Korg Italy Extends Use of think3 PLM

MILAN, Italy, Jul 14, 2009 - think3, the multinational company currently celebrating 30 years of activity in the CAD and PLM sector, and Korg Italy, part of the Japanese group Korg Inc., a leader in the production of electronic keyboards and musical instruments, have extended their historical partnership to enable a new PLM project.

Korg Italy Spa designs and manufactures high-tech musical instruments such as digital pianos and home keyboards. Korg Italy is the group’s European research and development centre. The company combines innovation and advanced technology with the solid Italian tradition of design and musical instrument making.

The collaboration between think3 and Korg Italy dates back to 1997 when think3 guided Korg Italy through the changeover from 2D to 3D. This development brought considerable benefits in the product development cycle. Recently, Korg Italy has extended the partnership with think3 for a new PLM project. A Korg product has between three hundred and one thousand components, some commercial, some customized. The company wanted to optimize its entire product development process and part management procedures.

“We were looking for a flexible, easy-to-use solution which permitted the management of the numerous components comprising a Korg product. At the same time the solution had to enable the management of parallel projects and the sharing of updated information both in-house and with our outside suppliers” says Franco Ripa, Hardware Development Manager at Korg Italy. To do this, Korg Italy implemented the thinkteam suite for product data management and webteam, the web interface for thinkteam. The solution proposed by think3 benefited the organization of the entire process and at the same time opened the way for Korg Italy towards globalization.

Korg Italy uses webteam to manage its spare parts service. This module is a winner with distributors because they can make orders in real time: the reseller sees the object, places it in the trolley with the price clearly shown and the order is processed automatically at Korg. Previously the spare parts service was managed by three people. Now, it only requires one.

“We are currently working on a new phase of the PLM project – the exchange of parts lists with China”, explains Ripa. Korg has had two production facilities in China for several years. Product engineering is done in Italy while China handles the production side. Ripa continues, “Our objective is to ensure that our parts list is automatically present on the Chinese management system. This will enable considerable savings in the time and resources needed to manage the lists. At present we transfer the lists manually on Excel spreadsheets which take a considerable time to draft and check. We also hope to reduce the amount of human error present in the current system. webteam will enable the various offices of Korg world-wide to access this information in real time.”

Put briefly, the implementation of these think3 solutions has brought the following benefits: more efficient collaboration between the company departments involved in the product development process thanks to the sharing of continuously updated information; a more straightforward, efficient change management process based on automatic communications between the company departments involved; more efficient supplier relations management thanks to equal electronic access to technical documents via webteam; elimination of manual processes; reduction in production errors; reduction in document retrieval times.

think3’s PLM solutions thinkteam is ideal for managing the data of products subject to continuous modifications and requiring a high degree of personalization. It makes it easy to handle requests regarding existing products. These operations would otherwise take days of manual searching given that there are hundreds of versions of existing products with each version having its own parts list. thinkteam manages all types of information and file no matter what the format or source application. The optional webteam module enables access to a remote thinkteam database over the Web. The codes, product structures, BOMs and documents are easy to display with a standard browser. There is no need to install a client. webteam enables downloading and uploading of documents and information. Its innovative task-driven interface makes webteam particularly easy to use.

For more information about Korg, visit www.korgpa.com.

About think3, Inc.

think3 has been operating in the ICT sector for 30 years and provides the only technology that links three separate design areas: the concept, its development and the finished product. In this way, think3 enables thousands of company customers to innovate, to compete and to rise to the challenges of global markets, thanks to the integration of processes, which helps to accelerate time to market and to reduce costs. think3 boasts a consolidated presence across Europe, the US and Asia. The company has also secured a strong presence in China following joint venture deal sealed with Beijing Extech Science & Technology Co. Ltd to create EXTECH, a brand new company based in Beijing, with offices across the country. In the rest of the world, think3 is present throughout its network of selected VARs (Value Added Resellers).

For more information, visit http://www.think3.com.

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