CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 September 2007
Implementation Investments
Orizzonte Sistemi Navali Successfully Implemented PTC® Windchill®
PTC announced that Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), the Italian war ship system engineering company, has successfully deployed Windchill, PTC's web-based content and process management solution. OSN develops and delivers a wide range of combatant surface vessels including Corvettes, Frigates and Aircraft Carriers. OSN is currently using Windchill to support its core design, program management and change management processes. In the future, OSN expects to expand its use of Windchill to facilitate its component and supplier management process.
As a company created by and between Fincantieri and Finmeccanica, OSN has to manage a large number of parallel programs originating from two companies with different product development processes. In order to meet its business objectives, OSN needed to deploy an integral, web-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution supported by a world-class services organization to tightly control, document and manage the program integration and evolution in a secure environment.
OSN chose to implement PTC Windchill after conducting a competitive benchmark. PTC was selected because of its broad range of out-of-the-box capabilities for the majority of OSN business requirements. Last but not least, OSN liked PTC's proven track record with other customers in the aerospace and defense industry and the support provided by PTC's Global Services Organization.
"Implementing Windchill has been the right decision for us, as we now have access to such a powerful and stable single data management platform," said Claudio Fischetti, IT & QA Manager at OSN. "The PTC Global Services team enabled us to quickly start using the product development system for managing our program deliverables in time. Moving forward we intend to gradually expand to a more program management oriented approach."
PTC Global Services analyzed the existing product development processes and enabled the implementation of new processes for digital product data management integrating all external and internal program documents. PTC also helped OSN define and implement a formal change management process to better control changes during the lifecycle of each program. In the future, OSN expects to expand its use of Windchill to collaborate with its extended supply chain.
"The OSN deployment is a tremendous example of a true partnership leveraging the core capabilities of both organizations," said Richard Prince, director of Aerospace & Defense market strategy, PTC . "OSN's example reflects a growing trend in our customer base to recognize the business value associated with optimizing product development processes to reduce time to market and provide an environment for standard change and configuration management processes. And working with the PTC Global Services organization reduces risk and provides a mechanism to accelerate implementation of a broad range of out-of-the-box functionality on an interoperable technology platform."
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