CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 May 2004
Implementation Investments
Rexnord Industries, Inc. Cuts Design-To-Order Processing Time with Product Sight Lifecycle Environment Deployment
Product SightT ( http://www.productsight.com ) announced that another successful deployment was completed in 3 days at Rexnord Industries, Inc.
Rexnord Industries Inc., a global power transmission products manufacturer, is using the Product Sight Lifecycle EnvironmentT (PSLE)T SyncroSpecT Pipeline module to slash the time needed to release Design-To-Order products in their FlatTop Chain Group from customer specification to manufacturing. With PSLE, Rexnord has been able to implement a fully Web-based Build-to-Order process across its entire organization.
Rexnord uses on-line documents to capture the options and parameters that define each customer- specific design order. Then a DTO Action Item drives completion of the necessary Design-To-Order activities. Automated workflow tracking and escalation policies, enabled by PSLE Pipeline, eliminate much of the time delay spent waiting for a qualified person to start each task.
"Our immediate goal was to radically streamline the process from customer specifications to manufacturing release. Product Sight helped us beat our initial improvement targets with a rapid deployment and minimal distraction to our core engineering personnel," Said Peter Ensch, Rexnord's director of engineering, "This Product Sight Lifecycle Environment deployment gives us improved customer responsiveness and makes us more competitive so we can win more orders while lowering our costs."
PSLE's data-driven configuration made it easy to match Rexnord's product lifecycle procedures for their Design-To-Order products. Product Sight deployment service staff hosted the on-line configuration environment that allowed Rexnord engineering process experts to review and revise system configuration parameters. Then, after 3 days of on-site deployment and training, Rexnord's staff ran the new web-based Design-to-Order process in parallel with the existing paper process for two weeks. This Rexnord Design-To-Order process is now entirely web-based and hundreds of orders have been released to manufacturing in one day or less.
Chris Plier, lead product designer at Rexnord, said, "I was very pleased to discover the flexibility of the Product Sight Lifecycle Environment configuration. We were able to quickly deploy and make configuration changes based on feedback from a process improvement focus group that targeted our Design-To-Order process." He added, "PSLE Pipeline is also helping Rexnord's continuous improvement efforts by allowing us to quickly identify, track and improve critical process steps. This is allowing us to respond to our customers needs faster and more accurately"
For over a century, Rexnord, has been a manufacturer and marketer of Mechanical Power Transmission and Conveying Components. Rexnord products are marketed under brand names that include Rex, Link-Belt (Chain, Bearing, and Gearing), TableTop, MatTop, MCC, Marbett, Thomas, Omega, Stearns, Shafer, PSI and Tuflite, all of which are registered trademarks of Rexnord Industries, Inc. These product lines represent the largest single source in the world for industrial and aircraft bearings, seals, idlers, couplings, roller chain, engineered chain, conveyor chain, reducers, brakes and clutches. Industries in which Rexnord has a global reputation for quality, service and value include food and beverage processing, mining and quarrying, forest, pulp, and paper products, construction equipment, hydrocarbon processing, and cement and bulk material handling. More information regarding Rexnord can be found at http://www.rexnord.com
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