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Streamlining Data and Product Lifecycle Management: How Standardising on Autodesk Software Transformed the Design and Engineering Workflow for one Energy Sector Business

Streamlining Data and Product Lifecycle Management: How Standardising on Autodesk Software Transformed the Design and Engineering Workflow for one Energy Sector Business

Customer challenge

For most bespoke Solution Providers working in the offshore energy sector, it is important to put in place end-to-end processes and workflows that cover data management and design and engineering and deliver operational efficiency and business agility. For one such provider, these were the key drivers behind a decision to migrate their whole approach in this area to one based on Autodesk software solutions and supported by Autodesk Solution Provider, Cadline. The provider had previously relied on a single legacy data management system, based on aging technology with little provision for wider process management. It decided to migrate to a fully integrated data management and process lifecycle management (PLM) system robust and resilient enough to manage its working processes but agile enough to support rapid changes in response to shifting business requirements. It went out to market and ran a thorough review of available software solutions.

Project goals

Having examined the solutions, the bespoke Solution Provider decided to opt for the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection, including a combination of Autodesk Vault Professional PDM software and Autodesk’s Fusion Lifecycle cloud-based lifecycle (PLM) management software solution. There were multiple reasons for this choice. They had a long history with Autodesk software, most notably, Autodesk Inventor. By standardising on Autodesk solutions across design, PDM, and PLM, it knew that it could achieve enhanced operational efficiency and productivity from improved integration and interoperability. A spokesperson from the provider said: “Fusion Lifecycle supports a fluid approach to lifecycle management. It is functionally rich and versatile, and also flexible enough to adapt as your business needs change over time. The tight integration with Vault means that you can build and customise process workflows while all the time continuing to draw from the data stored in Vault.”

Solution

The bespoke Solution Provider’s relationship with Autodesk Platinum Partner, Cadline, has also been key in implementing and in supporting the software solutions. The provider has a support contract with Cadline, through which Cadline logs support calls, delivers customer service and day-to-day support. As the provider’s spokesperson highlighted: “From the start of our relationship, we have been impressed with the professionalism and dedication of Cadline. Its expertise with Autodesk has been invaluable from the outset as has the efficient manner in which it runs and manages projects and has dealt with support requests and concerns.” The bespoke provider has bought multiple licenses of both Autodesk Vault and Fusion Lifecycle. It has also rolled out and implemented the software solutions and accessed the professional services offered by Cadline in support. The provider is now pushing the boundaries of what it is possible to achieve with the two software solutions operating in tandem.

Business outcome

Organisations frequently use Vault to manage work in progress and engineering data and then push the bill of materials ‘down the line’ into the Fusion Lifecycle tool. The provider does all this but also goes further by generating drawing registers and developing and managing project standards. Cadline is increasingly going beyond day-to-day support to deliver special projects designed to improve the system further, including providing improvements to certain areas of the system. The bespoke solutions provider is now on a unified Autodesk platform managed and maintained by Cadline. The focus is not on introducing radical change but instead on refining the approach and adapting the system to deliver efficiency gains. The provider is now calling Cadline to deliver specific projects designed to further enhance the solution in certain key areas.

Conclusion

As of today, the key benefit that the Autodesk product portfolio delivers to the provider on this project is how the seamless integration of all the key solutions helps drive operational efficiency. According to the provider’s spokesperson: “For us, the main benefit of using Inventor, Vault and Lifecycle together is the smooth workflow it supports. When you are designing in Inventor, all the metadata effectively flows into Vault and can then flow on into Fusion." “It is easy to design, store work, and then check and approve it. We can visualise work, ensure data quality and ensure rigorous engineering process is embedded into the design tasks and the entire product lifecycle." Cadline is still playing an active role in advising the bespoke Solution Provider of the upcoming product roadmap and in developing customisations to the software as and when required to ensure its customer maximises the benefits it can attain from the solution.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 85
  • 2020-03-04

    Autodesk solutions

  • Fusion Lifecycle
  • Vault Professional
  • Product Design & Manufacturing Collection

    Services provided

  • Custom Application Development
  • Workflow Documentation
  • Data Migration
  • Business Process Assessment & Documentation
  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment
  • Technical Support
  • User Workshops & Community
  • Customer Success Management
  • Product Training

    Customer industry

  • Water & Wastewater
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