PCMC Cuts Paper Machine Development Time, Enhances Global Collaboration With PDMWorks Enterprise.Longtime SolidWorks and COSMOS customer reduces costs and time to market CONCORD, Mass. -- Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC PCMC Paper Converting Machine Company PCMC Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (Pune, India) PCMC Public Company Management Corporation PCMC Personal Computer Memory Card PCMC Primary Childrens' Medical Center ) is using SolidWorks([R])3D CAD, COSMOS([R]) design analysis, and PDMWorks([R])Enterprise product data management (PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and ) software to help ensure customers such as Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble continue to make the tissue paper and other paper products consumers around the world depend on. With thousands of new and decades-old machines in operation globally, PCMC is one of the largest manufacturers of machines that make, finish, and package a variety of paper products. Its machines can produce nearly 1.4 million rolls of toilet paper per day and generate almost 2.4 million feet of paper towels per day. Having standardized on SolidWorks, COSMOSWorks([R]), and COSMOSMotion([TM]) software for all new product design and analysis since 1999, the Green Bay, Wis. company has purchased a 200-seat license of PDMWorks Enterprise to manage its CAD data while collaborating with engineering teams in Europe, Brazil, and Japan. PDMWorks Enterprise helps the company streamline product development, reduce errors, and minimize costs. "One of the biggest mistakes a company can make is to not have a dependable PDM tool when designing products in 3D," said Thad Perkins, Director of Mechanical Engineering at PCMC. "The amount of data you're generating with parametrics, including the relationships between assemblies and parts, is exponentially higher than with 2D. PDMWorks Enterprise will help us securely manage several hundred thousand 2D and 3D designs. That's crucial, whether we're working on a new project or retrofitting a 60-year-old machine." After evaluating four PDM products, PCMC purchased PDMWorks Enterprise because the software's intuitive user interface accelerates training, and the dependable version control and concurrent design let engineers on different continents work on the same design without creating errors. This concurrent design accelerates development while minimizing re-work. The software's stability and integration with SolidWorks will ensure users don't wrestle with data loss or waste time hopping between different application windows. PCMC will integrate PDMWorks Enterprise with its enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) system to enable engineers to create one up-to-date bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. (BOM) for each project. Engineers will create the BOM in SolidWorks, manage it in PDMWorks Enterprise, and make it accessible to the ERP, where, in the future, PCMC will be able to automatically cost out each project based on the BOM. PCMC previously managed separate BOMs in its CAD and ERP systems, which can introduce errors and delay development and delivery. "Global design collaboration demands efficient, secure management of product data," said Rainer Gawlick, SolidWorks vice president of worldwide marketing. "PCMC has an industry reputation for precision machine design, and SolidWorks and PDMWorks Enterprise will help the company maintain that reputation as it continues to design better products for the industry." PCMC works with authorized SolidWorks reseller FISHER/UNITECH for ongoing software training, implementation, and support. About Paper Converting Machine Company Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The city is located at the head of its namesake Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. USA, Paper Converting Machine Company is your single source for converting, printing and packaging technologies. PCMC is made up of four divisions which manufacture and support equipment for tissue converting, wide web flexo printing, coating and laminating, narrow web inline printing systems; and non-wovens converting. For more information, visit the Web site at (www.pcmc.com). About FISHER/UNITECH FISHER/UNITECH, established in 1993, provides Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Management solutions to discrete manufacturing companies. The company's focus is on process improvement for product development. Process improvement is obtained through the integration of advanced software solutions to replace legacy systems. The applications include CAID CAID Computer-Aided Industrial Design CAID Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf CAID Clear Accountability In Design CAID Canadian Association for Information Science , CAD, CAM, CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. , PDM, KBE KBE (in Britain) Knight (Commander of the Order) of the British Empire , Reverse Engineering, and Rapid Prototyping. Professional services are offered for design automation and data management, providing customers with a full service, one-stop source for complex PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design systems. The company offers advanced Web-based delivery of education programs with its interactive, instructor-led 3DU. Please visit the company's Web site at (www.funtech.com) or call 800-816-8314. About SolidWorks Corporation SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Syst[c]mes S.A. (Nasdaq: DASTY, Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY DSY Drum Storage Yard .PA) company, develops and markets software for design, analysis, and product data management. It is the leading supplier of 3D CAD technology, giving teams intuitive, high-performing software that helps them design better products. For the latest news, information, or an online demonstration, visit the company's Web site (www.solidworks.com) or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000). SolidWorks and PDMWorks are registered trademarks of SolidWorks Corporation. COSMOS and COSMOSWorks are registered trademarks, and COSMOSMotion is a trademark of Structural Research & Analysis Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (c) 2007 SolidWorks Corporation. Bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. with de.li.cious Submit this story to digg Submit this story to slashdot Technorati tags SolidWorks, CAD, 3D CAD, MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design , Design, Tech, Autodesk, AutoCAD, SolidEdge, COSMOSWorks |
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