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Dec 15, 2009

JC Valves Standardizes On PTC® Pro/Engineer® And Windchill®

Bangalore: PTC today announced that JC Valves a manufacturer of industrial valves has standardized on PTC’S Pro/ENGINEER® , Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica® and Windchill® 9.0 to facilitate more efficient product development, knowledge management, change and configuration management, product portfolio management and overall product development process optimization..

With manufacturing locations distributed at different locations such as Spain, UAE, Canada, Brazil, China and India, and the India facility also emerging as a design hub, JC Valves selected the PTC’s products in order to enhance productivity of the company by providing the engineering team the technology and processes to focus on developing innovative and high quality products, while fostering a more efficient and seamless global collaborative environment. This is critical for the company as it is involved in the design and manufacture of vacuum processed alloy valves such as Gate, Globe, Check, Ball & Butterfly and Plug Valves that are used by majors in Oil and Gas, Power, Chemical and Petrochemical Industries.

“The adoption of PTC technology has reduced our design time cycles by over 20%, and will help optimize our product development and manufacturing processes, convert and update legacy CAD data and allow us to respond to ever faster changing customer requirements in the complex fields of Oil & Gas, Power, Chemical and Petrochemicals” said Mr. Faizal Kottikollon, Chairman, JC Valves. “We are now able to scale up our product line into newer and more challenging verticals and hope to soon become one of the top three valve manufactures in the world” he added.

Headquartered in Sharjah, UAE with manufacturing locations in Spain, Canada, Brazil, UAE, India & China JC Valves is an internationally renowned industrial valve manufacturer. With a state-of-the-art R&D facility slated to be set up in Chennai, India in the next two years JC Valves is strategically well established to achieve their goal of being one of the top valve manufacturers in the world.

“JC Valves selection of PTC to provide the IT backbone for their product development infrastructure reflects the integral, internet based and interoperable nature of PTCs flagship product development system. This provides J C valves a secure collaborative environment that allows the company to fully leverage their global design and manufacturing hubs, hence reducing design cycle time while increasing productivity, with the end objective of adding even more value to customers in the highly demanding Oil and Gas, Power, Chemical and Petrochemical Industries said Mr. Rafiq Somani, Country Manager, PTC. “We are thrilled to be working with JC Valves and look forward to helping them meet their business objectives through the best use of our solutions” he added.