Your Digital Transformation
Are you looking for a solution to fulfill your vision for a digital transformation?
Is the existing technology you use for integrating and connecting your organization from end-to-end preventing your company from fully realizing the potential of your business? Are you faced with the challenges of:
- Managing data across multiple teams and sites?
- Providing everyone in your company access to the right information at the right time?
- Effectively managing platforms, engineering changes and product variants, multi-CAD environments and multi-discipline BOMs?
Transforming your business from the ground up is a big undertaking. You need a solution that will fully integrate all aspects of your organization as a whole to achieve the full potential of your business.
As an ERP-based platform, Bluestar PLM inside Microsoft Dynamics 365/AX is a key driver for any digital transformation. With one single business system you can manage your entire manufacturing enterprise from end-to-end throughout the product lifecycle – all the way from product development, sales, operations to manufacturing, and service.
CAD+PLM+ERP: Digitize your Product Data Highway
One Single Source of Product Truth
The planning and development of products is often managed in a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, separated from an Enterprise Resource Planner (ERP) system managing supply chains, inventory, pricing and financials.
When ERP and PLM are not fully integrated, it leaves product engineers disconnected from the rest of the organization, working as an island in PLM. As a result, projects become prone to bottlenecks, delays and costly mistakes due to outdated information on drawings, 3D CAD files, stock, pricing and product changes communicated between engineering and manufacturing.
Bluestar PLM brings engineers and all other aspects of the business onboard a single shared platform – D365/AX ERP. With Bluestar PLM users can extend and connect the day-to-day operations into a cloud-based digital environment, for corporate-wide and seamless collaboration across departments, sites and teams globally dispersed.
With PLM and ERP fully integrated in a single system, all users will be working with one set of product truth that is streamlined bi-directionally up and down your supply chain.
The impact of engineering changes on product designs, costs and stock will be fully transparent, and manufacturing will always have access to the latest revisions and CAD-drawings. This vastly improves time to market and mitigates the risk of human error leading to mistakes in fabrication that are extremely costly to rework.
BLUESTAR PLM MODULES
Out-of-the Box Building Blocks
Establish a bi-directional exchange of items, BOMs, 2D/3D models, drawings and configurations between CAD, PLM and ERP in D365/AX.
Trace the change impact on items, quantities, purchase, and production orders related to the modified BOMs, CAD drawings, and documentation.
Embedded inside Dynamics 365/AX, Bluestar Engineer-to-Order (ETO) enables manufacturers to manage their entire business inside a single solution.
Manage product BOMs and product variants in one system. Automatically generate a 100% in CAD and D365/AX by selecting between configuration options collected in a single 150% BOM structure inside ERP.
Gives everyone in your organization access to necessary material, including substance lists, chemical specifications and material declarations, ensuring that your products stay compliant.
Automize your delegation of tasks and traceability of processes with simple drag-and-drop workflows, providing you with a real-time overview of the progress of all your end-to-end business processes.
Establish a bi-directional exchange of items, BOMs, 2D/3D models, drawings and configurations between CAD + PLM + ERP in D365/AX.
Enables fast corrective and preventive processes by triggering predefined workflows to ensure that the appropriate actions are taken.
A 3D interactive product viewer which empowers collaboration by giving all users a single shared hub to visually communicate product design.
An add-in tool for CAD solutions that empowers and automates design processes, and lets design engineers streamline product development, by reusing already released and related items stored in D365/AX.
Provides you with every bit of information on what happens to your product every step of the way, after designs have been approved and released to ERP – accessible in one single hub.
Service organizations often lack insight into customer equipment, causing performance issues. Old methods, like paper documentation, lead to inefficiencies and multiple technician visits.
Integrate your existing CPQ tool with Bluestar: eCon, PROS, D365 Product Configuration, Bluestar Product Configuration and Experlogix.
An easy-to-use data integration that provides a real-time link between users’ BIM and D365/AX, which virtually reduces manual data entry.
Adeaca Project Business Automation (PBA) plans, connects and automates business projects in multiple directions.
CAD, PDM and PLM supported by Bluestar PLM
SOLIDWORKS PDM
AUTODESK VAULT
INVENTOR
SOLID EDGE
SOLIDWORKS
EPLAN
ORCAD
PADS
ALTIUM
DRAFTSIGHT
CATIA
CREO
TEAMCENTER
WINDCHILL
SIEMENS NX
AUTOCAD
AUTOCAD PLANT
AUTOCAD ELECTRICAL
BIM
REVIT
And more…
Manage your 2D/3D files, PDM and CAD systems with Bluestar PLM
With Industry 4.0, our ability to generate and manage data becomes our new competitive power. Everyone can make ordinary production today, so the competitive power for us in the Western world stems from our ability to process and produce data.
Jesper Hejselbaek, Technical Director, at Hvidtved Larsen, Hvidtved Larsen
From the very beginning, we wanted to introduce a system that would fully support us in meeting the requirements of our customers, and not start with a compromise. Even if we don’t need all the functionalities today, we are well prepared for the future. The fast and successful go-live was made possible by an agile project approach, the experience of the implementation specialists and the tools being used.
Mr. Matthias Autzen , CEO Trainvac
It can be difficult to change the culture among people who have worked in the same position for more than 20 years, but they have bought into the new system and they’re enjoying using it. The way Bluestar PLM interacts with all the other areas of our ERP system makes it very powerful. When people are using it, they know it’s Bluestar, but they don’t have to learn two discrete systems because it’s all part of one package.
Farooq Mohammad, Director of IT, Hannibal Industries
Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com