Integration of CAx/ PDM in ERP-Systems

Everyday companies make strategic business decisions to improve their position in the market. They try to improve the product innovation, operational efficiency and customer intimacy. Product development is one of the key weapons in the war for a competitive advantage.

 
In the product development, the use of modern CAx-technologies can decrease the cost and time of design as well as product development in small- and large-scale industries dramatically. For this, it is necessary that all data is available from beginning on. To avoid a break in the accessibility of data, the integration of CAx/ PDM in ERP-systems is necessary. With it the persecution of the product throughout its life cycle is possible.

 
Almost all companies in the manufacturing industry have to face the task to provide CAx data within an ERP-system to different business units. This ensures an electronic representation of the product lifecycle and raises questions on the type of the CAx/PDM integration. Whether a direct or indirect integration should take place? Whether the designers should continue working in their familiar CAD related PDM-system until they transfer work from there to the ERP-system? The answer to each question depends largely on the corporate structure, the number of used CAD-systems and, if necessary, the requirements of customers and clients.

• How can we use the production development processes effectively?
• Which one is the leading system?
• Where is the change in sovereignity?

The R&D departure has to be part of the whole. Benefits arise for your company from the optimal implementation and integration of CAx or CAD-related PDM-system in your ERP-system:

• Management of material relevant CAx data with an integration into your ERP-system
• Long-term, secure and efficient transition from R&D to Manufacturing
• Acceptance in R&D through a full integration into the process
• Global collaboration from the beginning on
• Company-wide Engineering Change Management through management of data in the ERP-systems
• Complete, flawless documentation and tracing of CAD data and the entire data export
• Reduction in the number of systems and interfaces

We guarantee a comprehensive, reliable and flexible integration of CAx/ PDM in ERP-systems. Benefit from our experts to help you with system-selection, design and integration, so your individual requirements are implemented optimally to the development process.