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NovaQuest solutions help industrial equipment companies build virtually any machine a prospective buyer envisions. When requests are made, Industrial Equipment companies must respond with innovative solutions that guarantee high quality and a respectable profit margin and serve their customers’ needs for years after the initial purchase. Often each machine is unique, so manufacturers of industrial equipment need solutions flexible to match their customers’ constantly changing requirements. Furthermore, organization is essential to maintain a stable and efficient working environment and ensures specialized work is done completely and on schedule. For all of the reasons above, Industrial Equipment companies continue to leverage the tools and techniques of business execution enabled only with product lifecycle management (PLM).
At NovaQuest, we’ve derived superior industry solutions by leveraging our unique combination of real-world industry experience and deep knowledge of PLM applications delivered by Dassault Systèmes (DS). NovaQuest is the first DS partner to offer new V6 PLM technology which combines the advanced collaborative business processes of ENOVIA, the knowledge-driven development of 3D in CATIA, and the lifelike experience of 3DVIA to help your company reach new levels of product and process innovation. Our solutions enable:
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Opportunity Management unifies departments responding to customer requests by providing more efficient capture and tracking of incoming requests to ensure rapid response and consistent follow-up |
Buyers easily access the Requests for Quote assigned to them. |
Key Capabilities:
- Aggregate product context and current status visibility into full-color 3D project status reports
- Part classification, part compare and comprehensive searching increasing re-use to reduce cost and development time
- Perform what-if cost analysis based on effective dates, commodity prices, currencies, BOM structure, Make vs. Buy decisions
- Create and share markups that define proposed changes in bill of material construction and cost assessment to enhance product communication
Solution Benefits:
- Increase revenue with an efficient system that converts more opportunities to orders with fixed resources
- Better control of scope and cost with greater visibility to outstanding opportunities and work in progress
- Faster execution provides first-mover advantage to improve margins in new product introduction
- Quotation effort for new opportunities is reduced when current relevant information is easily within reach
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Order Management ushers detailed opportunity information through the organization and provides complete connectivity between incoming customer requests and final design of the product |
Strict project planning ensures orders are fulfilled on time. |
Key Capabilities:
- Project phase/gate reviews and management dashboards provide insight on each project’s current measure of success
- Comprehensive part and bill of material reports and views help engineers improve decision-making
- Granular item cost breakdown and rollups identify opportunities for cost savings and drive them to the bottom line faster
- Libraries leverage an advantage of proven parts, designs, technology or other intellectual property in the development of new products
- Repeatable and standardized direct material sourcing processes that provide the latest design information to the supply chain and valuable supplier quotation input to engineering
Solution Benefits:
- Accelerate development with comprehensive plans, immediate project status, and clear task delineation
- Leverage earned intellectual property to reduce costs and widen your advantage against the competition
• Enables strategic sourcing
- Specifications and designs are easier to validate when everyone references the same information
• Fewer and more meaningful changes lower the cost of change
- Earlier notifications of change reduce rework and eliminate expenses due to material scrap
- Time-to-Margin is drastically reduced with faster development and fewer mistakes in production rollout
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In-Service Management enables after-sales product support to quickly access and understand the information needed to answer incoming customer requests on-the-spot with the right information the first time |
Design data is reused to speed creation of service documentation. |
Key capabilities:
- 3DLive, an intuitive online 3D interface, brings intellectual property to life for everyone
- Integrated change management processes manage requirement changes to drive consistency and reduce costs
- Controlled product requirements gathered before and during service fulfillment help companies comply with established standards and add valuable customer feedback for use in future designs
- A centralized product information repository with built-in document and access controls improves information quality
- Synchronized engineering to manufacturing change processes maintain final ‘as-built’ configurations to keep the Service Department informed of all changes
Solution Benefits:
- Unleash previously untapped revenue streams with stronger after-sales support activities
- Secure and maintain a loyal customer base by extending business innovations beyond the point of sale
- Greater understanding of customer pains and how they solve them leads to additional selling opportunities
- Strict documentation of product improvement lessons learned accelerates organizational innovation
- Reduce expenses from obsolete components when new parts are designed for reuse not built at all
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To request more information on these solutions, please contact a NovaQuest representative today!
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