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News Release from: PTC - Parametric Technology (UK) | Subject: PTC CADDS5 3D design software
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2007
Design software selected by Chinese
shipbuilders
CSDC decided to adopt a standard PLM platform to increase the efficiencies of its geographically dispersed design teams.
China Ship Research and Design centre (CSDC) has successfully deployed PTC Windchill solutions to integrate its project management, design process management and control, and to integrate its project management, detail design process and content management, and PTC CADDS5 3D design software with its research and development phases Digital ship design and manufacturing technologies have been widely adopted in countries with advanced shipbuilding operations and powerful naval equipment
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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To keep pace in this competitive global market, China's leading ship research and design institution, CSDC, decided to adopt a standard PLM platform to increase the efficiencies of its geographically dispersed design teams.
"In 1992, CSDC adopted PTC CADDS5 shipbuilding 3D design solution", said Cheng Lan, Director at the Computation centre of CSDC.
"More recently, with the implementation of Windchill as our enterprise-level product lifecycle management system, we now have the ability to create and manage content and processes within a single product development system from one solutions vendor".
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"This has helped us realise improvements in the whole process of ship research and design, and has greatly increased our core competitiveness".
After deploying Windchill, CSDC experienced significant improvements in key business metrics in its RandD department.
All ship development data is now centralised in electronic formats easily accessible by all levels of staff for retrieval and reference.
This significantly enhances the reusability of design data during model ship development.
By using electronic examination, the progress of model ship design was able to dynamically reflect the establishment of a meticulous project management system of "pre-plan, mid-control, and final-feedback" for ship research and development.
By closely integrating with the ship's parallel design system based on CADDS5, the breakthrough of an effective combination of ship 3D design and project plan management was achieved.
The China Research and Design centre project vision is focused on enterprise-wide adoption of PLM technology as a mechanism to digitise its design and management processes.
"We are very pleased to assist CSDC in achieving world-class standards in its product development process", said Richard Prince, Director of Aerospace and Defence Market Strategy, PTC.
"This deployment is indicative of the relevance of PTC software solutions and process methodologies supporting not only core product development processes but also directly integrating project management activities".
"PTC is fully committed to helping the China Research and Design centre become differentiated and continue to achieve excellence in product development".
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