Accenture Expands Product Lifecycle Management Expertise with Acquisition of PRION Group

Combined capability will help clients in manufacturing industries quickly and more efficiently deliver products to customers.

Stuttgart, Germany—Aug. 15, 2013—Accenture will acquire PRION Group, a consulting and systems integrator that specializes in Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software.


PRION Group provides PLM strategy and process consultancy, system implementation, data migration, application management and PLM as a managed service. With the acquisition of PRION Group, Accenture will expand its end-to-end PLM offering by combining PRION Group’s full range of PLM services with Accenture’s existing PLM capabilities. The combination will create a global PLM offering for a range of industries, including industrial equipment, automotive, consumer goods, and aerospace and defense.

Koen Deryckere, senior managing director with Accenture said, “With manufacturing companies spending as much as 25 percent of their revenues on innovation and product development, PLM can help them avoid investments  in products that are either late to market or don’t fully address customer requirements. The combination of PRION Group’s PLM specialist skills and Accenture’s industrialized delivery methodologies and global scale will help clients tackle the fragmented system and process landscape in the product development space, which many companies face today.”

PRION Group’s workforce specializes in implementing Siemens PLM Software to help clients achieve the maximum business benefits the software can provide by improving product data management, reducing development times and more efficiently delivering products to customers faster. PRION Group’s clients span a range of industries, including automotive, aerospace and defense, transportation and engineering and consumer electronics.
  
Frank Riemensperger, country managing director for Accenture Germany said: “The engineering lifecycle of products increasingly draws on a complex mix of mechanical, electrical and software elements, all of which require different development techniques. Truly understanding and managing dependencies and integration requires a robust set of PLM capabilities. This acquisition will allow us to rapidly expand our PLM capabilities with a strong focus on Siemens PLM technology, thanks to the experience and skills of the PRION Group staff in helping clients unlock new value and efficiencies through critical process improvement.”
 
“Industry 4.0 concepts will dramatically increase the incidence of sensor-equipped materials and components along the manufacturing cycle,” Riemensperger added. “These provide data and updates that allow companies to further optimize production and become more flexible, complimenting PLM-driven activities around increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market.”
 
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Stuttgart, PRION Group is a privately held company with more than 330 employees. It has offices in Munich, Nuremberg, Zurich, Oxford, Portland, Detroit, Bangalore, Pune and Singapore. 

Completion of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.  
 
For more information, visit www.accenture.com.

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