Reducing unnecessary parts: General Industry Coverage

END USER: Rohm GmbH, (800) 445-7646, www.rohm-products.com.
CHALLENGE: Streamline the digital parts library used to produce workholders.
SOLUTION: Strategic parts management software.
SOLUTION PROVIDER: Cadenas GmbH, +49 821-258-5800, www.cadenas.de.

In addition to internally designed parts, Röhm GmbH, Sontheim/Brenz, Germany, uses more than 12,000 standard parts to produce its workholding clamps and chucks. (Röhm Products of America is based in Lawrenceville, Ga.) With so many parts, streamlining product search and selection is critical to meeting the needs of Röhm’s 1,500 employees at 60 facilities worldwide, according to the company.

Previously, CAD parts were manually filed in the company’s SAP enterprise application software, which required a lot of effort for every new part. Depending on the part type, each newly created part cost the company at least $270.

As a result, Röhm determined that it needed a parts management system that could reliably and accurately manage all components with significantly less effort. The goal was to simultaneously reduce the diversity and cost of parts.

Courtesy of Röhm Products of America

PARTsolutions strategic parts management software from Cadenas reduces unnecessary parts and increases revenue and productivity at Röhm, which produces workholding clamps and chucks.

Because it already had experience with production software from Cadenas GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, Röhm targeted the software developer’s PARTsolutions strategic parts management software. According to Cadenas, the software helps to manage, find and reduce the volume of CAD components in a fast and easy manner, reducing long-term costs.

“By standardizing design and implementing an easy method of supporting the parts catalog, the design process is streamlined, saving time and finances,” said Heinrich Müller, CAD administrator for Röhm. “Using parts over and over, instead of recreating them, reduces the burden for departments like procurement and logistics.”