Bluestar PLM for Industrial 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.
Streamline your engineering processes in a centralized database
Industrial Equipment Manufacturers are challenged by the increasing competition within the PLM for manufacturing industry, which, to ensure their position on the market, drives them towards continuous innovations. These innovations aim to create smarter, easy-to-maintain products that fit the often-changing customer needs.
To counterbalance the complex and expensive R&D projects involved in manufacturing PLM, while avoiding the increase in prices or decrease in quality, manufacturers must find a way to optimize their PLM engineering and manufacturing processes. This can be accomplished by cutting non-value adding activities such as redesigning already existing parts, products, and manual data rekeying and transfer between sites, departments, and systems in the realm of PLM manufacturing.
Through the appropriate PLM for manufacturing strategies, manufacturers can streamline their operations, reduce waste, and enhance their ability to adapt to changing market demands. Furthermore, by leveraging PLM engineering solutions, they can better manage product lifecycle, from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products, ultimately fostering an environment of continual improvement and innovation in the PLM manufacturing sector.
Challenges of non-embedded PLM and ERP systems
- Manual data synchronization between the ERP, PLM and CAD systems can cause data misalignments.
- Reusing data is challenging due to time-consuming manual data transfers.
- Missing visibility in end-to-end business processes leads to non-value-added work time.
- Order fulfillments are delayed by bottlenecks causing operational performance to suffer.
- Sharing engineering data between different sites can be troublesome without a common data management system.
- Engineering change orders are executed without understanding the impact on the supply chain.
How Bluestar PLM benefits Industrial Equipment Manufacturers
Increase productivity
Streamline the data flow between CAD and ERP through Bluestar PLM, and reduce mistakes while fastening the processes to increase productivity.
Oversee engineering processes
Enhance multi-site engineering collaboration by using a shared database for engineering data as the single source of truth. Transparency arising from the setup can decrease miscommunication between engineering teams.
Minimize non-value adding activities
Automate engineering processes to abolish non-value adding activities such as manual data rekeying in between systems, generating PDFs out of drawings, and filling out title blocks.
Share data easily
Export and share engineering data – including CAD files and documentation – with suppliers and sub-suppliers in a smart and controlled manner.
Product visibility
Gain full management over your engineering data with status and revision control. Being embedded in the ERP while having seamless integration to the main CAD systems can allow engineers to access manufacturing data easily and vice versa.
Utilize existing data
Reuse existing engineering data via classifications and attributes, or machine intelligence-driven CAD-reuse. By this, engineers can focus on core engineering processes, instead of re-creating already existing product designs and data.
Modules for your Engineering
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
The way Bluestar PLM interacts with all the other areas of our ERP system makes it very powerful. For example, with Bluestar, it takes about 90 seconds to both configure the part and create the CAD drawing. There is really no comparison when it comes to what you can gain by having software like that.
Farooq Mohammad, Director of IT, Hannibal Industries
Now that our teams can access the same PLM system and share reliable data regardless of their location, they can collaborate on various projects, which helps to reduce engineering cycle times. Bluestar PLM has greatly improved our company’s operational efficiency and we benefit from having implemented the system across all of our global offices.
Anette Olsen, Vice president of global business systems for Norican Group
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.
Whitepaper
“10 Reasons Why You Need ERP-based PLM”
Learn why PLM – Product Lifecycle Management, is essential for your manufacturing company to enter Industry 4.0. By having a single solution where the PLM system is embedded in ERP, you can fully leverage product data to satisfy customer demands and deliver orders on time and within budget.