Industrial manufacturing

Discrete engineering business challenges

Weapons programs, satellites, transportation systems and programs are becoming a complex command chain made of hardware, software, electronic components. These components have their own individual life cycle but still need to cooperate in order to build a coherent and efficient industrial engineering system. None of these systems can afford to fail. This is extremely challenging for these industries which are characterized by highly complex products with long lifecycles (over 40 years), distributed supply chain, extended customer relationships. Market shares and profitability of manufacturers of cars, consumer electronics products, home appliances, and white and brown goods, are continuously under pressure. In today’s volatile market, discrete engineering manufacturers are facing challenges, including technical competence, environmental safety, regulation compliance, and cost pressures arising from a variety of sources. Limited traceability and quality control leads to excessive manufacturing cycle time and the need for repairs.

The discrete, automotive, and aerospace industry faces several challenges including:

Increased projects and program complexity and the need for managing visibility across the extended business
Streamlining global product lifecycle while leveraging local cost-saving opportunities
Significant challenges in information management to drive business performance across a range of operating processes
Volatility in raw material prices
Environmental regulations in industrial engineering products such as product safety concerns and consumers’ attention to social and environmental issues.

By enabling the ability to track and trace product comprehensively, discrete engineering manufacturers can shorten cycle time, reduce costs, eliminate the need for paper-based tracking, and minimize recalls and repairs.

Discrete engineering and consumers involvement

Consumers have increased influence over the adoption and success of new products and services, forcing discrete engineering manufacturers to develop new relationships with them. Globalization and growth in emerging markets opens up new opportunities, while sustainability efforts and complex regulations require new levels of sophistication in industrial engineering.

customer satisfaction in industrial manufacturing

Aptean PLM Lascom Edition engineering information management software

PLM for industrial manufacturing and complex systems

Single repository

Single repository, document management and program related information management features. These key points in Lascom industrial engineering software offer an easy representation of complex data sets such as military ships, weapons, satellite programs and industrial engineering products.

Document management functionalities

A full set of document management functionalities, particularly adapted to the complex needs of technical drawings management. The industrial engineering software is able to handle rigid industrial data thanks to its “clay-like” structure.

Document management in industrial manufacturing

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PLM software in industrial manufacturing

Key features for design engineering

Reference configuration management as designed / built / maintained / tested
Engineering change control
Document management
Program oversight and verification audits

Key features for in service support

Applicable / applied / maintained configuration management
Fault monitoring and Change follow-up
Track rebuilds repairs and swaps in the assemblies and components
Ensure compatibilities

key PLM features for industrial manufacturing

What our customers say!

PSA

“They are a major contributor to the reliability and robustness of data transmitted to factories and after-sales, further improving the quality of our vehicles.”

Franck Rabuel

"We wanted to reuse as much as possible what we had already done, both to reduce presale costs and to reduce response times and technical risks."

Dirk Wessel

« Lascom from Aptean provides us with a most flexible framework for the automation of our business processes and enables us to exchange information using state-of-the-art technology »

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Aptean PLM Lascom Edition benefits for discrete engineering customers

Time to market

Time-to-Market; to lead competition, discrete engineering manufacturers have to stay ahead of the curve, frequently launching new products — both quickly and efficiently. Getting to market and supporting production and delivery, discrete engineering manufacturers must accurately disseminate new product definition, specifications and processing requirements to designated — and often geographically dispersed — participants and decision makers.

Supplier collaboration

Collaboration with suppliers; increasing collaboration with partners enables discrete engineering manufacturers to better share material and product specifications information and operational results with partners — customers, suppliers, and regulatory agencies. The application lists and manages all relevant data in order to identify industrial engineering programs or systems. Users can then have a look on the global and detailed configuration of each element and their versions.

Cost reduction

Costs reduction; increasing efficiency and reducing costs are a way of life in discrete engineering manufacturing environment. Aptean PLM Lascom Edition industrial engineering software optimizes data collection, analysis and reporting, thus helping discrete engineering manufacturers enhance new product development, product lifecycle, document management and costs reduction.

Reporting tools

Business intelligence and fine analysis. Complex program management is enhanced thanks to Aptean PLM Lascom Edition industrial engineering software reporting tools. Customizable dashboards provide a clear and accurate view of data, documents, system and program advancements using information gathered into the repository. Alert and reporting features notify discrete engineering manufacturers of inefficiencies, enabling immediate corrective actions and minimizing time waste in bottlenecks.

Customer story

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