In their pursuit of becoming a world class supplier of sub-systems and components for the aerospace industry, Aeronamic has selected Aras Innovator as their new PLM platform.
Aeronamic is a Dutch high-tech company that develops, manufactures, tests and maintains complete high-speed rotating systems for the aerospace industry. Their products can be found in Airbus and Boeing aircrafts as well as on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Gulfstream Business Jets.
Aeronamic looked for a platform with an intuitive architecture that could enable the storage of all important data in one central location.
“We, as a company, want to grow. To do so, we have to take care of this labour intensive data-handling structure. We need to be able to share information. Mouth-to-mouth communication for information exchange is no longer a viable strategy”, says Ronny Blaauwgeers, Director of Manufacturing Engineering at Aeronamic. He continues:
“Ultimately, everybody decided that Aras is a better fit for us, for what we want to do with our data. When we saw a demonstration of the flexibility of Aras in managing all types of data, we were impressed how easy it was to create workflows and quality templates. We all thought: Ok, it is ready to use. Let´s do it,” says Ronny Blaauwgeers.
Aeronamic was suffering from an unclear data structure
It was getting increasingly difficult for Ronny Blaauwgeers and his colleagues to maintain a clear overview over documentation, personnel and other data sets.
“For instance, we had an Excel file with a list of people that are qualified to do a certain job. We managed our EBOM in an Access database and our MRO records in another Access database. I can name a lot of similar examples, but the idea is that these systems were not connected and was containing identical information.”
Aeronamic will use Aras Innovator as a “Digital Factory”
Establishing a transparent connection between (E)BOM, (M)BOM, and (P)BOM is of high importance for Aeronamic. The goal is to create a “Digital Factory” which allows easy and fast access to information from different locations and allow their employees to work simultaneously on the same project without losing track of any changes made in the process.
“There are a lot of benefits from Aras, but the top is that (E)BOM, (M)BOM, and (P)BOM are all linked in the system in a very intuitive and straight-forward way. There is still some manual work between the ERP system and Aras, but soon we will have them linked as well. And by mid-2018, I hope we will have all documents stored in Aras and we have realized the Digital Factory,” says Ronny Blaauwgeers.
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