EADS PLM HarmonizATION Program on TRACK with PTC

By DE Editors

PTC has announced a milestone in the relationship between PTC and EADS with PHENIXCHANGE, the Windchill-based modular platform.

EADS, a provider of aerospace, defense and related services, selected PTC as the provider for its PHENIX Master Product Definition backbone in 2008 as part of its enterprise product lifecycle management solutions (PLM). Since then, EADS has been working in partnership with PTC to set up a harmonized PLM environment that is both flexible and efficient for its multiple businesses and well integrated with the other applications constituting the EADS PLM core solution. The Windchill-based enterprise PLM solution is now deployed on multiple programs throughout the group.

“On behalf of the PHENIX program team, we are pleased to announce that we have fulfilled a commitment to the group by providing a modular enterprise PLM platform,” says Jean-Yves Mondon, head of both the PHENIX program at EADS and the newly created PLM Harmonization Center. “This showed immediate as well as future value to the group and is mapped to key corporate initiatives at EADS.”

Sponsored by the executive committee of EADS, PHENIX is a cross-divisional program and a group-wide strategic initiative launched in 2007 to achieve harmonization of enterprise PLM methods, processes and tools between its business divisions.

The EADS PHENIX organization and PTC have partnered to innovate the way in which several EADS business processes are embedded with PTC PLM technology into modules. The result is PHENIXCHANGE, an approach based on a configurable modular technology platform to help provide the benefits of harmonized processes for the group and the efficiency and flexibility of COTS (Commercial-off-the-Shelf) PLM technology for its business divisions.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.