SDRC Directions

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SDRC Directions
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SDRC Vision
VISION To be the Leading Supplier of
Enterprise Product Development Solutions
MISSION To be Partner of Choice for Industry
Leaders Driven by Innovation and Time-to-Market
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Enterprise Product Development Solutions
CM
Systems
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ERP
Legacy Systems
Systems
Parts Catalogs
Supply Chain
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Metaphase
Collaborate
Connect
Configure
Control
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Metaphase
Collaborate
Virtual Product Development Visual Design and
Analysis
Connect
e-Business Legacy Integration Standards Based
Configure
Entire Product Lifecycle Multiple Product Views
Control
Enterprise Knowledge Capture
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Metaphase Solutions Defined

• Control - provide information and process
  integrity and management
• Configure - define and manage the complete
  product configuration throughout its lifecycle
• Connect - inter-operate with necessary process
  and information sources to support decision
  making
• Collaborate - facilitate inter-workings of cross
  functional, cross company teams in the extended
  product development lifecycle

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Control Solutions

• Repository for Information
• Information globally dispersed, locally
  accessible
• Secure Access
• Change Management
• Right Information, at the Right Time to the Right
  People

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Need for Control

• Data Control
• Access Control
• Process Control
• Change Control

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Data Control

• Ability to ensure data integrity
• Ability to tie together geographically dispersed
  pools of information.
• Mechanism to backup and recover information in
  case of disaster.

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Access Control

• Locate Information
• Easy access but controllable
• Access History

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Process Control

• Support entire product life cycle
• Enterprise visibility to the process
• Complete process history of a product

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Change Control

• Support product change process
• Manage impact of change
• Control the Change Execution

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Change Control Features

• Flexible process support
• Simple fast track change through corrective
  action to new product program
• Support for multiple process stages
• Support for collaboration and delegation
• Support for work decomposition
• Support for multiple incorporation points

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Change Control Features

• Fine grain definitions and impact analysis
• Scalable to the virtual enterprise
• Simple change to complex changes
• Single workgroup to global enterprise
• Robust and complete object model
• Robust and complete process model
• Supports common industry models
• Initial release includes CMII template

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Proven results Fast time-to-benefit

• Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Lead time slashed. Tough competition from Airbus
checked. One integrated COTS system does the
work of hundreds of previous applications.
400,000 parts and components under control.
38,000 users --the worlds largest PDM
implementation.