| Through about 45 years of development, CDE Company has gradually become a known large EPC engineering company both at home and abroad from a traditional local petrochemical design institute. Since early 1980s, CDE has established a strategic target to build the company itself into an international engineering company. Emphasis was made on IT application as a driving horsepower for the purpose to improve the competitive capability of the company. Good business achievements have been made, some lessons have been drawn and a number of persons have been trained in the course. Yet as the company was originated from restructuring of a design institute, the impact and restraint of its developing history, administration, talents and capital, plus weak background of information technology, no overall plan of IT plan and low level administration, the company has inadequate competitive capability. After China's entering into WTO, CDE is now facing the competition and challenge of domestic and overseas competitors of the same sector. In order to raise its competitive force and maintain sustained development, CDE must restructure itself for administrative and technical innovation. It is essential for the reforming and restructuring of the traditional operation and administration in the company to use information technology. The application of PDM (production data manger) technological tool and management concept is significant to an engineering company that is basically operating on data processing and has certain information technology background. It is a worthy approach to be considered. PDM is in fact a software platform integrated with operation flow, application and information. It has multi-platform functions, i.e. to achieve information exchange and communication between platforms.PDM is an integrated platform of CAD (Computer Aided Design)/CAPP (Computer Aided Process Planning)/CAM (computer Aided Manufacture), also a frame for information integration of an enterprise. All users are working under the same PDM working environment to realize a new working approach with no relation to the stations, hardware or operating systems. Significance of PDM application in engineering company is: Improving product (project) quality, shortening the project execution schedule, lowering project cost, and promoting innovation of the enterprise systems, technologies and administration. The advanced administration concept of PDM will improve the overall quality of the engineering company and make the enterprise more competitive. Sure, PDM is suitable for certain aspects, not universal for all aspects. It cannot be relied on to solve all problems of an enterprise. As one of CDE's managers, the author of this paper has worked for 20 years in CDE and has profound knowledge about the history and development of CDE. He was directly involved in the planning and construction of IT system in CDE. Before finishing EMBA study, he has made an investigation and analysis on CDE's current operation flow, administration system, current status of information technology and related software and hardware based on the knowledge learnt. The author has expatiated the necessity, building concept, implementation steps and precautions of building platform for information technology and administration in CDE Company originating from the developing trend of information technologies and the necessity of CDE's development. It is described totally in six Chapters in this paper as below: In Chapter One, outlines the history of CDE, also its further features with development, the strategy of CDE. In Chapter two, describes the achievement and function for the IT support to the strategy and development of CDE.In Chapter Three, analysis and introduction are made on the operating, marketing, and administration of CDE combined with IT application. The weak points of IT supports to CDE's business process is identified by using the method of value chain, and analyzed the status for the IT requirements from CDE staff a... |
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