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Manufacturing Efficiency Enhancement: AESSEAL's Journey with Mendix, SAP, and Teamcenter
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Additive Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Process Simulation
Services
- System Integration
- Training
The Challenge
AESSEAL, a subsidiary of AES Engineering Ltd, is a global company with 235 locations in 104 countries, specializing in engineering products and systems for pumps and rotating equipment. Despite its industry-leading portfolio of custom predictive and preventive engineering products, AESSEAL faced a significant challenge. The company needed to bridge its core legacy systems with a modern technology stack to keep up with its own progress. The existing siloed legacy manufacturing systems, coupled with significant technical debt, hindered the IT team from delivering new, innovative solutions. The team was stretched thin managing continuous upgrades in Windows and Oracle, refreshing legacy applications, and addressing challenges from non-standardized shadow IT solutions created by the business. The need for a solution that could extend development capacity and solve their integration challenge was evident.
About The Customer
AESSEAL is a subsidiary of AES Engineering Ltd, a global company that engineers products and systems used in a wide range of pumps and rotating equipment. These products and systems are designed to prevent liquids and gases from escaping into the environment, improve equipment reliability, and reduce maintenance costs. With an expanding global footprint—235 locations in 104 countries—and an industry-leading portfolio of custom predictive and preventive engineering products, AESSEAL is a significant player in its field. However, the company faced challenges in bridging its legacy systems with a modern technology stack, which was crucial to keep up with its own progress.
The Solution
AESSEAL found the solution in the Mendix low-code development platform, which they discovered through their 15-year relationship with Siemens as Teamcenter users. In 2022, their IT team built a low-code proof of concept (POC) to refresh a legacy shopfloor solution and test the platform’s integration capabilities with critical engineering systems of record. The POC refreshed a key software system on the AESSEAL shopfloor, integrating production orders and stock plans from SAP, managing job sequencing based on material supply and demand, alerting operators of machine maintenance needs, and surfacing 3D JT files from Teamcenter or 2D drawings. Following a successful pilot project, AESSEAL is now standardizing their low-code development with starter templates, co-developing with an expert partner to grow their team, and leveraging Mendix to support in keeping the core clean.
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