Automotive Tier-One Suppliers Gain Automated Data Translations

By DE Editors

Theorem Solutions, Inc. (Loveland, OH) announced the adoption of its Theorem Process Manager (TPM) by several North American automotive suppliers. Among the major automotive suppliers benefiting from the adoption of TPM are the MTU Division of Detroit Diesel and the Cosma Division of Canadian automotive manufacturer Magna International.

Both companies are using TPM to automate the translation of CAD data into formats requested by customers and internal design partners. With a diverse base of customers located across the globe, both companies were suffering from long turnaround times in meeting these data requests. Due to the very large file sizes, many of these translations would tie up computing resources and personnel for prohibitively long periods of time.

TPM was designed to automate any manual, time-intensive batch process or Back Office activities that have historically created bottlenecks for manufacturers. TPM automates, schedules, manages and controls these processes and can be set up to process these tasks during off-hours when most computers and workstations sit idle.

Both MTU and Cosma have reaped significant time and manpower savings as a result of incorporating TPM for automated data translations. Before automating the process at Cosma, the company had five people performing these time-consuming translations. Today that number is down to two people with hopes of reducing that further. When requests for data come in, the data coordinators simply drag and drop the files to the TPM job queue. TPM processes translations on a dedicated server 24 hours a day.

For more information, please contact Theorem Solutions, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.