Alliance focuses on Chinese PLM requirements
An
IronCAD product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Dec 15, 2003
IronCAD is taking part in a new Chinese-focused PLM alliance officially announced by Caxa on 8th December, in Beijing.
IronCAD is taking part in a new Chinese-focused PLM alliance officially announced by Caxa on 8th December, in Beijing.
Caxa is the market leader and the largest domestic CAD/CAM provider in China.
The alliance incorporates over 30 years of combined experience and expertise in CAD/CAM/PDM and related areas from its partners, including Cmodes, CAPPFramework from China, AsiaTek from Taiwan and IronCAD from the USA.
The joint announcement signals an important message to the market.
It symbolises another stage of Caxa's alliance strategy by providing a unified brand name, solution and service to the IT demands of the manufacturing industry.
According to the announcement, the solution is called "Caxa Product Innovation and Collaboration Management Solutions".
In particular, product innovation includes a series CAD/CAM software packages.
Collaboration management includes product data management (PDM), CAPP data management, production planning solutions with their associated consulting and deployment services and engineering data management (EDM) and personal data management tools.
Companies can select one or an integration of multiple solutions and services depending on its own characteristics, requirements and implementation pace.
PLM (product lifecycle management) can be viewed as an extension of CAD/CAM applications.
It is part of the IT infrastructure of a company in conjunction with ERP, CRM, SCM and OA.
Product is the source of value to a manufacturing company.
PLM's role is to create and manage product related data through all stages, including customer requirements, order information, product development, production planning, manufacturing, maintenance service etc.
The objective is to efficiently achieve shorter time to market, assure product quality and reduce costs.
Due to the rapid pace of globalisation Chinese enterprises are being forced to speed up the adoption rate of IT technology.
PLM is fast becoming the new focal point of industry after ERP.
Many multinational enterprises have moved their factories to China.
Yet the factories of these Chinese manufacturers are still behind in terms of PLM.
Currently the primary focus is mostly on design, CAPP and manufacturing that are directly related to the product itself.
Chinese manufacturers have their own unique organisational structure and responsibilities, human resources, culture, expertise and local customs that are quite different from those in the USA.
Thus, a Chinese PLM strategy has to consider its own situations for matching solutions and services in order to have sustainable and long-term growth.
Many Chinese enterprises have formed such "Chinese PLM" requirements, ie globally competitive and compatible technology with local customisation.
According to Zhang ZiQiang, General Manager of PLM Consulting Group: "Caxa has grown in the past 10 years to over 120,000 CAD/CAM customers in China.
More and more of those customers have requested more efficient ways to address product data management, collaboration working environment and system integration.
Caxa's solutions integrate the latest in CAD/CAM/PDM technology from its alliance partners to address the various levels of PLM.
Together with its own consultation, customisation and deployment services, Caxa can meet this growing demand for Chinese oriented PLM".
Dr Tao-Yang Han, President of IronCAD sums up the announcement by saying: "IronCAD is very excited to be part of this new PLM alliance in China.
We feel very honoured to have been chosen as the provider of innovative 3D design tools as part of the PLM solution.
We are fully confident in Caxa's ability to lead this PLM alliance to success in China.
They have shown over and over again their knowledge of the local market and their expertise in delivering custom solutions to their customers.
This is still the early days of the alliance and we anticipate other members adding their best in class solutions to the offering".
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