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News Release from: SSA Global | Subject: Product Lifecycle Management software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 June 2002
Road and racing car firms takes up PLM
Speciality provider of road and racecar design and development services to enhance PLM capabilities and power managed collaboration with partners and suppliers.
Baan, the leading enterprise application provider for industrial enterprises and part of Invensys plc, has announced an agreement with TWR Group that can help the speciality vehicle design and manufacturing organization further extend its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy Based on its comprehensive iBaan for PLM knowledge-driven approach, Baan will support TWR's drive to enhance its product lifecycle capabilities across the company's global supply network
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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By developing its PLM enterprise strategy, TWR can navigate product information within a complex, multi-dimensional, collaborative environment for enhanced communication - both externally with partners and suppliers and internally with TWR staff in different departments, locations and countries.
This additional PLM functionality can help TWR improve the flow of product information to both suppliers and clients.
The company sub-contracts a number of part design projects to its key suppliers and PLM can help address the requirement to enable the flow of CAD models, design and reference information to these suppliers in a managed environment.
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A comprehensive PLM approach can also provide an automated and managed delivery tool to share engineering information and CAD models with TWR customers.
Martin King-Turner, Business Systems Manager at TWR commented: "As an industry leader in the deployment of cutting-edge technology, TWR recognizes that solutions such as Baan's iBaan for PLM can help us improve our external communication and internal processes on all matters relating to the product lifecycle.
iBaan for PLM offers us the opportunity for significant potential savings in our process control administration and reductions in the cycle time for various processes.
By extending our PLM strategy, we can look to raise the value of our project delivery capabilities which can subsequently increase our business opportunities worldwide." iBaan for Product Lifecycle Management is part of the iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions that combines proven Baan technology with new developments to enable customers to take significant steps towards seamlessly integrating systems and processes.
It provides end-users with personalized and easy-to-use information, and empowers businesses to collaborate with their customers and suppliers over the Internet.
TWR is a leading provider of optimised engineering services and road and racecar design and development services with operations in the UK, Sweden, Australia and the US, and manufacturing operations in Australia and Sweden.
Best known for its motorsport success with the Arrows and Benetton teams in Formula One, 85 per cent of TWR's business is actually in Road Car Engineering, where the company works globally with leading automotive manufacturers to provide a full range of engineering services, from styling/design to full-scale engineering and manufacturing.
TWR is about helping automotive manufacturers to cut the lead-time between initial design and final manufacturing.
Baan helps industrial enterprises optimize their enterprise performance strategies and compete in the knowledge-driven 'networked economy', with its ever-increasing demands for information, integration, and collaboration.
Through its open and powerful iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions, Baan is ideally placed to support organizations in the manufacturing, logistics, services, and engineering industries as they move towards tighter integration of their complex processes, closer collaboration throughout their value chain, and greater accessibility of cross-enterprise transactional and analytical information.
Baan has more than 15,000 customer sites worldwide and is part of the Production Management division of Invensys plc.
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