Schneider Electric goes for global PTC product development environment

The company is currently shifting to PTC’s Pro/Engineer and Windchill system initially to support its latest product modularisation initiative using its web-based distributed engineering environment. “PTC is not only delivering best-in-class technology for our global PLM initiative but has also proven to be an important service partner for implementing and optimising its solutions, based on a clear implementation roadmap,” says Michel Catry, EIS manager at Schneider Electric. “The fast roll-out of a single and integral product development system will substantially support our organic growth and the capability to cooperate with global competency centres based in Mexico, India and China,” he adds. He also says that the new PLM backbone will enable Schneider Electric’s product development teams to work with common methods and processes, and share and reuse mechanical, electrical and software information more efficiently to free up product development capacity. The new system replaces legacy systems in the different departments and will allow the company to keep a single source of all information, which can be shared internally and externally, including with suppliers, partners and its distributed technical centres in China, India and Mexico.