Engineer-to-Order (ETO)

Embedded inside Dynamics 365/AX, Bluestar PLM allows Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturers to manage their entire business inside one single cloud-based solution.

By streamlining and automating end-to-end business processes, Bluestar PLM allows you to react to the changing circumstances of one-off projects, by improving collaboration across your organization during product design, manufacturing, and delivery.

As a result, the risk of costly production mistakes is mitigated, time-to-market is decreased, and more orders are successfully fulfilled and delivered.

Bluestar PLM gives you:

  • CAD+PLM+ERP in one system: For centralizing products and all related information and processes in one place decreasing time to market.
  • Management of growing BOMs: Early release long-lead items for a steady flow of raw materials.
  • Project management: Workflow driven processes trace growing projects from design to release in D365/AX.
  • Reuse of product data: Easily access existing and approved items and BOMs to streamline the development of new products and avoid costly errors.
  • Full CAD-intergration: Save time with automatic synchronization of items, BOMs and 3D files between CAD, PLM and ERP.
  • Fully traceable Engineering Change Management (ECM): Engineering changes and their impact on products and the supply chain are visible from notice to implementation.

By streamlining and automating end-to-end business processes, you will react to the changing circumstances of one-off projects, by improving collaboration across your organization during product design, fabrication, and delivery.

Bluestar PLM is built specifically for ETO manufacturers

The ability to effectively coordinate and execute a constant flow of engineering changes across engineering and operations is key to success in engineer-to-order manufacturing. The supply chain must be efficient and capable.

  • Engineering and operations work in parallel and in close collaboration, to avoid bottlenecks, costly errors and delays.
  • Meet changes in customer demand, stay on schedule and adhere to budgets.

Effectively coordinate and execute a paralel work-flow across engineering and operations.

Transform your business with Bluestar PLM

Dealing with more complex products and more frequent changes throughout the development phase elongates the time it takes to finalize products and increases the number of specialists involved in a single product’s lifecycle, hence the costs per product.
Furthermore, when some of the ever-changing customer requests are missed due to misplacement, engineers are enforced to make corrections in a short period of time.

To counterbalance the higher expenses, while keeping the end product’s price at a reasonable level, ETO manufacturers must aim to optimize their internal processes and streamline the product data flow.
Learn here how you can transform your organization with Bluestar PLM and how a similar ETO-company already achived the transformation.

WHITEPAPER

Engineering Change Management

PRODUCT SHEET

Quality Management System (QMS)

CUSTOMER STORY

ETO-case:
Norican Group

Specific Benefits for Engineer-to-Order Companies

CAD integration

Bluestar PLM’s full integration with the market leading mechanical and electrical CAD systems such as SolidWorks, Inventor, SolidEdge, Creo, Catia, AutoCAD, Altium, Orcad and many more allows a tighter collaboration between multi-domain design teams. It allows CAD users to access and use valuable PLM and ERP data, and utilize CAD drawings on both the PLM and ERP side as auto generated PDFs.

Project and documentation management

Centralize and collect product resources and dependencies like data sheets, documents, and video, containing essential parameters and manufacturing information, essential to the communication between engineering, manufacturing and sales.

Compliance

Comply with international regulations on substance thresholds for hazardous materials such as REACH and RoHS so your products can go safely to market.

Reuse items and structures

ETO products often reuse existing product structures with modifications based on customer specific requirements. Reusing items eliminate the need to start a product design process from scratch, requiring time-consuming approvals of new items. Based on DIN4000 (classification methodology/structure), you ability to search and reuse existing data and products is essential in saving time and resources.

As-built

A product tree structure revealing every bit of information and documentation related to a product after it has been built.

Engineering Data Export

Export entire projects and files in an easy and controlled manner, providing suppliers with all the information they need to manufacture products and fulfill orders.

BOM-builder

Using this CAD-tool allows the user to easily create a BOM structure from scratch or a configured product using existing components. The user can use the this intuitive tool to reuse existing parts and easily assemble them into a complete BOM structure. The BOM is then automatically generated as a CAD model and transferred into Bluestar PLM.

Engineering Change Management

Achieve complete transparency in the cost and logistic feasibility of engineering changes and ensure that engineering documentation is always up-to-date. For more details learn about Bluestar ECM here.

Growing BOMs

Bluestar PLM supports growing and dynamic BOMs that can be partially released early, even though the final design of the product is not yet determined and approved, to release and communicate long-lead items as soon as possible to purchasing.

Interested in Growing Your Business?

Contact us and learn more about what we can offer you.

Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
[email protected]