Collaborative product development: Callaway Golf benefits from Microsoft-based PLM suite
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 4/14/2008 1:29:00 PM
Callaway Golf, a maker of clubs, balls and accessories, has implemented a Web-based portal using Teamcenter Community Collaboration, a product life-cycle management solution based onMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server.
With the new solution, Callaway Golf personnel and its value chain partners overseas can easily share documents, and collaborate quickly and effectively, ultimately helping Callaway Golf innovate and bring products to market faster. With the new collaboration solution, Callaway Golf has streamlined workflow processes between highly dispersed teams of employees and manufacturers, ensuring the teams are all working from a single framework. The technology helps make the collaborative process of bringing new products to market much more efficient. It also helps speed access to data and also fosters innovation through faster and clearer communication. Teamcenter Community Collaboration is a product life-cycle management (PLM) solution from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Siemens PLM Software. The content management capability of Teamcenter Community Collaboration helps Callaway Golf control changes made to product content by providing document and version histories and e-mail alerts.
