JCB, a family-owned heavy equipment manufacturer, drives innovation through digitalization.
As the company has grown to more than 12,000 employees, it embraced digitalization for product design, improvements, and product lifecycle management (PLM).
The company implements between 50 and 60 product updates each year, and they configure more than 200,000 product variations, all of which add to the complexity of their complete product line.
Watch the video and discover the benefits of digitalization JCB realized using Teamcenter and Geolus Shape Search.
The company is known for its distinctive yellow loader, tractors, excavators, and more.
The comprehensive digital twin has helped JCB with research-heavy equipment challenges like health and safety, driver comfort, functionality, reliability, fuel efficiency, and maintenance costs. Using PLM and the digital twin, engineers reduced design time for new parts and increased collaboration across departments. Connected PLM and CAD solutions allowed engineers to quickly identify and locate existing parts, reducing the amount of time engineers spent either searching for an existing part or simply creating a new one where it wasn’t necessary. They also automated product configuration, which helped to simplify and accelerate a complex process with more than 200,000 possible variations. All of these innovations mentioned were a direct result of digitalization.
The benefits of digitalization may look different from one company to the next, but digitalization consistently makes a positive impact on businesses overall. At JCB, collaboration became easier and more commonplace by using a single source of data. Engineers can now easily reuse parts with an efficient parts search, and the company achieves continuous innovation with a PLM platform and quality continues to improve with ongoing platform development. Watch the video and learn how JCB grew and improved by partnering with Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) PLM offers a customizable solution for both large corporations and small to medium-sized businesses with plenty of benefits:
With a SaaS PLM solution in place, everyone involved in product development gains quick and easy access to the data they need with little to no IT support.
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