CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 August 2007
Implementation Investments
Shenyang Blower Works Optimizes Its Data Management with PTC Windchill; New System Supports Design and Configuration Management for over 200 Products with ERP Integration
PTC, the Product Development Company®, and Shenyang Blower Works announced that Shenyang Blower Works has gone live with PTC Windchill to improve its overall product design and configuration management process. Windchill, PTC's content and process management solution, allows manufacturers to manage any type of product data, including mechanical, electronic and software data within the product development life cycle. Utilizing Windchill has enabled Shenyang Blower Works to design and manage over 200 products, and accurately transmit multiple BOM views to its ERP system.
Shenyang Blower Works is number two in the blower manufacturing enterprise and provides a complete line of parts for industrial equipment, including blowers, compressors, fans and heat exchangers. Since March 2005, the company has been using PTC's Product Development System (PDS) as its standard product development platform. Prior to using PTC, Shenyang Blower Works faced many technical and commercial challenges, such as a lack of accurate, centralized information, as well as a controlled engineering change management process. In order to address these classic problems, it required a more flexible PLM solution.
Shenyang Blower Works now uses Windchill to thoroughly address its product development challenges. By centralizing data management, as well as change and configuration management, Shenyang Blower Works is able to monitor the entire design process and change process in real time. This has significantly improved its whole product development process, bringing customers a smooth and efficient environment for product development and collaborative management.
" PTC products have contributed to shorter cycle times, reduced costs and improved product quality over the past years. Based on this success, we are now expanding our deployment to Windchill in order to better control our design review process and data management," said Mr. Ma Shaokui, IT manager of Shenyang Blower Works. "With the introduction of PTC's PDS, Shenyang Blower Works has used the PDS framework to create a step by step roadmap for process and solution adoption and, as a result, has greatly improved the overall product development process. By expanding our use of Windchill, we expect to achieve significant performance improvements in our product development process resulting in increased competitive advantage."
"PTC's PDS is able to improve workflows and provide significant advancements in delivery timelines, cost effectiveness and customer service," said Josh Fredberg, vice president product and market strategy, PTC. "PTC solutions also enable users to efficiently optimize content and process management, and enhance the collaboration of entire value chain. Shenyang Blower Works has become one of the most technologically sophisticated blower enterprises in China and this is having a positive impact on its customer satisfaction."
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