Improve engineering process
ERP Digital Engineering services are designed to combine computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) capabilities with more traditional digital business technologies, enabling engineering teams to work more closely with other lines of business. For many engineering teams, running in isolation is the norm. They create a product plan, make multiple revisions within the team, release the final version internally, and maintain the document as source material used by the production team. At this point, programmers step in to tell machines how to interact with new initiatives, managers train employees to adapt to changes, and ultimately, even small changes in product initiatives represent huge changes in the business.
ERP Digital Engineering systems simplify data sharing, make plan management easier, and increase the efficiency of creating and editing plans. As a result, organizations can more easily build strategies such as custom and additive manufacturing into their operations to create new value opportunities for the business.
Custom Manufacturing
For too long, manufacturers have had to adhere to strict, highly standardized production processes because of the severe challenge of making changes. This limits customization as a viable manufacturing business model. Digital technology is changing that. Communication tools make it easier for team members to participate in change, and robots can be programmed to complete a variety of manufacturing tasks. ERP Digital Engineering solutions add a key layer of simplicity here.
Additive manufacturing
The increasing accessibility of 3D printing technology has taken the potential of custom manufacturing to another level. Organizations can quickly manufacture a wide variety of products from a variety of materials without creating new production lines or adjusting processes. Instead, they simply feed the digital plan into the 3D printer, get the supplies in order, and produce the items. ERP Digital Engineering is key to achieving this, as organizations need digital plans to tell 3D printers what to do.
ERP Digital Engineering solutions, especially those supported by digital warehouses, strong asset management, and artificial intelligence capabilities, have tremendous potential. These benefits are taken to another level by an enterprise resource planning system that provides the centralized data pipeline needed to take full advantage of the technology.