CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

1 May 2007

Implementation Investments

PTC Becomes PLM Provider of Choice to Electronics and High Tech Industry

PTC announced that in the past 12 months, 173 organizations have licensed PTC Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to support their electronics product development goals. High Tech customers selecting Windchill for their PLM needs range from the largest and most successful consumer electronics, computer, telecommunications equipment, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, semiconductor, ODM and contract manufacturers to rapidly growing small and medium sized businesses across the globe. Today, all 30 of the top electronics and high tech customers by revenue use PTC® solutions.

Intense time to market requirements and an unrelenting pursuit of innovation are pressuring electronics and high tech organizations to advance their product development processes. "As a result of this fiercely competitive environment, ASE Group must continuously scrutinize our product development processes and evaluate how to increase productivity and improve quality while delivering better support to our customers," said Dr. Mingcheng Sheng, vice general manager, ASE Kaohsiung Information Center, ASE Group, the world's largest provider of independent semiconductor manufacturing services in assembly and test. "As a result, we decided to work with PTC to optimize our technology infrastructure to support our business objectives of doing the maximum with the minimum."

The PTC Product Development System (PDS) is able to support organizations like ASE Group by providing the following advantages:

•  A single, comprehensive PLM system that helps prevent late-stage changes by supporting the entire process starting from early-stage product development

•  Process centric solutions that tie technology to best practices in high tech product development

•  Synchronization of electrical, mechanical, software and technical publications development, and collaboration across these disciplines

•  Component management solutions that enable designers to design for environmental regulatory compliance and supply chain from the beginning

•  Collaboration with distributed development, suppliers and customers with a single, scalable solution

"Electronics and high tech companies continue to struggle with creating the most effective global product development strategies, often trying to manage both design and manufacturing through a heavily outsourced value chain," said Chad Hawkinson, vice president, product strategy, electronics, PTC. "PTC is focused on providing solutions that alleviate this burden and streamline the creation of innovative products by enabling mechanical, electrical and software designers to work better together to make more informed decisions at the beginning of the development process, reducing late-stage changes and improving product quality."

A partial list of electronics and high tech customers that have recently licensed PTC PLM solutions includes:

Arima Computer Corp., Arima Communication Corp., ASE Group, Asustek Computer Inc., Asyst Technologies Inc., AT&T Services Inc., Bose Corp., Chi Mei Communication Systems, Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., China Electronics Technology, Comba Telecom Systems Holding Limited, Compal Electronics, Inc., CSMC Technologies Corp., Daktronics Inc., Dell, EMC2 Corp., Emerging Display Technologies Corp., Hitachi High Tech Electronics Engineering, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Intel Corp., iRobot Corp., LG Philips LCD Co., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Motorola Inc., Nortel Networks, Omron Network Applications Co., Pantech C&I Co., Psion Teklogix Ltd., RF Micro Devices, Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Green Point Enterprises, TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones, Texas Instruments Inc., Tyco Electronics, Unisys Corp., and Varian Semiconductor Equipment.

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