A Prominent Furniture Manufacturer deploys Fishbowl’s System Generated Drawing Automation to Increase Efficiencies with their Enterprise Part deployment within PTC Windchill

Our client has numerous global manufacturing facilities and is using PTC Windchill to streamline eBOM and mBOM processes. However, not all modifications to parts information propagates automatically/accurately at the drawing level. Updating plant specific drawings with enterprise part information was a time-consuming process that was manual, error prone, full of delays and diverted valuable engineering resources away from their value-added work.

The client desired a go-forward approach with their Windchill PLM implementation that would automatically update this critical enterprise part information. They became aware of our System Generated Drawing solution from a presentation at PTC LiveWorx. From the time of first contact the Fishbowl Solutions team worked to deliver a solution that helped them realize their vision.

BUSINESS PROBLEMS

• Manufacturing waste due to ordering obsolete or incorrect parts
• Manufacturing delays due to drawing updates needed for non-geometric changes – title block, lifecycle, BOM, as well as environmental/regulatory compliance markings, variant designs, etc.
• Manually updating product drawings with plant specific parts information took away valuable engineering time

SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS

• Fishbowl’s System Generated Drawing Automation Systematically combines data from BOM, CAD, Drawing/Model, Part Attributes and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
• Creates complete, static views of drawings based on multiple event triggers
• Creates a template-based PDF that is overlaid along with the CAD geometry to produce a final document that can be dynamically stamped along with applicable lifecycle and approval information
• Real-time watermarking on published PDFs

RESULTS

• Increased accuracy of enterprise parts information included on drawings reduced product manufacturing waste
• Allowed design changes to move downstream quickly, allowing a increase in design to manufacturing operational efficiencies

“Fishbowl’s System Generated Drawing Automation solution is the linchpin to our enterprise processes. It provides us with an automated method to include, update and proliferate accurate parts information throughout the business. This automation has in turn led to better data integrity, less waste, and more process efficiencies.” -PTC Windchill Admin/Developer

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