Real time changes using different CAD systems

at Janicki Industries

Smooth implementation that was quickly accepted by its approximately 50 users

Being able to produce high-precision parts for the aerospace, marine, wind energy and transportation industry plays the key role for Janicki Industries. CENIT North America took the lead role in implementing SAP PLM together with ECTR, CATIA V5 and NX CAD integrations, which were crucial to meet the advanced CAD tools required by their customers.

About the customer

Janicki Industries

Janicki Industries is a privately-owned engineering and manufacturing company with locations in Washington and Utah. They design and build tools, parts, prototypes and assemblies for a myriad of industries, including aerospace, defense, space, marine, architecture and more. Janicki Industries specialize in composite fabrication and precision machining.

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Customer goals

Integration

Implementing SAP PLM
Meet advanced CAD tools required by customers

We are very glad in choosing CENIT North America as the lead of this project as they have a vast experience in implementing CAD project but also put their focus on user workshops to ensure perfectly implemented change management processes. Thanks to the excellent training our staff received from CENIT experts, we were able to implement the solution and adapt to the new process quickly. Our main focus was always the assurance and enhancement of our process and production efficiency. The implemented solution brings us much closer to this goal.

Steve Lynn

Technologies & Program Manager

Janicki Industries

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Approach

As Janicki had not implemented any SAP program before the start of this project, this was the first necessary step for a successful implementation. With CENIT as development partner, Janicki was then provided with installation and configuration of ECTR with CATIA V5, while DSC took care of the NX CAD integration.

Moreover, CENIT North America implemented one of its own collaboration products EnCo 4.4. Engineering Control Center was chosen as the CAD integration for both NX and CATIA V5 in order to allow all users to have the same Graphic User Interface for each CAD system.

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In a nutshell:

User workshops and training
Change management processes
SAP PLM, SAP ECTR, integration of CATIA V5 and NX

Solutions

SAP ECTR The SAP Engineering Control Center (SAP ECTR) is a strategic integration platform of author systems that links… Read more about

Solutions

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Results and conclusion

Efficiency

Janicki Industries improved the efficiency (and) reduced time needed in designing 2D and 3D models.

Effectiveness

The Graphical User Interface is now very user friendly for all implemented CAD systems.

Integration

Models and documents are (... ) linked to the parts and real time changes can be made to 2D/3D models by using different CAD systems.

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