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 NEEDHAM,
MA, June 24, 2008 - PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), The Product Development Company,
today announced that Wrightbus, the UK manufacturing division of Wright
Group and one of Europe’s leading providers of passenger transport
solutions, has adopted Windchill for product lifecycle management (PLM).
Windchill, the PTC content and process management solution, has enabled
Wrightbus to significantly improve its collaborative product development
processes. Wrightbus has been a user of PTC’s integrated CAD/CAM/CAE
solution, Pro/ENGINEER since 2000, and the selection of Windchill provides
Wrightbus with the additional benefits of the PTC integral Product
Development System (PDS) strengthening the business processes that keep this
innovative and award winning company ahead of its global competition.
“We believe that Wrightbus is the most innovative supplier in the
market,” said Martin Graham, director of IT and logistics, Wrightbus. “In
order to maintain that position we recognized that our engineering processes
needed to become a seamless part of the overall business process. By
adopting Windchill as our common product information management platform we
are now able to synchronize all our internal processes and our aim is to
eliminate 50 percent of non-value-add activities in engineering.”
Established in 1946 and based in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Wrightbus
is still a family owned and managed company. A pioneer of low-floor buses in
the UK, Wrightbus is renowned for producing vehicles that are stylish,
durable, of the highest quality and with innovative features – such as their
hybrid diesel-electric vehicle which won the Renishaw Award for Product
Innovation in 2007. With a growing customer base, which has expanded into
Central Europe and the US, the company recognized that the existing product
development processes couldn’t sustain further growth. Therefore, Wrightbus
initiated a program to improve product development and manufacturing
processes.
Wrightbus has established Windchill as its PLM platform to satisfy its
needs of improving product structure management, change management and work
flow control. This in turn has enabled the release of product structure data
to the production system using an optimized process flow and provided
accurate data release from the PLM to the ERP system.
“PTC is committed to helping companies create competitive advantage by
optimizing processes and eliminating redundancies in order to reduce
time-to-market and costs,” said Joshua Fredberg, vice president, product and
market strategy, PTC. “Wrightbus highlights the momentum of PLM as a
critical area of investment in business innovation as market leaders strive
to increase operational efficiency and maximize productivity in product
development.”
About The Wright Group
The Wright Group is one of Europe’s leading independently-owned bus
manufacturers. Today the company employs more than 1,000 people at its
manufacturing and HQ facility at Galgorm, near Ballymena in County Antrim
where they currently output 20-25 buses per week.
As well as pioneering the accessible bus in the UK in the early 1990’s
and growing rapidly to become the market leading designers and manufacturers
of public transport vehicles in the British Isles, The Wright Group has also
enjoyed considerable success in many export markets, including USA, Europe
and Asia / Pacific.
About PTC Solutions for Automotive Industry
PTC solutions for automotive are designed to meet the product design and
product life cycle management needs of both OEMs and suppliers in the
automotive industry. PTC provides 3D design, product data management and
collaboration solutions to over 1400 automotive manufacturers including 8 of
the top ten suppliers and 3 of the top 5 OEMs.
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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