Sharing Designs With Disconnected Manufacturers

Today, you need to work with a growing number of external and offshore manufacturers. It's not easy to make design changes in this environment. Maybe you're experiencing an increase in communication difficulties, which is leading to costly quality problems. The supplier selection process and data exchange between you and the supplier is compounding the problem. With today's evolving world of contract manufacturing, it's likely to get even worse. Windchill SupplyLink solves this issue by letting you efficiently manage access to your product information across today's changing network of supply partners.

Keeping Your Manufacturing Network Current With The Latest Product Information
How is product information reliably, securely, and appropriately shared with a distributed manufacturing network? How do you notify distributed and external manufacturing organizations when a new design revision is released? Windchill SupplyLink lets your distributed manufacturers log into a specialized, secure workspace and access approved product definition for the purposes of production.

Establishing Agreements For New Product Requirements
Streamline the sharing of product definitions, including Pro/ENGINEER and non-CAD data, with potential and selected external suppliers and manufacturers.

Capturing Manufacturing Communications, Product Information & Knowledge
Because the real-world shop floor is a complex and dynamic environment the manufacturing area needs to be able to communicate their issues, preferences, capabilities, and constraints back to the design function. With more effective communication, a tremendous amount of value can be derived between these functions.