Grand River Group

Grand River Group and the use of Manufacturing Process Management


The Result: The Entire Company Uses One Version
of Product Data

Through the implementation of PTC’s Windchill MPMLink, Grand River
has significantly improved the management and maintenance of its
product process documents:
• Achieved seamless integration. The entire company is now
accessing the same product data source, and the product data
that process documents use all comes from the same source,
thus ensuring improved consistency and standardization of
product data.
• Improved the efficiency of compiling and changing process
documents, freeing process engineers from repetitive, manual
inputting of data.
• Significantly improved process data re-usability; variant product
process-compiling efficiency improved from seven persons/per
day/per product to one person/per day/per product.

Grand River’s processes, from marketing survey, product development,
manufacturing, and supply of components to services, all had
to be tracked. Besides tracking, the precise data needed to be published
to SAP to ensure consistency, correctness and easy traceability
of all data in the product lifecycle. PTC’s Windchill PDMLink® (product
data management), Windchill ProjectLink™ (project management)
and Windchill ESI for SAP were the ideal solutions to meet all of these
requirements. After implementation and deployment, the PDM system
fulfilled Grand River’s requirements for its business operations
and development, and inspired a more strategic approach to overall
corporate governance.

SAP is s GUI that is based on relational based data….tables as lists and codes are imperative.