Whether that’s editing status spreadsheets or sending multiple clarification emails with internal and external teams, those extra minutes doing manual tasks can translate to months of wasted time for both high volume and high mix production.

By digitizing your workflow, you can mitigate this by managing your entire order acquisition and execution process through a connected solution integrated with your existing business systems like your ERP and CRM.

This will reduce the time teams spend on non-value-added tasks, so you can deliver products faster than the competition– while improving customer satisfaction and your bottom line.

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70% of manufacturers still enter data manually.1

Source: 1 https://nam.org/seventy-percent-of-manufacturers-still-enter-data-manually-2-31811

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Source: 2 https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/pdfs/dm-data-mgmt-tech-clarity-pdm-report-en.pdf

Centralize your engineering data using product data management (PDM) and integrate up and downstream processes to it through a product lifecycle management (PLM) system.

Establish a single source of truth

Why: This will give everyone involved in your product development— including suppliers and partners—a shared data repository to work from. Teams can rely on a single source of truth from order entry to shipment, reducing expensive rework due to duplicated, incorrect, or out-of-date information.

of manufacturers struggle to find the right information2

48%

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Digitize engineering and business processes throughout your entire value chain.

To do this you need to:

Switch to using digital processes2

More detail: Product lifecycle management will also help to ensure all your data is traceable. Managers and team members alike can forget about spreadsheets or emails, and instead have real-time visibility into when a task is complete, as well as who is doing what and why.

Why: Digitizing your engineering and business processes will reduce non-value added activities and bottlenecks within your teams. This can help you deliver your products faster, even when dealing with compressed schedules or last-minute client revisions. Train your staff to use and manage the PLM system.

Begin creating digital workflows for your business processes. You can use out of the box, standardized templates with milestones, deliverables, and tasks depending on the product line, business unit, or product team involved. Or you can configure your own from scratch.

Use automation to intelligently route your business processes through the value chain. This will help you automate processes such as new product orders, engineering design reviews, and sending drawings to manufacturing or the supply chain for example.

a week of worker time is spent on non-essential tasks, such as updating information or chasing approvals.3

21.5 hours

Source: 3 Data from Autodesk internal customer surveys3

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3 Improve collaboration Encourage constant collaboration between engineering, manufacturing, and procurement teams, as well as external stakeholders like customers and suppliers.

Everyone will be able to:

Have access to the latest project information in real-time and from anywhere in the world—without the need for CAD authoring software.

Execute business processes within a single solution, while providing full visibility and accountability throughout the value chain.

Make informed decisions on predicted time-to-market, materials requirements, constraints and more, so teams can more confidently develop new products.

of all design and manufacturing companies report issues with collaboration.

40%

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Case study: Aclara Technologies

Accelerating design cycles through global project visibility and bill of materials (BOM) management, so everyone involved in developing a new product is on the same page and instantly notified of any updates.

Preventing potential errors by ensuring suppliers acknowledge receipt of all design changes.

Lowering costs by no longer having an on-premise PLM system, which involved a lot of investment in hardware support and engineering man-hours.

Aclara Technologies, a global supplier of smart infrastructure solutions, switched from on-premise to cloud-based PLM to better manage the introduction of new products.4

More detail: Over the past ten years, Aclara Technologies has scaled beyond its birthplace of Missouri, with new facilities in Spain and the UK as well as acquisitions of other companies and product lines. While their expansion was viewed as a success, it also led to integration challenges whenever new products were developed and introduced to the market.

That’s when they turned to a cloud-based PLM system.

With a cloud-based PLM system, the Aclara team is now able to resolve these challenges by:

Source: 4 https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/solutions/plm/overview/aclara-customer-story-en.pdf 5

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Go further Once you have an established single source of truth and stakeholders can collaborate seamlessly with PLM, you can take your processes to the next level by:

Adding a web-based configurator Customers can configure their customized machinery directly on your website using a configurator, getting as granular as bolts or metal types.

Automating quotes Make quotes and quote drawings instantly available to customers after they’ve finished configuring their equipment.

Automating designs After customer sends a purchase order based on the quote, engineering could trigger design automation of all 3D models and drawings to quickly get drawings and BOM to the shop floor for fabrication.

Want to learn more? Get in touch for a personalized consultation today.

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