Digitalization - Tool selection and implementation

Imagine: The digitalization of processes shall now take place in your company as well!

Computer Aided for Everything – CAX

10 years ago I had the pleasure to be part of a small, decicive team with the task to select a CAQ system for advanced quality planning and audit in a globally active enterprise and then to do the implementation.

Even today in some places the digitalization is to use an office tool package for each and everything.

Office is a powerful toolset. But to support the use and analysis of data it is strongly limited.

There is a reasonably large number of potential tools. Some sales people explain every task to be solved immediately , in the standard package, without any training.

Please be aware: Software must fit for your company, for your organization, for your processes.
In most cases this needs company specific alignments.
Software fitting without alignment would be a – not expectable – piece of luck.

You should be clear about,

  • how your processes work.
  • Which steps shall be digitalized?
  • From which systems will the needed data come and where will results go to and will be reported?
  • Which data need to be compacted and summarizied for the management or as a KPI?
  • Is there a place for true data? Or does the company have several places / databases of similar data from different sources, all competing to show the truth?
  • Are there machines to deliver data (e.g. CAD system, 3D measurement units, interfaces for operational data, scanners, test results)
  • How to connect and network these sources with your software?
  • What is the rating by the company IT?
  • Are the proposals fitting into an overall concept?
  • What is about data security, access rights, multi client capability?

Since a few years a next criterium has ranked up for tool selection: The use of AI in the IT application.

  • What is the support by AI in the application?
  • What is the commercial advantage  of AI features?
  • How reliable is the information provided by the AI?
  • Stay confidential information confidential and limited in access to authorized rolls? 

My offer is to make my experience as a developer, administrator and trainer in tool selection and AI tool features available for your digitalization project.

The implementation of a new software is an investment and it has follow up costs.
I will consult you to keep main criteria in the scope of consideration and rating. This will ensure a good decision and will prevent a bad wake up.

Since 2023 I have been intensively involved in AI support of engieneering software.

I am not related to any software vendor and I know the methods that need to be supported by the tool.

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