Sterideal

From Engineering-to-order to Configure-to-order

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Client:
Stork Food & Dairy Systems, Amsterdam.

Challenge: 
Restructuring, redesigning of the product family Sterideal; realisation of cost reduction and the necessary time for order engineering.
From history based to knowledge based.

Result:
- Cost reduction: 17%.
- Decreased order risks because of predictable configuration
- Increased delivery reliability because of predictable order progress and renewed contracting.
- Order creation in 40 hours (reduction 80%).
- Time to market; 9 months.
- With in total 1200 modules, all desired variants are configurable

Our approach: 
Combined, with members from project team SFDS, the project objectives have been defined.
Post en Dekker has been responsible for the integral project management.
On basis of the P&ID, the functional specifications and a generic product structure of the product family Sterideal have been composed. ATO and CTO modules have been defined and knowledge and configuration rules have been determined. The product family is determined as 100% CTO for the capacity of 6.5k, 8.5k, 11k, 13k 15.5k, 18k and 24k ltr/hr.
Standardising on a subdivision level, technical specifications have been determined. A procurement trajectory has been carried out. All generic modules of the product family have been integrally designed and intensively reviewed. Producing the variants of the generic modules happens automatically. 
The main and sub formations are customer-specific; and several modules are adapted to customer order. To compose a customer-specific order in a simple manner, a product configurator has been set up. With this, it is possible to configurate all order documents in a simple manner (3D/2D CAD and BOM). Connection to ERP is provided for. All product documentation has been delivered, including 3D/2D CAD, FS, TDS, engineering motivation and SAP lists.

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