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 | "Omnify was a perfect fit for our needs as a start-up company. It provided a method for part numbering, part control and cataloging vendor information all in the same space. Omnify's remote access capability allowed our Contract Manufacturer to login and review BOMs before release to weed out component supply and assembly issues before prototype builds."
- Steve Norton, Director of Hardware Engineering, Acme Packet | Industry
Telecom - Interactive Communications Overview
Acme Packet was looking for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system that would increase efficiency and productivity at the right price. They wanted to adopt and institute a part, BOM, and Change Management system early in the product design cycle to track all information sent to Contract Manufacturing. Acme Packet also needed a system that could be tightly coupled with their existing hardware design environment, Mentor's DxDatabook and ViewDraw. Omnify Software was able to meet all of Acme Packet's requirements by providing an open-architecture, product lifecycle management solution. With the implementation of Omnify PLM, Acme Packet is able to focus on their core competencies while decreasing their cost and development time and most importantly, shortening their time-to-market. Return on Investment - Complete part/BOM/ECO management
- Shortened ECO cycle through unified messaging capability
- Engineering time-savings through direct integration with their engineering tools
- Secure, remote connection for their Contract Manufacturing partners
- 0% out-of-rev product development
- Decreased product cost and development time
- Decreased time-to-market
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 | "With the implementation of Omnify PLM software, we have been able to achieve a single Engineering BOM that is controlled in Omnify PLM and can only be changed via the formal Omnify Change process. All changes, when authorized are automatically forwarded by our Omnify PLM system via a software link to our Intuitive ERP system. The process is automatic and 'fool proof' and there can no longer be a difference between what is designed and what is built, thanks to Omnify."
- R.M. "Marty" Jeide, Program Manager, Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems | Industry
Aerospace/Defense - Commercial and Military Aerospace Platforms Overview
Like many electronics manufacturers, Astronics AES was challenged with its manual product development processes. The company produces well over 100 products, each with their own processes and workflows, and over 20,000 parts. To position themselves for continued growth and meet the demands of its aerospace customers (Boeing, Panasonic, Avionics, AirBus, among others) for high quality products, the executive team was motivated to look at new strategies that would maintain the company's competitive edge and product reputation in bringing leading electrical power to passengers and airline personnel. Investing in a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system to tighten product lifecycle processes and ensure that accurate product data was shared among design and manufacturing teams was the first step. The company required a PLM system that provided easy integration with their ERP environment, Intuitive, so that product data such as Bill of Materials (BOMs), drawings and changes could be automatically ported to the Intuitive system and eliminate errors related to hand-entering data. They also wanted the ability to integrate the PLM system with their engineering design environments, SolidWorks and OrCAD CIS. "We evaluated a number of PLM systems for the purpose of creating a best practices environment and found Omnify's PLM software stood out from the crowd of PLM vendors in terms of it being a robust system, having a seamless interface to our Intuitive ERP and extremely good people standing behind the Omnify product," stated Jeide. Return on Investment - Eliminate potential data inaccuracies and costly rework
- Reduce searching time with data in a single location
- Standardize and control internal processes
- Ensure accuracy of data across the enterprise
- Facilitate meeting ISO and FAA regulatory requirements
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 | "It didn't take much study to narrow down our search to Omnify. With a comprehensive table of criteria, Athena's project management team undertook a complete evaluation on all the products they investigated. In all the categories, Omnify was either the best or close to the best in each circumstance."
- Ali Dian, Vice President of Development and Manufacturing, Athena Technologies | Industry
Aerospace/Defense - Navigation and Control Systems Overview
Challenged by the seemingly limitless opportunity for growth and the need to position its manufacturing operations to meet that challenge, Athena set out to find a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that could stand up to its most demanding requirements. Critical focus was placed on not only ease of use and cost of operation, but also how quickly and "how painlessly" the company could minimize the downtime of new product delivery while the PLM solution was being implemented. Athena looked at several vendors before choosing a PLM solution from Omnify Software. They chose Omnify due to its ability to deploy quickly and provide an easy to use solution built on an open technology platform with direct interfaces to engineering tools and manufacturing systems. The ease of implementation with the Omnify solution allowed Athena to continue shipping new product concurrently. Return on Investment - Decreased product development cycles
- Able to meet time-to-market windows
- Proactively catch errors/improved data integrity
- Enhanced communication with vendors
- Reliable engineering change processes
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 | "Omnify's focus on enabling a high level of integration with design tools and providing all of the features typically found in existing PLM solutions make it a perfect fit for our company. The product's advanced scripting features allow significantly more than just typical data imports by enabling data validation and error checking earlier in the design cycle."
