A constantly growing demand for customized solutions poses major challenges for the machine tool industry. Every industry has specific requirements to which machine tool manufacturing, as the basis for the production of parts and components, must adapt.
Changes up to the "last minute", tight project timings and a shortage of skilled workers make the development of machines more complex. Customer-oriented solutions pose major challenges for conveyor technology. Changes up to the "last minute", tight project timings and the shortage of skilled workers do not make the development of systems any easier. Typical problems are Orders from long lead time items, the growing BOM or the working with outdated data materialwhich arise due to cumbersome work processes and non-networked data material. These disrupt and delay project execution and therefore also the project lead time.
Today's project business is difficult to implement with old structures and without automated work steps. ERP systems that are based on serial development processes are also not helpful. erp4cad operates outside the standard and offers machine tool manufacturers an ERP solution that knows and solves their problems.
In practice, many mechanical engineering companies usually work with several ExcelBOMs documents, be it a procurement list, commission list, order list, etc. Where many people work on such a document, costly errors can quickly occur.
With our intelligent project overview list (Project Overview List ), all departments work with a CAD structure parts list. The data material from Project Overview List is automatically supplemented or updated as the project progresses. For example, everyone is informed about the current procurement status of individual parts or entire assemblies - this creates transparency across all departments.
The procurement of long lead time items is a critical aspect of the ongoing conveyor system project. The special components or assemblies, which have longer lifetimes due to their specific function or rarity, must be procured at an early stage and later correctly incorporated into the existing parts list system.
long lead time items receive, thanks to our smart BOM-ManagementThe project team is always informed of the procurement status. The project team is always informed about the procurement status. Delays in the development process, manual re-entry and sources of error can thus be avoided.
Changes made by the customer during ongoing development pose major challenges for those involved in the project. The BOM must be adapted and the project team informed. With such a static process, problems are inevitable, which cost time and money.
If you use erp4cad's Project Overview List , your order list can be flexibly adapted and thus grow dynamically. This dynamically growing BOM contains both technical data from the CAD/PDM system and commercial data from the ERP system. Rule-based data transfers are no problem thanks to the intelligent CAD/ERP interface.
Mechanical and electrical data must be considered simultaneously throughout the entire mechanical engineering process. Many mechanical engineering companies work with two separate BOMs, E-CAD and M-CAD BOM. Switching between the two BOMs is prone to errors and complicates procurement processes.
The mechatronic BOM provides a cleansed overview of all components and assemblies, as duplicates are identified and deleted when the data is merged. Thanks to this combined BOM , all required parts can be identified and procured at the same time.
Projects must be permanently monitored in terms of costs during the course of the project. The calculated target values are compared with the actual values. However, determining the actual values is time-consuming and laborious, as this information has to be extracted from various Excel spreadsheets.
With the concurrent cost calculation, you can create an evaluation of your project at any time at the touch of a button. All costs incurred in procurement and production, including project times, are automatically tracked on a daily basis. This allows you to react promptly and take countermeasures.
Sales staff at Special Purpose Machinery Manufacture are familiar with the problem: a new project has to be calculated without the system having been designed and produced beforehand. In practice, empirical values from projects that have already been implemented are used. For the sales department, this means time-consuming data collection.
erp4cad keeps a price for each component. If these components are assigned to assemblies, the individual parts add up to an assembly price. If a new project is budgeted, suitable assemblies from previous projects can be transferred to the new project using drag & drop and used for a costing scheme.
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