Mr. Damodaran, Siechem Cables: CableBuilder, the ultimate design tool for cables
12/07/2011 »
It’s about a year ago that Siechem Wires&Cables selected CableBuilder© to further boost the efficiency and quality of their design and quoting processes. Mr. Damodaran, Managing Director at Siechem Wires&Cables (Siechem) explains the benefits that his company enjoys from the InnoVites software and services.
Siechem designs and produces a wide variety of specialized cables utilizing their state-of-the-art technology which includes an electron beam irradiation facility.
Siechem Wires&Cables
Siechem Wires&Cables commenced its operations during March 2002. The company is engaged in manufacturing Wires & Cables for many specialized applications. The company has installed modern and state-of-the-art machines, such as an electron beam irradiation facility. It operates an R&D Centre, Compounding facility and fully equipped laboratory. Siechem’s products meet RoHS norms as per European standards.CableBuilder©
CableBuilder© is a popular cable design software that is used by many cable manufacturers around the world. It’s 15 years ago that CableBuilder© was first installed at the customer. Today more than 70 cable manufacturers use the software to streamline their designing and quoting processes.Siechem Wires&Cables was one of the first customers of CableBuilder© in India. Mr. Damodaran, Managing Director Siechem Wires&Cables, understood the value of the software after thorough evaluation.
Key benefits
Today, Mr. Damodaran looks back at the CableBuilder© implementation and comments at the solution. He is convinced that CableBuilder© is the ultimate design tool for a cable Industry.
Evaluating the product after 1 year of usage Mr. Damodaran identifies a number of key benefits:
- The system helps him to document the knowledge and experience of product and process development in the company. This makes Siechem Wires&Cables less dependent on the availability of individual employees, and the technical details are now accessible online from any place.
- Also, CableBuilder© helps the company to properly and efficiently store and the maintain customer-specific and industry standards. The technical requirements are kept up-to-date with minimal efforts. As Siechem Wires&Cables maintains a database with up to one million parts, CableBuilder© is instrumental in reducing the costs to keep the technical data consistent.
- Siechem Wires&Cables uses CableBuilder© to improve and accelerate their designing and quotation processes. By formalizing the procedures they are able to eliminate errors. With the simulation capabilities of CableBuilder© the company continuously develops competitive pricing strategies.
- Siechem Wires&Cables also minimizes their efforts to create designs and keeping them consistent. E.g. CableBuilder© will automatically calculate the impact of any design modifications on the effective metal weights of the cable.
Ready for the future
Mr. Damodaran adds: “The implementation of CableBuilder© has put Siechem Wires&Cables in the position to further optimize our business processes. The next step will be to use the system capabilities to enhance the Quality Assurance processes. Also we believe that the CableBuilder© implementation is the crucial starting point for a successful ERP implementation. With CableBuilder© we have an effective tool to manage our product and process data and this information will seamlessly integrate with ERP.”Summarizing, Mr. Damodaran concludes: “The investment in CableBuilder© delivers a lot of value to Siechem Wires&Cables, and the professional support of the InnoVites experts helps us to achieve these results.”
About Siechem Technologies Pvt Ltd : Siechem Cables is engaged in manufacturing wire and cables for aero space, automotive, marine, solar, wind energy, rolling stock, oil&gas, power, control, instrumentation, hybrid special cables and fire performance cables, and other specialized applications.
The company has ISI certificates for the different types of wires & cables and ISO: 9001 certification and prestigious AERB, Mumbai approval for the world class Electron Beam Irradiation facility. The company also specializes in design, development and manufactures any type of cable and accessories as per customer’s specific requirements, however complex it may be.
For more information, please refer to:
(w) www.siechem.com
(e) sales@siechem.com
(t) +91 -44-2522 6141 / 2522 0859
About InnoVites : InnoVites is an Independent Software Vendor with offices in India and The Netherlands. InnoVites is exclusively focused on the cable industry. InnoVites sells and develops the Industry Solution for the cable industry on Microsoft Dynamics AX. At InnoVites we believe that only a software solution with a natural fit with a cable manufacturing company will deliver its full potential and unleashes enormous business value to our customers in the cable industry.
For more information, please refer to:
(w) www.innovites.com
(e) info@innovites.com
(t) +31 (0) 885 000 150
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