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ZARGES

High customer satisfaction and new markets conquered: Climbing technology professional ZARGES relies on the product configurator from ACATEC.ZARGES is part of the ZARGESTUBESCA Group based in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. In addition to a wide standard range, the experts in climbing technology also have customer-specific solutions that are specially manufactured. ZARGES relies on the product configurator from ACATEC - speedmaxx Enterprise.Efficiency increased by factorsAway from the thick catalog to the online ordering portal - a great benefit for marketing and sales. And for the subsequent production a huge relief of routine jobs - that creates space for innovations!Automatic 3D visualization on the web, multilingualism, simple pricing and preparation of offers make it possible: With the ACATEC product configurator, ZARGES is able to easily market the innovative product range for stairs, bridging bridges and mobile platform stairs that requires explanation. Because customers can quickly and easily select and put together their desired product with the help of the configurator and receive it visualized in 3D. You will also receive a detailed offer and dimensioned drawings. The 3D model with the data for subsequent production is already being created in the background, because the rest of the process is now also automated. Keywords here are CAD automation and ERP automation.Good reasons for ACATECCustomer convenience counts: the 3D visualization makes it easier for ZARGES customers to imagine what they are currently configuring. By the way, even without having to complete the configuration first.Second reason for ACATEC: With speedmaxx errors are avoided. The highlight of the online configurator is that the customer is always asked for further details of his order in the right context. Gradually, all necessary information is requested and checked for plausibility. Thirdly, the cooperation between ZARGES and ACATEC is important - and it's going really well.

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KRONE

Agricultural machinery manufacturer KRONE lets customers configure themselves on the webOne of the world's leading agricultural machinery manufacturers, the company KRONE from Spelle in Lower Saxony, uses speedmaxx Enterprise. The system is called EasySelect at KRONE and is available directly from the WEB site.The special feature: With the product configurator, farmers and contractors can easily select their dream machine themselves and put it together virtually. This simplifies pricing and preparation of offers for everyone involved. After all, it's about 180 products plus x variants from the broad world of agricultural technology for choppers, balers, loading wagons, mowers and more. Customer orientation is the trump card: a buildable machine always comes out of the configurator.The high level of transparency also counted for the agricultural machinery manufacturer. It was therefore important to KRONE that the terms and conditions work: the check as to whether something is possible or not must run a priori, not afterwards."The complete chain is mapped from the customer to the factory"The decisive performance features of the ACATEC product configurator for KRONE are: This software can map the entire process chain throughout - from the customer, i.e. farmer or contractor who configures on the Internet, through the dealer and the factory representative to the employees in the factory. Behind this is, among other things, the SAP automation running in the background.However, a large part of the performance is "under the hood". The coordination between dealers and factory representatives is an essential part of the WEB solution - and only visible to a closed user group.Offline configurationOffline configuration is also possible. Everything that is necessary, including SAP master data, etc., is replicated locally on a computer.

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SCHMITT+SOHN

Fast upwards: Schmitt + Sohn enjoys independence through product configurationThe elevator manufacturer Schmitt + Sohn supplies around 1,400 elevator systems per year. The Nuremberg company scores with customer-specific cabins. In order to manage its varied product range well, Schmitt + Sohn relies on ACATEC technology: the Franconian manufacturer uses almost all speedmaxx product modules for its tailor-made elevator cabins.Why the decision for ACATEC?Keywords included independence and flexibility in terms of setup and maintenance: being able to program independently and expand the system individually - that was decisive for ACATEC as a service provider. The elevator manufacturer significantly optimized the order-specific construction: from several days to a few hours.In particular, the work preparation could be largely automated using the ERP system Navision and the 3D CAD system Autodesk Inventor. "This guarantees consistent quality of the generated order-specific product documents and bills of materials, as well as the assemblies, individual parts, drawings and geometries for laser processing," says Martin Schmitt, Managing Partner of Schmitt + Sohn.Simple checkability of data qualityDue to the automation of business processes, errors are immediately noticeable and can be corrected immediately. That was also important to the management."All in all, ACATEC's configurator solution has enabled us to speed up the order-specific design process for elevator cabins by a factor of five," says Martin Schmitt, summing up the decision.

