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DS PLM SUCCESS STORY - Arburg: Facilitating collaboration and reducing costs with CATIA, ENOVIA, and 3DVIA Composer
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Product Lifecycle Management Systems (PLM)
- Functional Applications - Product Data Management Systems
Applicable Industries
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Manufacturing System Automation
- Digital Twin
- Virtual Prototyping & Product Testing
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Arburg, a leading manufacturer of injection molding machines, faced the challenge of bringing its products to market faster, while increasing quality and lowering costs. The company's product range and the modular design of its machines placed high demands on IT services. Under the motto “securing the future with process optimization using standard IT solutions”, Arburg's CIO and his IT team worked closely with the operations departments to radically rethink the company’s IT infrastructure. The goal was to build a process-oriented IT infrastructure with virtual product management to improve time to market and increase development-to-delivery speed two-fold.
About The Customer
Arburg is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of injection molding machines. The machine and plant manufacturer, located in Lossburg, in the Black Forest region, employs over 2000 people. Arburg’s product portfolio includes Allrounder injection molding machines with clamping force from 125 to 5,000 kilonewtons (kN), Multilift robotic systems, complex automation solutions and a range of peripherals. Arburg chose Dassault Systèmes solutions 15 years ago and today relies on CATIA, ENOVIA, and 3DVIA Composer for its product development needs.
The Solution
Arburg deployed a unified PLM strategy based on CATIA, ENOVIA and 3DVIA Composer for virtual product design, collaboration and technical documentation creation. From the very first development step, Arburg engineers use CATIA to construct their machines virtually. The system stores every revision precisely. The interfaces between CAD/CAM information and the procurement and ordering system ensure a 3D view of every Arburg-developed component. In addition, designers and design engineers can simulate all production steps, from design to final machine, and display a 360-degree view of their models. ENOVIA compiles the information so that anyone in the company involved in a particular project can use the same resource and process data and communicate in 3D. For technical documentation, Arburg uses 3DVIA Composer to generate the technical documentation directly from the CATIA files.
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