Alcoa’s capital engineering for Cleveland Works has deployed the Smarteam Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform for facilities management across four locations, streamlining change management and providing unified access to AutoCAD and TIF drawings of presses, buildings and support systems at its Cleveland, Ohio site, as well as at production sites in Virginia, Hungary, and Mexico.
Setting up an enterprise PLM system will allow us to expand our capabilities, said Dora Tripp, system administrator, design engineering sServices, Alcoa Cleveland. Smarteam’s flexible data model has enabled us to build a complex, scalable knowledge structure for accessing and collaborating with in our organization.
After a successful two-year pilot program, which saw Alcoa’s other subsidiary, Wheel Products’ Commercial Vehicle Wheel Division, implement Smarteam to vault and manage all its Catia V5 product design data, the program will now be extended by introducing more optimized processes across additional locations and achieving gateway interconnectivity with the company’s ERP system.
