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Mahindra Rise: Enabling Smart Engineering with IoT
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
- Automotive
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Vehicle Performance Monitoring
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Mahindra & Mahindra, a global pioneer in the transportation business, faced a significant challenge in managing and analyzing the vast amounts of data generated by multiple IT systems. These systems, which include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) and Tool Data Management (TDM), are integral to the company's automotive, aerospace, and agribusiness operations. Each system generates specific data throughout the product life cycle, requiring collection and analysis to facilitate key decision-making. The challenge was to create a standardized decision support system that could consolidate data from these multiple sources and present the right information at the right time to the right person. The company needed a solution that could interlink all these systems for a properly functioning parent system, enabling collaboration between product and manufacturing engineering, cost and legacy systems.
About The Customer
Mahindra & Mahindra is a global leader in the transportation industry, with operations spanning automotive, aerospace, and agribusiness sectors. The company relies on 50 to 100 systems for each automotive project it undertakes, including systems for product cost, inventory, and billing. These systems need to be interconnected for a properly functioning parent system, necessitating collaboration between product and manufacturing engineering, cost, and legacy systems. The company's various systems, such as ERP, CRM, PLM, SAP, and TDM, generate specific data throughout the product life cycle, which needs to be collected from various departments and systems to facilitate comprehensive analysis and key decision-making.
The Solution
Altair provided a solution in the form of a web business intelligence platform, SmartWorks™, which layered analytics on top of Mahindra & Mahindra's systems. A key component of this platform was Altair SmartSight™, a data analytics platform that accelerates data visualization, exploration, and discovery. It collects and aggregates data from various systems and presents it in interactive dashboards. Mahindra & Mahindra used the SmartSight platform as an integral part of the vehicle engineering product development process to automate production planning and engineering. This enabled them to easily visualize the data and analyze projects at all stages of development for improved decision-making. The platform also allowed users to formulate custom Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and parameters using an intuitive drag and drop interface, which could then be shared and managed for their own analyses.
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