Industrial Manufacturing Computing Challenges

In an industry where complexity is increasing in quantum leaps, yet time to market and overhead cost reductions are critical to business success, meeting your business objectives means overcoming a number of business and technology challenges, including:

Avoid and reduce operating costs

With little or no visibility into the highest cost or lowest quality processes, it’s difficult to make a significant impact on the bottom line

Close the gap between design concept and delivery

In order to remain competitive, you need to run the most complex simulations, tests and models in the shortest amount of time and ‘do it right the first time’

Deliver higher quality products

Without knowing how processes are consuming IT and people resources, you are forced to choose between quality and profitability

The Platform Computing Solution

Free your engineers, designers and testers from technology constraints to increase product quality with a grid computing solution from Platform.

By integrating technology silos and revitalizing your entire computing infrastructure into an agile, responsive one without incurring significant capital expenditures, you won’t have to sacrifice quality for speed or profitability for competitive advantage.

• Reduce the amount of wasted compute cycles in your enterprise. Remove cost from the infrastructure by consolidating and sharing computer resources across groups and locations. Platform grid software harnesses the full potential of your existing resources to accommodate increased complexity so that the cost of change is lower and payback comes sooner.
• Maximize the utilization of costly software application licenses. Software applications are one of the most expensive IT assets for an Industrial Manufacturing engineering department. Platform can maximize software utilization by scheduling resources on an enterprise-wide basis.
• Accelerate product development by improving compute resource availability. Make fabrication and assembly processes shorter and more manageable and do more of the design process in a virtual environment thus reducing the need for physical prototypes and testing for shorter, more manageable processes and higher quality products.
• Manage IT resources more intelligently. Correlate your IT infrastructure utilization and performance data with your processes and business priorities. Gain visibility to proactively conduct analysis, diagnosis and prognosis of your IT environment. Identify the highest cost or lowest quality items in your processes and address them before they have a negative impact on your business.
• Allow for easy access to your compute resources. Most Industrial Manufacturing organizations have design teams deployed in several worldwide locations to help meet the demands of globally segmented markets. With Platform, engineers can meet the demands of this design anywhere, build anywhere organization strategy by allowing secured access to simulation tools through an easy-to-use, secured,  EnginFrame web portal environment.  
  
  

  Platform in Aerospace

  Manage complex design flows from beginning to end by organizing your enterprise’s computing infrastructure into easily managed, highly reliable clusters. Platform grid software allows you to harness the full potential of existing resources to accommodate increased complexity, lowering the cost of change and realizing payback sooner.
  
  

  Platform in Automotive

  Close the gap between design concept and delivery with shorter, more manageable processes when you leverage underutilized IT resources. Platform grid software allows you to run the most complex, comprehensive simulations, tests and models in a fraction of the time, while reducing the need for physical prototypes and testing.
  
  

  Platform in General Manufacturing

  Speed up time-to-market and reduce the cost of product development by accelerating the product development process. With Platform grid software, overall throughput increases as compute resources are used more efficiently and jobs spend less time pending in a queue.