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Omnify Empower PLM has been recognized by G2 Crowd, the world's leading business software review platform, as a high performer
earning the highest overall satisfaction score in the PLM Software Grid Report.
Below is a sampling of our many customer success stories.
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Leading Manufacturer of Commercial and Military Aerospace Platforms Realizes Cost Savings by Preventing Late-stage Rework
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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 ERP,
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 Cadence® 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."
Key Benefits:
- 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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Manufacturer of Oxide Single Crystals Reduces Engineering Change Cycles by 16% and Achieves $250,000 in Cost Savings
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Volume manufacturing is Gooch and Housego's specialty with a notable annual production of 60 tons of single-crystalline lithium niobate.
A staff of 150 people delivers a number of highly customized product lines involving internal and external development teams.
This environment, coupled with increasing pressure from customers for solutions to be delivered in a much faster timeframe, required the company to take a look at their existing product development processes and find ways to improve efficiencies.
Automating their manual processes was essential to streamline communication among the product development teams for faster reviews and evaluation.
In addition, automating the sharing of product development and change management information between their Infor ERP Baan (now SYSPRO) system
and Cadence® OrCAD® CIS design environment would address data inconsistencies and eliminate re-work.
After assessing PLM vendors, they selected the Omnify Empower PLM solution because of its ability to address all of their requirements at a much more reasonable cost than other systems, easily integrate with their existing design and manufacturing systems, and the willingness of the Omnify team to support their needs.
Key Benefits:
| • | Reduced ECO cycle time by 16% |
| • | Estimated overall savings of $250k over 5 years |
| • | Ensures accuracy of data across the enterprise |
| • | Easy to use solution/fast user adoption |
| • | Eliminate waste in manually searching and accessing product information |
| • | Meet ISO and RoHS compliance requirements |
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Global Provider of Packet-Optical Network Solutions Improves Product Creation and Certification Processes
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Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Infinera is a global provider of packet-optical networking solutions that enable fixed line and mobile network operators to cost effectively address the capacity needs created by the rapid growth in video and data traffic.
In 2005, Infinera (then Transmode) began experiencing the side-effects of aging design tools, and manually handling Bill of Materials (BOMs) via spreadsheets.
They found it difficult to get good control over their product documents and files and needed a way to better handle requirements for Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance.
As the company began the process of revising their product design and development systems, their first update was to their engineering design environment.
The company selected OrCAD from Cadence Design Systems as their Electronic Computer Aided Design (ECAD) system and Omnify Software (which offers a direct integration with OrCAD) as their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system.
Today, Omnify Empower PLM is used throughout Infinera to provide appropriate parties with access to information about products, revisions, documents, suppliers, etc.
As a result of implementing Empower PLM, Infinera now has effective control over the creation and certification of their products with respect to RoHS, life cycle and LTB (Last Time to Buy).
"Using the Empower PLM workflow engine allows us to easily handle the approval of files and structures from the first stage at R&D all the way through to manufacturing," stated Mikael Kalla, Configuration Manager at Infinera.
Key Benefits:
| • | Efficient part, BOM, change, AVL, and document management |
| • | Controlled processes for product creation and certification |
| • | Direct integration with Cadence OrCAD |
| • | Better design choices with access to supply chain data |
| • | Easily identify, track and report data for RoHS compliance |
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Oztek Achieves One-Click Engineering Change Visibility and Improved Component Management
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Prior to adopting Omnify Software, Oztek utilized a manual, paper-based Engineering Change Order (ECO) system.
ECO numbers were logged in Excel. Forms were completed in Word and then printed and routed through appropriate personnel for sign-off.
Oztek's primary goal was to replace their paper ECO process with an automated, computer-based solution in order to eliminate the manual record keeping steps while providing better traceability and reporting.
A second goal was to improve their ability to manage components including; initial part creation, use of attributes, a formal approval process, and integration with their CAD environment,
Cadence OrCAD®.
Key Benefits:
| • | Eliminate tedious paper-based ECO and component management |
| • | Gain visibility and traceability on all engineering changes |
| • | Easily find bottlenecks to expedite the ECO process |
| • | Eliminating manual processes saves two days of work monthly |
| • | All part information is visible and searcheable directly from within Cadence OrCAD |
| • | Improve employee training process with the Training Module |
| • | Simple to use web-based application |
| • | Intuitive and easy to train new employees |
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Redline Communications Achieves 100% Return on Investment from Omnify Software in First Year
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Redline was searching for a PLM solution that would integrate all of 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,
Cadence® OrCAD® Capture 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.
Key Benefits:
| • | 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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