CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 July 2009
Product News
New CIM DATABASE Version 2.9.8 supports Resource Management in Multi-Project Environments
CIM DATABASE/PCS, the integrated Project Management System within CONTACT‘s PDM/PLM platform, has been extended by extensive functions focused on resource management services. Enterprises can now achieve a more consistent supply of human resources for their development projects, thereby optimizing capacities. By confronting and graphically analysing resource supply and demand, the new solution timely discloses possible bottlenecks or idle times. It also delivers founded decision-related data on which projects can be tackled as estimated resources and schedules may easily be correlated with the resources at hand. Project and program managers now command a highly efficient planning instrument by which human resources deployment within multi-project environments is optimized.
CONTACT’s Project Management System supports scheduling together with project team allocation. The new Resource Management now frees Project Managers and Project Management offices from the inadequacies of often used Excel solutions. Such solutions not only required full recalculation once a single project or task was reallocated on the time schedule. They also presented major problems with general “what-if” analysis scenarios regarding varying task, schedule and resources planning, which can now be easily performed with CIM DATABASE.
Resource demand and supply are time-related parameters whose variations are best displayed graphically. The user is supported visually by graphs when analyzing and comparing supply and demand. Company specific parameters such as department structure, product line, project complexity etc. may be flexibly integrated and analyzed.
Irrespective of whether development projects are under way, newly assigned or still in proposition: The new CIM DATABASE Resource Management not only supplies conclusive figures regarding the temporal and spatial availability of staff. When allocating staff to projects or tasks, qualifications and abilities can also be considered. A further advantage of this new solution is the seamless integration with the CIM DATABASE PDM/PLM Information hub supporting also the actual, operative project execution.
The new application is already been deployed with a tier 1 automotive supplier and will be available as a standard module with the upcoming CIM DATABASE Release 2.9.8.
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