CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 April 2009
Implementation Investments
RECARO Aircraft Seating Applies New Standard for CAD Data Management
RECARO Aircraft Seating, an internationally leading manufacturer of aircraft seats, has been using CIM DATABASE since March 2008 as global platform for its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). With the roll-out of its world-wide CAD data management the enterprise has now achieved the next planned step of its PLM roadmap: since January 2009, global, multi-site engineering collaboration is now also being supported via CIM DATABASE. RECARO Aircraft Seating is the first customer to manage its CATIA V5 data with CONTACT’s new Workspaces technology. Now, preparations are under way for phase three, the extension of the PLM environment for engineering change management.
The PLM project RECARO 2010 started off with the integration of product development and ERP. The synchronization of pivotal company elements such as articles, parts lists and technical documentation supports a company-wide master data management. Fundamental are processes such as sign off and engineering change management which determine transactions that reach far into the spheres of ERP. Prerequisite was the migration of the complete product data repository to the new CIM DATABASE PDM/PLM-platform, including 290.000 classified articles, 2.000.000 BOM entries and hundreds of thousands of documents from SAP and other sources.
Now with phase 2 activated CAD data management links the developers and their CAx-tools CATIA V4 and V5 with the central PDM/PLM data hub. Automated conversions into neutral formats and the integrated CAD and structural data exchange now decisively contribute to process reliability and cost reduction. Jochen Weidner, IT director with RECARO Aircraft Seating, is highly satisfied with the result of the CIM DATABASE implementation in Germany and the US. „Thanks to the smooth collaboration with the PLM project team, we were able to achieve our roll-out objectives as planned, confirming our decision for CONTACT Software as contractor“, so his summary.
The RECARO project also excels through its first time deployment of CIM DATABASE’ s Workspace Manager with CATIA V5. Based on the conception of „shared workspaces“, CONTACT defines a new standard for CAD data management. Workspaces support the efficient self-organization within the scope of development projects. They allow CAD and Office documents, design-space structures etc. to be individually utilized and distributed by a personal or team-oriented workspace in a local, regional or world-wide context.
The KEIPER RECARO Group is a reputed manufacturer of premium seating for the automotive and aircraft industries. RECARO Aircraft Seating achieved revenue of some 246 m Euro in FY 2008 and currently employs about 1.200 people, half of which work in Germany. They design, manufacture and market passenger aircraft seats and seating components for manufacturers such as Airbus and Boeing and all leading airlines world-wide from other sites in Europe, the US, Asia and South Africa.
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