Sinfonia Technology Selects PTC Windchill to Improve Efficiency, Expand Team Collaboration, and Connect Disparate Systems
June 17 2018 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Improved Efficiency in Managing Engineering and
Manufacturing Bills of Materials Will Enable Sinfonia Technology to
Accelerate its Digital Transformation
PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) today announced from the sold-out
LiveWorx® 18 digital transformation conference that Sinfonia
Technology Co., Ltd., has selected the PTC Windchill® product
lifecycle management (PLM) solution to improve operational
efficiency, time-to-market, quality, and team collaboration at its
Clean Transport Equipment Factory at its Toyohashi facility.
Established in 1917, Sinfonia is a major industrial equipment
manufacturer that focuses on semiconductors, aerospace,
automobiles, and medical devices. The Clean Transport Equipment
Factory that will implement Windchill manufactures load parts, or
in-process transport equipment, used in semiconductor manufacturing
equipment, equipment front-end modules (EFEM) and vacuum platform.
It is the world's top load parts producer delivering load parts to
major equipment manufacturers worldwide.
As demand for semiconductor devices increases worldwide,
Sinfonia’s implementation of Windchill will enable the company to
streamline the design of standard products that account for 90
percent of its sales, quickly develop new products, and accelerate
bill of materials (BOM) transformation between engineering and
manufacturing.
“Enabling digital transformation for the Japanese market – in
particular, the high-tech industry – has been a major focus for
PTC. We’re excited to be working with Sinfonia as they continue
their transformation journey,” said Kevin Wrenn, divisional general
manager, PLM Segment, PTC. “The switch that Sinfonia made from Aras
to Windchill reflects a trend that we have been noticing: companies
are increasingly favoring scalable, out-of-the-box solutions versus
the tool-kit approaches that our competitors offer.”
Finding the Right SolutionHistorically, Sinfonia created
manual BOMs in its design support and drawing release processes.
These processes were time-consuming due to manual entries. They
were also error-prone, as the BOMs, 2D drawings, and 3D models were
not linked, causing updates to be overlooked and leading to a
significant amount of time searching for information in the change
management systems. Also, the data was not centrally managed, and
the ways in which teams worked and shared information was
inefficient, inhibiting workload balancing and flexible resource
assignments.
To solve these issues and to efficiently manage its EBOM and
MBOM process flow, Sinfonia invested in Aras Innovator as its PLM
solution and SAP for ERP. However, Aras was unable to support
requirements from Sinfonia’s Clean Transport Equipment group and
required extensive customization, preventing Sinfonia from going
live as scheduled. The Sinfonia team began looking for a
replacement solution that would enable them to transform their
processes and implement an easy-to use system for their design
engineers. The team at the Clean Transport Equipment plant decided
to switch the PLM system to Windchill as they were confident it
would enable design engineers to easily access the functionality
and product data they need.
“The semi-conductor industry is entering what is called a
‘supercycle’ that the industry has never experienced before,” said
Atsushi Hanaki, officer, Clean Transport Equipment Works,
Electrical Products & Systems Division, Sinfonia Technology.
“We need to perform engineering work to enhance existing
high-demand products, as well as drive new development projects in
parallel. Our organization was also expected by the company to
improve profitability so that we can reach our mid-range business
goals. While we expected that implementing a new system in a
rapidly growing business environment would create a significant
initial workload at Design Engineering and Production Engineering,
we believed we had to do this as one of the actions we planned to
reach our goals and decided to implement Windchill. After seeing a
demo of Windchill, our Engineering team said, ‘We definitely want
it.’ Their eager reaction made our decision to choose Windchill
easy.”
Sinfonia has already completed the first phase of its rollout of
Windchill and will soon expand its use of the products to include
other modules, as well as connect Windchill to SAP. Its future
roadmap for digital transformation includes improving field service
operations with smart, connected products and services, as well as
augmented reality.
Additional Resources
- PLM for Your Digital Engineering
Journey
- Windchill product page
- Register for the LiveWorx 18
livestream
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therefrom or the amount of revenue for any particular period. In
addition, in many cases the software must be successfully
implemented and deployed to enable the customer to achieve its
business objectives. The announcement of a customer’s selection or
planned future selection of PTC software does not indicate that
applicable implementation and deployment activities are complete or
that additional software will be purchased.
About Sinfonia TechnologySince its establishment in 1917,
Sinfonia has been sending innovative technologies and products to
society for 100 years "electromagnetic force application". These
"Motion & Energy Control" technologies are now contributing to
the creation of a prosperous, comfortable, and safe society, and we
are focusing on expanding business in the fields of semiconductors,
aerospace, automobiles, and medical growth, which permeate all
industries, infrastructure and people's lives. Please see
http://www.sinfo-t.jp/company/Default.htm for more details.
About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)PTC helps companies around the
world reinvent the way they design, manufacture, operate, and
service products in and for a smart, connected world. In 1986 we
revolutionized digital 3D design, and in 1998 were first to market
with Internet-based product lifecycle management. Today, our
leading industrial innovation platform and field-proven solutions
enable you to unlock value at the convergence of the physical and
digital worlds. With PTC, manufacturers and an ecosystem of
partners and developers can capitalize on the promise of the
Internet of Things and augmented reality technology today and drive
the future of innovation.
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