Schaeffler has ed PTC's Windchill as its global engineering platform for content and process management.

Windchill was ed to increase efficiency in product development by creating a single system for product data and project data management, global collaboration and product development process management.

Windchill expands Schaeffler's use of PTC's Product Development System (PDS) which has included Pro/Engineer, PTC's parametric CAD/CAE/CAM software and its data management counterpart, PTC Pro/Intralink.

As part of the development partnership, Schaeffler plans to migrate from Pro/Intralink to Windchill PDMLink.

Schaeffler was facing the challenge of managing product complexity while trying to improve overall product development efficiency.

Adding to this challenge, Schaeffler has a disaggregated environment for product development with 66,000 employees at 180 locations in 50 countries.

By standardising and consolidating on a single engineering platform at all three of its business units, the company hopes to improve product data and project data management, global collaboration and product development process management.

As a result of the Windchill implementation, the company hopes to better meet customer demands, improve product development quality and reduce time-to-market.

Schaeffler believes that streamlining the company's product development processes and establishing a standard for global collaboration will prepare the company for further expansion activities.

Windchill will consolidate engineering data that is being developed and used at Schaeffler's 60 sites worldwide.

Schaeffler also intends to improve global collaboration, engineering change and control management, variant design and mechatronic systems development.

As a result of the implementation, any authorised member of the development team will be able to modify existing master product data independently at development sites around the globe.

By using a single, integral system for product development, the company expects to significantly advance its data quality initiatives.

For the initial period, Schaeffler plans to implement Windchill for thousands of users throughout its development sites.

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