Strike a balance between customer orientation and economic efficiency

The mechanical and plant engineering industry today is under pressure to meet practically every customer requirement. This means that the number of variants and thus complexity and costs are continuing to increase. Companies can however resolve this conflict between customer orientation and economic efficiency through the use of intelligent process patterns such as configure to order together with systematic digitalization of the processes and innovative service offerings.

Global solution for comprehensive PLM and smart asset management

SIG Combibloc is a leading supplier of packaging materials and filling equipment. The company manages its global PLM processes with CIM Database. CONTACT Elements for IoT enables smart asset management and provides the basis for digital service business in plant engineering. Among other things, the solution provides the plant specialist with globally uniform development processes, compliance thanks to comprehensive plant documentation and improved availability of its production lines.

Global solution for comprehensive PLM and smart asset management

SIG Combibloc is a leading supplier of packaging materials and filling equipment. The company manages its global PLM processes with CIM Database. CONTACT Elements for IoT enables smart asset management and provides the basis for digital service business in plant engineering. Among other things, the solution provides the plant specialist with globally uniform development processes, compliance thanks to comprehensive plant documentation and improved availability of its production lines.

SIG Combibloc is a leading supplier of packaging materials and filling equipment. The company manages its global PLM processes with CIM Database. CONTACT Elements for IoT enables smart asset management and provides the basis for digital service business in plant engineering. Among other things, the solution provides the plant specialist with globally uniform development processes, compliance thanks to comprehensive plant documentation and improved availability of its production lines.

Primary focus of the digitalization strategy in the machinery and plant engineering industry

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Develop machines and systems faster and more efficiently

Manage development processes, from customer requirements to manufacturing engineering, digitally from end to end. Link systems and get to grips with the complex configuration and variant management inherent in your machines and systems. Optimize your solutions using closed-loop engineering through the systematic use of operating data.

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Get to grips with complex projects and combine agility with reliability

Mechanical and plant engineering projects involve dozens or hundreds of employees from different disciplines working together within tight time and budget constraints. Ensure the success of these projects by combining traditional milestone planning and agile teamwork. You can also take advantage of workflows and other options for digital collaboration. Comply with procedural standards, regulatory requirements and documentary requirements with significantly less effort.

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Set yourself apart from the competition with a digital service business model

Interlinking your machines and systems offers great potential for making your service business even more profitable. Offer your customers enhanced availability and performance of their assets as well as easier access to spare parts procurement and retrofitting through systematic implementation of the digital twin concept. Get ready for new business models with pay-per-use billing.

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Collaborate effectively with partners and suppliers

The development of complex industrial goods requires effective collaboration between a large number of different participants, often across organizational boundaries. The lower a company's manufacturing depth, the greater the focus on data sharing with partners and suppliers. Use solutions such as those for transmittal management to ensure that distributed teams always have the latest data available to them when working on joint projects and processes.

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Success stories of our customers

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Digital processes for batch size 1

Syntegon is one of the leading suppliers of process and packaging technology for pharmaceuticals and food. After years of successfully using CIM Database at two locations, the special plant manufacturer decided to roll out the solution globally to all of the company's sites. With CONTACT's PLM solution, Syntegon is digitizing and automating its business processes and project handling across the entire value chain. CIM Database also ensures transparency and smooth collaboration in the complex engineer-to-order business.

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Faster processes from design engineering to order processing

The ANDRITZ Group is a leading supplier of equipment for hydropower stations and the pulp and paper industry. ANDRITZ METALS has been using CIM Database as a digital archive and for multi-CAD data management, technical changes and transmittal management since 2001. The advantages this offers include faster, end-to-end processes from design engineering to order processing, flexible project-specific process design and easy system adaptation.

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Machine manufacturer impresses with digital customer service

MIXACO develops industrial mixers for food, paints and chemicals. The engineering company enhances its products with smart services. The foundation for this is provided by the CONTACT Elements for IoT platform, which was put into operation without any need for programming. It allows customers to monitor processes online, optimize the performance of their machines and take advantage of the benefits of predictive maintenance. MIXACO also offers its customers a higher level of system availability and faster service response times.

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With the CONTACT Elements IoT platform, we were able to clearly increase the efficiency and data quality of our after sales processes.
Stefanie Bolz, consultant for business
process development at HBC-radiomatic
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