MAC Trailer is a manufacturer of customizable trailers, including dump, flatbed, drop-deck and several other configurations. The company, started in 1992, has grown its operational footprint to over 1.5 million square feet of facilities across the United States. With its rapid growth and ever-increasing demand from customers, MAC Trailer’s database of parts that its engineers had designed topped 1,300,000 discrete 3D files. Leadership recognized that many parts were duplicated and reproduced day-to-day but there was no efficient way to sift through the parts and determine what could be deleted. Finally, they found Teamcenter and CADENAS PARTtsolution and together they managed to reduce their database to just 300,000 parts that are easily searchable. Watch their story.
With over 40 engineers on staff, approximately 500 hours per week were spent searching for active parts. Additionally, the problem was growing with recreated parts being added to their inventory daily. To implement a new PLM system, MAC Trailers had to reorganize their digital inventory process. They acknowledged this issue and set analysts out to solve it.
The analysts established a number of goals for this project, including:
Product lifecycle management (PLM) helps companies manage, find, share and re-use data across design centers from a single, secure source. Everything that related to your product, including electrical, mechanical, software and simulation data are managed within your PLM tool. This deep integration enables multi-domain BOM and a complete digital twin.
With a single source of truth, engineers can spend more time working on what is important rather than seeking answers to questions and stumbling through.