Getting a better handle on product data let engineers at Invacare Inc., Elyria, Ohio (www.invacare.com) shorten design cycles by 25% and spend more time developing new products. Invacare credits the improvements to SmarTeam PLM from SmarTeam Inc., Beverly, Mass. (www.smarteam.com) and customization by consultants at cShare, Willoughby, Ohio (www.cshare.com). "We needed a good PDM system to manage, document, and leverage a large volume of design data," says Tom Herb, manager of Invacare's corporate documentation group. "Traditionally, that's been a ...