Find
Find parts faster using advanced search tools - geometric, text, similarity, sketch search and more
Reuse
Save design & procurement costs reusing exisiting parts rather than introducing new ones
Control
Make smarter business decisions by guiding the selection and purchase of preferred supplier parts
Engineers often have insufficient search tools and capabilities, which makes it very time-consuming to find the needed parts for their designs. Re-designing parts from scratch may seem like a short cut now, but it will lead to extra work in the long run.
To find already existing components and reuse them saves you and downstream departments a significant amount of time. How could engineers use this time better as for designing creative, new and innovative products?
Easily Find Parts with Intelligent Search Methods
PARTsolutions offers many new opportunities for engineers and purchasers to find product information as well as CAD data of standard-, supplier- and company parts in a smart way. All search methods can be combined with one another.
PARTsolutions by CADENAS enables BOMAG GmbH to find CAD parts faster and simpler within the company, to reduce their numbers, to manage them and to reduce costs longterm.
The particular combination of the different search functions offers engineers and purchasers more freedom and significantly increases the retrievability of MAN parts.
Many companies have internally calculated the costs for every newly created component. Depending on the industry the complete lifecycle costs of a part can cover up to 4,000 EUR. These costs incur throughout the entire lifecycle and exceed the sole costs of the initial data creation.
Promote Standardization, Increase Competitiveness
By optimizing the reuse rate of existing parts and reducing parts multiplicity, you influence the expenses of your product during the development in a way that is not possible at a later point of time. With PARTsolutions, companies can define preferred parts and suppliers. Only approved components, which are marked in green, are available to the engineers for their designs. When requiring a completely new component, an individual definable release process is triggered.
PARTsolutions reduced the multiplicity of bolted connection fasteners at SNCF by 15 % within only 1 year.
At Starlinger, the amount of newly created parts was decreased by approximately 1,100 parts during the observation period due to PARTsolutions. With estimated processing costs of approximately 700 EUR and annual maintenance costs of 100 EUR for every newly created part, the savings amount to about 1 million euros.
Engineering teams waste an average of 68 % of their time because:
- PLM & ERP systems are bloated with parts
- Systems are littered with duplicate & obsolete parts
- It’s difficult to find the right parts
- No standardization, master data is a mess
- Purchasing has no visibility to specified parts
PARTsolutions: The Authorative Source For All Your Digital Parts
The Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions offers interfaces to NX, Teamcenter and common ERP systems. Engineers and purchasers receive all business and technical information at a glance. In addition, PARTsolutions’ extensive standard and supplier parts library provides more than 700 manufacturer certified CAD catalogs. This supplements your database with detailed parts information from the manufacturer and ensures a perfect, cleaned up data inventory.
Examples of seamless implementations
Deciding factors for choosing PARTsolutions were the compatibility with ZF’s existing systems as well as the function of managing and searching for parts.
At SMS parts information used to be stored at individual locations and were updated and made available only after hours. With PARTsolutions parts data are now centrally stored. All locations have access to the same parts data, which are made available to design engineers much faster.
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