- Dave Mackie, Executive Vice President of Operations, Cynosure | Industry
Medical Device - Light-based Aesthetic Treatment Systems Overview
Cynosure was looking to streamline their product design and manufacturing processes in order to shorten new product development timelines and ease collaboration with suppliers. They needed to implement technology that provided a centralized location to store product documentation such as bill of materials (BOMs) and design drawings, in addition to automate the processing of engineering change orders (ECOs). Cynosure wanted the ability to import SolidWorks software files and OrCAD BOMs in addition to the ability to upload data to both their existing and future ERP systems. Easy export of information into common formats such as Excel spreadsheets and BOM comparison functionality were important features. Enabling secure access to product information for key suppliers and contract manufacturers were also fundamental requirements. Cynosure selected Omnify Software due to Omnify's ease of use, powerful data sharing capabilities, and affordable cost. Omnify's unique ability to directly integrate with SolidWorks and OrCAD have helped to greatly decrease the time required for documenting change as well as significantly increase the quality and accuracy of product data. Return on Investment - Data validation and error checking earlier in the design cycle
- Decreased engineering change cycles through direct integration with their engineering tools
- Improved data integrity
- Decreased time spent searching for information
- Reduced product redundancies
- Shortened product development time
- Shortened time-to-market
- Quick implementation
- Easy to use
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 | "With nearly 100 top level SKUs and more than 2000 parts in our database, we recognized the need for a system that would require us to be more rigorous in our change control process and provide the kind of history and documentation that is necessary to ensure the quality we are committed to."
- Gerrit Kruitbosch, Vice President of Engineering, Edge Products | Industry
Automotive - Modules and Programmers for Major Vehicle Manufacturers Overview
Edge Products experienced some changes in management that brought in new personnel with vast industry experience. The new team identified a need for improved change and part control processes. Edge is a rapidly growing company and the nature of their products requires fast development cycles. For example, if a vehicle manufacturer makes a change to an existing product, Edge must react quickly, often with a change to their products. Edge's manual engineering processes were not conducive to this constantly changing product design environment. The company wanted to implement electronic processes for easy access to product information and improved efficiency. Edge had an ERP system in place which contained parts and order information but lacked the type of functionality required to manage detailed engineering data, particularly engineering changes. Edge was looking for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system to remove the paperwork burden and provide a complete documentation trail. They searched specifically for a system that included engineering change, Bill of Material (BOM) and documentation management. Direct integration with their existing ERP system, Sage MAS 200 ERP, was a necessity. Return on Investment - Over a 50% reduction in product return rates
- Improved product quality
- Reduced costly rework
- Standardized and organized internal processes
- Improved and streamlined communication
- Ensure accuracy of data across the enterprise
- Easily share data with internal and external teams
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 | "We were looking for ways to reduce product development time, improve accuracy and efficiency, and reduce the cost of development. This required evaluating existing processes and making drastic changes in the way we developed and maintained products. We chose the Omnify PLM system over several other competing products, some that were already in use in other divisions of Harman International. Since we implemented Omnify it has lived up to our expectations. The entire organization finds the tool very powerful yet simple to use."
- Scott Douglas, Manager, Engineering Services, Harman Specialty Group | Industry
Electronic Manufacturer - Audio Technologies Overview
As Harman Specialty Group set out to develop the next generation of advanced audio technologies, they were plagued by manual, paper-based processes that resulted in delays and inconsistent data. All documentation and Approved Vendor Lists (AVLs) existed in different file formats stored on various servers throughout the company. It was apparent that Harman needed a unified system to manage, track and store their product information as well as provide visibility into the entire product development process. The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system from Omnify Software was the ideal solution. With Omnify, all documents are now available electronically from a single source, eliminating the need to search the multitude of servers and folders where documentation once resided. New Part Requests (NPRs) and Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) are also processed electronically through Omnify. Omnify's open and flexible solution allows Harman to import and export data to/from their Minx ERP system and Omnify's ability to directly interface with Harman's engineering design tool, Mentor's DxDesigner, has given electrical designers control over their schematics. Return on Investment - Single repository to access product data/eliminated various silos of data
- Gained visibility into the entire product development process
- Reduced product development costs
- Shortened engineering change and NPR cycles
- Improved and streamlined communication
- Eliminated data duplication
- Established accountability
- Improved data integrity
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 | "Communication with our OEM customers is vital to our success as an EMS provider. Omnify allows seamless, immediate communication between the OEM engineering community and IMS. When both the customer and IMS leverage Omnify Software, we are able to participate, at the sourcing level, in preliminary BOM reviews, new part requests and ECO workflows."
