“C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. selected DDM as a PDM solution after acknowledging that our current method of design file management and configuration management, using Windows folders and Excel spreadsheets, was becoming unmanageable. Also, as our production volumes increased, we recognized the increasingly serious consequences of providing incorrect design documentation to our manufacturing vendors”, says Ewan Smith, Mechanical Engineer.

“We briefly evaluated other commercial PDM solutions, but felt the significant up-front investment and recurring costs, and the required implementation effort, was not appropriately scaled for our small company. We installed the DDM trial version and immediately recognized the user-friendliness of the program, and the very manageable effort that would be required for implementation.” “We opted to deploy DDM at C-COM because it provided a turnkey solution to all of the key PDM functional requirements our company identified: integration with Pro/Engineer, data vaulting, easily searchable database, configuration management, change management, and bulk exporting of design data. In addition to meeting all of C-COM's functional requirements, the low licensing and maintenance costs made DDM the runaway choice as a PDM solution.”

About C-COM Satellite Systems Inc.
C-COM Satellite Systems is a leader in the development, manufacture and deployment of fully automated, self-aligning mobile satellite antenna systems for the delivery of two-way high-speed internet services. C-COM’s proprietary iNetVu system is fully compatible with many of the world’s leading satellite-based Internet Providers. www.c-comsat.com