12月8日：CAXA全球发布“Chinese PLM”

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CAXA：联盟合作伙伴，打造“中国PLM”
  
国内知名CAD/CAM软件厂商CAXA12月8日在京正式向外宣布进军PLM，点燃了2004PLM之战的圣火，成为年终岁首企业信息化领域的重大新闻事件。
  
作为国内CAD/CAM技术与市场的领导者和最大供应商，CAXA此次联盟南京新模式、金叶西工大、台湾华夏及美国IRONCAD等在PDM等相关专业领域有近十年以上技术与经验背景的合作伙伴, 共同宣布进军PLM领域，是CAXA联盟策略、打造制造业信息化服务品牌的又一项具体行动，同时也是向市场发出的一个重要信息。
  
据悉，CAXA的PLM也称作“CAXA产品创新协同管理解决方案”，其中产品创新主要包括系列CAD/CAPP/CAM等软件，协同管理主要包括产品数据管理、工艺数据管理、生产计划管理、图文档管理和个人管理工具等系列产品构件及相关咨询服务。企业针对自己的行业特点和信息化战略不同阶段的具体需求，选择其中一种或几种产品和服务组合，形成满足企业实际需求的信息化集成系统，形成“中国的PLM”。
  
PLM（即Product Lifecycle Management，产品全生命周期管理）是CAD/CAM等技术应用的延伸和发展，与ERP、CRM、SCM、OA等共同形成了企业IT应用的主要基础架构。产品是企业价值的源泉，PLM紧紧围绕产品，对从用户需求、订单信息、产品开发、工艺规划、生产制造、使用维护、回收再利用等全生命周期各个阶段产品数据的生成、变化进行科学高效的管理，以达到缩短产品上市周期、保证产品质量、降低产品成本等的目的。随着全球制造业向中国的快速转移、中国制造业信息化工程的不断推进，企业IT应用不断深入，市场快速成熟，PLM正在成为继ERP之后制造业信息化新的最大热点。
  
目前跨国公司多是将制造部门转移到了中国，而国内制造企业的市场化程度还有待成熟，因此国内PLM的应用将主要集中在与产品制造直接相关的设计、工艺、制造等环节；而且制造业企业在组织、人才、文化、行业、地域等方面存大较大的差异和特点，国内制造企业的PLM战略必须要有符合自身特点的构件产品和配套服务才能确保有效实施和持续发展。目前国内不少先进企业已纷纷开始考虑布局和实施自己的PLM战略，对既贴近企业应用需求、又具有国际先进水平的“中国PLM”形成了新的需求。
  
据CAXA负责PLM业务的咨询服务部总经理张自强介绍，CAXA经过十多年的发展，目前在制造业领域已拥有十几万套CAD/CAM软件的广大用户。随着制造业信息化应用的不断深入与发展，越来越多的用户提出了希望有效管理各种产品技术信息与文档、以及协同工作、系统集成的要求。CAXA在与合作伙伴达成充分共识的基础上,将CAXA广大的用户基础和市场网络与合作伙伴的最新PDM/PLM等技术相结合，必将形成强强联合之势，能够更好地满足用户不断发展的多层次需求。
  
IronCAD to Participate in New PLM Alliance in China
  
CAXA, IronCAD’s partner in China announces the creation of a new PLM Alliance to meet the specific needs of the Chinese market
  
ATLANTA, GA., December 8th, 2003—IronCAD, LLC, the Innovative Design Collaboration Solutions Company, today announced their participation in a new Chinese focused PLM Alliance officially announced by CAXA on December 8th, in Beijing.  CAXA is the market leader and the largest domestic CAD/CAM provider in China. The alliance incorporates over 30 years of combined experience and expertise in CAD/CAM/PDM and related areas from its partners, including Cmodes, CAPPFramework from China, AsiaTek from Taiwan and IronCAD from the U.S. The joint announcement signals an important message to the market. It symbolizes another stage of CAXA’s alliance strategy by providing a unified brand name, solution and service to the IT demands of the manufacturing industry.
  
