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DELMIAWorks
Modern ERP for small to mid-size manufacturing businesses
What Does DELMIAWorks Do?
DELMIAWorks’ Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provides manufacturers with an end-to-end solution that not only manages departmental operations, but also orchestrates information and workflows across the entire business.
It supplies the digital thread that enables and empowers cross-functional collaboration with the business intelligence necessary to respond and adapt to customer, market, and industry demands quickly, efficiently, and accurately.
DELMIAWorks is tailored for small-to-mid-sized manufacturers (SMBs) and mid-market companies, offering a robust and scalable Manufacturing ERP and MES system. This solution is designed to enhance efficiency, handle complex production processes, and support growing manufacturers transitioning from smaller systems.
What is the Value of DELMIAWorks Software?
The value comes from empowering mid-market manufacturers by blending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) into one shared database. Rather than relying on disconnected software, your team gains a dependable single source of truth.
This unified setup removes the headache of tangled third-party integrations, guarantees consistent, accurate data across every department, and streamlines workflows. By centralizing operations, it enhances collaboration, reduces errors, and enables smarter, faster decision-making to drive sustainable growth.
How DELMIAWorks Leverages Artificial Intelligence
DELMIAWorks leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform shop floor data into actionable intelligence. Key applications include:
Predictive Maintenance
Analyzes machine sensors (temperature, vibration) to predict failures, reducing unplanned downtime.
Production Optimization
Uses AI algorithms to analyze manufacturing data, identifying patterns to optimize real-time scheduling and detect potential bottlenecks.
Quality Control
Employs deep-learning for visual inspection, catching defects with up to 90% higher accuracy than human counterparts.
Resource Management
Optimizes inventory levels and energy consumption based on fluctuating market demands and production schedules.
DELMIAWorks Key Benefits
End-to-end Operational Visibility
Offers real-time monitoring of production, inventory, schedules and quality in order to see exactly what is happening and react faster to issues like bottlenecks or delays
Better Decision-making with Real-time Data
Real-time analytics and predictive insights provide decision-makers with the intelligence to anticipate maintenance needs, prevent production slowdowns, and improve strategic planning
Enhanced Quality and Compliance
Integrated quality management features support defect tracking, audits, traceability and regulatory compliance
Improved Collaboration Across Functions
By centralizing data and workflows, DELMIAWorks enhances communication between departments such as planning, production, quality and finance
Improved Efficiency and Productivity
Streamlines processes, reduces manual work, cuts waste and improves throughput by synchronizing production with demand materials and resource availability
The DELMIAWorks Approach to Manufacturing ERP
Legacy, homegrown and fragmented systems solve problems in silos, leaving business leaders without the comprehensive information necessary to strategically manage the business. DELMIAWorks takes a different approach. The manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system has been built from the ground up to deliver end-to-end visibility of the complete manufacturing process.
Portfolio Built for the Mainstream Market
DELMIAWorks is a business innovation portfolio purpose-built for mainstream market. It makes industry leading technologies for design, simulation, data management and manufacturing solutions from Dassault Systèmes accessible to anyone involved in the product design and manufacturing processes, regardless of their size.
By incorporating DELMIAWorks ERP and MES functionality into the comprehensive end-to-end portfolio, mid-market manufacturers have a solid technology infrastructure to run their business, backed by the real-time performance and scalability that companies need to serve their customers successfully.
Proof that DELMIAWorks Pays Off
Enhanced synergy between model needs, behaviors, architecture, and performance to detect issues early and improve decisions.
Streamlined inspections, scheduled calibrations, and documented processes quality modules, leading to cost savings.
Fostered continuous improvement, simplified compliance and paved the way for robotics.
Enhanced data integrity, better communication, accurate costing, increased capacity for growth and reduced time-to-market.
Facilitated global expansion by automating manufacturing and ensuring real-time access to production, financial and operational data.
Reduced inventory management by up to 10%, lowered cost of goods sold and boosted profit margins.
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