Microsoft Dynamics 365 PLM Solution

Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM system which is embedded inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD + PLM + ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Bluestar PLM is a single and complete solution that connects the entire enterprise and end-to-end business processes, from early product development all the way to product fabrication and service. This means that you will enable the seamless sharing of data and documentation, and obtain optimal business process automation across Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Service.

Key benefits of being a part of Microsoft Dynamics 365

  • CAD + PLM + ERP data shared in Dynamics 365 F&SCM: Manage your items, BOMs and 2D/3D-models in one solution.​

  • One platform for one product truth: Complete data transparency for all departments and locations.​

  • Engineering Change Management: Transparent ECM that reveals change impact on designs and the supply chain before it is implemented.

  • Multi-site Collaboration: Seamless exchange of real-time data in the cloud.

  • Workflow driven process automation: End-to-end engineering and operations processes executed in one system.

Discover the benefits of an ERP-based PLM system

Discover how Bluestar PLM, tailored for your company, integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain Management. Streamline workflows by merging CAD, PLM, and ERP into a single platform.

Being a part of Microsoft Dynamics 365 modules

Enterprise-wide Collaboration

Collaborate efficiently across destributed multi-discipline engineering and manufacturing teams, as well as sub-suppliers and the extended enterprise.

Scailing with D365

Bluestar PLM scales with Dynamics 365 F&SCM to support the needs of multinational manufactures being the obvious choice as eto solution.

Optimal Data Reuse

By streamlining the reuse of existing product data and files, you will achieve a faster time-to-market, save time and improve product quality.

One Familiar User Interface

Leverages the familiar user interface of Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM, with a single system to maintain instead of separate PLM and ERP systems. Having a single interface facilitates user adoption.

Easy Installment and Maintainment

Being a part of Microsoft Dynamics 365 modules enables Bluestar PLM to be easility installes, modified and maintaned.

Improved Control

Enables the check-in and check-out of office documents for greater control of your product related documentation.

One Platform – One Product Truth

  • Reduce errors with Data Flow Management and forecast the impact of product changes on design, costs, and inventory across engineering and manufacturing.

  • Reduce lead time with One Source of Truth and manage your items, BOMs, 2D/3D-models and related product documentation in one solution.​

  • Boost efficiency with data reuse, prevent duplicates, and eliminate redundant manual entry.

Your benefits with Bluestar PLM

A single source of product truth

When PLM is embedded in ERP, reliable product data is accessible to all departments and locations. This transparency reduces errors and miscommunications, ensuring greater accuracy and predictability for informed business decisions.

Worldwide Collaboration

Enables distributed engineering and manufacturing teams to collaborate globally by centralizing the product data in a global engineering repository, from where the data can be shared and released to the different entities of the organization.

Simplified IT Structure

Integrating ERP and PLM in the cloud-based Azure environment simplifies IT infrastructure, eliminates redundant PLM maintenance, and reduces total ownership costs. It also enhances user adoption with a unified Dynamics 365 F&SCM interface.

Comply with Product Regulations

Centralize and manage material declarations, chemicals, and regulatory specifications in one solution to comply with international substance regulations. ERP-based PLM enables easy calculation and sharing of compliance data with partners, suppliers, and customers, ensuring adherence to regulations like RoHS and REACH, and avoiding fines, rework, credibility loss, or product recalls.

Transparent and fast change cycles

ERP-based PLM integrates engineering change management, making impacts on design, logistics, manufacturing, and costs visible before implementation. Transparent engineering change orders reduce errors and enable quicker, accurate decisions, speeding up lead times and time-to-market.

Data flow across CAD+PLM+ERP

Manage mechanical and electrical 2D/3D CAD files across disciplines with two-way data exchange between CAD, PLM, and ERP. Track revision-specific BOMs, drawings, and technical documentation against production, sales, and purchase orders.

End-to-end business process automations

Bringing Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Service into one solution enables enterprise-wide workflow automation. This allows all business processes to be fully mapped, monitored, and executed, enabling Engineering and Manufacturing to work in parallel for shorter lead times.

Electronics and Mechatronics Collaboration

Integrating design tools like Altium and EPLAN centralizes mechatronic data, eliminating manual file exchanges. This enables engineers to easily share incremental changes, enhancing multi-domain collaboration and reducing costly last-minute design changes.

3D Configuration/Product variant management

Generate 3D models and manage product variants easily. An ERP-based platform handles the entire configuration process from quotation to engineering and manufacturing in one system.

What have our customers accomplished?

AMF Bakery Systems

Achieved 150% revenue growth through PLM and ERP implementation. Reduced errors and enhanced quality management improved product reliability. Streamlined processes boosted productivity across all departments.

Schréder

Advanced configurator capabilities, allowing customization of products with numerous standard variants, facilitating the configuration of unique client specifications seamlessly inside Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

Scanlab

Automated mBOM creation from eBOMs, ensuring accuracy and current data. Strengthened change control, minimized duplication, and maintained data integrity, boosting traceability and preventing redundant efforts.

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For any inquiries or requests, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our team is prepared to provide prompt assistance and will respond within two business days.

Standard Bluestar PLM functions

Product

Tracks revisions of Dynamics 365 F&SCM items and their related drawings, 3D models, routes and technical documentation for optimum traceability.

Tracks revisions of Dynamics 365 F&SCM items and their related drawings, 3D models, routes and technical documentation for optimum traceability.

Bluestar PLM operates with backwards compatible items, meaning that once an item is changed, the change is automatically propagated to all the structures which the item is part of. Consequently, designers saves the time usually spent on manual changes to the same item in multiple contexts while maintaining perfect data consistency.

A built in stamp engine it is able to automatically populate and maintain drawing titleblocks so that engineers can spend their time on innovation instead.

Enables the graphical comparison of BOM revisions in 3D or dimensional comparison of single part revisions.

Effortlessly align complex BOMs with Bluestar PLM’s BOM Compare tool, reducing manual effort and ensuring accurate, efficient BOM management across systems.

Sharing

Enables collaboration between geographically dispersed engineering teams through intelligent file replication.

The Release management function enables users to release BOMs, sub-BOMs and parts from the PLM to one or more legal entities in a controlled manner. The integrated transaction stop flags allow the early-release of long lead items, minimizing the risk of product misplacement.

Integration

Documents to approval processes running through end-to-end business processes. These are traced through workflows: designs going back and forth between customer and engineering – growing product requirements. Can be released to Dynamics 365 – all project information accessible and centralized in AX. Templates saving the entire project structure for reuse.

The Print Suite add-on enables users to print all or selections of product specific documentation to PDF or hard print by utilizing Bluestar’s built in document management engine.

Enables the check-in and check-out of Office documents for greater control of your product related documentation.

System

Shared on-premises or cloud-based Azure data vault for holding the engineering data (CAD files, documents, etc.) and hosting the Bluestar services.

Leveraging bi-directional CAD-ERP integration, Bluestar PLM eliminates redundant data entry.

Easy to learn, Microsoft Dynamics 365 has a Microsoft user-interface that thousands of end users around the world already are familiar with and enjoy using.

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