Bluestar PLM Benefits

Work faster, smarter and global with Bluestar PLM

Bluestar PLM is a single and complete solution that connects the entire enterprise and end-to-end business processes, from early product development all the way to product fabrication and service. This means that you will enable the seamless sharing of data and documentation, and obtain optimal business process automation across Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Service domains.

CAD + PLM + ERP: One Platform for One Product Truth

Introducing the ultimate solution – a simplified IT structure embedding CAD, PLM and ERP in one system. The entire enterprise becomes more collaborative, efficient, and faster by bridging the gap between Engineering and Manufacturing.

A Single Source of Product Truth

When PLM operate as an embedded module in ERP, you ensure reliable product data is available at point-of-use for all departments and locations. With greater data transparency across departments and locations, you will avoid errors and miscommunications, with greater accuracy and predictability to make informed business decisions.

Seamless Data Flow across CAD, PLM and ERP

Transparent and Fast Change Cycles

ERP-based PLM allows for total-integrated engineering change management functionality, making the design impact and impact on logistics, manufacturing and cost feasibility of engineering changes fully visible, before they are implemented. When ECO’s (Engineering Change Order) are transparent, the risk of making errors decreases. In turn, it becomes easier and faster to make correct decisions, for faster lead-times and time-to-market.

End-to-end Business Process Automation

Because users from Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Service are brought together in one solution, workflow automation can be applied across the enterprise. This means that all your business processes can be fully mapped, monitored and executed from start to finish, so Engineering and Manufacturing can work in parallel rather than in sequence, for more efficient and shorter lead times.

Optimal Data Re-use

With data being centralized in one place, you can reuse CAD, PLM and ERP data. Design your new products in CAD-systems efficiently by retrieving data on items and parts already existing in your database. When product data is contained in a single environment you can easily search for and find parts related to other items/products based on parameters such as geometric position or similarity, attributes or classifications.

3D Configuration/Variant Management

Generate 3D Models based on your product configurations, and easily manage product variants. An ERP-based product configuration platform lets you manage the entire configuration process from quotation through engineering and manufacturing in a single system.

Comply with Product Regulations

By storing and managing data on material declarations, chemicals and regulatory specifications in one single solution, you will be able to comply with international substance regulations.

ERP-based PLM allows you to easily centralize, calculate and share your compliance data with your partners, suppliers and customers. This way, you will not risk having to pay huge fines, make expensive rework, suffer credibility loss or have your products taken off-market, when your entire product line complies with regulations for dangerous materials, such as RoHS and REACH.

Electronic, Mechatronic and Electrical Engineering and Collaboration

The integration of design software tools (e.g., Altium and EPLAN) gives you a single data base to manage your mechatronic data. This eliminates the need to jump between and manually exchanging, importing and exporting files between solutions.

Engineers from all disciplines will be able to easily exchange incremental suggestions for changes throughout the entire development process. This increases multi-domain collaboration, saving you costs on making last minute design changes that are expensive and constrained

Simplified IT Structure

When ERP and PLM exist in the same cloud-based Azure environment, it provides a simple IT infrastructure with no redundant maintenance of stand-alone PLM systems required for a low total cost of ownership. This also facilitates user adoption with a single interface of Dynamics 365/AX.

Worldwide Collaboration

Enables distributed engineering and manufacturing teams to collaborate globally by centralizing the product data in a global engineering repository, from where the data can be shared and released to the different entities of the organization.