CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 April 2007
Implementation Investments
Norgren Moves Faster and More Fluidly With ENOVIA SmarTeam PLM Solution
Dassault Systèmes ( DS ) and RAND North America, a joint venture of DS and Rand, a Technology Corporation announced that Norgren, a global supplier of actuators, valves, filters, and pressure sensing and control devices for the automotive, electronics, medical and food processing industries, selected ENOVIA SmarTeam for a major worldwide PLM project. Norgren's PLM strategy will bring its products to market ahead of competitors and develop smarter, more inventive and effective solutions.
Chicago-based Norgren, the largest division of the IMI group, chose ENOVIA SmarTeam to provide a comprehensive, phased program that will enable collaborative multi-CAD, multi-site design and manufacturing management across thirteen locations worldwide. To achieve its ambitious program, which within three years will serve some 5,000 enterprise users around the globe and integrate with Norgren's corporate ERP system, the company turned to RAND North America.
"Our complex global manufacturing and supply chains needed a system to efficiently manage our product data, whether originating in Germany, China, the US or the UK," said Mary Pierce, Norgren Global PLM program manager. "ENOVIA SmarTeam is allowing us to integrate and manage this information while tracking the numerous design changes and capturing best practices. Standardized collaborative design methods are eliminating money and time spent working from outdated designs, as well as encouraging innovation and improved division of labor among our globally-dispersed design teams."
RAND North America began rollout early 2007 with 175 seats installed at three ENOVIA SmarTeam databases - Fellbach, Littleton, CO, USA and Shanghai CHINA. The remainder of the sites, consisting of an additional 558 licenses with many sites utilizing ENOVIA SmarTeam's multi-site capabilities, will be deployed during 2007/2009.
"To succeed in today's increasingly competitive mid-market, leading companies are selecting PLM solutions to gain essential business benefits through collaboration," said Alex Zeltcer, general manager, ENOVIA SmarTeam. "Norgren will leverage ENOVIA SmarTeam to quickly ramp up and consolidate its global product design activities. In the next phase, the company will automate and optimize key business processes, including bills of material, engineering change management and bidding practices, using ENOVIA SmarTeam to streamline workflows across people, sites and platforms. This will enable global-scale purchasing and further cost savings."
About Norgren
Norgren is part of the diverse and internationally successful £1.57 billion IMI Group - confirming its financial strength, stability, and dependability. With established manufacturing facilities in USA, Germany, UK, Switzerland, and Spain and with newer facilities in Mexico and the Czech Republic Norgren has the global manufacturing and support capabilities to be able to cope with the most demanding international projects. Drawing on many years of experience of handling major projects across national boundaries Norgren can harness global resources to match its customers' own operations. With support through an established sales and service network in 75 countries Norgren has the global reach and capability to ensure continuity of supply and local support where it is needed for customers involved in export markets or multi site operations.
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