLM software delivers a full suite of capabilities to build unified intelligent product records, automate workflows, and accelerate time to market—so you can deliver high-quality products that align with requirements, on time and on budget.

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25
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Faster change orders quote to revenue
Read Girtz Industries case study.
500
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Increase in engineering productivity
Read AMS Technologies case study.
74
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Reduction in time to market
Read Savant Systems case study.
50
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Reduction in document control overhead
Read Meyer Sound case study.
Accelerate Time to Market

Propel's AI-powered product lifecycle management software enables business transformation with both top-line and bottom-line impact. Work smarter, faster, and more strategically with intelligent agents at the core.

AI-powered intelligence
Integral agentic AI automates repetitive tasks, analyzes change impacts, and surfaces intelligent insights, helping you make faster, more informed decisions.
Enterprise-wide collaboration
Connect teams that make, sell, and service products with one intelligent, continuous product record so they can work in parallel and move faster.
Change management
Configurable workflows drive efficiency while keeping costs and risks in check.
Supplier management
Extend collaboration, workflows, and traceability throughout your supply chain.
What is cloud-native Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)?
Cloud-native PLM manages every stage of a product's evolution from concept and design through engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing. Cloud native infrastructure ensures PLM is always up-to-date, easily connected to other cloud solutions, and accessible from anywhere. Unlike on-premises or hosted systems, cloud-native PLM eliminates IT maintenance overhead, scales without costly hardware upgrades, and delivers real-time collaboration across global teams and supply chains.

When BOMs, change control, document management, and supplier workflows are always accurate and aligned, it means faster decisions, fewer errors, and a direct line from concept to market. Propel PLM is built cloud-native on Salesforce, with AI-powered workflows that help modern manufacturers cut product development time by 77% (Breg) and reach market 74% faster (Savant Systems).
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AI That Accelerates Products to Market

Intelligent agents automate change assessments, surface design insights, and keep every team moving from engineering to launch.

The only modern cloud solution designed for today’s product companies

Propel PLM offers everything you need from PLM, with the convenience and flexibility of the cloud.

New Product Development
BOM management

Compare revisions, visualize redlines, and manage multiple work streams with a user-friendly bill of materials. BOM items, item revisions, recently viewed, and affected items are available in a hierarchical or tabled BOM structure.

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Contextual collaboration

Make informed business decisions and break existing functional silos by connecting people, systems, and processes. Benefit from complete data visibility, cross-functional team collaboration, integrated analytics, and access control.

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Change management

Efficiently manage engineering and manufacturing change orders and change requests with configurable and automated rules for the right approvers. Easily review and approve workflows from your phone, tablet, or laptop.

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Visual Collaboration

View and markup a wide variety of visual formats, including mechanical and electrical 2D & 3D CAD files, PDFs, jpegs, and more. Clearly communicate product changes and design improvements using images.

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Supply Chain
Supplier management

Manage parts and sources through Approved Vendor List/Approved Manufacturer List, supplier scorecards, supplier qualification, onboarding, and audits. Closely collaborate with suppliers, staying in sync on items, changes, and quality processes.

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Supplier Community

Dedicated workspace with your logo and branding to simplify collaboration with suppliers across the globe. Rest easy with full data security, access control, and sustainability audit trails.

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Supplier quality

Extend quality best practices and corrective actions across suppliers to ensure product standards are met. Easily identify suppliers with the highest quality scores and incorporate supply chain intelligence to choose higher quality components.

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Component Insights

Display supply chain risk in the BOM and sub-assemblies by searching and viewing component market availability, cost, risk, and environmental compliance information. Access compliance certificates for RoHS, REACH, SCIP, Conflict Minerals, and more.

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Business Management
Project management

Manage and fast-track project completion timelines with effective communication, tasks, and notifications. Quickly collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to make intelligent business decisions.

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Real-time analytics

Boost productivity and decision-making accuracy with dashboards and reports that are always up to date. Configure reports so each team has the information needed to perform efficiently.

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Cost rollup

Decrease costs and deliver consistent profits by efficiently tracking, managing, and analyzing material, prototype, labor, maintenance, production, and supply chain costs. Quickly determine product viability and profit margins.