- Ray Marshall, President of Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions | Industry
Electronic Manufacturer - Electronics Manufacturing Services Provider Overview
Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions (IMS) is a full service Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider, specializing in New Product Introduction and Quick Turn Assembly, from Prototype through Moderate Run Production. IMS provides "Intelligent Solutions" to a diversified customer base. These solutions include Quick Turn Prototyping, Sourcing Services, Supply Chain Stabilization Programs, Enhanced Manufacturability Guidance, Test Design and Development, and Safe Passage Transition. With competitive pressures locally and offshore, IMS needed to increase their value-add to provide the highest level of service to their customers. IMS recognized that Omnify's PLM system could facilitate this by providing a single environment for creating and changing product information and enabling vital product data to be easily shared between IMS and their customers. Return on Investment - 100% reduction in ECO notification time
- 100% improvement in documentation communication
- Improved and streamlined communication
- Compare BOMs in minutes vs. hours
- Elimination of scrap due to incorrect builds
- Elimination of lost schedule time due to supply or BOM issues
- Single location to create and change product data
- IMS involved in sourcing and design decisions
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 | "We chose to deploy Omnify PLM because the team was entirely committed to helping us become a progressive company by establishing visibility into our entire product development cycle. The application met all of our requirements for functionality, cost and ease-of-use and the team's commitment to client service is unmatched."
- Dennis Lowell, Engineering Services Manager, L3 Klein Associates, Inc. | Industry
Electronic Manufacturer - Side Scan Sonar Systems Overview
L3 Klein was searching for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that would enable greater visibility into their entire development cycle, from idea and request for materials, to engineering and manufacturing. The solution would replace L3 Klein's homegrown solution that relied heavily on Excel spreadsheets, e-mail and manual requests that resulted in inefficiencies in the development process. The PLM solution would also have to integrate seamlessly with L3 Klein's existing ERP system, VISUAL Enterprise as well as their engineering design environment, OrCAD CIS. Omnify met all of L3 Klein's requirements for functionality, cost, ease-of-use, and unmatched customer support. Through Omnify, L3 Klein automated their time-consuming manual processes and established collaboration between engineering and manufacturing. L3 Klein now has visibility into their entire product development cycle. Data integrity, cycle times and product innovation have all improved since implementing Omnify. Return on Investment - Inventory exercise time reduced by 50%
- Eliminated delays in reporting and scheduling
- Improved data integrity
- Unsurpassed efficiency levels
- Improved part selection process
- Reduced product redundancies
- Decreased time-to-market
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 | "Prior to our introduction to Omnify Software, we were considering a free offer from a larger vendor. After viewing Omnify's capabilities it was apparent that we needed to reconsider our selection- Omnify supported our integration requirements, offered more useful features, and ultimately cost less than the competitive [free] product."
- Kevin Stone, Director of Operations, Liquid Computing | Industry
Electronic Manufacturer - Fabric Computing Systems Overview
As a fast-growing start-up, Liquid Computing was at a critical point where they were ramping up hardware design and new product introduction. They needed an advanced method to track and manage their component, bill of material and revision information. After closely researching PLM vendors, Liquid Computing selected Omnify Software due to Omnify's offering of an affordable solution that was easy to implement (implementation was complete in 2 days) and scalability to grow as Liquid Computing grows. Omnify's open technology platform provided the ability to directly integrate with Cadence Concept® . This was unique among the vendors they researched. The company is also leveraging Omnify to track, store and report Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance information to meet requirements for lead free directives enforced by the European Union. Return on Investment - Significant cost and overhead savings
- Unique integration with their engineering environment, Cadence Concept
- Automated component, bill of material and revision information management
- Simplified BOM release and AVL update processes
- Streamlined communication with external suppliers
- Scalable to grow as Liquid grows with minimal IT maintenance
- Easy to use (new users trained in less than an hour)
- Quick implementation (complete in 2 days)
- Affordable price for a start-up with flexible license model (floating licenses)
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 | "One way Omnify differentiates itself from other data management applications is that it sits in the engineering tool space at the schematic level yet it still routes, manages and controls the operation-centric data."
