Küster Holding

Electromechanical actuation and adjustment systems
Over 3,000 employees (2025)

KÜSTER is a renowned automotive supplier whose products can be found in vehicles from nearly all major car manufacturers. As a full-service provider, the company produces intelligent electromechanical actuation and adjustment systems, as well as in-house developed electronics and control components. In its product development efforts, KÜSTER relies on CIM Database as the foundation for managing product-related data. The company gains significant advantages through powerful multi-CAD data management and faster turnaround times in engineering change management. The efficiency of the product development process is currently being further enhanced through the implementation of integrated project management.

Task and objective

Central platform for product development
Powerful multi-CAD data management
Integrated project and document management
End-to-end engineering change management

Solution

CIM Database as the leading system for product development
Unified multi-CAD data management for mechanical CAD systems Catia V5 and NX, as well as for the electronic CAD system Altium Designer
Centralized conversion services for generating neutral formats of released documents
Integrated viewing for 2D formats (TIFF) and 3D formats (Catia Composer)
Company-wide management of Microsoft Office documents and other file formats
Global engineering change management
Integration of a collaborative project management solution

Benefits

Company-wide consistent and legally compliant data
Efficient collaboration in projects with history tracking and automatic archiving of all documents throughout the product lifecycle
Transparency and continuous availability of different design versions
Secure change processing through cross-departmental workflow control
Targeted management of procurement activities based on up-to-date material and manufacturing costs through evaluation of each part change
Efficient management of special approvals via workflows with automated notifications to part- or plant-specific distribution lists
Benchmark database for storing documents related to patents and competitive analysis, including an image database