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News Release from: Arena Solutions | Subject: Arena PLM
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 20 September 2007
Heating company doubles PLM investment
Air International Thermal Systems is using Arena PLM to improve collaboration with more than 800 global suppliers and unify operations across six geographically dispersed locations.
Air International Thermal Systems (AITS) has more than doubled its investment in Arena PLM to improve global collaboration and supply chain management across its facilities in Australia, Asia and the United States The company is using Arena PLM to improve collaboration with more than 800 global suppliers and unify operations across six geographically dispersed locations
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The expansion required no IT resources from AITS and was so smooth that it did not disrupt operations at the newly deployed locations or at the existing ones where Arena PLM was already in use.
"Our Arena PLM implementation was done flawlessly, with no interruption to the business".
"It was the most low-key systems implementation I have ever been involved in", said Gary Phillips, a Global Service Delivery Manager for Air International Thermal Systems.
"As an integral part of our manufacturing IT strategy, Arena PLM will have the most profound impact on the way Air International does business going forward, yet its implementation barely caused a ripple".
With its on-demand model Arena PLM satisfies one of Air International's main requirements: a single, shared, global workspace.
AITS is addressing the realities of its business with this shared workspace, which would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to achieve with a client/server PLM system.
For instance, more and more of the company's projects have different offices working on different elements of a design and needing other offices or external design partners to be able to access their work.
The shared workspace makes this possible.
It also allows the company to manage a single global supply base, which can be shared across offices and thus enable tremendous cost savings.
"The doubling of its investment in our software is another proof point of the value Arena PLM can provide for a company of the size, scope and importance of Air International", said Michael Topolovac, Chief Executive Officer of Arena Solutions.
"Only Arena PLM combines the rich functionality, front and back-end integrations and on-demand advantage that can help AITS solve its increasingly complex business challenges and maintain its competitive advantage".
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