- Jerry Baker, Manager Technical Services, Mintera | Industry
Telecom - 40 Gbps DWDM Transport Subsystems Overview
In order to maintain a leadership position in their industry, Mintera realized the need to implement a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system so they could remain focused on their core competencies, increase product innovation and beat their competitors to market. Mintera selected the Omnify solution because of its ability to meet all of their criteria - from seamless integration with existing systems to flexibility and support - all within their budgetary requirements. The Omnify system was quickly implemented, transferring all of Mintera's legacy data without any disruption in development. The application was deployed in days, complete with customized field names and part attributes. Return on Investment - 50% decrease in new product request cycle
- 60% decrease in database searching cycle
- Enhanced communication with their CM by automating communication processes
- Faster and improved decisions made at the schematic level
- Seamless integration with their existing systems (Mentor DxViewDraw and Intuitive ERP)
- Met Mintera's budgetary needs, yet remains open and scalable for future growth
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 | "Omnify provides a common sense solution for product lifecycle management. It allows us to easily manage our product top to bottom-from marketing to bill of materials to component selection."
- Marc Matejka, Director of Quality, OpVista | Industry
Telecom - Optical Transport Systems Overview
OpVista is a fast growing company with highly configurable products. As their company grows, so does the amount of product data they need to manage. They have a large quantity of Bill of Material (BOM) information due to frequency details required for their products. OpVista was manually entering engineering change notices (ECNs) into their ERP system. As the quantity of information they needed to enter increased, they realized that it would not be manageable under a manual process much longer. OpVista required a solution that would tie in their current engineering design environments, SolidWorks and OrCAD CIS, with their ERP system, Expandable ERP, to facilitate the management of their BOM data. They were in search of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that was easy to use, cost effective, and could be up and running quickly. They had past experience with other PLM vendors and knew they did not want the lengthy implementations and high costs they had previously encountered. OpVista also wanted a secure solution that allowed them to own their data rather than have it reside on the vendor's server. Omnify Software was the ideal solution for OpVista as an emerging company. Omnify's business-ready solution enables bi-directional sharing of information among OpVista's mechanical and electrical engineering environments and their ERP system. Return on Investment - Improved data integrity
- Increased efficiency in product development
- Decreased time-to-profit
- Scalable system for growing company
- Superior customer support
- Quick implementation
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 | "When we researched an appropriate PLM solution, we found Omnify, which offered all of the functionality of products from companies such as Agile, but at a much more affordable price point."
- Ron Fotino, Director of Operations, Pannaway Technologies | Industry
Telecom - IP Packet-based Access Solutions Overview
As Pannaway continued to ramp its product delivery, the company recognized the need for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. They wanted to manage all of their product data in a single database and eliminate the inefficiencies associated with manually managing data in various locations. Full integration with their current ERP system, Intuitive Manufacturing, and engineering design environment, OrCAD CIS, was a must. In addition, the PLM system had to be implemented quickly with a minimal learning curve. Omnify has enabled Pannaway to eliminate the data entry duplication often associated with managing product development in various spreadsheets and databases and more efficiently manage BOMs, engineering changes and documentation. Return on Investment - Cut product development time in half
- Early entrant into the Triple Play space
- Improved communication with contract manufacturing partner
- Shortened and streamlined product development cycles
- Improved data integrity
- Seamless, out-of-the-box interface with their EDA environment and ERP system
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 | "We achieved 100% return on investment from Omnify in the first year and we expect our return to be even greater in the future."
- Jim Dickerman, Vice President of Engineering, Redline Communications | Industry
Telecom - Advanced Broadband Wireless Access and Backhaul Solutions Overview
Redline was searching for a PLM solution that would integrate all their Bill of Materials (BOMs), engineering changes/ECOs, and part data into a single repository that could be easily accessible by everyone involved in the product development process (internal teams, contract manufacturing, and offshore design partners). A key requirement was that the PLM solution could easily integrate with their EDA design environment, OrCAD CIS and was open and scalable enough to allow for future integrations with other applications such as their Financial and Purchasing systems. Omnify provided Redline with a solution that fit their need for control over BOMs, ECOs, and Documentation in addition to meeting their integration demands. Return on Investment - 100% return on investment in the first year
- Shortened and streamlined communication cycles with internal and external teams
- Decreased engineering change cycles
- Assured data quality by eliminating human error
- Reduced scrap and rework
- Complete implementation deployed in days with no downtime
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