• Identify areas missed during upgrade / possibilities of de-customization
• Address issues identified during Audit of last Upgrade
• Migration of data to OCDX access control
• Major customization of BASE JPOs
• Non availability of applications like CA, Sourcing in target system
• Lack of training and exposure of 3Dexperience to PLM Users
• Extensive Test not performed before moving to production / go-live
• Lack of documentation for both process and Functional / Technical design

• Process harmonization to adopt industry best practices
• Educate Top & Middle Management on PLM benefits & Best Practices
• Ensure all review / approval are happening in system
• Technical upgrade from 2015x to 2019x
• Part Numbering and Re-configuration
• Implement OCDX access – moved all object to respective collab spaces
• Moving of data to new Collab Space
• Implementation of new access control along with CSE (both need to remain)

• Reduced customization from 65% to 5%
• Process Improvement with out-of-box functionality
• Efficient SR resolution with improved experience of Customer user team
• Increase in 3Dexperience utilization – no of users and also processes
• Providing better performance in terms of cost benefit
• Achieving project objectives while completing project well within time

• Customer is one of the big gas producer. Had failure in well pumping system frequently due to different issues
• BrainWave Consulting was asked to provide Realtime failure warning & prediction system

• BrainWave Consulting partnered with domain experts to understand the causes
• Built algorithms to clean and annotate data for learning
• Built custom Machine Learning algorithms to predict data Realtime
• Built alert system to provide alerts to user on  an incidence

• Reduced operations effort in identifying failures
• Early warning to help take corrective actions

• Customer, Automotive Tier 1 supplier of two wheeler components.  
• Customer has implemented 3DExperience platform 2015x and was customized for the requirements. Customer was required to upgrade CAD software

• Move infrastructure to Cloud 
• 7FCS sites with replica on central server
• Multi CAD (4) environment
• Custom ERP integration
• Heavy customization on Part & Change Management
• Unsupported third-party components
• Undocumented customizations

• Deployment of all environments on cloud infrastructure
• Upgrade using industry best practices
• Upgrade to 2018x with latest HF
• Upgraded associated CAD
• Agile\project approach resulting into sequential build drops allowing business to validate upgrade

• Reduced go-live downtime thru upfront planning
• Merge latest features within existing customizations
• On scheduled deployment
• Latest feature configuration, reduce customization by 60%
• ZERO data issues post upgrade
• Cloud deployment to reduce infra cost by 25%

• Customer, Automotive Tier 1 supplier of sheet metal components.
• Customer is a major supplier to Ford. Ford as part of process, required suppliers to have system to manage Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process. Customer decided to go with 3DExperience platform for standardizing APQP processes.

• Manual APQP process
• Multiple deliverables to be shared in electronic format with OEM
• OEM specific customization of APQP (TS16949) process
• Internal & customer specific Gate Validation
• Managing customer specific APQP forms & templates for documents

• Standardization of APQP process by adding Customer specific modification
• Building Dashboard for APQP review
• APQP Template definition
• Implementation of 3DExperience platform 2018x
• Training and handholding to users

• Reduced APQP project monitoring time by 40%
• Improved OEM APQP compliance, reduced NC by 28%
• Reduced time to create and plan for new project
• Improved Management Visibility 

Customer is a manufacturer of Luxury Automotive for Europe based out of China. Customer has undergone the journey of implementation of PLM.

• Customer is not sure if ENOVIA implementation is according to their requirements. 
• Not able to see the value of platform
• Low adoption

• BrainWave approached it as three prong strategy:
  • Understand user requirement 
  • Understand data in system
  • Comparing processes with respect to Automotive Best practices.

