Standard or bespoke? The accurate design and production of electric motors is the chief competitive factor for this company. The customer buys an energy-efficient drive solution tailored to the respective operating point. The company can therefore stand apart from the major players in this sector and exist very well in this niche market.
Client: Manufacturer of electric motors < 200 employees
Branch: Electric motor engineering
Topic: Offer configuration, cutting production costs, organisation/configuration of parts lists, product configuration, variant management
Situation: An ERP solution developed by the company itself was designed for finding job variants already processed. The topics of classification and finding old orders via features had reached a high level of development. However, manual changes to completed orders and job parts lists plus the fact that the system was not integrated in the CAD environment led to high workloads in parts lists management and when adapting drawings. Valuable time was lacking at other places for innovations or new developments.
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