Seamless operation after changeover in global enterprise

Concurrent engineering in distributed development environments like those in the automotive, aerospace or shipbuilding industry causes enormous demands on the organization for a close collaboration between the companies and departments involved. Seamless data communication in all phases of the product development process is a prerequisite for fast and cost-optimal collaboration processes. Automotive suppliers that develop system components for a number of different OEMs or tier-1 suppliers face the challenge to provide the CAD data available in the format required by their customers and with a high level of reliability and, if data translation is involved, that they take the system configuration of the respective customer into consideration. The main problem in this process chain is the insufficient data quality and communication interfaces to OEM´s PDM system which in particular arise in case of major changes (system change or change of ownership).