Fewer errors at Lidan Marine with Sovelia PLM
Challenges
- Rapidly growing engineering department
- The need to work more efficiently
- No automatic link between CAD environment and business system lead to a lot of manual work and multiple data entries
Solutions
- Sovelia Lean PLM leading to secured processes, increased reusability of engineering data throughout the company and decreased manual data entries
- All engineers are trained in Sovelia
- Part structure linking between CAD environment and ERP (Monitor) to establish a controlled release process of documents
- Integration towards ERP system ensures access for production, purchasing and suppliers to the approved part lists and drawings
Benefits
- Simplified parts management - parts are handled directly in Autodesk Inventor instead of ERP
- Manual work has decreased significantly eliminating errors
- Increased reusability of structures throughout the value chain