Bluestar PLM for Machine Builders

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.

Empower your machine building processes

In the dynamic world of machine building, the pressure to innovate is relentless. The PLM for manufacturing industry demands the creation of sophisticated, maintainable, and responsive machinery to meet the diverse and evolving needs of customers. To excel in this competitive landscape without compromising on quality or inflating costs, Machine Builders must rethink their approach to PLM engineering and manufacturing processes.

Bluestar PLM offers the way forward. With its centralized solutions, machine builders can fine-tune their processes, minimize waste, and amplify their responsiveness to shifting market conditions. By employing Bluestar PLM’s engineering capabilities, they can oversee the complete product lifecycle—beginning with conception, moving through engineering design and manufacturing, and extending to service and eventual retirement of the machines.

This comprehensive and integrative approach promotes a culture of ongoing refinement and creativity, positioning machine builders at the forefront of industry innovation. With Bluestar PLM as their strategic partner, they can confidently navigate the future, where efficiency, flexibility, and brilliance become the hallmarks of success in machine building.

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 Machine Builders

Increase productivity

Bluestar PLM system help machine builders monitor, trace, and deliver on product lifecycle management milestones. By streamlinomg the data flow between CAD and ERP through Bluestar PLM, mistakes are reduced 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 and utilize data easily

Export and share engineering data with suppliers and sub-suppliers in a smart and controlled manner. By reusing existing engineering data via classifications and attributes, or CAD-reuse, engineers can focus on core engineering processes, instead of re-creating already existing product designs and data.

Satisfy customer requirements

Through a collaborative, Bluestar PLM solution, the design, engineering, and quality departments can use configuration tools to instantly and securely synchronize the creation and duplication of all CAD and BOM documents, saving time and resources.

Deliver products to market faster

The latest data is stored within the system, while the BOM can easily be referenced and reused across similar projects. Through this, machines can be built faster and more predictably, and repetitive tasks can be automated and streamlined, in turn reducing developmental time and costs.

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

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

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

Norrican 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.

80% reduction in time spent on engineering change management processes 80
20% reduction in time to market 20
50% reduction in time spent for configurations and CAD drawings 50
80% reduction in time spent on document control 80

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“10 Reasons Why You Need ERP-based PLM”

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