USER STORY IN THE EDM/PDM WORLD : Joy Mining Machinery

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IN THE EDM/PDM WORLD :

JOY MINING MACHINERY

Problem
Joy Mining Machinery is a subsidiary of Harnischfeger Industries, a Fortune 300 company with annual sales of over $2 billion. With facilities throughout the world, Joy provides mining companies with the complete range of equipment needed in today's complex longwall mining operations. The company also provides full integration services and custom-tailored solutions that address the needs of specific mining technologies.

As a result of phenomenal growth, Joy faced the difficult task of coordinating information contained in multiple databases. At the time, the company had no centralized procedures for controlling engineering changes or making them readily available to users. To address this problem, they purchased an HP-UX 10.20 server, implemented a centralized database and installed SAP R/3 software. But during system testing, engineers discovered a critical functional oversight: The inability to integrate and make available key engineering tools like Pro/ENGINEER. Because engineering is the vital link upon which other "downstream" processes depend, the company sought to resolve this problem quickly, and to do this they chose CADIM

Solution
CADIM provided Joy with a highly functional interface between R/3 and Pro/ENGINEER. Each remote location was given PC-access to the central database, and data from the remote locations' old databases was successfully consolidated and uploaded to the CADIM/EBD central database, giving users global access.

CADIM's advanced functionality, intuitive interface and built-in flexibility enabled Joy to inexpensively customize the product to meet the company's data handling and process integration needs. The deep integration between SAP and CADIM saved time and reduced errors by minimizing the need for engineers to work with R/3 modules or repeatedly enter data. CADIM also helped Joy to automate its engineering change processes; implement tighter, more efficient engineering controls; and reduce engineering labor costs.

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