PARTsolutions – The strategic parts management

“I just want to develop”, the engineer said.

Even though master data is becoming increasingly important as a result of digitalization, companies still regard its creation and maintenance as an annoying obligation that needs to be handled. Know-how is often lacking. Employees, who actually have other tasks to fulfil, must also take care of master data. The result is often poor data quality from which subsequent processes suffer.

Here is an example from construction: Instead of the engineer fully concentrating on the development of innovative products, to a large extent, his or her workday probably consists of rather unattractive activities such as creating master data. Not only is data creation an extreme annoyance, it also takes up considerable time and financial resources.

Save a lot of time and money through strategic parts management

In this short video, we will show you how you and your company can overcome these obstacles and create more room for the development of innovative products.

Reusing parts instead of creating new parts

With PARTsolutions, you can make your parts:

Accurate creation of new part master data

More than 850 manufacturer catalogs: Optimal basis for your master data

PARTsolutions offers engineers direct access to more than 850 certified CAD parts catalogs of well-known international manufacturers. The extensive standard and purchased parts library of the strategic parts management complements your database with detailed parts information. This ensures a flawless, organized database with correct manufacturer designations and order numbers significantly reducing the subsequent search effort for suitable components.

Classification of your drawing/individual parts

Classification 2.0 – geometric similarity search for 3D models

Classified product master data enables engineers and purchasers to efficiently find required components. However, most companies struggle to successfully implement classification/standardization topics for product master data. Generally applicable classification systems, such as ECLASS or ETIM, are well-suited for standard components such as standard and purchased parts. However, they are oftentimes unsuitable for drawing parts. In addition, a correct, manual assignment of parts to an existing classification system is very time-consuming and costly. Another issue is the subjective decisions of employees on how to correctly classify a product. Enormous deviations may occur. With Classification 2.0 in PARTsolutions, the system automatically searches for the parametric reference model (3D). For this, we only need your native design drawings. This means that time-consuming manual preparatory work is no longer necessary and subjective decisions are irrelevant.

In Classification 2.0, parametric reference models are stored for each class. For example, if an L-angle with certain dimensions is required, the system searches for parts that are geometrically similar to the parametric reference model. With classification 2.0, in addition to the component class (e.g., L-angle), the number and size of the holes must also be taken into account. Using a topology search, the system easily finds exactly the components with the necessary holes for your design in your database.

Classification of standard and purchased parts

Classification systems and ECLASS

D&TS will advise you on the most suitable standard classification system for your company or will also support you in building your own classification system. We classify your standard and purchased parts and visualize them in PARTsolutions. Through classification, you increase reuse in “C-parts” and reduce the administrative effort for management, approval and processing. In the long term, this will reduce the new creation of parts in your system and, by bundling suppliers, your procurement costs. D&TS has successfully classified material master data according to the ECLASS standard in numerous projects with renowned mechanical engineering companies.

D&TS builds a classification with you – whether it is ECLASS, ETIM or self-classification.