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News Release from: PTC - Parametric Technology (UK) | Subject: Windchill
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2007
Product development system is popular
with SMBs
Windchill continues to gain momentum as the PLM solution of choice for small and medium businesses.
Windchill, the PTC solution for content and process management, continues to gain momentum as the PLM solution of choice for small and medium businesses (SMBs) Windchill helps companies control product development data and enable internal and external product development collaboration, solving key challenges for growing businesses
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Because of their size, SMB customers experience some unique challenges including resource and infrastructure constraints that can hinder the success of their product development initiatives", said Tom Shoemaker, Vice President Solutions Marketing, PTC.
"Windchill provides an optimal solution for overcoming these obstacles with an enterprise class tool that offers powerful capabilities for content management and collaboration with the scalability needed to support their ongoing growth".
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Like many small businesses lacking the resources and IT infrastructure often available to larger enterprises, RollEase had implemented a home-grown filing system for product data management.
The labour-intensive system relied on the constant creation of new folders to manage data as new products were developed and as revisions were made to existing parts and products.
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As the product line grew, RollEase found it increasingly difficult to manage revisions, data reuse and modelling techniques using the old system.
To resolve these challenges, RollEase enlisted the help of Performance Engineering, a PTC reseller.
After careful evaluation, the company selected Windchill PDMlink to help manage all forms of product data - including mechanical, electrical, and software.
"Windchill provides us with a closed loop change management system that enables us to easily track and manage revisions", said Joseph Cannaverde, Project Manager, RollEase.
"Moreover, it increased our ability to efficiently use library parts for data reuse, lowering development costs and increasing speed to market".
Gencoa, a leading manufacturer of magnetron sputtering cathodes, selected Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ProjectLink to streamline its product development process and improve cross-functional collaboration and data visibility with off-site manufacturing plants and customers based across Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific.
The new product development system will reduce rework and translation of documented information.
Used in conjunction with Pro/Engineer, Windchill will improve data search, version control, collation and accelerate the quotation process and production cycle.
In the past, the design process was a bottleneck and a major component of production costs.
"PTC's product development system enables us to realise product standardisation and improved parts management".
"The system will give us better control of the design and drawings inside the enterprise and working with external partners and customers", said Gencoa founder and CEO Dr Dermot Monaghan.
"Windchill helps us share new ideas with our customers, and improves our time to market for innovative products serving a wide range of industries".
Canadian based Venmar Ventilation has been one of North America's leading manufacturers of innovative Indoor Air Quality products for residential applications for more than 25 years.
Venmar selected Windchill PDMLink as the PLM tool of choice and BRT Solutions, a PTC channel partner, as implementer, to meet its challenges to manage and share information relating to its growing, innovative product lines.
Windchill PDMLink enables the Venmar design team and multiple users in different divisions to concurrently work on the same assembly without compromising each other's revisions.
"Windchill PDMLink has enabled us to make significant improvements in our product development process", said Marc-Andre Verville, Design Technician, Venmar.
"We're able to produce more products in the same amount of time and have shortened our time to market by 25%".
"Ultimately, this leads to more revenue".
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