ABOUT US

About Us

Founded in 2007, Datafrond offers industry proven best practice processes and technology solutions for small to mid-size businesses looking to improve their product development processes. We provide solutions for CAD, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Quality Management (QLM/QMS) and Industrial Internet of Things. Most notably, Datafrond’s proprietary PLM-IN-A-BOX and Quality Management solutions are recognized for their proven methods and successfully adopted by many industrial product manufacturers. We have helped some of the world’s most recognized companies to become more innovative and competitive by helping create efficiency in product development processes. Our approach focuses on building the right PLM foundation that integrates the process, systems, data and people.

In addition, Datafrond is proud to be a Silver member of the PTC Channel Advantage Program and a Value Added Re-seller of PTC products and services.

Frequently Asked Questions

We offer on premise and a range of cloud based offering through our partner network; PLM support services, strategic advisory consulting, training, implementation and data migration.

We provide technology solutions to for 3D CAD, Product Lifecycle Management, Quality Management Solutions, Application Lifecycle Management, Service Lifecycle Management and Connected Product Strategies, PLM-IN-A-BOX and QLM-IN-A-BOX.

CREO, PTC Windchill, PTC Quality, PTC Integrity, Thingworx, Vuforia.

What Makes Us Different

Everything we do focuses on helping clients to achieve results with PLM. Talk to our clients. Learn how we have helped clients to become more competitive and productive through innovative PLM solutions.

We pride ourselves on providing clients with specialized attention and deep expertise. When you hire Datafrond, you get a partner who brings decades of PLM experience to your team.

PLM is what we do. We have experience across all aspects Product Lifecycle Management, from creating the strategy, to advising on the right solution for you, to providing an implementation roadmap and training users.

We take an agile approach to serving clients. Client engagements are designed to ensure maximum flexibility and quick results.

We pride ourselves on providing clients with specialized attention and deep expertise.

Supported Industries

Aerospace

Automotive

Consumer Goods & Retail

Electronics & High-Tech

Energy

Life Sciences

Mission and Values

Our Mission

 

Satisfied clients are essential to our success. We will achieve total client satisfaction by first understanding client needs and challenges, and then delivering solutions flawlessly. We aim to develop mutually beneficial long-term relationships with our clients.

ENABLE BUSINESSES TO EFFICIENTLY DEVELOP AND DELIVER INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.

Our Values

We are dedicated to helping clients solve complex business issues and share a common set of values that drives everything we do. In all our relationships we will demonstrate our commitment to:

We strive to be industry leaders in every aspect of our business; in our management performance; and in the way we design, implement and support solutions for our clients.

We will always practice the highest ethical standards and honor our commitments. We will take personal responsibility for our actions, and treat everyone fairly, and with trust and respect. We believe open communication and collaboration helps create positive long-term relationships, quicker progress and enables successful implementations.

We are passionate about innovation and focused on turning innovation into results for our clients.

We strive for continuous quality improvement in all that we do, so that we will rank among the leading PLM consulting firms in customer, employee and community satisfaction.

Methodology

Datafrond created a core methodology for providing clients with comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.

We developed this methodology based upon decades of experience working with companies of all types of sizes, incorporating best practices for PLM into our implementation framework. By following this methodology, we can help you to define, plan, build and support a PLM solution that meets your unique needs.

Practice Methods

  • Opportunities for business improvements
  • Organizational needs and capabilties to define change
  • PLM Deployment Roadmap that enables change
  • Define methods to institutionalize organization change
  • Target performance indicators, processes and metrics.
  • Simplify complex business process and eliminate variations through modeling.
  • Define business processes based on proven industry practices.
  • Implement feedback mechanisms for continuous improvements.
  • Technologies and solutions that generate sustainable business improvements.
  • Technology solution architecture and systems blueprint per short-mid-long range goals.
  • Design and implement technolgy solutions, and systems.
  • System Maintenance and preventive mangement procedures to minize system outages
  • People and organizations impacted by change.
  • Capability gaps and education plan to enhance organization expertise.
  • Training programs to meet educational goals and objectives.
  • Train business users and end users to ensure maximize system usage

FRAMEWORKS

We have created proven frameworks to help accelerate work on a project and ensure results with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations.

