Consumer goods manufacturers, particularly in the consumer goods PLM sector, often need a set-up that is supportive of high volumes and short lead times. For serial and mass production, workflows must be fast and agile, and be able to run in parallel. Each step of the manufacturing process must be automatically routed. Repeatability is fundamental when it comes to mass production. All variables in the processes must be strictly defined and controlled to enable a successful production every time.

Many consumer goods manufacturers suffer from separated CAD, consumer products PLM and ERP solutions. They stand-alone with each having its own data structure, interface, and capabilities to fulfill engineering, operations, and manufacturing requirements respectively. However, with the rise of Industry 4.0 and for manufacturers to stay competitive, especially in the consumer goods PLM industry, they must be able to implement solutions that interconnect information and processes – not only across the internal enterprise and departments – but external partners and suppliers as well.

When CAD, consumer products PLM, and ERP are not fully integrated and operate as silos, corporate-wide information sharing and collaboration becomes nearly impossible. Consequentially, consumer goods manufacturers suffer delays, miss cost targets, slow change cycles, and orders that end up not fulfilling customer requirements. These increased industry demands mean that manufacturing companies, particularly those in the consumer goods PLM sector, are facing several critical challenges that are tightly connected to a deep integration between engineering and manufacturing.

Allows you to standardize your business processes to easily repeat them over and over. This makes it much easier to optimize your predefined product configurations, for optimal end product.

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

With Bluestar PLM fully embedded in Dynamics 365 F&SCM, departments and sites can extend their work and collaborate in a single digital environment, so engineering, manufacturing and sales processes can run parallel to each other, eliminating non-value adding times.

The time you save with standardized business processes and configured products can be used to optimize existing processes and new product developments.

With largely automated business processes and product standardizations, optimized processes are obviously cheaper than developing a new process or product that is only ever used once.

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

Bluestar PLM enables seamlessness between engineering, sales and manufacturing. What engineers has defined as a configured product, will immediately be shown in real time, so manufacturing, procurement, sales and operations will have the latest and accurate information to work with.

Automatically generate 3D CAD-models and detailed drawings based on product variants and configurations. As a result, you will save hundreds of hours otherwise spent on design processes.