Just in time for Going Back to School Prevention’s Smart, Digital, Safe, And, Contactless Solutions Launched in the MENA region starting from the UAE

Dubai UAE

Sallam Sallam

PLM is a Global  Retail Specialist, fully integrated technology and production agency, with a presence in Portugal, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and China and, recently, in the United Arab Emirates.  

PLM brings together the best in the world of functional design thinking and technological design thinking, through integration. All this added by a huge experience of years of living and learning with demanding customers.

PLM was founded 43 years ago in Portugal and have chosen the United Arab Emirates to experience and innovate at the retail sector, by creating solutions with exquisite design to enhance business, found an innovation lab and start to disrupt the future of retail by creating and producing solution in UAE and exporting it worldwide.

Pedro Rodrigues, Chief Executive Officer of PLM mentioned: “For more than 40 years, most of the projects we develop are strongly connected with our in-house capacity for research and development, creativity and functional design, what allows us to think, design, create and deploy disruptive solutions for our costumers”.  

Rodrigues added: “We are proud that PLM is a holder of the ISO 27001 certification the internationally recognized best practice framework for an Information Security Management System (ISMS).  PLM is also certified in NP 4457 an innovation European certification model supported by interfaces and interactions between scientific and technological knowledge”. 

The Coronavirus outbreak quickly turned into a global pandemic affecting the world’s largest economies including that of the UAE. In an effort to contain this crisis and reduce its impact on the community, the government allocated a flexible stimulus budget amounting to AED 256bn and took exceptional measures to offset the potential damage expected due to the precautionary steps taken to curb the spread of the virus in the country. According to a report issued by The UAE’s Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority. 

Aligning with the UAE’s message to the international community by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai: We are now stronger as a community, unified and cooperative. After this pandemic, the world needs new health, economic, and political cooperation systems; PLM Middle East is announcing the deployment of the first units of a solution (SIAS) Prevention, that will forever transform the customer experience and safe access from the United Arab Emirates to the World in a launch event on Wednesday the 26th of August at Armani Hotel, Dubai, that will be attended by a group of the UAE’s industrial and retail sectors’ leaders and decision-makers.  

PLM is a world-class provider of leading-edge functional design solutions, trusted by big brands like Microsoft, Alibaba Group, Nestle, Lenovo, Canon, and Panasonic among many others is now expanding in the UAE & the ME, committing to develop and deploy exclusive and customized disruptive designs, to provide extra safe, smart and digital solutions to fight Covid-19 economic turmoil and support the UAE’s efforts in overcoming the pandemic’s damage to the economy by contactless solutions.  

In the same report issued by The UAE’s Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai was quoted: “We have adopted new systems in the banking, economic, and public sectors and provided healthy infrastructure to deal with the worst possibilities. We have a national team that is working around the clock to safeguard the health of our society and protect our economy and education system. We will pass this global crisis with confidence”.  

Therefore, PLM Middle East, LLC is introducing “Prevention”, a line of innovative solutions that aim to welcome us to a trusting new world. SIAS is one of those solutions: a smart integrated access system, that will allow a one-stop, touchless solution, for costumers and employers to check entrance, and clear safety procedures, like temperature and mask, while integrated with traceability and customer relations systems.  SIAS is also capable of using other user interfaces, like events’ access management, commercial, HR, catering, transport terminals, or education, according to customer needs.  

PLM is constantly improving the systems and plans to upgrade it at the local innovation hub, with distribution channels already open with Africa, Asia, and Europe. Products are being assembled and exported from the United Arab Emirates.