Dossier: Razorleaf

Razorleaf is a consulting & systems integrator that specializes in product lifecycle management (PLM) to help the world’s most innovative manufacturing organizations bring new products to market. Led by a highly skilled and seasoned team of experts worldwide, Razorleaf transforms businesses by offering comprehensive consulting, professional services, and proprietary software products focused on gaining business efficiencies around PLM, Design Automation, Model-Based strategies, and Integration.

The Digital Thread: A Key Enabler for PLM Success

Razorleaf: Making Complex Digital Transformations Work

Products

The CLOVER platform is a family of products that enable the exchange of product information across your organization, partners, and suppliers. This vendor-neutral platform can integrate, migrate, and exchange product data across any application, database, and enterprise system, whether on-premise or in the Cloud.

• CLOVER CollectIT allows users to extract and package PLM files and data for use outside of PLM. This easy-to-use file management website quickly extracts product information for distribution to employees, vendors, and clients, including part and BOM representations, related CAD files, and technical documents. CollectIT automates the manual extraction process for creating Bid Packages, Product Specifications, End Item Data Packages (EIDPs), and Technical Data Packages (TDPs) to simplify data and file extraction processes, reduce costs, and improve productivity.
• CLOVER IntegrateIT enables PLM connections to enterprise systems for a smarter, more reliable data exchange. IntegrateIT provides multiple out-of-the-box PLM end-point integrations that simplify the way files and data synchronize between PLM and PDM, ERP, CRM, MRP, and other enterprise systems. With IntegrateIT, product data and information are delivered to every area of the organization to ensure data accuracy, reduce implementation costs, and mitigate risks by providing access to the most current data set.
• CLOVER MigrateIT enables the bulk transfer of files and data between PLM and other enterprise systems quickly and with less effort than Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) or generic Extract/ Transform/Load (ETL) tools. MigrateIT uses the CLOVER migration architecture for environment preparedness, data analysis, and pre-migration rehearsal, along with batch processing, job orchestration, and error handling. In addition, this software can orchestrate migration efforts to ensure a more flexible and accurate data transfer process.
• CLOVER PassIT provides an interface between messaging platforms and PLM systems. PassIT distributes only the required files and data to other systems based upon what is needed and previously defined in the iPaaS APIs. Perform complex data transformations, file rendition creation, product revision selection, and other process-oriented logic without changing the existing iPaaS implementation or requiring complex API changes. PassIT maximizes investment to boost end-point performance and free the service bus from complex operations.

Services

• Design Automation - Engineers, sales teams, distributors, and customers may design, engineer, and configure to order on any device. Experienced consultants offer various services to automate the creation of order-specific sales documents, part and assembly drawings, and models, and manufacturing data to reduce repetitive tasks, eliminate errors, increase sales, and deliver custom products.
• Digital Thread MBE Maturity Assessment - A structured interactive consulting session to help identify key integration points or process gaps required to manage the digital thread and/or MBE throughout the client’s organization. Razorleaf identifies the focus areas for investigation and provides a detailed report summarizing the client’s digital thread and/or MBE maturity, short and long-term vision, and recommendations to improve processes and production efficiency.
• Implementation - Understand that implementation is not a one-size-fits-all approach and the need to carefully integrate and safeguard complex data sets that contain the organization’s proprietary product and customer information. Razorleaf has the knowledge and experience to perform detailed architecture planning and the experience to differentiate between “suggested requirements” and the realities of specific enterprise systems.
• Integration - Razorleaf's consultants have been defining, developing, configuring, and integrating enterprise systems for decades, including CAD, PDM, PLM, MRP, ERP, CRM, SharePoint, legacy systems, and custom applications. Razorleaf understands the critical characteristics of point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) integrations. In addition, Razorleaf has developed its own proprietary integration platform called CLOVER, designed specifically to synchronize, integrate, and manage product development data processes.
• Migration - Razorleaf's project managers, developers, and consultants have been cleaning, transforming, and migrating legacy data for decades and have developed an internal set of guidelines and techniques for legacy data migration and ETL projects. Razorleaf provides expertise in migrating version history, CAD structures, and object relationships coupled with a process to identify scope, assess data quality, define transformations, plan iteration and testing models, and document success criteria.
• PLM Health Check - Interactive work sessions, role-based interviews, and system analysis to gather client’s PLM data (infrastructure, usage, processes, practices, adoption) compared to Razorleaf’s PLM best practices. Razorleaf analyzes the systems current state, identify areas of exposure, and discovers opportunities for improvement. Razorleaf provides a detailed report that summarizes recommendations to improve the health of the client’s PLM environment.
• PLM Managed Services - Eases the burden of managing a PLM environment by enabling organizations to responsibly contract out their PLM maintenance, support, and infrastructure. Razorleaf keeps PLM platforms optimized for operation, improves usability, and removes the IT burden for maintaining accurate product data. Offers flexible, scalable service level agreements (SLA) to fit both PLM environment requirements and budget – no matter what size the business, from Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) to Application Management Services (AMS).
• PLM Tool Selection - Unbiased consulting session to identify the right PLM tool for a client’s engineering data and process. Comprehensive assessment of the core requirements and priorities to support an RFP and vendor evaluation, including requirements gathering, PLM platform summary, and vendor product demonstrations. Razorleaf provides a detailed report that summarizes recommendations to help choose the right PLM system for an organization.
• PLM Road Map - A collaborative consulting session to define and analyze client’s strategy and objectives to select the right technologies and define the necessary milestones. This session identifies key stakeholders, business objectives, data, and application landscapes that link business requirements, technical constraints, and timelines. Razorleaf provides a clear, defined road map to help clients avoid the common pitfalls to achieve business goals.
• PLM POC Quick Start - Proof of Concept (POC) is necessary to validate PLM technical feasibility (technology and vendor) and analyze financial viability. It identifies the gaps, risks, and roadblocks to successful implementation. Razorleaf will create a POC for a 3DEXPERIENCE installation (1 environment): a 3-week planned-non-operation (PnO) requirements definition, out-of-the-box (OOTB) configuration, and 1-week to stage data and train team. Additional options for configuration and integrations are available to help align the client’s product development transformation.
• Consulting as a Service - A consulting and delivery model that enables clients to evolve and adjust their agreement to meet the resource and budget needs to support the progress and completion of a project. This subscription model allows clients to take advantage of volume pricing, control and predict budget, engage technical resources as needed, and maintain continuity and intellectual property of consulting resources across multiple projects to achieve product goals.
• Test Automation - Automated testing and validation software and services for enterprise business systems, including PLM, that ensure quality and compliance and guarantee successful upgrades and system updates. By automating repetitive, time-consuming tests, teams can remove bottlenecks and increase test coverage to address bugs and improve user experience. Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances and expands tests enabling companies to perform more comprehensive tests.

Razorleaf has strategic alliances with Ansys, Aras, Arena, Dassault Systemes, DriveWorks, Infor, Microsoft, OpenBom, and more. Razorleaf works closely with partners to enable clients to solve their most complex problems and extend the PLM ecosystem to drive digital transformation. Our clients include Arjo, Atlas Copco, Blue Bird, BWI, Flexco, LAIRD, L&M Radiator, Novares, Oceaneering, ORBIS, Parata, Stone Aerospace, ST Engineering.