Samsung Electronics Deploys PLM Standard
Samsung Electronics Co. selects PTC Windchill, a core component of the PTC Product Development System, as its digital product development data repository. The company first adopted 4,500 seats of Windchill PDMLink in 2002 for the collaborative product development of molds and printed circuit boards. Since then, Samsung Electronics Co. has optimized its product development processes and reinforced the security of its design information, improved product quality and reduced development lead time. Because of these measurable benefits, the company has expanded its Windchill implementation to its LCD division, to its global software development organizations and implemented an additional 3,600 seats of Windchill for its Bill of Materials (BOM) project. The project is scheduled for completion in 2008 and ties directly into its corporate strategy to provide a single, configurable BOM for each product that manages options and variants, and engineering BOM to manufacturing BOM relationships. "If we hope to continue our efforts to provide high quality products and services to our customers, we must ensure that our product development processes are well managed and the relevant data is easily shared with our geographically dispersed teams. Windchill is a core component because it enables worldwide collaboration," says Hee-sun Park