CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

14 February 2007

Implementation Investments

AeroSpec, Inc. Uses Synergis Adept Data Management to Fast Track Production of Industrial Equipment

Synergis Software announced that AeroSpec Incorporated , specialists in the design and manufacturing of lean automated and semi-automated production equipment, uses Synergis Adept® as its enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) solution to automate its design processes and get their equipment to market rapidly.

"In other environments you have many weeks to do a drawing. In many cases, we have hours. At that kind of rate, you need an automated data management system," stated Steve Marinella, president of AeroSpec, Inc. "We are in the business of getting products to market quickly. Let's say you invented the world's greatest pacemaker. You know you have competitors out there, and you want to get it to the hospitals first to get the doctors to endorse it. You have to prove you have capacity; prove you can build those and supply the doctors faster than anybody else. That's where we come in. We build the equipment to build the pacemaker."

The company has always adopted innovative tools and techniques that allow them to stay competitive. Of the 42 employees, 10 are engineers and their primary 3D design tool is SolidWorks. They have 15 seats of Adept to manage tens of thousands of drawings for customers in medical devices, aerospace, consumer products, and the government.

"From the time the product is designed it's a race to see how fast we can produce the equipment to make it and get full capacity -- with the assurance that we are going to be able to reach mass production rapidly. So we have to build equipment very quickly. If there is any last minute change, it has to be done extremely quickly. Therein lies the demand on our part for a data management system."

A Long Term Commitment to Data Management AeroSpec needed a data management solution to replace their outdated system, which did not support SolidWorks. They also knew that data management was a mission critical application and required prompt and expert support from a vendor.

"We felt that Synergis Software was committed to making our lives easy," said Marinella. "Initially, another vendor had our business but they blew it. We figured we were going to live with a system for 15 years and we had to have a vendor we felt we could live with. And Synergis Software was it."

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