Parts Management System
Timely and accurate information about the parts and components for designing, building and servicing products is a critical success factor in a complex manufacturing environment.
With 70% or more of a product's costs committed during design, lack of relevant part information can significantly affect the cost of components and assemblies. In addition, the inability to effectively manage rapidly changing parts information leads to a high level of duplication or reusability of parts (30% to 40% for an average manufacturer), further increasing costs.
The Trigent Parts Management Software Solution helps manufacturers reduce costs associated with parts introduction, duplication, and retirement. Trigent's solution gives engineering organizations the ability to:
- Create and maintain standard parts descriptions and vendor lists
- Organize information in the way most appropriate for each engineer's unique needs, with support for multiple classifications of parts and suppliers
- Facilitate company-specific business processes for the approval of the introduction of new parts or suppliers
- Access timely information about parts and components, integrating information from CAD, PDM, ERP and SCM systems
- Eliminate duplicate part introductions, promote parts reuse, and reduce duplicate parts already in production
- Support rationalization of suppliers by cross-reference of suppliers-to-parts and identification of overlaps and parameterization of suppliers based on key performance factors
