Adam Hall Group

Manufacturing and distribution of solutions for event technology, AV integrators, and industrial customers
More than 350 employees (2023)

The products of the Adam Hall Group ensure inspiring events worldwide: The event technology provider supplies the industry with high-quality equipment for live shows, studios, broadcasting, and fixed installations. The portfolio includes professional audio and lighting technology, cables, stands, other stage equipment, and hardware components. Dealers, event technicians, AV integrators, exhibition builders, and industrial customers thus receive everything from a single source. Since 2019, the Adam Hall Group has relied on CIM Database for product data management and Project Office for project management – benefiting from the further development of its processes and tool support.

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Task and objective

Integration of efficient product data and multi-project management
Organizing and managing a rapidly growing number of development projects with a heterogeneous mix of disciplines, tasks, and competencies
Coordinating collaboration with external development and manufacturing partners
Ensuring high product and service quality
Replacing task management and time tracking based on Excel
Improving project profitability through standardization and reuse

Solution

CIM Database as a platform for Product Lifecycle Management
Project Office as a tool for multi-project management including support for agile methods – linking planning and execution with hybrid project management methodology
CAD data management for SolidWorks for mechanical design
New object class for patterns and prototypes with links to project, document, and parts management
Foundation for building modular kits and product platforms

Benefits

Efficiency through standardized processes and binding milestones
Simplified reporting, improved overview of project status, and transparency regarding team workload for management
Perfect integration of management support tasks (project planning and control) and agile, self-organized teamwork
Improved profitability through increased reuse thanks to structured product data organization and simplified product variability
Easy and secure testing of externally manufactured prototypes against requirements including documentation of states, results, and decisions
Scalability and easy configurability of the Elements platform as well as a wide range of powerful standard components