| MatrixOne, a 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.
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