• 3 year executable roadmap identified
• Key issue highlighted
• Gaps in process & implementation identified
• Actionable plan helped customer to implement better

Customer is Tier 1 Automotive suppliers with specialized and proprietary range of parts. Customer had upgraded ENOVIA to 3DExperience 2015x. Customer was looking for validation of PLM Upgrade technically and functionally

• Customer is not sure if ENOVIA upgrade is completed as per standard process
• Is Upgrade successful & all data available?
• Auditing implementation to improve user adoption

• BrainWave approached it as three prong strategy:
  • Review upgrade steps
  • Analyse system functionally
  • Analyse data in upgraded system
• Perform dipstick study

• Identified flaws and given corrective actions
• Drawn short, mid & long term plan to recover from the issues
• Roadmap for future upgrade
• Improved user confidence

Customer is Tier 1 Automotive suppliers with specialized and proprietary range of parts. Customer is using 3DExperience for almost a decade. BWC is engaged with customer for maintaining and supporting application. As part extension to the engagement, roadmap for new process adoption is drawn and executed

• Customer along with BWC has identified Customer RFQ, APQP projects & Quality workflows as next steps
• Mapping of the requirement to OOTB module, so impact on next upgrade is minimised

• Definition & Mapping of Customer RFQ process
• Connectivity and traceability between RFQ & APQP process
• Configure solution using program management
• Integrate Requirement & Quality requirement for end to end traceability

• Reduced time to respond to Customer RFQ
• Improved pipeline visibility to management, with highlighted bottlenecks
• RFQ to APQP linkage reduced knowledge loss and faster customer response

Customer is leading global steel manufacturer.  R&D Project Manager having issues with task . Managing to be completed within constraints of time, cost and performance. Key focus was also included document definition, document authoring, project definition and planning, project execution tracking and reporting/dashboarding.

• Delay in R&D Project completion 
• Lack of visibility on project tasks

• Definition & Mapping of Project and Document Management 
• Document Lifecycle, approval flows and access control definition
• Project Template, Content and Team Definition and Project Execution
• Ability to configure company and Resource calendar and apply on the project schedule

• Ability to define multiple project templates for various project management
• Translate Product development request into a new product ideation and approval 
• Identify project members for each development projects 
• Define detailed work breakdown structure for development projects

Customer is Bus Manufacturer (Diesel, CNG, Electric). Customer delivers product based on the customer configurations & is in Manufactured to Order fulfilment scenario

• Current Vehicle data is managed only in drawing & downstream issues in usage of information
• Part Number mismatch between SAP & Engineering
• Multiple Engineering Changes due to lack of visibility
• Issues in Manufactured product reported by Customer

• End to End Process Definition, with identification of User Scenarios
• New definition of Part Numbering
• Model Based BOM Definition
• Definition of EBOM, MBOM, Sourcing BOM, Service BOM
• SAP Integration

• 25% reduction in duplication of Standard Parts
• SAP & PLM Part number Synchronization
• 30% reduction in new Changes
• 15% time reduction for release of BOM
• Reduced design time by 10% due to working in Context

Customer is Bus Manufacturer Implemented 3DExperience. Current 3D & 2D data on local file system some centralized other on local machines.

• CAD and BOM mismatch
• 3D data scattered across different systems
• BOM information is managed in XLS
• Multiple times 2D modified directly in PDF
• Version mismatch

• Vehicle wise data identification
• 2D & 3D correlation
• Cleaning of links and other ghost information in CAD
• Deduplication of data
• Script of Metadata update & Part number creation
• Drawing updates for new numbers

• Deduplication of data 
• 30% less time for migration of data compared to moving data manually
• Live vehicle migration to ensure early adoption of PLM

Customer is one of the Biggest Compressor Manufacturers with multiple variants of transformer. Customer is using 3DExperience since MatrixOne 10 version & has large amount of legacy data and customization. The install base includes –

• SolidWorks Integration
• LDAP integration in Part Management
• ERP Integration
• Document Management Integration

• Undocumented customization
• Backend modified data
• Inconsistent P&O
• Large dataset for migration

• De-customization and adoption of OOTB Change Management
• Large amount of data standardization & clean-up 
• Well planned data migration strategy & Downtime strategy to complete upgrade in stipulated downtime. 
• System stable in the first week of Go-Live