Vaillant takes HVAC engineering design chain global with Windchill
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German HVAC giant Vaillant Group reports that it has successfully implemented PTC’s Windchill PLM (product lifecycle management) software and increased process transparency and collaboration.
Dr Gamal Lashin, Vaillant’s head of R&D tools and standardisation, says it marks an important milestone in the company’s progress from PTC Pro/Intralink, for Pro/Engineer data management, with its superior capabilities for content and process management.
With Windchill, he says, the company has achieved a single, integral platform for global collaboration among its R&D departments across Europe and China, as well as controlled access to product development for non-engineering departments and third party suppliers. As part of the project, the PTC Global Service Organization migrated 1.6 million product data files with a total system downtime of less than two days.
“One of the greatest challenges for product development in the next few years will be how to share the right information with the right people at the right time,” says Lashin.
“Engineering and non-engineering departments need to collaborate on a global scale and independently of the software system that created the original data. We are convinced that PTC products will help us overcome this challenge in the future,” he adds.
