Hutchinson ensures compliance with OEM requirements

In summary

Using Aletiq, HUTCHINSON was able to:

✓ Ensure traceability and compliance with OEM requirements (Airbus, Dassault Aviation...)

✓ Establishing a single source of truth for data and ensuring digital continuity

✓ Accelerate industrialization cycles

✓ Digitize production workshops

Hutchinson is a multinational group leader in anti-vibration systems, fluid management and sealing solutions. By offering intelligent solutions, Hutchinson contributes to the mobility of the future by relying on two levers: innovation and operational excellence.

The group has 40,000 employees in 25 countries and its innovations cover a wide variety of particularly demanding markets: automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, rail and industry.

Operational challenges

Operational teams used numerous solutions to manage technical data (CATIA, Infor, Infor, Qualipro, Qualipro, Helios, servers...) and product information was scattered across different systems, formats, or teams, making their management, access, and operation complex:

There was a risk of error in using poor applicable data due to a lack of traceability on the evolution of documents, data and product configurations.

Development cycle times were not optimized, teams (design office, industrialization, quality...) operated in silos and lost a lot of time on tasks with no added value.

Setting up Aletiq

The deployment of Aletiq at HUTCHINSON was done in an agile way to quickly create value and allow teams to embark on the transformation. After only a few weeks of the project, the first use cases were deployed and the adoption of teams accelerated sharply. Finally, Aletiq will have supported HUTCHINSON for the complete deployment of PLM in record time:

→ Definition of the target model with operational teams

→ Historical data migration

→ Software settings

→ Setting up the interface with the INFOR XA ERP

→ Customized on-site user training

The adoption of teams

Thanks to Aletiq, HUTCHINSON has set up a single source of truth for all of its technical data:

The Aletiq x CATIA CAD plugin allows design office designers to greatly simplify CAD data management: index management, check-in/check-out, multi-criteria searches, simultaneous editing, signature and validation circuits... The data is simply accessible and can be shared with all operational teams.

The Methods team centralizes the management of industrial files, tools, bills of materials and manufacturing ranges. Monitoring developments and managing configurations ensures compliance.

The interface between Aletiq and the INFOR XA ERP ensures the synchronization of data in real time to avoid errors related to double entries. The link between OFs (production orders) and configurations makes it possible to ensure traceability and to distribute applicable documents in the workshop. Operators thus have access to manufacturing plans in 3 clicks, and without the risk of index error!

The management of the Quality Management System is done directly in the platform. The teams digitized the management of technical change processes and were thus able to significantly reduce cycle times.