Case: Rotork – increasing efficiency in engineering change

Background

Established in 1957, global manufacturing company Rotork operates in a wide variety of markets including oil and gas, water and sewerage and marine operations. Over the last decade, the company has experienced remarkable growth and today has over 4,000 employees spread across the globe.

Historically the company’s employees were located across a few major sites, with the engineering and operations teams co-located at the factories that manufactured the products they were working on. With this structure in place it was easy to implement manual controls over engineering data as colleagues sat together and there was a lot of face-to-face communication. However, as Rotork initiated 16 acquisitions, engineering teams became spread across many sites and the company needed better tools to control the data being created and maintained.

They recognised that it was necessary to implement a product lifecycle management (PLM) system and turned to Bluestar PLM.

So far Rotork has designed and built its engineering control system inside the Dynamics AX template for all factories.

Results

  • PLM solution that works inside Dynamics AX
  • Syncronized data around the world in real time
  • BOM accuracy
  • BOM version management,
  • Seamless data flow between the technical department and production
  • One system to assure accuracy and efficiency
  • Error reduction

“We realised that we had a unique opportunity to implement ERP and PLM together to integrate the way we manage all of our product data. We would not get this chance again, and so we looked for a PLM solution that worked inside Dynamics AX. Microsoft independent software vendor Bluestar PLM was the only company that could deliver this capacity”

Phil Wood, Chief Information Officer, Rotork

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

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Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com