Manufacturing Industry
Shop-floor link to PLM could save millions; vendors respond to the notion.
Manufacturing Business Technology, November, 2006
By Staff Manufacturers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by creating direct feedback loops between production-management and product-design applications, according to a University of Michigan engineering professor. And at least two software vendors claim to be developing solutions to forge those links.
For one, product life-cycle management (PLM) software vendor UGS is integrating its well-known Teamcenter PLM platform with production-management applications it acquired in the purchase of a company called Tecnomatix. Teamcenter is a suite of applications for managing and sharing product-related data throughout an enterprise. The shop-floor applications being linked to Teamcenter are part of what UGS dubs the Tecnomatix...
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