Engineering and Manufacturing Lifecycle

Product lifecycle does not end when engineering sends the drawings to manufacturing.

In fact, it begins there. There is manufacturing management, marketing, sales, services, warranty support, upgrades, sunsets and replacements to think of.

To assist our customers with retaining and reusing the knowledge along the way of complete Product Lifecycle, Kanda has developed a PILM (Product Information Lifecycle Management) practice.

Kanda’s Product Information Lifecycle Management (PLM) practice is built on our in-depth knowledge and expertise in CAD/CAM, Engineering Processes, PLM processes and products, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and Search, Knowledge Management Workflow, and other aspects of Engineering and Manufacturing Lifecycle.

PLM integrates the discreet systems involved in different aspects of product design, manufacturing, and field management. By combining these systems into a uniform, role-based portal-like interface, Kanda enables different departments in our customers’ companies to understand, track, communicate, and collaborate much more effectively.

In turn money is saved through less work duplication; quality improvements through cross-team communications; higher customer satisfaction through more knowledgeable support; better manuals and other maintenance procedures. Perhaps most importantly fewer emergencies arise out of the lack of traceability of all information throughout the entire lifecycle.

• Within a high-pressure, time-critical government-bidding environment for a large-scale hardware development project, Kanda developed the overall product development flow schema including deployment and maintenance phases

• For the leading manufacturer of multiple types of Patient Monitoring Devices, Kanda’s personnel integrated the information associated with device manufacturing with the manuals and procedures of multi-device installation and configuration in large, heterogeneous hospital environments. The information integration quality requirements were particularly rigorous as system had to comply with FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 Rule on electronic records