Pricol implements PTC Windchill PLM solution

BANGALORE, INDIA: PTC announced that Pricol Ltd, a leading manufacturer and exporter of automotive components and engineering products, has selected PTC Windchill for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The use of PTC's Windchill will enable Pricol to support their business growth and product development needs better.

For automobile companies like Pricol, PTC Windchill can create a well-defined and orderly process for how informal and formal changes to product design are proposed, evaluated, implemented and documented. PTC Windchill delivers a best practice change-process strategy that enables all product development parties to instantly access all necessary data in order to improve product quality, reduce product costs, minimize product inventory and improve time-to-market by minimizing manufacturing downtime.

PTC Windchill is an ideal solution because it provides the tools to digitally design and manage all of the process plan deliverables concurrently with design. Some of the salient features and benefits of PTC Windchill are:

* Reduce time-to-market by enabling concurrent product and manufacturing process definition.

* Enhance efficiency of manufacturing engineers by allowing them to digitally author and manage manufacturing process plans and the associated resources.

* Improve production ramp-up and productivity by using PTC Windchill MPM (Manufacturing Process Management) software to efficiently optimize manufacturing processes and dynamically generate 2D and 3D work instructions.

* Lower Total Cost of Ownership by eliminating multiple legacy and MS Office-based solutions,

* Addresses process and product information management challenges other than engineering and manufacturing across enterprise

* Manages complete product information

* Provides a foundation to address additional process across quality, customer complaints and warranty management.