Triumph Motorcycles to use more PTC software
Parametric Technology Corp., a Needham company that refers to itself as PTC, said that Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. will now use PTC’s Windchill product lifecycle management software.
According to a PTC press release, Windchill will enable the iconic British motorcycle brand to better collaborate on new product designs as well as share selected information with Triumph suppliers. As companies become more global and they routinely source parts and materials from around the world, the need for a lifecyle management software has grown more critical.
Triumph has an annual production level of 50,000 motorcycles and generally designs four new models each year, along with making numerous tweaks for existing models. In many cases, its bikes are assembled in Thailand with parts supplied from the United Kingdom. Roughly 80 percent of those bikes are exported, predominantly to the American market.
Using Windchill, a customer such as Triumph can support the entire design of a product from early-stage development to manufacturing and supply-chain management, PTC said. Among the ways that Windchill can help a customer cut costs is by minimizing product inventory and reducing manufacturing downtime.
For Triumph, this is an expansion of its use of PTC software; the motorcycle maker has been using PTC’s computer-aided design software, known as Creo Parametric, since the mid 1990s.
Chris Reidy can be reached at reidy@globe.com.
