Published on the 30/10/2009 | Written by Newsdesk
Local optical touch screen exporter is the first company in New Zealand to deploy Oracle’s PLM solution…
NextWindow, a New Zealand-based designer and manufacturer of optical touch screens for all-in-one PCs, monitors and large-format displays, has selected Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to manage the exponential demand for its ground-breaking touch screen technology, which is currently used by PC manufacturers including HP, Sony and Dell.
This will be the first implementation of Oracle’s Agile PLM in New Zealand.
The company is projecting significant growth rates over the next 12 months and says it selected Agile PLM to streamline its product development and testing across its three Asian-based manufacturing sites.
Anticipated benefits of using Agile PLM include maintaining a central point of access for all product design data and the ability to automatically route this information – including design changes – to the appropriate internal parties and customers in a controlled manner. NextWindow anticipates that these capabilities will facilitate communication and collaboration, translating into significant time and money savings, which will be critical to maintaining competitive advantage in the new and rapidly developing touch screen market.
“Our entire business is based on innovation – we need to maintain control over that innovation and deploy it across the globe,” said Andy Stevens, NextWindow’s vice preseident of product development.
“I have been impressed with Agile PLM through various other roles in my career, and I am assured about what Oracle has done with the solution since its acquisition. For one, there is now strong local support.”
The first phase of the software implementation will involve introducing Agile to the company’s New Zealand-based product development team and is scheduled to be completed in November. Subsequent phases will involve NextWindow’s Singapore-based operations and its three primary manufacturing sites located in Malaysia, Thailand and China.
The extended rollout is expected be completed in the first half of 2010.
