CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 November 2007
Implementation Investments
Samsung Electronics Standardizes on PTC® Windchill® Solution to Drive Process Efficiencies Across Enterprise
PTC announced that Samsung Electronics Co., LTD (SEC), a leading digital products manufacturer of mobile phones, televisions and semiconductors, has selected PTC Windchill as its digital product development data repository to manage an integrated BOM of mechanical, electrical and software data across its globally distributed product development environment. Windchill is the standard enterprise PLM solution at SEC because of its powerful, Web-based support of key product development processes on a single technology architecture and execution environment.
SEC is a global company that provides digital products and services to the world market. SEC first adopted 4,500 seats of Windchill PDMLink® in 2002 for the collaborative product development of molds and printed circuit boards. Windchill PDMLink, a core component of the PTC Product Development System (PDS), provides SEC with an engineering information exchange environment for product specifications, drawings and change management with its extended supply chain. With the PTC PDS, SEC has optimized its product development processes and reinforced the security of its design information, improved product quality and reduced development lead time. Because of these measurable benefits with the PDS, the company has expanded its Windchill implementation to its LCD division.
SEC has also expanded the use of Windchill to their global software development organizations. In their Software Information System (SIS) project, Samsung has connected thousands of software developers across divisions and geographic locations to improve development costs and quality through increased software design reuse. The first key component of this successful project was to integrate multiple IBM® Rational® ClearCase® software configuration management systems to Windchill using PTC's Ready for Rational certified Integration to Rational ClearCase, enabling visibility to software designs across divisions. Second, Windchill provides a standardized approval process to turn software designs into reusable software components. Lastly, the solution provides a searchable catalog of reusable software components, allowing engineers to find reusable designs easily instead of duplicating work done by other divisions. The system can track how many times each component has been used, allowing greater management visibility into the success of their reuse initiatives.
Recently, SEC expanded its business partnership with PTC by implementing an additional 3,600 seats of Windchill for its Bill of Materials (BOM) project, which is scheduled for completion in 2008 and ties directly into its corporate strategy to provide a single, configurable BOM for each product that manages options and variants, and engineering BOM to manufacturing BOM relationships. SEC expects to improve the quality of BOM information, improve time-to-market of products, and improve its operational efficiency. When this project is fully implemented, SEC will be one of the largest Windchill customers in Asia.
"If we hope to continue our efforts to provide high quality products and services to our customers, we must ensure that our product development processes are well managed and the relevant data is easily shared with our geographically dispersed teams. Windchill is a core component because it enables worldwide collaboration," said Hee-sun Park, CIO of Samsung Electronics. "We have been in a strategic partnership with PTC for six years, and the tremendously successful results have proven that PTC is a company that provides the best solutions for us, which is why we continue to select and implement their PLM solutions throughout the SEC organization."
" Samsung selected Windchill in order to better align its product development initiatives with its strategic corporate goals," said C. Richard Harrison, president and chief executive officer, PTC. "PTC and Samsung share a similar vision for product development in the electronics and high tech industry and will continue to work together to advance the successes that Samsung continues to achieve in product innovation."
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