Weidmüller

Industrial connectivity and automation
More than 6,000 employees (2023)
€ 1.175 billion in sales (2022)

Weidmüller has been setting standards worldwide for decades as a specialist in industrial connectivity, automation and digitization. Renowned customers from numerous industries use the products and solutions of the family-owned company for the transmission of energy, signals and data. The high-tech pioneer has relied on CIM Database since 2017 and digitally maps the entire PLM process. Among other things, Weidmüller benefits from significantly reduced costs, a minimized error rate and smooth collaboration in the development process. A real highlight of the solution is the fully automated quotation process.

Task and objective

End-to-end mapping of the PLM process
Better collaboration through more transparency and integration of domain-specific development processes
Accelerated order processing through simplified creation of customer-specific solutions from standard components
Extensive automation of the information flow
Easy mapping and customization of even complex processes
Enable agile response to new market requirements

Solution

CAx data management for Catia V5, SolidWorks, Altium Designer and Eplan
Document and knowledge management
Project management including metrics & reporting
Fully automated quotation process for customer-specific solutions, including integration of online configurator with classification
Bidirectional SAP synchronization
Bill of materials and variant management

Benefits

Cost reduction and error minimization by mapping the entire PLM process from idea to product discontinuation
Smooth collaboration through improved integration of domain-specific development processes
Consistent and easily available product data thanks to single source of truth
Reduction of time required for quotation generation from three to five days to five minutes!
Efficient modeling of complex processes thanks to the platform's easy configurability and wide range of functions
Fast responsiveness to new requirements thanks to ideal system adaptability

“With CIM Database, we have reduced the time required for customer-specific quotation generationfrom three to five days to five minutes.”

Dr. Martin Dräxler
Vice President Cross Divisional Digitalization
Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co

Fully automated quotation process at Weidmüller

Find out how the industrial connectivity specialist has automated its quotation process and reduced processing time from three to five days to five minutes - and what other benefits the solution offers.