In the past, business applications like ERP could take years to deploy, disrupting team productivity and business operations. Their scope and deep functionality presented such a complex set of processes that it was nearly impossible to deliver the outcomes desired without turning on all capabilities. Those legacy ERP systems might last 10 to 15 years or more, their complexity escalating with add-ons, modifications, and ancillary systems, often supported by large numbers of Excel spreadsheets or disconnected databases.

These past experiences with lengthy and disruptive ERP deployments and perceived security risks have caused some manufacturers to resist adopting modern cloud ERP technology. As supply chain challenges bring urgency to making timely, insightful decisions and performing diligent material requirements planning (MRP) to meet demand, manufacturers are becoming more open to the possibilities that these modern solutions enable.

When Equipment Manufacturers do decide to deploy a modern, cloud ERP or CRM solution like Microsoft Dynamics 365, they want to reap the transformational benefits of the technology as soon as possible. At the same time, they hope to avoid the disruption, budget and schedule overruns, risk, and uncertainty of poorly planned deployment projects.

To streamline Dynamics 365 deployments and ensure the right outcomes, Sikich has developed the HEADSTART SM approach to help Equipment and Engineer-to-Order Manufacturers cut their implementation time in half.

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• Pre-configuration accelerates your system deployment
• Exploiting industry commonalities helps companies gain momentum
• HEADSTART is preconfigured to meet the needs of Project-based Manufacturers
• Sikich keeps HEADSTART current

No matter if you are a business leader looking to modernize your technology or a Professional Advisor helping clients find the best partner, discover how HEADSTART could give you a critical edge.

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Heavy machinery companies that embrace digital manufacturing are seeing:

• Greater speed-to-market
• Reduced risk
• Increased margins
• Enhanced market position

In this ebook, learn how heavy equipment executives can overcome the increasing challenges found in manufacturing industries with the help of digital manufacturing.

The digital tools of lean manufacturing

Your manufacturing enterprise incorporates innovative designs, materials, and manufacturing processes on a seemingly continuous basis. Tighter collaboration between product design and manufacturing engineering is the key to promoting lean manufacturing and accelerating innovation with digital tools. Design and manufacturing engineers are empowered to collaborate directly by operating in a common digital ecosystem and sharing a common data infrastructure.

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Digital manufacturing reduces risk

The digital twin reduces risk and costly downstream issues by enabling accurate production planning, simulation, and validation. With real-time collaboration between engineering, operations (production), and business systems, companies can accurately verify resource availability, capability, and capacity prior to actual production. Digital manufacturing also allows engineers to quickly identify and resolve any issues that may come up during production.

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Increase profit margins in the heavy equipment industry

The market forces of globalization and mass customization create uncertainty and the need for flexibility in the manufacturing enterprise. To increase profit margins in the heavy equipment industry, manufacturers must digitally connect engineering, operations, and the performance of plant resources together with enterprise and automation systems.

This approach ensures optimal performance of operations with closed-loop collaboration, decreases the cost of change, and accelerates innovations while maintaining the highest quality and operational efficiencies.

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Siemens digital manufacturing solutions

Manufacturing initiatives must deliver new ways to operate your business today and in the future. Siemens provides robust digital manufacturing solutions that businesses need to stay competitive, forming a stable software foundation for digital business transformation.

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This is achieved by connecting the entire production operations, allowing you to cut data transfers and duplication, improve collaboration, and automate part production processes.

• E-Book Key learnings: Key drivers affecting the machinery industry today
• How to boost quality and reduce time to market
• How new technologies are creating new opportunities
• Benefits of a synchronized part production process

The Perfect Part: Digital Part Production

Download the “Digital Part Production” E-Book to gain a greater understanding as to how to master the precision of the perfect part.

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF)

Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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More than ever customers require highly customized products that are designed to meet their specific needs – one size no longer fits all.

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How to improve production efficiency through Shop floor management

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), as well as their supply chain partners, are tasked with manufacturing parts and components for industrial machines. For both organizations, improving production efficiency on the shop floor is critical: parts must be built quickly while ensuring reliability and the highest quality, and they must be integrated into the larger machine while meeting high tolerance and precision needs.

Manufacturing automation software with 3D digital twin capabilities

Machine manufacturers need to fully merge their digital and physical processes and create a continuous, digitized communication and feedback loop to understand how each change to part design impacts the larger manufacturing process. They can do so in a variety of ways, such as highly automated CAM, Integrated CAD/CAM/computer numerical control (CNC), additive manufacturing, and operations intelligence.

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Drive closed-loop manufacturing process with Siemens Digital Parts Production

Digital Part Production helps equipment manufacturers improve their planning by adopting a closed-loop manufacturing process in which they are executing and improving against the plan with intelligence. All the labor and quality content from the part order is tracked back to the digital twin for traceability, process improvement, and future cost reduction.

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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Engineers have less time today to design increasingly complex products. The product lifecycle is shortening, and competition is fierce. Design errors have serious ramifications, both for your company and yourself. Your team needs more bandwidth in order to meet these challenges.

Generative design is part of the solution, but alone it is not enough.

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Maximize 3D Printing with Facet Modeling

The hype around 3D Printing is considerable, and rightly so. It offers tremendous potential in the development cycle.

Parametric, Direct, and Facet Modeling are enabling engineering organizations to realize the full potential of 3D Printing. Stay ahead of the game by downloading our free ebook now.