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Integrations
CAD

Accelerate time to market, reduce errors, and bolster innovation by integrating Propel’s platform with any CAD system.

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Documents

Fully incorporate and manage documents via rich integrations with Microsoft Office and G-Suite.

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Enterprise Software

Connect to any existing software system with the Propel Enterprise Integration Framework.

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FAQ
What's included in Propel PLM?
Propel PLM includes bill of materials (BOM) management, change control, document management, supplier collaboration, and real-time analytics. Core capabilities include revision control, redline comparison, BOM cost rollup, and configurable workflows. The system supports both detailed and summary BOM views and allows teams to collaborate directly on product records.

Propel PLM shares the same unified platform with Propel's QMS and PIM solutions, making it easier for product, quality, and commercial teams to collaborate using the same data and shared workflows. The platform also integrates with computer-aided design (CAD) systems via Propel Design Hub, manages engineering change orders (ECOs), and includes approved manufacturer/vendor list (AML/AVL) functionality.
How long does PLM implementation typically take?
Implementation timelines vary based on scope and data readiness. Standard, out-of-the-box configurations can go live in as little as 4 weeks, covering core capabilities like item management, BOM structure, and change management, plus configuration, testing, and admin training.

Two factors impact this timeline most:

1. Scope: Staying close to standard configuration keeps you fast. Custom workflows, non-standard categories, or complex integrations are achievable but require added design and testing time.

2. Data readiness: Clean data migrates quickly, while messy data—common when moving off legacy systems like Agile PLM—takes longer to prepare, so cleanup before kickoff pays off.
Does Propel PLM integrate with our existing CAD and PDM systems?
Yes, and unlike PLM platforms built around a single CAD vendor, Propel is CAD-agnostic. Design Hub, our design data integration layer, connects to whatever your engineering teams already use. Design Hub supports a wide range of MCAD tools (SolidWorks, Onshape, Creo, Inventor, AutoCAD, NX, Solid Edge, CATIA), ECAD tools (OrCAD, Altium Designer, Altium 365), and PDM systems (SolidWorks PDM Professional, Windchill, Autodesk Vault, Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE). It connects to both cloud and on-premise environments:

No PDM today? Our cloud PDM partner Bild is a common pairing for teams that want to add one.

Existing on-prem PDM? Design Hub extends that investment (e.g., SolidWorks, Autodesk Vault) via our partner Razorleaf's CLOVER platform. Explore Design Hub here.
Does Propel PLM integrate with our ERP system?
Yes, Propel's enterprise integration framework connects to your ERP system via Manufacturing Hub. Whether cloud-based or on-premise, keep product, production, and financial data aligned so information stays consistent across engineering and manufacturing. This includes accurate engineering-to-manufacturing BOM handoffs, streamlined approval and change control, and integration with financial records. Propel supports both standard connectors and custom integration solutions through its iPaaS partner ecosystem and API framework. Specific integration requirements depend on your technology stack. Explore Manufacturing Hub here.
What's the difference between cloud-native PLM and on-premise or hosted PLM solutions?
On-premise PLM runs on local servers. Hosted PLM moves those servers to a third-party data center, but the underlying architecture is the same: single-tenant, manually patched, and dependent on your team or host to implement updates.

Cloud-native is fundamentally different. Propel's multi-tenant SaaS platform scales automatically as your organization grows, with no dedicated instances to provision or maintain. Security updates ship directly from Propel to the platform the moment they're released, so there’s no lag and no waiting on a data center to apply a fix. Users collaborate in real time from any device, and your IT team isn’t constantly tied up in maintenance needs. Explore the Power of the Platform here.
Does Propel PLM include AI capabilities?
Yes. Propel includes AI functionality through Propel One, which is integrated natively into the platform rather than being a separate add-on. Propel One's agentic AI automates repetitive tasks, analyzes change impacts, and surfaces insights from product data. Specific capabilities include summarizing engineering changes for non-technical stakeholders, identifying potential issues during change review, and assisting with product data analysis. 

The AI is built on the Salesforce Agentforce architecture, including the platform's security model, the Einstein Trust Layer, and is designed to maintain audit trails of its actions. Critically, Propel One operates within your existing configurations and permission sets, so all automation and insights run inside the security guardrails your team has already established. Explore Propel One here.