CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 November 2008
Implementation Investments
ViewPlus Technologies Replaces Previous 3D CAD Solution with PTC CoCreate
PTC announced that ViewPlus Technologies, a leading manufacturer of assistive technologies including Braille printers, has standardized on CoCreate solutions to speed time to market and increase its competitiveness. CoCreate, PTC’s explicit CAD, PDM & collaboration software provides companies with a lightweight and flexible approach to designing products. Using CoCreate Modeling™, ViewPlus reduced its design process by six months, enabling the company to bring its highly specialized products to market in less time.
Because its primary customers are educational institutions, the product development schedule at ViewPlus is externally driven by the fiscal year of the institutions. Failure to meet fiscal year deadlines can result in lost orders, which impact achievement of business goals. Additionally, ViewPlus’s customers often pre-order equipment so product development delays that impact shipments can result in customer satisfaction issues. Frustrated with its previous 3D CAD solution, which, ViewPlus found difficult to use and severely limited in functionality, the company sought a replacement that would enable it to quickly create 3D CAD models and support integration with 2D drawings to help accelerate product development.
After conducting a comparative benchmark between three competitive solutions, ViewPlus chose CoCreate as its 3D modeling standard, replacing its previous solution. CoCreate provides support for concurrent engineering enabling multiple engineers to work on a design at the same time without risk of overwriting each other’s work. Additionally, with CoCreate, new drawings are immediately updated as revisions to prototypes are made, eliminating the need to redraw the design from scratch. This enabled ViewPlus to save one week of drawing time during each prototype revision cycle. Further, CoCreate allowed the design team to incorporate unexpected changes late in the design process without jeopardizing the development schedule.
“CoCreate delivers the capabilities that we need to meet the development needs of a highly specialized product,” said John Dion, director, hardware engineering, ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. “Our previous solution was difficult to use and didn’t provide the functionality to support our requirements. CoCreate allows us to quickly make and modify new parts which ultimately shortens our development cycle and helps us to meet our critical delivery deadlines.”
“Special equipment manufacturers like ViewPlus Technologies rely upon the CoCreate easy to use explicit modeling approach to provide the flexibility needed to react quickly to customer requests and meet increasingly short deadlines,” said Martin Neumueller, director of product management, CoCreate products, PTC. “CoCreate enables design teams to work collaboratively and increase the efficiency of the design process, resulting in faster time to market and competitive advantage.”
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