Industry Challenge
Many companies are experiencing the effects of increased business competition, technological complexity, and software proliferation, which have combined to result in a Product Development Gap (PDG) between OEM’s and Manufacturers.
The Product Development Gap
This product development gap puts a costly burden on manufacturers by forcing them to resolve incomplete data issues before assembly begins and on OEMs, who suffer higher costs, lower quality, and delays in time-to-market resulting from poor quality data. Consequences of having a PDG:
- Data isolation between Engineering, ERP, and Manufacturing systems
- Manual change processes for ECN, ECR, ECO, and deviations
- Incomplete, inaccurate, obsolete, or non-RoHS compliant components
- Down revision fabrication, assembly, and test specifications
- Time wasted on resolving data issues between engineering and manufacturing
> Do I have a Product Development Gap?
Closing the Gap
To close the gap, companies now have the ability to install an infrastructure that provides access to clean product data during the design phase, enables virtual design collaboration, and integrates this data directly into the corporate business system as well as throughout the supply chain.
