CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 December 2005
Implementation Investments
MatrixOne Generates Significant Time and Cost Savings for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing France
MatrixOne, Inc. announced that ThyssenKrupp, which designs, manufactures and distributes lifts, has deployed the MatrixOne PLM Platform within its French manufacturing branch, ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing France.
In order to streamline its manufacturing process and speed time to market, ThyssenKrupp worked closely with MatrixOne to merge its diverse process management solutions into a single, multi-discipline system. The amalgamation of these solutions has enabled the French branch to reduce the cost and duration of its manufacturing processes by 80%, thereby accelerating the time-to-market of the company's new products.
"The MatrixOne platform proved to be by far the most flexible on the market, as it allows us to easily input and modify our product definitions," said Jacques Tailleur, technical data manager at ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing France. "Thanks to the solution's adaptability and scalability, we can progressively enrich the system and integrate other services or tools according to our future developments. Moreover, we are now completely autonomous in this regard."
Due to the large-scale of this deployment, the entire project was managed in two separate phases. The project first began with product and application integration, where all product descriptions were entered into the new system--and the company's CAD/CAM and ERM (Enterprise Resource Management) applications were also incorporated into the PLM platform.
The second phase of the implementation helped reduce design and manufacturing time by allowing customers to provide more detailed information when placing orders. With the new system, all relative information is automatically stored, synchronized and updated throughout the system. All users have complete access to all of this information, allowing them to gain insight into the exact stage of product development.
"ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing France is one of our oldest customers and highlights our solution's ability to readily evolve with the growing needs of a company," said Henri Carasso, regional sales director for MatrixOne. "Every company's priority is to meet its customers' demands as quickly as possible, while improving its competitive edge. MatrixOne's solutions have given ThyssenKrupp the means to achieve this by rationalizing and ensuring that the coherence of its design and manufacturing processes are transparent at all levels of the company."
About ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing France
Much more than a production plant, this industrial entity masters know-how and consolidates resources in such a way as to design, manufacture and distribute components and/or complete lifts to meet the market's overall expectations. It is positioned as one of the industrial partners of the ThyssenKrupp Ascenseurs domestic network (France only) and of the numerous subsidiaries of the group or independent agents responsible for installing its products in France and throughout the world.
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