CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 June 2008
Implementation Investments
Gamesa Optimizes Its Technical Publications Process with PTC® Product Development System
PTC announced that Gamesa, a supplier of products and solutions for renewable energy generation, has expanded its current implementation of the PTC Product Development System (PDS) to cover the creation, management and publishing of product related documentation. With Arbortext®, PTC’s product information delivery software, Gamesa will now be able to produce high quality and more effective documentation in less time.
With over 7,000 employees worldwide, the group headquartered in Vitoria (Spain) develops, manufactures and installs wind turbines as well as builds complete wind farms for customers in Europe, US and Asia. Operation and maintenance of these installations require an enormous amount of personalized documentation, complex to maintain and update. The delivery of accurate and high quality tailored technical publications, in a timely and cost-effective manner, is a key factor for Gamesa to meet its customers´ ever increasing expectations.
Gamesa has been a longstanding customer of PTC and uses Windchill® to manage and control all product information that, in the case of Gamesa, is originated by a variety of CAD systems. With this investment, Gamesa has added another integral component of the PDS, Arbortext, so that the company can now address the management of all product-related documentation in an integral manner with the rest of its product information. This will ensure the consistency between the product data and the associated technical documentation required today in Gamesa´s business, and will place the company in a much better position to face continuous changes and drive product innovation.
With PTC´s Arbortext and Windchill, Gamesa will now be able to automatically create different types of documents from one single source of content, using the same pieces of information in different style sheets and publishing them in PDF and other formats. “We expect PTC's software to greatly enhance efficiency and productivity of our technical publications process. The availability to automate the creation of the different document types and reuse information will let us provide our customers better and more consistent documentation in less time,” explains Gonzalo Coloma, head of product support, Gamesa. “Customers will also benefit from these improvements as better documentation facilitates usability and maintenance of our products.”
Given tight project schedules and quality requirements, Arbortext, while being both cost effective and low risk, also proved to be the fastest solution to implement. PTC’s Global Support Organization (GSO) has been strongly involved in the project, helping Gamesa to implement the new solution, which, includes setting up standard based document type definitions (DTD) and reorganizing the technical publications processes.
“A product cannot ship without documentation, hence more and more companies are looking at the process of creating and delivering product information as they strive to improve time to market and cut product development costs," explains Peter Velikin, director, Arbortext product and market strategy, PTC. "Arbortext, PTC’s product information delivery solution enables companies to leverage product information created during the product development process to concurrently develop products and documentation, and to deliver product information in the ideal format that is in synch with product configurations and is tailored for each reader."
The PTC® PDS helps companies optimize a wide variety of product development processes including technical publications. For technical publications, the PDS combines text authoring, technical illustrations, content management and configuration management, dynamic publishing and graphics visualization. Additionally, the PDS enables an organization to automatically publish information in multiple formats, languages, and media. PTC’s integral system lowers deployment risks and support costs by providing interoperability and integration of all components.
About Gamesa
Gamesa is a company specializing in sustainable energy technologies, mainly wind power. Gamesa is the market leader in Spain and is positioned among the most important wind generator manufacturers in the world with a market share above 15% in 2007. Gamesa has installed almost 13,000 MW of its main product lines in 20 countries spread out over four continents. The annual equivalent of this production amounts to more than 2.78 million tons of petroleum (TEP)/year and prevents the emission into the atmosphere of more than 19.41 million tones of CO2/year. With a portfolio of more than 21,000 MW of wind power being promoted in Europe, America and Asia and branches in 13 countries, Gamesa is well positioned as one of the world's most important companies in the promotion and development of wind farms.
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