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Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Nov 4, 2003

Strategic investment in product lifecycle management environment enhances automotive OEM's global product development process and ability to manage product configuration requirements.

MatrixOne, the leading provider of collaborative product lifecycle management solutions for the value chain, has announced that Porsche will implement Matrix10 to manage the development of its products throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Matrix10, the industry's most flexible PLM environment, will replace Porsche's existing legacy Product Data Management (PDM) system and will allow the company to respond to the increasing demand for new and highly configured product offerings.

Porsche's home-grown, legacy PDM system had proven an excellent success for the last 20 years.

This system, however, contained a number of inherent limitations in terms of future requirements on its scalability, global accessibility and missing Web technology.

As a result, the company sought the creation of a PDM backbone system that could be accessed not only by Porsche's own production plants, but by those of its partners and suppliers worldwide.

Furthermore, Matrix10 will provide the platform for other company-specific and individually developed applications as well as a homogeneous integration to its SAP-ERP system.

And Matrix10 shall support the growing trend of complex product configuration in the automobile industry.

With the introduction of Matrix10, Porsche is able to support its global product development process more efficiently.

The use of Matrix10 will allow Porsche's global value chain to collaborate directly with Porsche's engineering teams via the Internet through the web-based applications inherent in Matrix10.

This will enable Porsche to involve external suppliers and engineering partners as early as possible in the design process, which produces tangible results in many areas across the business.

Prior to selecting Matrix10, in 1999 Porsche deployed MatrixOne's eMatrix platform in a Digital Mock Up (DMU) implementation supporting 450 people within their organisation.

Porsche uses eMatrix with all its integration capabilities to enable seamless data sharing with the most critical applications and design tools including its legacy databases.

Based on the success of this deployment the company selected Matrix10 for the larger, enterprise-wide deployment.

Moving forward, the company intends to upgrade the Digital Mock Up (DMU) implementation to Matrix10 as well.

With the complete deployment of Matrix10, 3,750 users worldwide at Porsche will be supported.

About MatrixOne - MatrixOne is a recognised leader in delivering collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.

We provide flexible solutions that unleash the creative power of global value chains to inspire innovations and speed them to market.

MatrixOne's customers include global leaders in the aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products, high technology, life sciences, machinery, and the process industries, including Agilent Technologies, General Electric, Honda, Johnson Controls, Philips, Procter and Gamble, Siemens, and Toshiba.