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MTU

MTU Onsite Energy GmbH: Acceleration by a factor of 10The technology for process-oriented product configuration from the Lower Saxony company ACATEC is in use worldwide at the Tognum subsidiary MTU Onsite Energy, a global manufacturer of decentralized energy systems.The aim is to have consistently secure engineering business processes without media breaks in engineering at MTU Onsite Energy: This works, among other things, via CAD automation. All the necessary data for assemblies, individual parts, drawings, bills of materials and other documents are available to the engineers right from the start. Redundancies and errors caused by double entries are a thing of the past. This makes planning and development significantly easier. The product configuration recognizes what already exists and what doesn't. Business processes are accelerated by a factor of 10.Flexible, fast, safeA central web server, on which the underlying set of rules for the variant manager is stored, is the heart of the data, so to speak. MTU engineers manage the product-related content and rules individually via speedmaxx authoring systems at various MTU Onsite Energy locations.Integration of the existing IT systems into the variant managerWhether SAP automation, CAD automation or PDM automation: The technology from ACATEC makes it possible - in each case related to the specific needs of the locations. "We have succeeded in showing how easy it is to integrate various existing data processing systems," explains ACATEC Managing Director, Henning Bitter: "We have all the technological components for rule-based automation of engineering on board. We are thus supporting MTU Onsite Energy in further expanding its competitive advantage.”

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TECKENTRUP

Gate and door manufacturer Teckentrup works with the SAP variant configurator and integrated CAD automation from ACATECAt first glance, anyone who is interested in the Teckentrup company would have no idea how complex the products are - but the printed price list is 500 pages thick!The large medium-sized company, founded in 1932 and with two production plants in Verl-Sürenheide near Gütersloh (head office) and Großzöberitz in Saxony-Anhalt, is one of the largest manufacturers of doors and gates in Europe: 11 branches in Germany and many agencies and partners in Europe and overseas should ensure that the customer benefits from the great proximity and flexibility of the expert. From the idea to innovation, from design to practical implementation, everything happens under "one roof". The entire product range is produced in the Teckentrup works and supplied from a single source.SAP and CADThe door specialists use the SAP variant configurator (SAP LO VC) for the product configuration. The entire object dependencies for all products and their variants are recorded there. If an order is placed, speedmaxx uses information exported from SAP for the CAD automation. All the product data required for order processing of the variant is generated in batch mode. This includes CAD parts, assemblies, drawings and parts lists. The CAD system used is Autodesk Inventor.The highlight is that everything happens without any manual interaction - all data is generated and made available fully automatically.The benefit for the quality-driven manufacturer Teckentrup: Acceleration, freedom from errors and absolute flexibility - the variety of variants is shown in increments of a millimeter. Teckentrup dealt with the selection of a tool for CAD automation twice over the years. Once for the introduction, once for the expansion: Both times the decision was made to go with ACATEC - due to the "maturity" of the ACATEC software in comparison.

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WTK

With speedmaxx right from the start: heat exchanger specialist WTK GermanyCustomer-specific solutions in small batch sizes, not mass business, are the focus at WTK-Germany GmbH & Co.KG. The "experienced newcomer" from Gießen, Hesse, brings with him many years of consulting and implementation experience from other contexts.Because the company was (only) founded in January 2012. Since then, it has been manufacturing tube bundle heat exchangers in a compact design. The latest machines are used. In connection with an optimized flow production, the employees produce according to customer requirements - in consistently high quality and with absolute delivery reliability.From the very beginning, the founders placed great value on product configuration and CAD automation, as well as the development of an integrated process chain that they can set up and maintain themselves. In this way, you remain independent of a variant management provider in day-to-day business.The goals of product configuration are highly automated order processing and complete freedom from errors. And this with maximum reuse of existing components.The introduction of speedmaxx was implemented within three man-months. In order to create as high a proportion of the production documents as possible completely automatically, the heat exchanger specialists are independently and continuously expanding the solution for their purposes with the speedmaxx authoring system.

