In preparation for its migration to SAP S/4HANA, Rhaetian Railway in Landquart, Switzerland, revised its 180,000 material master records for rolling stock, catenaries, tunnels and bridges with simus systems. The pilot project already revealed that the software and methodology provided by simus classmate would be indispensable for the main project. Following the successful classification and migration of 108,000 records, the system is now being used in construction, maintenance and materials management to quickly search for and create new materials, assign classes and automatically generate short texts. Read more
How Marel gets component costs under control
2024, Anwenderbericht, classmate PLAN, classmate PLAN Anwenderbericht, Press, simus classmate, Success StoryThe globally active machine and plant manufacturer Marel has used simus systems software to automatically create work schedules and calculate manufacturing costs for around 1.5 million development components. Transparent costs at 16 production sites worldwide, knowledge capital that can be called up at any time and considerable efficiency gains are the results of a four-year project. Read more
Success Story: Why Rose+Krieger uses costing24 to calculate components
2023, costing24, Success StoryRK Rose+Krieger relies on the costing24 web service from simus systems to respond quickly to customer enquiries about individual products and to support development projects. Read on to find out how the company is saving significant time and effort, submitting bids faster and meeting its cost targets. Read more
Success Story: Rhaetian Railway operates with consistently high-quality data
2023, classmate DATA, classmate FINDER, Success StoryIn preparation for its migration to SAP S/4HANA, Rhaetian Railway in Landquart, Switzerland, revised its 180,000 material master records for rolling stock, catenaries, tunnels and bridges with simus systems. The pilot project already revealed that the software and methodology provided by simus classmate would be indispensable for the main project. Following the successful classification and migration of 108,000 records, the system is now being used in construction, maintenance and materials management to quickly search for and create new materials, assign classes and automatically generate short texts. Read more
Success Story KOCH Pac-Systeme: Data empowerment in machinery manufacturing
2023, classmate CAD, classmate FINDER, classmate PLAN, Success StoryAs a manufacturer of special machines, KOCH Pac-Systeme is a leader in know-how when it comes to the development and implementation of modular customised blister machines and packaging lines. The company from the Black Forest in Germany relies on simus systems in order to achieve excellence in business processes around SAP S/4HANA: So far, the collaboration between the two companies has led to the achievement of fast CAD part searches, high reuse, accurate costing, and the pre-migration classification and structuring of material masters. Read more
Success Story – Gessmann: Transparency in CAD Data and Manufacturing Costs
2022, classmate CAD, classmate FINDER, classmate PLAN, Success StoryGessmann GmbH in Leingarten, Germany, uses the simus classmate software suite to improve the reuse rate of CAD models – which also leads to cost reductions in downstream areas. Based on the same data, a calculation accompanying the design is directly integrated into the CAD system – but Work Scheduling and Purchasing should also benefit from it.
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Success Story – Budget-Conscious Design: PI (Physik Instrumente) Releases simus classmate
2022, classmate PLAN, Success StoryAt a purchasing volume of several million Euro per year for machined parts, product developers should be well-informed about their manufacturing costs; because the rule of thumb is that 80 percent are determined in the product development stage. PI (Physik Instrumente) in Karlsruhe introduces simus classmate for this reason and integrates cost control directly to the CAD system. Read more
Success Story – Aerzener Maschinenfabrik: On the Way to Global Master Data Governance
2021, classmate DATA, Success StoryAs one of the three leading application specialists in conveying and compression of gases, Aerzener Maschinenfabrik GmbH (AERZEN for short) produces high-performance blowers and screw compressors for industrial application. In order to increase efficiency and keep its promise for quality even more extensively, the company has been working on improving master data quality for about ten years. Using software and services by simus systems, a classification was build and a systematic master data creation process was created in integration with SAP. Read more
Success story – Supfina: Limiting overwhelming number of parts long-term
2021, classmate CAD, classmate FINDER/easyFINDER, Success StoryAs a provider of high tech solutions for automated manufacturing and superfinishing systems, Supfina noted an increase in the number of parts despite their variant management and building blocks for parts. A classification project in collaboration with simus systems GmbH from Karlsruhe, Germany, helped with data cleaning. Subsequently, the flood of product data was limited effectively by the simus classmate software suite. Apart from an increased efficiency in design, new potential benefits could be implemented in many places in the company.
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Marel is digitizing costing and routing with simus classmate
2021, PressMarel, globally active developer and manufacturer of machines, systems and complete solutions for the fish, meat and poultry processing industry, is introducing the simus classmate software suite for automatic calculation and work plan generation. Since January 2021, the Boxmeer and Dongen (Netherlands) production sites are already successfully using the solution. In the first half of 2021 also Gainesville in Georgia (USA) and Gardabaer in Iceland are expected to go live.
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Success story – Piller: Migration to SAP S/4HANA
2020, classmate DATA, classmate FINDER, Success Storysimus systems has advised Piller Blowers & Compressors GmbH in setting up a classification and prepared master data for a migration of the ERP system to SAP S/4HANA for approximately two years.
In this process, all of the master data was revised and significantly reduced. simus classmate was introduced for the purpose of classification and master data maintenance: User-friendly tools synchronize the data directly with the ERP system.
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