CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 July 2009
Implementation Investments
GIGABYTE Accelerates Product Development Cycle By 30% With PTC Windchill 9.0
PTC announced that GIGABYTE Corporation, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer, has deployed Windchill®, PTC's content and process management solution, to accelerate product development in its NetCom division. As a result of the implementation, product development hours have been reduced by up to 30%, helping GIGABYTE to increase competitive advantage through tighter integration with its supply chain and faster time to market. The Windchill deployment expands GIGABYTE's existing relationship with PTC as a long time user of Pro/ENGINEER® for product design.
Established in 1986, GIGABYTE Technology, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics accelerators has expanded its product portfolio to include more diverse digital products including Notebook and desktop PCs, digital home appliances, networking servers, communications, mobile and handheld devices. Facing the highly competitive international market and the need to meet constantly changing customer requirements, GIGABYTE needed a solution that would enable it to optimize its product development process and accelerate time to market. Based upon its successful use of Pro/ENGINEER for product design, the company chose to expand its relationship with PTC through deployment of Windchill® 9.0 for content and process management. GIGABYTE will use Windchill to manage Research and Development projects, Engineering Revisions, product information & BOM, technical documentation and engineering information and integrate with the current ERP system.
"Windchill 9.0 will help optimize product development at GIGABYTE by reducing research and development hours, increasing data reuse rate across the development team and improving project quality," said Mr. Nill Bai, CIO, GIGABYTE. "Streamlining the development process will enable our engineers to work more efficiently while maximizing innovation and quality, which supports our strategic objectives."
"Windchill 9.0 is uniquely able to support organizations like GIGABYTE by providing a single, comprehensive PLM system that supports the entire process starting from early-stage product development," said David Rubin, director, product and market strategy, PTC. "We are pleased that the collaboration between GIGABYTE and PTC has helped GIGABYTE to bring its products to market faster and more efficiently to achieve its business objectives."
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