CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
28 March 2007
Implementation Investments
A.O. Smith Electrical Products Company Selects Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions to Streamline Global Product Development
Dassault Systèmes announced that A.O. Smith Electrical Products Company, a $1 billion division of A.O. Smith Corp . has purchased the ENOVIA MatrixOne PLM solution. ENOVIA MatrixOne will help A. O. Smith Electrical Products Company integrate global design, manufacturing and resource planning to deliver products more quickly to market. The company is one of North America's largest manufacturers of electric motors for residential, commercial, and industrial applications.
"We're adopting ENOVIA MatrixOne as the technology foundation of a comprehensive PLM strategy to optimize our global engineering organization, which spans the United States, Mexico and China," said Steve Robbins, A.O. Smith's vice president of engineering and information technology. "We aim to drive costs out of our product introduction efforts, gain real-time control of multiple projects, and make decisions that most benefit our customers, partners, suppliers and shareholders."
The company selected the ENOVIA MatrixOne PLM solution to implement a wide variety of high-priority business initiatives, including:
• Leveraging global design in one integrated solution;
• Centralization of product data for universal accessibility and reuse;
• Deployment of common development systems and processes;
• Efficient management of product changes; and
• Sharing of data among all enterprise systems.
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