Success Story
Alfa-Plam: Vault Accelerates Work on Projects
Customer challenge
The Alfa-Plam company's main activity is producing heating appliances based on pellets, solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, electric stoves, and the combination of solid fuels with electricity and electricity with gas.
"The challenge was the production and storage of parts, assemblies, and the associated documentation (drawings, BIM, etc.). The solution at the time was for each employee to store their documentation locally. Everyone had their versions of the items and multiple drawings for the same item. It was impossible to have the latest valid version of the product with all changes and drawings, which made it difficult to work and quickly switch to a new, similar product," says Snežan Aleksov, an independent development engineer at Alfa-Plam.
Project goals
The objective was to introduce a single database that would solve the repetition of the same items, changed items under the same name (which was previously a problem without attributes), the problem of multiple drawings for one item, and more.
The project took several months, from the first steps planning with Autodesk Solution Provider TeamCAD to the implementation in the factory.
Solution
"We chose TeamCAD because our cooperation over several years has been successful to our mutual satisfaction. We turned to them, and Mr. Vladimir Guteša, TeamCAD's development manager, helped us by proposing the right solution to our problem."
"The name of the solution is Autodesk Vault because it has everything you need: data storage, sorting by projects, reducing the number of items and drawings by using existing ones, all data and projects are in one place, checking projects, quickly copying existing ones and creating new ones," explains Snežan Aleksov.
"In terms of acceptance of the new solution, the attitude of the employees is the same as everyone else: the younger and middle generation has accepted working with Autodesk Vault software very quickly. The older generation is slower.
"The area that helped them the most was copying items, assemblies, and entire products."
Business outcome
"With this new solution, projects are completed much faster than before. All data is available in one place and valid changes are transmitted."
"Creating a development model and setting the starting price is now much more efficient. This is exactly what the supplier is looking for in order to be able to start series production as quickly as possible.
Any company with complex assemblies and many items and products needs software that keeps all this data organized. Vault is one option that speeds up work on existing and new projects."
Conclusion
"Our next step would be to connect Autodesk Vault and Inventor software to manufacturing so that each production unit can see their part of the product with all the necessary technical data."
"In times when the battle for the market is increasing, when speed and accuracy are required, the help of partners is necessary. Alfa-Plam has received precisely this speed through its partnership with TeamCAD. Because of their help, we have managed to stay on the right track," summarizes Snežan Aleksov.
Project summary
- 60
- 2023-12-01
Duration & delivery
- AutoCAD
- Inventor
- Vault
Autodesk solutions
- BIM/CAD Standards
- Migration, Data Loading & Interoperability
- Implementation
- 3D Modeling
- Installation
- System & Software Maintenance
- System Integration
- Updates & Upgrades
Services provided
- Additive Manufacturing
- Design
- Subtractive Manufacturing
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