The successful Norwegian start-up company North Sea Electronics improved their product-related processes and increased time to market by implementing Aras Innovator and Minerva Electronic PLM into their workflow.
Founded in 2007, North Sea Electronics specialize in development of high temperature electronics for downhole applications and subsea installations. Their products are used especially by companies in the Oil & Gas industries.
After a few years of organic growth at North Sea Electronics, the demand for their products increased. As the production volume also increased, the management realized the need for a system that could manage product revisions and documentation in a more structured and professional way.
Among the challenges were:
- No efficient document management, including revisions and track changes
- Complicated and time-consuming review process for product design
- Inefficient collaboration and control processes
Aleksander Jazdzyk, COO of North Sea Electronics explains further, “It became challenging to keep track of the latest documentation revisions because all of our documentation was stored in files and folders on a server. Our BOM’s (Bill of Material) was kept in spreadsheets. The way we stored our data was neither safe nor easy to navigate in. Everybody with access to the server could easily change the data, and then the original data would be lost forever.”
Aleksander Jazdzyk and continues, “We saw a clear need for a revision and approval system with the possibility to come back to revision at any given time. Also, we needed to streamline the production, for example generate production files automatically from the design and not having to assemble various files from various places like bills of material here and mechanical CAD drawings there. We wanted to have everything in one place, press a button and get a zip file generated.”
Next step was to find a fitting solution to their need
We just googled “open source PDM” and found Aras’ website. We read about Aras Innovator and downloaded the software and tried it. We liked it and decided that it was the solution for us. We knew that we needed an implementation partner. The closest partner was Minerva in Denmark, so naturally we asked them for help,” says Aleksander Jazdzyk, COO at North Sea Electronics.
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