You will be able to explore:

• 3D Printing in the development process
• New technology solutions
• New design methods such as parametric, direct, and facet modeling

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF)

Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software, and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation, and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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Generative design methods facilitate faster decision-making

Engineers can leverage a collaborative design process to make decisions faster and very quickly develop new products based upon meeting design constraints. Generative design It is an iterative process that produces fast results the engineer can refine via constraint variation to narrow in on the best design to meet the requirements. As companies face increasing pressure to deliver products to market faster, generative design is now a necessity in product development. It is imperative for companies to adopt tools that empower engineers to find the best design to meet requirements sooner in the development process in order to stay competitive.

Download the eBook from CIMdata to learn more about how facet modeling combined with generative design gives engineers and designers an unstoppable edge.

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF)

Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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The five most common yet dangerous time wasters in design and collaborative BOM Management

According to a recent survey, industrial engineers waste an average of 15% (in some cases even 25%) of their time with non-productive data management tasks. What are these top 5 collaborative BOM Management time wasters?

• Can’t Find and Reuse Data
• Lost CAD Designs
• Preparing Data for Others
• Managing Complexity
• Managing Change

Multi Domain BOM Management relieves the pressure

Smart products, growing demand for customization, shrinking product lifecycles and increasingly dynamic supply chains – they all add to complexity in industrial design, and this increases the likelihood for inefficiency and errors. Collaborative environments, with participants all over the planet, require significant time and effort for keeping them all involved, informed, and coordinated around engineering changes and multi-domain BOM management. If you fail here, you will waste enormous amounts of time, energy, and money.

Spend 25% less time on nonproductive BOM Management

What if companies could give that wasted time back to their technical personnel? That’s exactly what leading companies do. Our research shows that Top Performing companies – those that are better able to quickly and efficiently design high quality, innovative products – spend 25% less time on nonproductive Data and BOM management tasks.

If you want to avoid these time-wasting traps and learn from the top performers’ better practices, don’t hesitate to download this free E-Book and get ready to win the productivity challenge!

Hence, one of your most important goals should be to reduce unproductive, wasted time in Computer Aided Design (CAD).

To help you reaching this goal, we have put together a free E-Book that shows you how to avoid the 5 most common yet dangerous time wasters in design.

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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To help navigate through this journey we have created an E-Book that gives you a quick overview of the most significant tendencies that will drive the change in the machine engineering market and explain how Siemens Advanced Machine Engineering can provide the information and the tools needed to be prepared for the future of machine design.

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Trends that will help define the future of machine design

As a machine builder, you have seen fundamental changes in your industry in the last few years. In this E-Book You will find out about the 4 most challenging trends facing machine builders today and what to do about them to not only avoid the risk of being left behind, but even turn them into a competitive advantage.

Digitalization and increasing integration of advanced machine design software allows custom machine building as we never imagined, and the massive surge of communication tools and channels opened entirely new ways of collaboration to be successful in such a complex and dynamic environment, it is crucial to be informed about the major trends and developments in the future of machine design.

Gain a competitive advantage with early validation of machine designs

You will also learn how you can start designing, engineering and commissioning machines virtually, achieving early validation of machine designs to become more innovative in machine design and development and digitally transform cross-domain collaboration to increase the efficiency of machine manufacturing.

Advanced Machine Engineering enables early validation and design simulation of multi- disciplinary models and full use of the latest manufacturing automation technologies. Its sophisticated design solutions can easily support more complex but better optimized models, leading to a substantial increase in the design flexibility of your engineers.

Build tomorrow’s machinery today with Siemens Advanced Machine Engineering

Advanced Machine Engineering delivers a digital thread approach to engineering that enables companies to develop increasingly complex machines faster while lowering developing costs to decrease production and operational costs. Harnessing the complexity into a competitive advantage.

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF)

Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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Innovation is the most important growth factor for the machinery industry, and innovation requires speed. That means that fast product delivery is as important as a fast return on your (innovation) investments.

Today’s product development process is comprised of hundreds of decision points and parallel workflows that now take place in a global context.

Advanced Machine Engineering will enable you to meet these requirements and adapt quickly to constantly changing environments and demands. We have prepared a free E-Book that will show you how our unified industrial PLM platform creates an efficient bridge between production planning and the shop floor that connects the virtual with the real world.

Download your copy of this ebook to learn more about how the Advanced Machine Engineering software solutions can enable you to build a more collaborative global engineering and manufacturing environment that embraces complexity and provides you with a competitive advantage.

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Generative Design

Generative design is an iterative process that produces fast results the engineer can refine via constraint variation to narrow in on the best design to meet the requirements. As companies face increasing pressure to deliver products to market faster, generative design is now a necessity in product development.

Engineers, constrained by time limits, frequently choose the first feasible design rather than the optimal one. Companies must adopt tools that empower engineers to find the best design to meet requirements sooner in the development process to stay competitive.

Download the eBook from Lifecycle Insights analyst, Chad Jackson, to learn more about how facet modeling combined with generative design gives engineers and designers an unstoppable edge.

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Siemens Digital Factory (DF)

Siemens Digital Factory (DF) offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their manufacturing processes and reducing the time to market of their products.

About Siemens USA

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of systems for power generation and transmission as well as medical diagnosis. With approximately 379,000 employees in 190 countries, Siemens reported worldwide revenue of $94.0 billion in fiscal 2018. Siemens in the USA reported revenue of $23.7 billion, including $5.0 billion in exports, and employs approximately 50,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

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