The two companies said Semi Conductor Devices (SCD), using Smarteam, a collaborative product data and lifecycle management program, has reduced its engineering change cycle time by more than 50%, standardized its change processes and made existing data and knowledge easily accessible for reuse.
Smarteam has replaced the manual systems and many of the stand-alone functionalities that were once handled by the company’s ERP system, such as bills of materials, documents, workflow processes and lists of approved manufacturers.
According to Alberto Burger, vice president of quality assurance at SCD, the company chose the product to help address the challenge of introducing multiple new products quickly and at a lower price while meeting the strict confidentiality and quality requirements of the defense sector.
