The background to Schiöler’s speech is that the company must modernize its underlying IT technology. But there are many threads to tie together, he says, as the group owns a number of different truck, bus, contracting and marine engine companies, which means that the underlying picture for PLM and IT support looks quite varied. In total, the group has approximately 100,000 employees and among well-known truck brands are Volvo, Mack and Renault Trucks.
Centrally, and in terms of PLM Volvo Group has several parts that already sail under common flag, of which KOLA is the most important. Schiöler describes it as “the heart of the heart” in the group. This proprietary product database contains product structures and acts as a backbone for product configuration.
But there is more on the PLM agenda at the moment. Among other things, the group has decided to consolidate operations on PTC software. We are no longer talking just about CAD on the truck side, where Volvo’s sights are set on using Creo throughout, while Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA is being phased out. The cPDm/PDM area will also be affected when, during the first stage of consolidation, Volvo intends to switch to a pure PTC environment for CAD related to the truck area. The bottom line is that with this consolidation, the cPDm/PDM side will switch to only using PTC’s PDM solutions in the Windchill suite.
This puts PTC in an excellent position for the future. Volvo Group is among PTC’s largest global customers.
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