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Solving the Production Challenges - Vault Technical Documentation Management

Solving the Production Challenges - Vault Technical Documentation Management

Customer challenge

Tigar Tyres is part of the Michelin business system and one of the biggest producers of quality tires. As part of the Michelin corporation, their development sector is responsible for the design and development of new tire types. The company is specialized in the production and sales of car tires, truck tires, tires for agriculture, and special industrial and construction tires. For years, they were using Autodesk Inventor as their main piece of design software. Besides, part of the engineering process was done also in AutoCAD. Challenge was similar to the challenges that our other clients had when speaking about the design in teams; there was a need for centralized data management of the workflow, technical documentation, detailed revision and version monitoring, product lifecycles, access rights, and more. Additionally, there was a need to exchange data with the other factories within the Michelin system.

Project goals

Challenges identified during analysis: 1) The same drawing was showing up on various locations, but it was not updating on all locations when there was a change 2) Remarks from suppliers that were getting the old drawing revisions 3) Documents were located in the shared directory where everyone can access it 4) Absence of an automated backup solution 5) Absence of valid records about the changes and validations of the drawings Based on TeamCAD's analysis and solution presentation, the development sector of the Tigar factory acknowledged Autodesk Vault Professional as the right, tailor-made solution for managing the technical documentation and solving all of the found challenges. Goals: 1) Unique version of the drawings for all the approved stakeholders 2) Only the final version of the drawing can be delivered to the suppliers 3) Documents located on the Vault server with limited access for changes and deletion 4) Total backup of the system and documents 5) Following the revisions

Solution

TeamCAD has adjusted the Autodesk Vault Professional system based on Tigar's needs and completed the implementation, employer, and system administrator training. For the development sector, we have completed the following: defined the lifecycles (including draft document, ready for review, reviewed, and returned for revision), created categories which were enriched with the attributes, created the revision definition rules, defined user groups and their rights, created the Autodesk Inventor prototype files and all of the associated settings, setup backup system, and defined the data access through web client. In short: 1) There is a unique version of drawings that are located on the Vault server 2) The suppliers get the latest version of drawings 3) Documents have limited access rights 4) Full backup is done at two different physical locations once a week, and incremental backup is done daily after the end of engineering shifts 5) All the changes are automatically tracked on Vault

Business outcome

Benefits of the set Vault system for the development sector: 1) Automatic creation of the external geometry picture upon completion of the drawing 2) Automatic picture update after each drawing change 3) Solved the problem of errors due to the monotonous job process 4) Solved the problem of the two-way communication 5) By automating the workflows and processes the possibility for error is minimal 6) Number of manufacturing halts due to EG Benefits for the production sector: 1) Simple database access through WebClient account 2) Quick search based on CAI (unambiguously determined) 3) Quick search based on EG through a barcode reader

Conclusion

The overall project was extremely successful. The centralized data management system was implemented which solved all of the set challenges, including unique versions of drawings, improved cooperation with the suppliers, automatic tracking of the document revisions, and let's not forget the important thing - the data security which was handled with the scheduled backups. Furthermore, during the test phase, there was not a single halt of the production system while the system for data management has risen to the highest level. TeamCAD's team has successfully implemented this solution from analysis, towards the idea, and in the end, it was all implemented and delivered significant results to the client.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 90
  • 2020-04-17

    Autodesk solutions

  • Vault Professional
  • AutoCAD
  • Inventor

    Services provided

  • Business Transformation Services
  • Cloud Migration
  • Custom Application Development
  • Workflow Documentation
  • Business Analytics & Reporting
  • System Integration
  • Technical Support
  • Product Training

    Customer industry

  • Design & Manufacturing
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