CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 June 2009
Implementation Investments
Pixel Velocity Turns to Arena to Reduce Risk and Gain Efficiencies in BOM Management
Arena Solutions announced some of the benefits that Pixel Velocity has seen since choosing Arena to support its long-term growth. Pixel Velocity adopted Arena collaborative bill of materials (BOM) and change management software to move beyond the practice of managing product development with email and spreadsheets, and as a result, has been able to develop its wide-area surveillance for advance threat detection and emergency response systems more efficiently and cost-effectively.
With Arena, Pixel Velocity manages all of its product information and history -- including BOMs, suppliers, costs, quotes, specs, drawings, files, compliance records and much more -- in a single, centralized, version-controlled repository. By putting up-to-date information at the fingertips of all who need it, regardless of geographic location, Arena has helped Pixel Velocity make better, faster decisions, develop products and more quickly bring its products to market. Able to track product information more quickly and reliably than when it used Excel, Pixel Velocity releases designs to manufacturing nearly 20 percent faster now that the company is using Arena.
"I'm responsible for releasing information to our suppliers and managing our change process. With Arena, we communicate design information more easily, make bid packages more accurately and make changes more quickly," said Matt McAmmond, director of manufacturing at Pixel Velocity. "Arena has helped us improve our processes and make fewer mistakes. I give it credit for helping us make production parts right from the get-go."
When using spreadsheets, Pixel Velocity had to be especially diligent to make sure each bill of materials (BOM) released to manufacturing was the right revision.
Pixel Velocity's intellectual property -- engineering documents, BOMs, manufacturing data and supplier information -- was among the company's most valuable assets, but with no good way to keep it in order, the company risked having it become one of its biggest liabilities. Pixel Velocity decided that a dedicated system for collaborative BOM and change management was better so it chose on-demand Arena because it could be deployed in days, with no IT overhead required, and begin delivering value right away.
To learn more about Pixel Velocity and its success with Arena, click here: http://www.arenasolutions.com/pixelvelocity
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