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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.