CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 June 2004
Implementation Investments
PTC Announces New Strategic Product Lifecycle Management and Process Improvement Solutions Deployment for Toyota's Powertrain
PTC ( http://www.ptc.com/index.htm ) announced the deployment of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 at Toyota's Powertrain Division. The solution rolls out PTC's Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 as the powertrain development standard, incorporating dozens of improvements for powertrain development, which Toyota and PTC conceived and developed over the last 18 months. The deployment is a part of the multi-year, joint process redesign and development initiative PTC and Toyota signed in May 2003.
Since standardizing on Pro/ENGINEER for powertrain in 2002, Toyota has achieved improvements in design cycle time, introduced new lean product development techniques, and furthered its established leadership in the areas of continuous improvement, quality leadership and technical innovation. This phase builds on that success by introducing innovative new PLM technology into their process in the areas of 3D engineering, analysis, manufacturing planning, drawing creation and interoperability.
"PTC has been a skilled and experienced partner to us throughout this major undertaking to improve our processes throughout the Powertrain Division," said Mr. Mikio Satoh, Toyota's general manager of Corporate IT. "PTC's comprehensive Product Development System clearly aligns with Toyota's approach to product design and development and we anticipate significant benefits to our process through this deployment."
"Toyota is renowned for its absolute focus on engineering and manufacturing excellence and PTC is proud to partner with them in this strategic use of PLM technology," said Dick Harrison, president and CEO of PTC. "The ability of our solutions to support and enable this undertaking is a tremendous validation of our vision, our approach and our offerings. We are confident that PTC will continue to help Toyota lead the industry in continuous process improvement."
Toyota's standardization on Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 reinforces PTC's special focus on the powertrain segment of the transportation industry. Industry leaders such as VW, BMW, Hyundai, Fiat, Volvo Truck, Daihatsu, Hino Motors, Tata Motors, ZF, Mannesman AG, Visteon, Robert Bosch, Eaton, Dana, AVL and Cummins have selected PTC based on the business benefits provided by Pro/ENGINEER.
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