Tag Archives: Product Data Management

Too Soon for PDM?

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 14, 2013

What do you think? Does Padmini need PDM? Padmini VNA Mechatronics is a privately held company in India that designs and manufactures automobile components like valves, sensors, and vacuum pumps. It uses PTC Creo for design. Many of its products are developed within the company’s own R&D, manufacturing, and test facilities. The company is considered […]

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Desktop Engineering: Vendors Try to ‘Rightsize’ PLM for Smaller Businesses

By Admin | Published: May 8, 2013

For more than a decade, larger manufacturers have come to rely on product lifecycle management (PLM) to help deal with increasing design and manufacturing complexity, but the software tools have traditionally been expensive and difficult to deploy, keeping smaller companies at bay. PLM vendors have struggled to break into the SMB market, but their approaches–mostly […]

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PTC Windchill PDM Essentials: The Easy 8-Minute Demo

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 30, 2013

PTC Windchill PDM Essentials: Easy to deploy, easy to configure, easy to use. Sure. But what does that mean really? If you’ve ever purchased a product before based on its “easy-to-deploy” and “easy-to-use” claims, you might have found out that their “easy” isn’t always the same as your “easy.” In fact, you might have learned […]

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PTC CAD and PDM: Spotting Microbes with AES CHEMUNEX

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Apr 17, 2013

There’s a reason you don’t have to worry much about getting sick from the food you eat, the sodas you drink, or even the lotions you smear on your face before you sunbathe. AES CHEMUNEX. AES CHEMUNEX is a biotechnology company based in Brux, France, that makes the devices that spot micro-organisms before they ever […]

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PTC CAD with PDM Speed Product Development by 30%

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Mar 26, 2013

JSC Dneprovagonmash is a company based in the Ukraine that recently celebrated its 85th birthday. Despite years of economic upheaval in the region, the company has emerged as a leading manufacturer of rail cars, with a catalog of more than 150 models of “vagon” (or “вагон” in Cyrillic). Worldwide Industrial Strength Rail If you pay […]

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Why PDM? The Animated Short

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Mar 20, 2013

Which of the following best describes the reason you became a product designer? a)     I wanted to spend considerable amounts of time looking around for parts that other people created. b)     I hoped to attend week-long conferences in chain hotels learning about metadata and distributed file servers. c)      I enjoy discovering that I’ve just spent […]

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CAD and PDM Together Help Italy’s IPC Build a Global Powerhouse

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Mar 12, 2013

When several top Italian machinery companies merged in 2005, they created one of the world’s most comprehensive producers of cleaning equipment–Integrated Professional Cleaning, or IPC. It was a smart move for the Italian-based group, and IPC became a powerhouse in its industry. But as with most mergers, there were technical issues. Specifically, the different companies […]

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Faster Search, Fewer Start-Overs: Shanghai Optics School Adopts PDM and PTC Creo

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Feb 27, 2013

The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) is the largest institute specializing in laser science and technology in China.  With multiple areas of research interest, hundreds of employees, and several CAD systems, SIOM found itself with thousands of poorly managed models and drawings. Here’s how they fixed it. Too Much Data, Too Hard […]

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New CAD System? Why PDM Makes Sense Now

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Feb 21, 2013

Congratulations, you’ve decided to purchase a new CAD system. You look forward to creating new products in 3D, impressing clients with full renderings of your models, digitally prototyping and analyzing designs, and even adding animations to assembly instructions. It’s a good choice that will lead to immediate return on investment. But have you thought about […]

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What Is Product Data Management?

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Feb 7, 2013

Product data management (PDM) is a process by which engineers and others track, control, and archive design and related data. Generally, it is composed of software involving one or more servers and clients throughout an enterprise. The data that is managed typically includes models and drawings from any number of CAD systems. It can also […]

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