ChTZ-Uraltrac Launches New Information System
3 August 2012 (18:24)
The first stage of the launch of a multi-faceted product design and lifecycle management system (based on Windchill platform) took off at ChTZ-Uraltrac, the Chelyabinsk-based production site of Uralvagonzavod Scientific Production Corporation.
ChTZ-Uraltrac’s current strategic purposes are focused on entering the new segments of Russian and foreign markets through speedy product updates and the introduction of new technologies. For these ambitious plans to come true, the company needs not only to reconstruct its production premises, upgrade machinery, and design new products, but also to improve on its business processes and to launch a new information system that will make it possible to manage the company resources and the designer team and to plan production efficiently. This must be done very soon.
To do this, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and IP System Group (the partner of the American Parametric Technology Corporation) signed a set of agreements on the coordination of engineering data through PTC products in May 2012.
The agreement provides not only for the creation of an information field for the elaboration of engineering data for the B12 bulldozers, but also for the creation of a single platform for getting these data from outside, for personnel training in terms of these programs, for joint project work and organization of production business processes, and for integrating with the currently used software.
Under this joint project with IP System Group, the plant’s servers are already using Windchill PDMLink software. SAPR Creo is already installed at designers’ workplaces, and reference catalogues are about to be fed into Windchill.
The first launching stage will be completed as soon as November. An infomedium will be set up for the plant’s two key products: the new Class 10 tractor and T Series engines. The medium will comprise design and technological developments and software development for machines with programmed numerical control.
The introduction of this information system means the engineering stage of production from the designer’s idea to the technical process on site will become faster; tasks can be planned in a more detail while taking into account the actual workload of the technical departments; the economic effect can be forecast more precisely, and the responsibility for taking orders from customers and meeting their deadlines will be greater. The system will also make available some reference material and will accumulate statistical data for very diverse aspects of the company’s activity, including the products’ operating cycle.
ChTZ-Uraltrac’s current strategic purposes are focused on entering the new segments of Russian and foreign markets through speedy product updates and the introduction of new technologies. For these ambitious plans to come true, the company needs not only to reconstruct its production premises, upgrade machinery, and design new products, but also to improve on its business processes and to launch a new information system that will make it possible to manage the company resources and the designer team and to plan production efficiently. This must be done very soon.
To do this, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and IP System Group (the partner of the American Parametric Technology Corporation) signed a set of agreements on the coordination of engineering data through PTC products in May 2012.
The agreement provides not only for the creation of an information field for the elaboration of engineering data for the B12 bulldozers, but also for the creation of a single platform for getting these data from outside, for personnel training in terms of these programs, for joint project work and organization of production business processes, and for integrating with the currently used software.
Under this joint project with IP System Group, the plant’s servers are already using Windchill PDMLink software. SAPR Creo is already installed at designers’ workplaces, and reference catalogues are about to be fed into Windchill.
The first launching stage will be completed as soon as November. An infomedium will be set up for the plant’s two key products: the new Class 10 tractor and T Series engines. The medium will comprise design and technological developments and software development for machines with programmed numerical control.
The introduction of this information system means the engineering stage of production from the designer’s idea to the technical process on site will become faster; tasks can be planned in a more detail while taking into account the actual workload of the technical departments; the economic effect can be forecast more precisely, and the responsibility for taking orders from customers and meeting their deadlines will be greater. The system will also make available some reference material and will accumulate statistical data for very diverse aspects of the company’s activity, including the products’ operating cycle.
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