UK's DTC Research Center to Use Windchill
 NEEDHAM,
MA, Feb 11, 2008 - PTC, the Product Development Company, today announced
that Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Research Center, based in the UK, has
expanded its use of PTC solutions to include Windchill to better manage all
product development data, improve change management processes and expand
data accessibility across all departments. Part of the global De Beers
Group, DTC designs and manufactures machines for sorting, weighing,
authenticating and hallmarking diamonds. A long-standing Pro/ENGINEER and
Pro/INTRALINK customer, DTC needed to expand the capabilities of its
existing implementation to make more use of its product development data by
sharing it across the enterprise. The objective was to gain greater control
by implementing a single data platform with an auditable workflow driven
change management process.
“Pro/INTRALINK was a great tool but we pushed the limits as we could only
manage the data for the benefit of our mechanical engineers, but we were not
able to use our powerful Pro/ENGINEER 3D product models outside the
department,” said Philip Read, Design Office Manager at the DTC Research
Center. “We wanted to make our valuable product development data available
to the rest of the company so we moved from Pro/INTRALINK to Windchill. Now,
whether someone is in manufacturing assembling a product on the shop floor
or in electronic engineering working on a PCB, they all have desktop access
to the latest information via PTC ProductView as part of the Windchill
suite. We are getting a lot more value from of our work now.”
The DTC Research Center is also using the PTC Product Development System
to control its engineering change process. Products move through a
three-stage process, from design, through release-to-production change.
Previously the company used a paper-based engineering change process. The
Windchill automated workflow for change management offers significant
business benefits, including the control of software releases during the
development cycle.
Another major motivation to move to Windchill is its ability to manage
non-CAD product data. Alongside Pro/ENGINEER data, DTC now also manages and
controls all its electronic design data (ECAD) along with many other types
of information such as test specifications, manuals and datasheets. Easy
accessibility to complete, up-to-date and accurate product development
information throughout the enterprise enables this information to be used in
a wide range of situations right down to the shop-floor.
“PTC is committed helping customers remove obstacles that impede product
development success,” said Josh Fredberg, vice president product and market
strategy, PTC. “Windchill provides a solution for managing complex product
development data and enables effective collaboration, allowing companies
like Diamond Trading to reap tangible business benefits for the entire
company from their technology investment.”
About the Diamond Trading Company Research Center
For over 20 years the Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Research Center has
been central to the development of the De Beers Group's expertise in gem
diamond technologies. It is able to respond at short notice to any technical
challenge associated with gem diamonds. Employing around 100 specialist
scientists, engineers and support staff, the DTC Research Center is also
part of a network of key strategic laboratories within the De Beers Group
working closely with other Group laboratories in Southern Africa,
consultants and diamond research departments in universities world-wide.
About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM),
content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 50,000
organizations worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative
companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government and life
sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P Midcap 400 and Russell 2000
indices. For more information on PTC, please visit
http://www.ptc.com.
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