Transport company makes PLM choice

Windchill has allowed Wrightbus to significantly improve its collaborative product development processes.

Wrightbus, the UK manufacturing division of Wright Group, has adopted PTC Windchill for product lifecycle management (PLM).

Windchill, the PTC content and process management solution, has enabled Wrightbus to significantly improve its collaborative product development processes.

Wrightbus has been a user of PTC's integrated CAD/CAM/CAE solution, Pro/Engineer, since 2000 and the selection of Windchill provides Wrightbus with the additional benefits of the PTC integral Product Development System (PDS), strengthening the business processes that keep the company ahead of its competition.

"We believe that Wrightbus is the most innovative supplier in the market" Martin Graham, Director of IT and Logistics, Wrightbus said.

"By adopting Windchill as our common product information management platform we are now able to synchronise all our internal processes and our aim is to eliminate 50% of nonvalue-add activities in engineering".

Wrightbus has initiated a programme to improve product development and manufacturing processes.

Windchill is allowing it to improve product structure management, change management and work flow control.

This in turn has enabled the release of product structure data to the production system using an optimised process flow and provided accurate data release from the PLM to the ERP system.

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