According to the announcement, the solution is called “CAXA Product Innovation and Collaboration Management Solutions”. In particular, Product Innovation includes a series CAD/CAM software packages. Collaboration Management includes product data management (PDM), CAPP data management, production planning solutions with their associated consulting and deployment services and engineering data management (EDM) and personal data management tools. Companies can select one or an integration of multiple solutions and services depending on its own characteristics, requirements and implementation pace.  
  
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) can be viewed as an extension of CAD/CAM applications.  It is part of the IT infrastructure of a company in conjunction with ERP, CRM, SCM and OA.  Product is the source of value to a manufacturing company.  PLM’s role is to create and manage product related data through all stages, including customer requirements, order information, product develOPMent, production planning, manufacturing, maintenance service, etc. The objective is to efficiently achieve shorter time to market, assure product quality and reduce costs. Due to the rapid pace of globalization Chinese enterprises are being forced to speed up the adoption rate of IT technology.  PLM is fast becoming the new focal point of industry after ERP.
  
Many multi-national enterprises have moved their factories to China. Yet the factories of these Chinese manufacturers are still behind in terms of PLM.  Currently the primary focus is mostly on design, CAPP and manufacturing that are directly related to the product itself. Chinese manufacturers have their own unique organizational structure and responsibilities, human resources, culture, expertise and local customs that are quite different from those in the US. Thus, a Chinese PLM strategy has to consider its own situations for matching solutions and services in order to have sustainable and long-term growth. Many Chinese enterprises have formed such “Chinese PLM” requirements, i.e. globally competitive and compatible technology with local customization.
  
According to Mr. Zhang ZiQiang, General Manager of PLM Consulting Group, “CAXA has grown in the past 10 years to over one hundred and twenty thousand CAD/CAM customers in China. More and more of those customers have requested more efficient ways to address product data management, collaboration working environment and system integration. CAXA’s solutions integrate the latest in CAD/CAM/PDM technology from its alliance partners to address the various levels of PLM. Together with its own consultation, customization and deployment services, CAXA can meet this growing demand for Chinese oriented PLM.”
  
Dr. Tao-Yang Han, President of IronCAD LLC sums up the announcement by saying, “IronCAD is very excited to be part of this new PLM alliance in China.  We feel very honored to have been chosen as the provider of innovative 3D design tools as part of the PLM solution.  We are fully confident in CAXA’s ability to lead this PLM alliance to success in China.  They have shown over and over again their knowledge of the local market and their expertise in delivering custom solutions to their customers.  This is still the early days of the alliance and we anticipate other members adding their best in class solutions to the offering.”
  
About IronCAD, LLC
Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD, LLC is a leading provider of Innovative Design Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Its flagship product IronCAD and the other members of InnovationSuite, provide a fully integrated design and information management environment that encourages creativity, productivity and teamwork with award winning 3D design and collaboration solutions managed through a Web-based Engineering Data Management (EDM) system. Components of InnovationSuite (IronCAD, Inovate and TeamVault), are used by customers throughout the world, including, Cisco Systems, Cummins Engine, Ericsson, John Deere, Eastman Kodak, Eaton Corporation, Fleetwood Enterprises, Greenheck, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Intel, Lucent, Raytheon, Robert Bosch, Skyline Exhibits, Visteon, Volvo, and Xerox. For additional information, please contact IronCAD, LLC at 1-800-339-7304 or www.ironcad.com.  
  
About CAXA
  
CAXA is the largest Chinese domestic provider for innovative design and collaborative data management solutions. For the past five consecutive years, CAXA has received the “Best-10 Awards” based on market surveys in the domestic software category. CAXA products have more than 120,000 legal installations in China.  CAXA has well established sales channels including 7 regional offices and 35 sales, training and service branches in the nation.  More than 600 domestic colleges and universities have selected CAXA products as their standard education and training software. For additional information, please visit www.caxa.com.

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