Datafrond can help you to navigate the many challenges with your Digital Transformation including adapting business processes, harnessing information technology and implementing organizational changes.

 

Our business knowledge, combined with our expertise in software deployments, allows us to help companies maximize the value of digital information throughout the enterprise.

What Our Clients Say about Us

Datafrond is a highly competent boutique firm focused on solving customer’s PLM needs, seamlessly integrating it into our business. They have been able to architect and deploy solutions in a fraction of the time and cost of larger consulting firms.
Jeffrey L Burk
Director, Global Product Organization, Whirlpool Corporation
We have worked with Datafrond over three years on different aspects of a Windchill PLM implementation including Business and Use Case Analysis, System Assessment and Configuration, and System Customization . They have always been professional, well organized, and qualified to do whatever was asked. They have rolled up their sleeves and worked elbow to elbow with us in delivering customer requirements and adding business value to our PLM implementation.
Jeff Lewis
Manager, E&T IT, Residential Solutions, a business of Ingersoll Rand
Collaboration with Datafrond has been instrumental in establishing a realistic project timeline with a phased-in approach that reduces risk during the transition from current to future state.
Betsy Lawrence
Manager, Documentation Services, Starkey Hearing Technologies
“When we decided to upgrade our on premises Windchill environment to a more scalable and sustainable PLM solution, we selected Datafrond as one of our partners to guide us through the process of selecting the best option for our business globally. We evaluated the offerings from multiple solution providers thoroughly, which resulted in Windchill and Arena PLM being the final candidates. The decision process led us to select Arena. We selected Datafrond's team of experts to lead us through a successful migration from Windchill to our new Arena environment.”
Linh T. Silen
Senior Manager, Data Governance & Solutions
“We selected the Datafrond as our partner to maintain our on-premises custom Windchill PLM environment. Throughout our relationship, the Datafrond team has managed our Windchill environment, provided excellent support services, guided us through several Windchill system upgrades, and developed enhancements for our custom environment including a business reporting package.”
Blair Malmgren
Engineering Systems Analyst
Datafrond has provided insight across multiple industry segments and a PLM solution that promises to shorten initial implementation schedules. Datafrond PLM solution also provides a scalable approach to adding functionality over time that will be seamlessly integrated with previous modules.
Kevin Stahl
Director of Information Technologies, ASC Industries Inc.
“Based on the successful initial implementation of Windchill within ESAB since 2013 and the high level of customer service supporting that environment, we selected Datafrond to lead us in our migration from legacy CAD tools to Creo, migrate our legacy data and deploy standard PLM processes in Windchill. With Datafrond's expertise and guidance, we were able to successfully complete this complex project enabling a global business to act with a PLM through a global workforce.”
Gareth Pemberton
Director of Innovation at GCE an ESAB Group Company
“Datafrond has been supporting our on premises Windchill PLM environment for over ten years. During that time their team of experts have always been responsive to our support needs and guided us through several Windchill upgrades during this time. When we made the decision to migrate our on premises Windchill environment to the cloud, we chose to migrate to the Datafrond’s Windchill Cloud solution and with their assistance successfully completed our migration to the cloud.”
Jeff Crawford
Senior Director of Technical Services

OUR CLIENTS

LIFE AT DATAFROND

If you want to be a part of our organization and experience our work culture where balance is the key while being customer centric, go ahead and register below to explore the available opportunities.

CAREERS

Is It Time to Make a Change? Then Make it a Great One

Our world is rapidly transforming, and Datafrond is helping our customers to lead the way. The solutions we provide bring the physical and digital worlds together, enabling our customers to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business. Datafrond is always looking for talented individuals to join our team and want to make an impact on the industry and on the world.

WE ARE DATAFROND

OUR CULTURE

Like the world around us, Datafrond is always evolving, and our employees are helping to lead the way. With a culture that is innovative, fast paced, and rewarding, Datafrond is the perfect place to build a fulfilling career.

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