PROJECTS

MATERIALS-HANDLING ENGINEERING

The company’s employees have really profound expertise in the fields of bulk goods plants, open-cast mining technology, warehousing technology, processing technology, loading systems, materials-handling technology and port engineering. More than half of the staff is involved in engineering.

Client: Leading plant engineers for materials-handling and open-cast mining > 1,000 employees

Branch: Materials-handling engineering

Topic: PDM system roll-out, document management, overall IT concept, product data migration, SAP PLM, distributed product development, change management, DMS and/or PDM selection

Situation: Based on a wide range of large equipment, individual machines and plants, the company supplies key materials-handling installations for open-cast mining, power stations and the metallurgy, cement, building materials, chemicals and fertilisers industries as well as handling systems for ports. Projects extend over many years. That results in great numbers of commercial and technical documents, primarily in engineering, but also in the commercial/logistics areas. The filing systems in use were reaching their limits. There was multiple filing, copying, sending and changing of documents. Owing to the personalised filing structures, it was hardly possible, sometimes impossible, to find or reuse documents easily. On top of that there were problems in the areas of performance, data consistency and data security. In the end, all these issues led to the decision to select and introduce an integrated DMS/PDM solution throughout the company.

Brief:

• Survey of DMS/PDM requirements within the scope of interviews conducted in all relevant departments
• Transferring the requirements to a specification
• Coordinating, supplementing and adding more detail to the specification
• Support during the assessment of offers and selection of a system
• Final decision by the client
• Project planning, project organisation, support during introduction of external project management together with the PDM partners
• Compilation of conceptual preparations in product structuring, classification and similar areas
• Conceptual and technical/content support during the development of the bidirectional ERP connection
• Further support/preliminary work to suit requirements during the entire roll-out project

Result:

• Successful compilation of a coordinated DMS/PDM specification
• Successful support during selection and planning phases
• Targeted support during the operational roll-out of the system