Case Study: China’s Grand River Group achieves unified product data and scalable, faster production with PTC PLM (Windchill MPMLink)

China’s Grand River Group - Customer Case Study

China’s Grand River Group, China’s largest motorcycle maker, needed to rapidly scale production, speed new high-quality product launches, meet environmental and quality regulations, and lower costs. Although it had an ERP backbone, Grand River lacked an efficient Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) system: process documents were managed manually, design and process data weren’t associative, departments used inconsistent standards, and process documents were hard to reuse. To address these gaps, Grand River turned to PTC PLM and extended its existing PTC Windchill environment with PTC Windchill MPMLink.

PTC PLM implemented PTC Windchill MPMLink (integrated with other Windchill modules) to create a single source of truth that automates process-document creation, links design and process data, standardizes workflows, and accelerates variant handling. The result: the whole company now uses one version of product data, process-compiling efficiency improved from seven people per day per product to one person per day per product, product catalog lifecycle was cut from 22 to 10 days, and the Grand River–Suzuki joint venture can scale production to two million vehicles per year — cementing a strategic partnership between Grand River and PTC PLM.