Case: Norican Group – increasing global collaboration and efficiency

Background

Norican Group was formed in September 2008 when moulding technology company Disa merged with Wheelabrator, a worldwide surface preparation technology provider. Today, the company has more than 2,500 employees in five continents. Over the years, Norican Group has acquired various companies, each operating on their own enterprise resource planning (ERP) and computeraided design (CAD) systems. This has made it difficult for employees to collaborate on projects and share drawings and other resources with each other.

Norican Group and its subsidiaries had produced numerous CAD drawings, which were stored in various disparate archives and were hard to access. Version management was crucial to secure all employees working with the most up-to-date designs and specifications. The ERP and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems were considered one of the most valuable components of the company so the need to create one common, well-managed business tool containing all data was critical and even so more, as new mergers were formed.

To ensure its employees could access a single set of version-controlled product data, Norican Group implemented Bluestar PLM. Bluestar PLM was initially rolled out to Disa employees and after the merger with Wheelabrator, it was deployed across Norican Group’s global R&D teams.

Since implementing Bluestar PLM, Norican Group has streamlined its ERP systems, creating a centralised, reliable and easily accessible tool for its data.

Results

Syncronized data around the world in real time
Seamless data flow between the technical department to production
Workflow automation
Full integration with existing ERP system, Dynamics AX
One system to assure accuracy and efficiency
Version management: Immediate access to accurate data from global departments
Error reduction

“Now that our teams can access the same PLM system and share reliable data regardless of their location, they can collaborate on various projects, which helps to reduce engineering cycle times. Bluestar PLM has greatly improved our company’s operational efficiency and we benefit from having implemented the system across all of our global offices.

Anette Olsen, Vice President of Global Business Systems for Norican Group

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Our customers gain competitive advantages

We have implemented Bluestar PLM for more than hundreds of enterprises and world-wide 10,000 users. Following implementations, we have evaluated on our customers’ user experiences and benefits achieved from having our system onboard. These evaluations have given us great examples of the results gained from Bluestar PLM inside Dynamics 365/AX.

80% reduction in time spent on engineering change management processes 80

15% increase in production line efficiency 15

50% reduction in BOM-related errors 50

80% reduction in time spent on document control 80