Time-Compression Technologies Magazine Archive 2002 (and backfills for previous years)
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Author Dave Primrose
Source Time Compression Technologies. v7 n5 Sept., 2002, pp12 - 13
Abstract One major dilemma - common among companies focused on the design, development and manufacture of mechanical products - needed to be answered: "How do we efficiently manage the large amount of design data being generated by our engineering group?" The only answers that Jon Cook, engineering information manager for MacDon, had for the 32-person CAD design organization were either to acquire a separate, expensive product data management (PDM) software system or to develop a custom application that would handle some, but not all, of the company's needs. Neither alternative really solved the needs of MacDon, but the only other alternative - not managing the extremely valuable design data at all - would prevent the company from recognizing substantial savings through engineering efficiencies. The potential savings more than justified implementation of a PDM software system, but its costs and effort would be substantial. MacDon volunteered to alpha test a design data management software system - Solid Ed ge Insight, a technology that merges design data management capabilities with Solid Edge 3-D mechanical CAD software. XX
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