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    Circle 5

    Posted on by David Medeiros
    Success Stories

    Circle 5

    Founded in 1987, Circle 5 has established itself as a leader in the manufacturing and prototyping industry. Their expertise in machining both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, combined with their state-of-the-art multi-axis CNC and EDM capabilities, sets them apart.

    The injection mold company started over 35 years ago with 5 partners, giving them the 5 in their company name. They mainly service the automotive industry at 70% of their capacity while the remaining 30% is in medical, seating, farm equipment, and home products. They are focused on a diversity of products while keeping automotive at its core.

    Despite the challenges faced by many in this industry, Circle 5 continues to grow, break new ground, and embrace new technologies. Their positive outlook and commitment to delivering unparalleled quality and value for their clients is always their top priority

    Implementing PowerMill with Hands-On Local Support for Reduced Cost and Production Time

    The Challenge

    Having risen to champion many of the current industry challenges, Circle 5 have been able to find continued success and made plans for expansion. This presented a new challenge, as their current software was not able to support them in this expansion and, additionally, the costs of the software itself were continuously rising. Realizing they needed a new partner to help them achieve their goals for the future, they reached out to SolidCAD to start the collaboration.

    The Solution

    As an industry leader, Circle 5’s customers expect high quality and consistency at all times. This means that they need a software solution that is extremely flexible and can be custom tailored to their needs. They were already using PowerMill in a limited capacity and wanted to see what it could do across the company. SolidCAD’s team agreed that this would be the best solution for them and were able to offer the technical expertise that Circle 5 needed to fully make the switch. In the implementation process, local support was extremely pivotal to the migration. The team spent several weeks on site installing the system and helping to build a new process for Circle 5 to make their products.

    The Results
    • Customization and automation have been the key to improving their business operation
    • The implementation of PowerMill has allowed for lower user input
    • Their new process decreases both cost and turn around time

    Testimonial

    To other companies that are in our position: Buy into learning with SolidCAD. It’s worth developing that relationship. It’s in the name, they are solid!

    - Terry Bennett, Special Projects Manager, Circle 5

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    Posted on by Malaika Lwakila
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    Procepack

    PROCEPACK is a firm specializing in the purchase and sale of packaging and process equipment. They serve customers from a wide range of industries from food and cosmetics to pharmaceuticals. They leverage their vast and established network of partners to source the best materials to meet their customer bases’ diverse needs.

    Facing the Future Together – Increasing Productivity and Efficiency with Inventor Pro and Vault Pro

    The Challenge

    PROCEPACK found success with their previous software, creating high-quality products for their customers, but they knew they were capable of more. As they planned for the future, they began to feel frustrated by lack of communication with their former software provider and felt like their business needs were not being truly understood. Their questions were often met with estimates rather than conversations and they began to feel ignored. As a company who value partnership and strong business relationships with their customers, they knew they needed to find a software provider who felt the same way.

    Additionally, offering custom packaging presents its own challenge. PROCEPACK needed software that they could fully rely on to create high-quality fully customizable designs in a cost-efficient and time-efficient manner. With such a vast customer base, they needed a system that could accommodate the ever-changing needs of not just their industry, but the industries of all their customers.

    The Solution

    PROCEPACK connected with SolidCAD, not only looking for software solutions, but for a long-term partner to support their continued growth. They had several conversations with the SolidCAD team to discuss their goals and needs and worked together to find a solution.

    They decided to upgrade to Inventor Pro to insure they could create custom designs accurately and consistently. Additionally, after further understanding PROCEPACK’s vision and needs, our team recommended Vault Pro to facilitate easy and flexible document management across teams.

    Confident with our new partnership, and impressed by the skill of our technical staff, PROCEPACK also opted for custom programming to increase efficiency and reduce unnecessary time and money spent on tasks that were easily automated. Our teams continue to communicate regularly and maintain a strong relationship as we grow together into the digital future.

