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Solar wafer plant construction

The acquisition of companies not only brings with it new markets, customers, sales and products. IT system landscapes, processes and working methods are often individually tailored and fundamentally different to those of the acquiring organizational unit. Commercial forces were the driving force behind a consolidation of the ERP system landscape. Possible adverse effects in terms of order processing, flexibility in scheduling or production/assembly with growing order parts lists or CAD and DMS integration should also be taken into account in these considerations.

Client:
Mechanical engineering company
> 400 employees

Industry:
Solar wafer plant construction

Topic:
Process optimization R&D, manufacturing cost reduction, overall IT concept, product modularization, SAP PLM, parts list organization, parts list configuration, product configuration

Situation:
The entire solar industry and in particular the manufacturers of thin-film solar cell machines and systems are subject to extreme cost pressure. In this already difficult situation, this newly acquired business unit had to be integrated into an existing optical disk organization in terms of products, processes and IT. The typical system manufacturer's approach was to standardize its products flexibly and learn from the acquiring unit's small series business.

Task:

  • Change from special machine manufacturer to variant manufacturer through product structuring
  • Changing the way we work in design: configuration instead of expensive customization design
  • Creation of the prerequisites for cross-location engineering
  • Harmonization/standardization of product structures, data, processes and the IT system landscape.

Result:

  • Reduction of customization costs in design by factors
  • Focusing sales on technically pre-designed and configurable systems and components
  • Batch size effects in purchasing and production by increasing the proportion of repeat parts
  • Uniform use of the ERP system, especially in the areas of material master/parts list management, document management, PLM and CAD connection.
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