Application examples: Manufacturing industry
Value creation: Design & Engineering, Production & supply chain
Development stage: Market-ready/productive use
Company size: more than 15,000 employees
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What were the challenges to be solved and what specific benefits were achieved?

  • Timely delivery of the trains according to quality standards
  • Planning of production processes for highly complex trains under constant time pressure
  • Production of the trains in many customer-specific variants
  • Avoidance of production errors and waste

How can the Industrie 4.0 approach be described?

  • Reduction of delivery times and quality assurance with Manufacturing Process Planner application and Process Simulate
  • Overcoming the barriers between product developers and manufacturing engineers with the Manufacturing Process Planner application
  • Definition of the manufacturing bill of material from the engineering bill of material
  • Planning the production process including operation sequences, tools and all parts to be processed
  • Integration of the Manufacturing Process Planner application into the existing IT infrastructure