Reducing Development Time with PLM at 3CON

Austrian industrial equipment manufacturer improves collaboration and simplifies design engineering and process planning across locations.

Challenge
As an international producer of tooling and equipment technology for the automotive industry, 3CON brings high-tech into the automotive production.

Establishing branches in Germany, the USA, China and Mexico, the Austrian-based company is increasing its international orientation. Moreover, customer’s demands such as for innovation, flexibility and adherence to delivery dates increased as well.

Thus, 3CON saw the long-term objective of constantly improving its internal processes while at the same time maintaining high-quality standards. The producer was looking for a solution that addresses three challenges especially: Improving collaboration between its different sites in different countries, restructuring the workflows within teams, and optimizing version and approval management.

Solution
Attracted by the possibility of combining many applications in one database, 3CON opted for the 3DEXPERIENCE platform by Dassault Systèmes. The platform enables the producer to link its global development and production sites.

TECHNIA’s experts guided 3CON along the journey to ensure a successful implementation of the new software: from consulting on how to structure international workflows efficiently to user training in order to get the most out of the powerful platform.