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WURTH

Equipment planning in 21 countries significantly easier - Adolf Würth GmbH uses 3D product configuration for vehicle equipment!Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG from Obersulm in Swabia has been working with the product configurator from the Lower Saxony technology company ACATEC since 2009. The second version came onto the market in 2014: with automatic pricing, preparation of offers and attractive 3D visualization.This means that customers receive their offers at the push of a button, three-dimensionally and interactively. The "specialized sales vehicle equipment" (that's the Würth internal department name) and the Würth trading partners are now working worldwide with this tool - internally called PlaTo3D. Thanks to the automation of all IT systems involved (CAD automation, SAP automation) and the shifting of complex processes to batch operation, the processes run smoothly: the Würth employees save on expenses, there are no more planning errors and the entire sales business process is consistently supported from A to Z.ACATEC was selected because of its comprehensive solution concept - away from isolated solutions towards complete consistency.Internationalization began in 2011 - keyword multilingualism: The first foreign companies were equipped with the product configurator - after one year ten language versions were integrated. In 2014, 21 countries with up to 150 users were already using the configurator offline.Thanks to the ACATEC product configurator, Würth's installation partners can also be directly involved in the quotation preparation phase. Prices for installing the in-vehicle equipment are calculated with speedmaxx during configuration and integrated into the offer as so-called labor costs (assembly prices). They then go to the SAP system.Using the configurator is a great relief - for the Würth sales staff as well as for the installation partner. Because the labor values can be precisely determined and can no longer only be estimated as before. This ensures the credibility of the statements - and saves annoying price corrections. The result is a high degree of reliability: Würth customers know exactly what they are paying for set-up and installation. Order processing, including SAP and SolidWorks integration, has also been highly automated and speeded up by Adolf Würth GmbH with speedmaxx Enterprise.

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GEISS

"Lot size 1" with quality guarantee through rule-based CAD automationSince 2005, the vacuum forming machine specialist Geiss from Upper Franconia has relied on ACATEC. As a result, machine builders have become faster by a factor of five to 20 when processing orders for their series machines in "batch size 1". You use the speedmaxx configurator consistently in design, purchasing, production and commissioning.Henning Bitter, head of ACATEC, explains: “The employees at Geiss used our authoring system to independently create a configurator for highly complex thermoforming machines. We only held a training course there and advised for a few days. The result is really very impressive.”Sales and IT manager at Geiss, Klaus-Peter Welsch, adds: "We very rarely need the help of ACATEC - we do everything on our own. As a result, the data for all work processes are created automatically and parametrically. For example, the cutting robot receives the information it needs for a specific cut via speedmaxx.”3D process chain with SolidWorksFor a company that only offers customized products, the focus at Geiss is of course on the customer. But it also saves time and nerves internally, in production: “The 3D visualization is very helpful in the production process. The mechanics and machine operators have it easier – for example, they only have to measure once instead of three times,” says Klaus-Peter Welsch.

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STOLL

A WEB sales configurator for front loaders is just the first stepOne of the world's leading manufacturers of front loaders on tractors, the STOLL Group with around 500 employees worldwide and headquarters in Lengede, south-east of Hanover, works with the product configurator from ACATEC. In this way, the specialist is consistently implementing its strategy of consistently aligning itself with customer needs: The configurator allows you to further increase flexibility and performance. In addition to pricing, preparing offers and optimizing processes, the medium-sized company also attaches great importance to the independent structure and maintenance of the set of rules. Changes should be self-insertable.The complex thing about the swing arm is the various add-on parts for the tractor. STOLL offers solutions for around 3,500 tractor types - that means a large number of variants.The first step involves setting up and providing the configurator for sales support via the Internet.ACATEC scored due to the consistency of the solution from sales through design to order processing. This “big picture” thinking was an important factor for the decision-makers.

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