[WEBINAR] Speed and Innovation: How Cooper Standard Leverages PLM for Competitive Advantage

Maintaining Market Dominance with Enterprise PLM

Cooper Standard, a global Tier 1 automotive supplier, operates manufacturing plants and technical centers worldwide, offering products like sealing systems and fluid systems essential for vehicle operation. To maintain its market dominance during the industry's shift towards electrification and to prepare its IT landscape to take advantage of AI applications, Cooper Standard commonized product data on a single PLM (product lifecycle management) platform and standardized global teams on modern PLM processes.

“As a CIO, for me, the value of PLM goes way beyond what an engineering team does, either plant engineering or a centralized engineering team. For us, it's a core part of my information architecture. It's actually a central part. “
~ Soma Venkat, CIO, Cooper Standard

Mark Taber, VP of Marketing at PTC, sat down with Chris Couch, CTO; Soma Venkat, Global CIO; and Scott Prygoski, Senior Director of IT at Cooper Standard to better understand the impact of their PLM transformation.

Learn from Cooper Standard about how:

• Transitioning from PDM (product data management) to enterprise PLM was pivotal in developing their IT organization from a cost center to a business partner
• Moving from a document-centric to a part-centric product definition methodology facilitates cross-functional collaboration around a single source of truth
• Consolidating fourteen change management processes down to one standardized process in Windchill improved governance, visibility, and economic impact
• Reigning-in part proliferation and establishing part reuse workflows was enabled by Parts Classification in Windchill
• Leveraging Windchill’s Multi-CAD data management capabilities facilitates collaboration with customers and suppliers despite the many unique CAD systems involved