Recklinghausen, August 13th 2008: keytech Software GmbH, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software and services, today announced that Electroimpact Inc., Mukilteo WA, USA have invested in their PLM solution keytech PLM.
Electroimpact’s mission is to be the premier supplier of automated equipment to the worldwide aircraft industry. To enable this, they hire the best specialists and remove all barriers which could prevent them from doing the best job possible. In their pursuit of this goal they embarked on an extensive PLM software evaluation project. They had some major requirements: Replacing the existing Solution, PDMWorks Workgroup for SolidWorks, which was no longer sufficient for their requirements. Incorporating their extensive mixed engineering environment, mainly SolidWorks and CATIA, had to be implemented into one central Product Lifecycle Solution. Setting up a bidirectional link to Vantage ERP, the Electroimpact ERP System, to control and speed up the manufacturing and purchase processes was also part of story.
Following this intensive investigation and after a first pilot phase into acquiring the best PLM solution for their needs, the company decided to move to the production phase with keytech PLM.
“After just five days, incorporating a workshop and training session, we reached a status of our implementation that allowed us to start a first intensive pilot phase. This was a status that we never reached with other evaluated system even after months.” said Scott Hogan Project Engineer and responsible for Data Management SolidWorks.
keytech PLM was selected because it provided the highest level of integration to both CATIA and SolidWorks. Also the CAD companies were not able to deliver anything comparable to the keytech Solutions.
keytech PLM handles multiple CATIA versions on a project basis, it provides import and export facilities, incorporating file and reference renaming, revision control and release procedures that were essential in meeting the stringent requirements of customers such as Boeing and Airbus.
The solutions fast implementation methodology (“Think Big, Start Small”) and its multi-CAD capability were crucial to the current and future requirements of Electroimpact.
keytech’s responsive support structure ensured, where functional additions were required, e.g. the support for referenced CATIA V4 and CGR files, that this was generated and added to the keytech standard within a few days.
“We were relieved to find a vendor willing to support all versions of our CATIA and SolidWorks software. We have also been very pleased with the high level of technical competence exhibited by those setting up our system and by their quick responses to our requests for changes. This is the first system we have looked at that appears to have the power we need without being bloated, hard to use and hard to change.” , said Rob Flynn, Project Engineer, Responsible for PLM Evaluation.
About Electroimpact
Electroimpact was founded in June of 1986 by Peter Zieve, PHD . The company is a highly experienced provider of factory automation and tooling solutions. Electroimpact’s forte is the integration of automation and tooling into a single synergistic production solution. Due to their excellence in this area, they have grown to be the largest integrator of aircraft assembly lines in the world. Electroimpact’s customer base includes Airbus, Boeing, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fuji Heavy Industries, Spirit Aerospace, Vought, Northrup-Grumman, Israeli Aircraft Industries, and Xi’an Aircraft of China. Electroimpact is also well-versed in smaller product solutions as they are in some of the largest tooling jobs in the world.
Electroimpact is an engineer-driven company. We are able to maintain continuity throughout the project process because the same engineer is involved in every stage of the project, from initial planning and development, to final assembly, tooling setting and buyoff. The engineer that designs the tool or machine is also responsible for detailed drawings, coordinating manufacturing, assembly, and any tooling setting or machine alignment. This minimizes the disconnects that happen in some companies where responsibility is shared between the engineer, a drafter, a manufacturer, and an assembler.
About Keytech PLM
Based on more than 15 years of product and project experience in the area of technical data management, the company of keytech was founded in 1993 and is today recognized as one of the leading providers of Product Lifecycle Management systems.
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