Volume manufacturing is Gooch and Housego's specialty with a notable annual production of 60 tons of single-crystalline lithium niobate.
A staff of 150 people delivers a number of highly customized product lines involving internal and external development teams.
This environment, coupled with increasing pressure from customers for solutions to be delivered in a much faster timeframe, required the company to take a look at their existing product development processes and find ways to improve efficiencies.
Automating their manual processes was essential to streamline communication among the product development teams for faster reviews and evaluation.
In addition, automating the sharing of product development and change management information between their
Infor ERP Baan (now
SYSPRO) system
and
Cadence® OrCAD® CIS design environment would address data inconsistencies and eliminate re-work.
After assessing PLM vendors, they selected the Omnify Empower PLM solution because of its ability to address all of their requirements at a much more reasonable cost than other systems, easily integrate with their existing design and manufacturing systems, and the willingness of the Omnify team to support their needs.
Key Benefits:
| • | Reduced ECO cycle time by 16% |
| • | Estimated overall savings of $250k over 5 years |
| • | Ensures accuracy of data across the enterprise |
| • | Easy to use solution/fast user adoption |
| • | Eliminate waste in manually searching and accessing product information |
| • | Meet ISO and RoHS compliance requirements |