Product Development

In the automotive industry, the very early stage of the product development process is especially intuitive and dynamic – it’s the time to collect ideas, conduct product and process engineering, build the prototype, and launch the product into the marketplace. This phase requires flexible tools such as powerful document management and collaboration systems that can handle a large number of people, who are often in remote locations, and high volume of content. The integration of these tools into this process is critical, since time to market, ease of collaboration, and quality improvement are critical aspects of product development.

Automotive companies must address a variety of challenges to improve product development – compliance, design changes, disparate systems with incompatible data and more. Equally important, interest in global product development is growing dramatically, driving new demands for distributed processes, collaboration and global data management. Product development is usually triggered by the request of an external or internal customer, who often provides product managers with thousands of unstructured or only partly-structured documents relating to the new product.The engineering process is started via collaboration between product management and the engineering departments.

OpenText helps you address these challenges with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software for Product Development. ECM solutions allow automotive manufacturers to manage and disseminate unstructured content using Web-based document management and collaboration tools.

OpenText solutions for Product Development deliver this functionality with the following components:

• Software: Document Management, Program Management

Supplemented by Business Content (e.g., predefined workflows) to give you a head-start in configuring workstreams and processes, Consulting Services, Training and Support tailored to meet your requirements.