    The Results
    • PROCEPACK have been able to increase productivity
    • Reduced cost through automation of their environment, including their ERP
    • Documents can be easily accessed online without the need for physical records
    • Both SolidCAD and PROCEPACK have gained a strong partnership and built a positive relationship for years to come

    Testimonial

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    – Lorie-Ann F.Bouchard, General Manager at Procepack

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    D-Wave Quantum Inc. (D-Wave) is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services. It is the only quantum computing company building both annealing and gate model quantum computers and offers quantum systems, cloud services, application development tools, and professional services to support the end-to-end quantum journey. From its inception, D-Wave has focused on delivering products and services that provide the fastest path to practical, real-world quantum and quantum-hybrid applications with customer value. Its solutions are used to tackle optimization problems spanning a multitude of industries, including manufacturing and logistics, financial services, life sciences, retail and many more. Its broad portfolio of enterprise customers—such as Mastercard, Volkswagen, Pattison Food Group, DENSO, Toyota, BBVA, NEC, Deloitte, and Lockheed Martin—have built hundreds of early quantum applications in diverse areas such as resource scheduling, mobility, logistics, drug discovery, portfolio optimization, manufacturing processes, among others.

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    The Challenge

    As a leader in the development of quantum computing systems, D-Wave prioritizes building high-quality systems, software, and services for its customers. With growing needs for increased cross-enterprise collaboration and heightened demand from customers, D-Wave recognized that it needed to improve its current Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). It was particularly looking for a solution that would increase the efficiency of its processes. D-Wave required to solve the following challenges in order to meet its business goals:

    • Bill of Materials (BOM) management and collaboration.
    • Manual BOM and data input into ERP.
    • Lack of integration, automation, and API capabilities of the system in place.
    • Manual change control and change management.
    The Solution

    SolidCAD and D-Wave teams worked closely to create the best strategy that would meet D-Wave’s business requirements. The solution was to:

    • Implement Autodesk’s PLM solution, Fusion 360 Manage platform.
    • Create a bi-directional integration between Fusion 360 Manage and NetSuite ERP.
    The Results

    Today, D-Wave uses PLM to manage Supply Chain, BOMs and Changes. The live and bi-directional integration between PLM and NetSuite ERP allows D-Wave to gain efficiency and ensure consistent knowledge-sharing by using PLM as the single source of data. The result of SolidCAD and D-Wave’s collaboration was a solution that allowed D-Wave to:

    • Replace its existing systems with Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage PLM, one modern centralized platform.
    • Manage BOMs and supply chain needs.
    • Streamline the management of: Vendors, Vendor Part Numbers, Manufactures and Manufacturers Part Numbers.
    • Centralize Change Management processes. PLM has empowered D-Wave to proactively keep track of changes.
    • Make more informed decisions by having access to all the necessary data in one location. The integration between NetSuite ERP and PLM has enabled the engineering and purchasing teams to increase their work efficiency

    Testimonial

    The main increase in functionality we have seen is the synchronization of the Fusion 360 Manage PLM database with our ERP database.

    The ability to add custom filtering to searches is much superior to our old system. For example, I can look for parts I created in the last 43 days that have the word “Nut” in the description and are not released to production.

    As it comes to time savings, we were able to:
    • Configure the part numbering system to match our existing method, saving thousands of hours of engineering work.
    • Remove around 8 manual processes/workarounds with Excel to move data around and supply data to our engineers.
    • Configure the Item Master sheet to be able to see all the fields that our engineers care about on one screen. No more flipping back and forth between tabs or scrolling up and down.
    As it comes to ERP integration, automation with scripts were able to help us with:
    • On-Creation of a new part; automatically pushes the data to our ERP system.
    • On-Save of a pre-release part; automatically pushes the data to our ERP system every time we edit a part.
    • On-Transaction-in-ERP: pulls data on quantity, on-order, price, and stock location from our ERP back to Fusion. No need for a second license to get the information from the ERP system.
    • Third party middleware: link the two databases bi-directionally. No waiting until midnight for them to sync up.
    • Add-hidden fields for database internal IDs: the middleware can make changes in the other database directly.
    • Links between the part supplier and part manufacturing workspaces to allow them to be linked together and pushed to our ERP system.
    As it comes to Engineering Change Order (ECO) process:
    • Creates very simplified part release that allows for low overhead to our engineers and enables very fast prototyping.
    • Creates more complex workflow for released production parts and assemblies
    – Dave Bruce, Principal Mechanical Engineer at D-Wave

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    • Fusion 360 Manage.
    • Implementation, Integration and Project Management.
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