Volvo CE, a global manufacturer of construction equipment, needed to establish an improved end-to-end product development process to create more efficient ways of working and improving their user experience. A complicated and costly IT landscape—based on no less than four different product data management (PDM) systems—emerged over the last four decades.
Volvo turned to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for a product-centric backbone—a digital thread—that could provide a single source of truth across engineering, operations, suppliers, and customers.
By making the move to Windchill, PTC’s PLM solution, Volvo has had significant improvements such as:
- 50% reduction in the number of late loopbacks
- 30% reduction in poor quality costs
- 70% increase in efficiency from quality work instruction