CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 February 2007
Implementation Investments
MAHLE Powertrain Selects PTC Windchill® To Streamline Product Development Processes
PTC announced that MAHLE Powertrain Ltd. in the UK, a leading auto-industry technology innovator for leading OEMs has selected the PTC Product Development System comprising of Windchill PDMLink® and Windchill ProjectLinkTM to streamline its product development processes and improve project collaboration between its engineering teams.
The objective of the PTC® Product Development System (PDS) is to improve the efficiency of the product design and development processes by optimising information search and improving access to data from current and previous projects. MAHLE Powertrain anticipates significant business process and quality improvement.
The PTC PDS will provide centrally controlled data collaboration, workflow, bill of materials and product configuration, detailed document search, better version control and CAD data management in a cost effective package. MAHLE Powertrain, a PTC customer for over a decade, has used Pro/ENGINEER® as its core design solution in a heterogeneous CAD environment and Pro/INTRALINK® for ProE data management. With this expansion, MAHLE Powertrain will now move their legacy Pro/INTRALINK data to Windchill PDMLink.
"The PTC Product Development System came out on top in a rigorous vendor selection process, as an out-of-the-box solution which could manage our processes during a time of significant change management. Windchill PDMLink, as our single data platform, also offers a superior tool for workflow and collaboration, with first rate vendor support," said Dave Beecroft, Head of Projects, MAHLE Powertrain .
MAHLE Powertrain's reputation is based on outstanding design. Engineers had a difficult time focusing on core activities, because they spent too much time searching for information. Windchill will streamline these operations and will accelerate information search and new product development in a highly innovative environment, using knowledge gained from previous projects.
"We are confident that the deployment of Windchill will positively impact our bottom line by unlocking new potential as we reduce time spent looking for information, accelerate processes and eliminate duplication, with automatic routing of documents and continuous visibility of product status," summarizes Beecroft.
"Windchill is a superior solution for managing a multi-CAD environment which typifies the auto industry and other technology sectors. The PTC Product Development System, which is comprised of the powerful combination of Windchill PDMLink, Windchill ProjectLink and Pro/ENGINEER, facilitates better collaborative design, global product development, configuration management and lifecycle support in fast moving sectors driven by ongoing innovation to stay competitive and dramatically reduced product development times," said Martin Walters, director, product and market strategy, PTC .
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