Industrial machinery and heavy equipment NP Innovation Swedish manufacturer uses Teamcenter on the cloud to increase the re-use of designs and data by 50 percent Products Teamcenter, Solid Edge Business challenges Siemens PLM Software solution microscreen technology, is on a mission to Improve the ability to find, enables NP Innovation to change the industry with innovative design share and re-use product data significantly enhance change and manufacturing, as well as reduced costs for investments, operations and Overcome limited IT staff tracking, visibility and response maintenance. and support Leveraging synchronous technology NP Innovation chose Solid Edge® software Keys to success NP Innovation is a company dedicated to for computer-aided design (CAD) from developing water treatment solutions for Achieve 10-day deployment of product lifecycle management (PLM) aquaculture, industrial and municipal specialist Siemens PLM Software. Teamcenter on the cloud applications. Building on 30 years of expe- Reduce cost of server infra- rience, NP Innovation, structure with Amazon cloud which pioneered subscription applications for Leverage flexible financing for PLM as monthly operational expense Select NEXTAGE for consulting services and support Results Increased re-use of existing designs and data by 50 percent Improved change tracking, visibility and response Spent 50 percent less time searching for product data Achieved 100 percent accu- racy in BOM management www.siemens.com/plm “ Our ideas are realized using Solid Edge, which helps our designers to work quickly and efficiently. We are particularly satisfied with the functions of synchronous modeling.” Gustav Kågesson Design Manager NP Innovation “Changes are now managed “Innovation is the core of what we do,” using Teamcenter and all says Gustav Kågesson, design manager the history is there so it for NP Innovation. “Our ideas are realized gives us the knowledge using Solid Edge, which helps our design- needed to understand ers to work quickly and efficiently. We are when to make a change particularly satisfied with the functions of and when to act as a conse- synchronous modeling for easy editing quence of a change. This without the need to edit sketches every gives us full control over time.” our product development and facilitates innovation.” Getting control of product data As NP Innovation realized improvements As a smaller startup business with a team Gustav Kågesson in design productivity and quality with of four Solid Edge designers, NP Design Manager Solid Edge, the volume of data made it Innovation didn’t have the information NP Innovation difficult for them to find and re-use exist- technology (IT) staff or budget to support ing designs. NP Innovation recognized it a large software deployment effort. needed a PLM solution to get control of its Working with NEXTAGE, the company product data. determined that a cloud deployment of Teamcenter® software would eliminate “When we saw the need for a system to the need for the upfront purchase of collect and connect our product data in an servers. Instead, NP Innovation chose intelligent way, we turned to Siemens PLM Amazon Web Services to provide infra- Software partner NEXTAGE for help,” says structure as a service (IaaS) for a monthly Kågesson. “NEXTAGE not only suggested a subscription cost. Amazon provides both solution in terms of the proven product cloud-based servers and support for NP lifecycle management system Teamcenter, Innovation to run its Teamcenter but also recommended infrastructure and environment. maintenance based on our needs. They performed the implementation that was smoothly delivered in only 10 days.” NP Innovation was able to further manage Using Teamcenter to manage change “NEXTAGE not only the IT investment by financing its NP Innovation is also seeing improve- suggested a solution in Teamcenter purchase through NEXTAGE as ments in change management. terms of the proven product a monthly operational expense rather than Teamcenter enables NP Innovation to lifecycle management a large capital investment. The agreement track the history of designs, including system Teamcenter, but includes NEXTAGE services and support on changes, so people can easily find the also recommended infra- an ongoing basis, so NP Innovation has no correct information, understand the structure and maintenance requirement for IT staff to maintain the consequences of a change and understand based on our needs. They PLM environment. which changes are necessary. performed the implementa- tion that was smoothly Sharing data more efficiently “Changes are now managed using delivered in only Working with NEXTAGE and Amazon, NP Teamcenter and all the history is there so 10 days.” Innovation installed and deployed it gives us the knowledge needed to Gustav Kågesson Teamcenter in 10 days, including user understand when to make a change and Design Manager training. The NP Innovation team of four when to act as a consequence of a NP Innovation Solid Edge designers can now collaborate change,” says Kågesson. “This gives us and share data with others in the business full control over our product development more efficiently. and facilitates innovation.” “Our designers are very pleased with The centralized, secure source of product Teamcenter and estimate they can now data gives NP Innovation confidence that collaborate and share data 50 percent it is working from the right data, including more efficiently than before the solution an acutely accurate bill-of-materials was implemented,” says Kågesson. (BOM). “Additionally, they have increased design re-use by 50 percent, saving both time and money in the process.” Solutions/Services “Data quality and accuracy are very Teamcenter important to us since we believe that www.siemens.com/teamcenter further innovation only can be realized on the basis of information that can be Solid Edge trusted to draw the correct conclusions www.siemens.com/solidedge and make better decisions,” explains Kågesson. “With Teamcenter, we have a Customer’s primary business reliable data source. Today our BOM is NP Innovation is a company always 100 percent correct, which has dedicated to developing led to fewer mistakes and above all, water treatment solutions for faster time-to-market.” aquaculture, industrial and municipal applications. www.npinnovation.se Customer location “ Our designers are very pleased Malmö Sweden with Teamcenter and estimate Partner they can now collaborate and NEXTAGE www.nextagegroup.com share data 50 percent more efficiently than before the solution was implemented.” Gustav Kågesson Design Manager NP Innovation Siemens PLM Software Americas +1 314 264 8499 © 2017 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. Siemens, the Siemens logo and SIMATIC IT are registered Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 trademarks of Siemens AG. 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