Process Manufacturing

Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.

A streamlined supply chain that ensures product inconsistencies are investigated is an essential part of quality control management in process manufacturing. Bluestar PLM is capable of ensuring quality control testing to identify potential inconsistencies before the product is ever fabricated. This ensures that consumers receive the high-quality and compliant products they would expect.

Faster time-to-market

Bluestar PLM brings engineers and all other aspects of the business onboard a single shared platform – D365/AX. Here, users can extend and connect the day-to-day operations in a cloud-based digital environment, for corporate-wide and seamless collaboration across sites, departments, and teams globally dispersed.

With PLM and ERP fully integrated in a single system, all users will be working with one set of product truth that is streamlined bi-directionally up and down your supply chain. You will no longer have to use several disconnected applications for managing your entire supply chain from end-to-end.

Engineering will no longer operate as a secluded island, disconnected from the rest of the organization, resulting in delays and errors due to outdated information communicated to manufacturing and operations.

The impact of engineering changes on product designs, costs and stock levels will be fully transparent, and manufacturing will always have access to the latest revisions and CAD-drawings. This vastly improves time-to-market and mitigates the risk of human errors leading to mistakes in fabrication, that are extremely costly to rework.

Specific benefits for Process Manufacturing Companies

Increased operational efficiency

Automated best practice workflows shorten cycle times and information routings.

Monitor workflows in real time

Trace the current status of workflows and workflow tasks providing an instant overview of the progress made for full audit trail.

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.

Fewer mistakes

Repetition of processes also means more routine in execution. Potential errors are prevented, and production goes faster.

Corporate-wide collaboration

Workflows are deployed in enterprise-wide context enabling the entire organization to collaborate more efficiently across departments and locations.

Full data visibility and traceability

Bluestar PLM enables seamless data flow between sales, engineering, procurement, and manufacturing. Product information will immediately be shown in real time, so all parts of the organization will have the latest and most accurate information to work with.

Enforce procedural and regulative compliance

Best practice workflows are reused as templates in repetitive business processes ensuring compliance with official procedures.

Strict regulations in industries like food, beverage and pharmeceuticals are managed in Bluestar PLM with seamless reporting and calculations that ensure your products does not exceed thresholds for substances of high concern.