Keep Your Team In Communication & On Target
Enabling companies to track, manage and share colossal amounts of product and project data across a globally dispersed network of product development teams to meet critical due dates and deliver successful quality products in shorter cycle times.
Whether you're in the high tech, automotive, aerospace & defense, or industrial equipment industries, your products are likely developed through a complex network of globally dispersed teams. With many of these teams functioning outside the company's four walls, they are communicating on separate networks, collaborating across many time zones, and speaking multiple languages. Consequently, it's nearly impossible for project or program managers to disseminate and update vast quantities of product data in a timely manner with any kind of repeatability or to any standard. Added to the problem is that product development, by its very nature, is a chaotic environment. It's difficult to track individual progress toward specific deadlines, or prevent work in isolation or the use of out-of-date information, especially for those operating outside the main work stream. It is all too frequent that faulty decisions, emanating from erroneous information, result in wasteful duplication of effort, time-consuming rework, and lost project cycle time.
With global competition increasing, now is the time to get the waste out, eradicate inaction within latent mini-queues, harness the Web-connected world, and demand excellence in project management and execution to increase the likelihood of successful projects.
PTC can help by providing a single environment for managing projects while simultaneously executing project-related activities. Here, records of important decisions are captured and linked with product data, so project plans move smoothly through defined project phases. This environment ensures that current information is distributed to key members in a controlled fashion through notification, workflow, and routing capabilities. If you use a phase gate methodology for program management, additional information is available for the new product introduction process.
PTC's Product Development System (PDS) helps track, manage and share up-to-date product information - including engineering changes - related to specific projects within your complex network of globally dispersed teams. These project management and execution capabilities do not stop at your doorstep, but extend well outside firewalls, in a completely secure fashion. This means project managers can easily control access to projects by team members from other companies using different tools, thus enabling total synchronicity in a multi-CAD environment.
