CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 February 2008
Product News
RAND Worldwide Expands and Enhances Rapid Deployment PLM Program, QuickStart
RAND Worldwide announced that it has expanded and enhanced its rapid deployment Product Lifecycle Management (“PLM”) program, QuickStart. The Company has enhanced its existing CATIA V5: Design package and introduced two new offerings: CATIA V5: Manufacturing and ENOVIA SmarTeam – Pro/ENGINEER Integration (“SPI”).
“We recognize that every client’s PLM requirements differ, making the ability to customize their software tools to meet their specific need the key to getting the most out of a CATIA V5 or SPI deployment, ” said Joe Oswald, Executive Vice President, PLM Operations, North America and Europe, RAND Worldwide. “With the enhanced version of our QuickStart program, our clients can now customize their design capabilities, and implement best practices for greater design and data management efficiency.”
The CATIA V5: Design QuickStart package has been expanded from a five to 10-day program, and includes additional implementation processes. The package now offers further CATIA V5 deployment customization options, focusing on organizational usage plans and design requirements. The package also includes documented best practice plans for CATIA V5 and the client’s accompanying Product Data Management (“PDM”) tool.
The CATIA V5: Manufacturing QuickStart package is designed specifically for manufacturing engineering organizations. The package assists administrators and power users to properly configure their CATIA V5 NC Manufacturing environment, develop and design manufacturing methodologies, and validate their local environment. RAND works onsite to offer guidance and mentoring services for improved NC methodologies, and also provides documented best practice guidelines that are specific to each client’s needs.
The ENOVIA SmarTeam – Pro/ENGINEER Integration QuickStart package is ideal for companies that want to improve their data management capabilities by introducing ENOVIA SmarTeam into their Pro/ENGINEER environment. The package introduces Pro/ENGINEER users to ENOVIA SmarTeam’s vaulting, web and workflow capabilities. The SPI QuickStart package also allows for implementation at an engineering work group level before introducing it across an entire organization.
Launched in April 2006, QuickStart offers a selection of deployment solutions for CATIA V5 and ENOVIA SmarTeam that are faster and more cost effective to implement than a standard PLM and PDM deployment. The program assists in building a proper PLM foundation for organizations with limited internal knowledge of CATIA V5 and ENOVIA SmarTeam set-up and administration, or a need to improve the progress of an existing implementation, with minimal upfront investment.
QuickStart leverages RAND’s TAKE AIM (Assured Implementation Methodology) program, a proven four-phase project implementation approach, derived from RAND’s extensive experience with PLM and PDM deployments across a variety of industries.
Launch timeframes for the CATIA V5 and ENOVIA SmarTeam programs start at just 10 days by RAND’s professional services team. All implementations provide the foundation for a fully functioning PLM system, without any limitation for expansion to the full capabilities of CATIA V5 or ENOVIA SmarTeam.
To learn more about RAND’s QuickStart programs, please visit www.rand.com/quickstart
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