CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 May 2007
Implementation Investments
SDI Improves Project And Information Management Efficiency Significantly With PTC® Windchill®
PTC announced that SDI Corporation, one of Taiwan's oldest traditional manufacturers of stationery and hardware products, hand tools and precision components, has implemented Windchill, PTC's content and process management software. Immediate results from the PTC implementation include improved design accuracy and reduced engineering cycle times which SDI estimates for certain projects resulted in up to a 500% improvement in project and information management efficiency.
Established in 1953, SDI is one of Taiwan's largest lead-frame manufacturers with more than 2,000 employees at its Taiwan, China and Japan sites. As a large volume, multi-product manufacturer, SDI sought ways to improve its product development and manufacturing processes to address increasingly competitive market pressures. SDI was looking for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that would combine all design, product and manufacturing information and documents in a single operation environment. Additionally, SDI wanted a system that would enable its geographically-dispersed teams to access and share information simultaneously in order to control information quality and improve project progress tracking.
Following a six month benchmark process that included assessing the solutions of several PLM vendors and dozens of trips to other companies that have implemented PLM systems, SDI selected PTC Windchill because PTC solutions provided the flexibility SDI required to implement across multiple corporate sites. Windchill is PTC's production-proven content and process management software that is fast, secure and makes engineering data more accessible to geographically-dispersed teams.
"The most obvious benefit of adopting PTC Windchill solution for SDI is time reduction in the area of information management," said Daniel Chiang, administrative group assistant vice president, SDI Corporation. "When we improved our information management, we also reduced engineering cycle times, improved product quality and streamlined our overall product development processes. These were the ultimate goals we had for our new PLM system and PTC software has enabled us to achieve those goals."
Chiang continued, "Windchill serves as our web-based master product data management repository that connects to multiple mechanical or electrical CAD applications as well as fitting perfectly with our previously installed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. By utilizing this single web-based platform, costly design and/or development errors are controlled and typically chaotic product change management processes are minimized, freeing our designers and developers from this timely and costly activity. This in turn enables them to focus on developing innovative designs."
"We are pleased that our Windchill solution has helped SDI to reduce its overall project development time from 6 months to just 2 months, enabling the company to incorporate more new projects into its manufacturing and production schedules," said Joshua Fredberg, vice president product and market strategy, PTC . "SDI's success demonstrates the importance of an integral product development system and how it can help manufacturers remain competitive."
SDI has immediate plans to implement Windchill software for similar product development initiatives at its manufacturing and operation facilities in China. Since SDI's establishment, it has expanded from a small 6-employee company to the present SDI Group with over 2,000 employees. Its success is attributed to its never-ending pursuit of the highest manufacturing precision, maintaining meticulous product quality and placing importance on R&D. With PTC's Windchill software, SDI is able to shorten lead time, improve time-to-market, and drive overall higher product lifecycle management efficiency, propelling SDI toward its ultimate goal of being a true global brand.
About SDI
Established in 1953, SDI is one of Taiwan's oldest traditional manufacturers of stationery and hardware products, hand tools and precision components. With intense market competition to keep up with the evolving Taiwanese and global economies, SDI formed its Electronic Components Division to manufacture lead-frames for semiconductors and IC sockets. This business strategy proved successful, not only is SDI known for its own-brand stationery hardware, it has also created a name for itself as one of Taiwan's largest lead-frame manufacturers. SDI currently has 6 operation points in Taiwan, China and Japan.
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