Case Study: Grand River Group achieves unified product data and faster, standardized process management with PTC Windchill MPMLink (PTC)

China’s Grand River Group Adds PTC Windchill MPMLink to Optimize Manufacturing Process Management Operations

Grand River Group, China’s largest motorcycle maker, needed to rapidly scale production, accelerate new high‑quality product launches, meet environmental and quality requirements, and reduce costs. Although it had ERP and other PTC Windchill modules in place, the company lacked an efficient Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) system—processes were manually managed, design and process data were not associative, departments used inconsistent methods, and process-document reusability was poor. To address these gaps, Grand River Group turned to PTC and its Windchill MPMLink solution.

PTC implemented Windchill MPMLink integrated with Grand River Group’s existing Windchill environment to manage design and process data in a single, closed‑loop system. The solution automated process-document creation, standardized cross‑department workflows, improved MBOM guidance, and greatly increased process-document reuse—variant process compilation improved from seven people per day per product to one person per day. As a result, the company now accesses one version of product data, freed engineers from repetitive work, shortened catalog publishing from 22 to 10 days with PTC Arbortext, and enabled its Suzuki joint venture to scale to two million vehicles per year; Grand River Group and PTC have since established a strategic partnership.