Marine and Offshore

Gain a competitive edge with Time-to-Market

Manufacturers for the Marine and Offshore industries face several challenges as their products have to withstand the harsh conditions of the sea, sometimes over a hundred kilometres from the seashore. This not only puts pressure on manufacturers to build their products sturdy enough to survive in such environment, but also to create and manage the documentation of these often customer specific, one-off products in a way that the after-sales services can be handled with accuracy and confidence for decades.

To stay competitive and ensure long-term customer satisfaction, such manufacturers need to have a product management system with capabilities of aligning and keeping history on their engineering data coming from different CAD or documentation systems.

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.

Benefits for Marine and Offshore Industries

Traceability and transparency of data

Gain full management over your engineering data with status and revision control and utilize these functions in Dynamics 365 F&SCM as well. Keeping full history on products or components allows engineers and managers to find and retrieve previous revisions easily.

Full control over your PLM documentation

Create general and product-specific documentation and certifications through the Microsoft Office-integration and manage them in Bluestar PLM.

Align CAD data in a shared database

Manage CAD data from different 2D and 3D CAD systems in a shared database to be able to create and document full products or projects within a single system.

Synchronize projects between PLM and ERP

With the collaboration between Bluestar PLM’s and Dynamics 365’s project management module, engineering projects can be started in the PLM, then finalized in Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

Integration to Power BI and Bluestar PLM’s advanced workflows allow engineering managers to have full control over the engineering project processes, while the SmartExport-functionality provides an easy solution for exporting and sharing the project data.

Standardize product description and enhance reusability with classes and attributes

Create multi-level classification system with attributes to improve searchability and reusability for engineering and management. Using attributes to autogenerate name and description can increase the traceability and standardization of data, minimizing the unnecessary re-creation of already existing products, components and documents.

Out-of-the-box building blocks

eBOM+mBOM

One single solution for smart management of data in both eBOM and mBOM.

After-Sales Redesign & Repair

After-sales & Refurbishment optimize resources, reduce waste, and promote sustainability.

Product Configurator

Manage BOMs and variants in one system, automating CAD and D365 F&SCM setups from a unified 150% BOM in ERP.

What have our customers accomplished?

Automated Bakery Equipment Solutions

Achieved 150% revenue growth, due to PLM and ERP implementation. Errors were reduced, and quality management boosted product reliability and customer satisfaction. Streamlined processes increased productivity across all functions…

Norican Group

Synchronized real-time data globally, enabling seamless flow from technical departments to production. Workflow automation and full integration with Dynamics 365 F&SCM ensured accuracy and efficiency…

Scanlab

Automation of mBOMs from eBOMs, ensuring accuracy and up-to-date data. Improved change control, reduced duplicates, and maintained clean data which enhanced traceability and reduced unnecessary reinventions….