SmarTeam Europe, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Collaboration solutions, has announced a $1million deal to provide product lifecycle management (PLM) at Kvaerner Oilfield Products (KOP).

As a leading manufacturer of undersea oil production and distribution systems for oil companies worldwide, KOP generates vast quantities of product design data, supply chain information and enterprise resource details. Maintaining current versions of designs and matching them to other relevant business information was becoming a significant challenge.

By using SMARTEAM, KOP will be able to access and manage its data more effectively, facilitate the re-use of designs and drawings, create a single point of reference for engineers, replace its document control system and ultimately make substantial savings in engineering time. These benefits are further expected to have positive impact upon product quality and innovation.

"Since we constantly revisit and modify our designs, the retrieval and up-dating of files is difficult to manage," said Morten Braass, VP of Project and Engineering Support at KOP. "We need to know that we are working with the correct designs and without SMARTEAM this has proven very difficult. Also we need the data to work alongside our other business information. We had all these systems creating supposed knowledge, but they weren't talking to each other. A piece of the jigsaw seemed to be missing."

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