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Wind energy plant construction

The wind energy sector is a relatively young industry compared to other sectors and is becoming increasingly industrialized. Entire assemblies or parts were missing from the construction site. There were delays in assembly and commissioning. The reasons for this were unclear responsibility for BOM maintenance, inadequate mapping of product structure and variant logic and a separation between the CAD/PDM and ERP worlds.

Client:
Company in the wind energy sector 
> 200 employees

Industry:
Wind turbine construction

Topic:
Overall IT concept, product modularization, parts list organization, parts list configuration

Situation:
The relatively manageable variance of wind turbines is not consistently mapped in the systems. Today, four parameters are sufficient to configure a wind turbine with sufficient accuracy. The ERP parts list was not structured in such a way that it could be configured/processed and a consistent overall concept "for redundancy-free conversion/transfer of product structures" was missing. The ERP parts list concept was not future-proof. The decision as to whether order-neutral series production or project-specific order production should be mapped in the ERP was still pending. The topic of change management along CAD-PDM-ERP was also open.

Task:

  • Creation of a detailed concept for product structuring/configuration and CAD-PDM-ERP data consistency
  • Inventory in the context of interviews, analysis of weak points/potential, identification of the concrete need for action
  • Exemplary recording of the product structure of a wind turbine including the product/configuration logic
  • Revision of the product structure and variant logic
  • Prototypical mapping of the wind turbine, initially in a configuration engine (consulting tool)
  • Mapping of structure and logic in the ERP using the possibilities within the project module, i.e. configuration of projects.

Result:

  • configurable product structure suitable for assembly
  • Documented product logic incl. internal and external assembly logic
  • Prototypical mapping of the WTG using the existing ERP system
  • Basis for expanding and rolling out this approach to other types of system
  • error-free master structures suitable for assembly and configuration (queen bee).
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