CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 October 2007
Implementation Investments
Optima Group Implements CoCreate's PLM Throughout the Enterprise
CoCreate Software Inc. announced that Optima Group has purchased CoCreate OneSpace Model Manager for its enterprise worldwide. Optima plans to couple the CoCreate OneSpace Suite with its SAPT system for an integrated PLM environment.
The Optima Group produces sophisticated packaging equipment for pharmaceutical, consumer and nonwoven goods and engages more than 1000 employees in Germany, the US, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, France, Korea and the UK. CoCreate partner, INNEO Solutions, supports the Optima Group for all its CoCreate Software installations.
To produce its vast and innovative portfolio of high-tech machinery, Optima Group relies on expert engineers and 250 seats of CoCreate OneSpace Modeling.
Optima originally chose OneSpace Modeling over a traditional history-based 3D CAD system because OneSpace Modeling can handle large components-assemblies made up of 50,000 parts or more is typical for an Optima project. Plus, CoCreate's Dynamic Modeling based approach to product design offers the flexibility Optima demands to meet short time-to-market needs.
"Our customers often request changes very late in the design process," said Jochen Schaile, CAD Manager at Optima. "With the Dynamic Modeling based approach, any designer can pick up any project and go straight to work making those changes. You don't have to know anything about how a design started out to take it any direction you need to go.
"Optima customers rely on our evolving technology. With OneSpace Modeling, our engineers are free to look forward without bogging down in the history of a design or being bound by designs that don't fit the bill."
Optima is capping off its PLM environment with OneSpace Model Manager, CoCreate's data management product. With engineers working around the clock and around the world, the company needs to know that anyone can easily find, load, work on, and store large files, without fear of overwriting or using outdated material. With OneSpace Model Manager, product development is centrally managed and information flows effortlessly throughout the company.
The Optima design environment exemplifies CoCreate's 3rd generation approach to PLM. It leverages existing IT investments and integrates product development with both upstream and downstream systems to create a lean business process and optimal enterprise management.
"Our product development environment must be integrated within our organization," said Schaile. "We won't sacrifice time or effort on incompatible systems. Rather, we let the seamless integration between product development and manufacturing systems work for us to automate exchanges in the PLM process."
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