Centric Software is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Helsport.
Helsport is a Norwegian family owned and run company, founded in 1951. From the very first sleeping bags developed in 1954, to the world’s first tunnel tent in 1970 and the lightest tents in the world in 2014, Helsport is synonymous with innovation in the outdoor market. The Scandinavian manufacturer first produced sleeping bags and tents for alpinism, expeditions and hiking before diversifying their product portfolio to include additional ranges of their core products and branching out into other outdoor gear.
“Before Helsport started using Centric Software, they were using some other very simple PLM systems. But they weren’t complete,” explains John Atkinson, Development Manager at Helpsort.
Since implementing Centric PLM, Helsport have seen a marked improvement with product data accuracy and increased visibility into product development saving time spent manually entering and searching for information.
“So (now) we have Centric: one source, one place where everything is stored. It’s searchable, you can filter out everything you don’t need. I save a lot of time just not having to re-enter information per product. With Centric, the accuracy is improved drastically, which also obviously reduces time and that’s been a huge improvement for us in having one version of the truth,” says Bjorn Saetnan, Product Designer at Helsport.
“We can spend less time on paperwork or computer work; more on designing. Working with our suppliers, communication is a big part of designing the product so reducing that time to a minimum is a very crucial point and with Centric, we can get there much faster,” says Jarle Narud, Product Designer at Helsport.