Industrial equipment is vital to many infrastructures across the world, helping to move forward the industries associated with construction, mining, energy, automotive, and more. Technological advancements in this space have allowed for increased speed, quality, and quantity in the manufacturing of this equipment. However, many mid-market manufacturers may find the adoption of new technology for processes and systems quite daunting and cost prohibitive.
Fortunately, Dassault Systemes has created an Industry Solution Experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform specifically designed for small to medium industrial equipment companies. Digital Equipment Continuity assists with transforming business processes to align engineering, manufacturing, and service information more efficiently, connecting business disciplines that have historically been extremely siloed. This digital continuity promotes collaboration and accelerates operational speed, ultimately providing a competitive edge and ensuring customer satisfaction.
Solutions for Key Business Challenges
Mid-market industrial equipment companies experience unique business challenges, with specific needs while implementing process changes to overcome these challenges.
Challenges
Siloed Business Units
Slows innovation and idea sharing
Difficult to centrally manage extended organizational departments
Increasing Customer Demands
Require innovative, highly customized experiences
Expect quick development cycles
Slow and Risky Decision Making
Project management processes historically treat design and manufacturing content as files rather than digital data
Solution Requirements
Seamless Solution Deployment
Time-To-Market Improvement
Reduction in Cost
Improved Product Quality/Flexibility
Improved Collaboration
Digital Equipment Continuity addresses these key challenges and requirements, leveling the playing field for mid-market companies. It promotes an increased freedom to collaborate, design, and produce at an accelerated rate at any location. This solution helps perpetuate exciting opportunities, new processes, and systems to advance how manufacturers make products and deliver services
Using a combination of 3DEXPERIENCE roles, Digital Equipment Continuity offers tools and applications specifically designed to benefit key organizational units.
Innovation Management
Quicker response to external or internal opportunities
Promote continuous improvement
Idea capitalization, maturation, and prototyping with advanced capabilities
Portfolio Management
Increase product offering while optimizing developmental costs
Remove the gaps between Engineering and Marketing requirements
Maximize intellectual property reuse
Improve customer satisfaction by validating Product Strategy against Customer Requirements
Program and Project Management
New product development on time and on target
Seamlessly integrate deliverables throughout the lifecycle
Better collaboration and resource sharing
Mechanical Engineering, Design Review and Standard Management
True collaborative concurrent engineering
Fast and robust product development
Performance driven design
Eliminate design errors reaching production
Collaborative Engineering to Manufacturing
Manage engineering definition of a product from start to final validation
Dedicated tools for digital continuity from engineering to manufacturing
Full change and configuration traceability across functions
Enterprise Resource Planning integration
Service Process Engineering
Decrease time to market
Reduce change management time
Increase Mean Time Between Failure by merging service tasks
Reduce Mean Time to Repair by optimizing service process
Reporting and Documentation
Data consistency based on business rules
Automatically generate high quality documents
Ensure documents follow corporate identity guidelines
Flexible document formats
Final Thoughts
Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXPERIENCE offers solutions with a data-driven philosophy, allowing true collaboration between a broader range of a company’s business units. Digital Equipment Continuity helps to break down the silos between stakeholders at mid-market industrial equipment manufacturers, connecting the organization on one platform, thus creating a “single source of truth”. By providing one unique solution to engineer, produce, and service fast anywhere, Digital Equipment Continuity can assist with the change management required to excel in the industrial equipment industry.
To learn more about Digital Equipment Continuity or other Dassault Systemes Industry Solution Experiences, reach out to us at Fidelis today!