Success Story
Alcoa is one of the world’s largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting systems. With operations across different locations, Alcoa is constantly looking for ways to improve their efficiency and productivity. One of the areas Alcoa has identified for improvement was they needed to expand the capabilities and capacity of their in-house mechatronics design team, focusing on the development of bespoke industrial process analyzers. Alcoa recognized that once we went beyond a single person they would need a system that supported seamless collaborative work.
Alcoa faced several challenges in finding a suitable mechatronics design platform that could meet its needs. The platform had to:
- Support seamless collaborative work among team members who are scattered across many locations and globally mobile.
- Provide a large amount of versatility and functionality to handle different types of projects and requirements.
- Have great vendor and community support to ensure reliability, compatibility and scalability.
- Allow enough freedom and customization to configure the platform for Alcoa's unique way of working.
After evaluating several options, Alcoa decided to partner with CADGROUP, a leading provider of Autodesk software solutions and services in Australia who were able to offer Alcoa a very personalized service without pushing any agenda, which compared to Alcoa other vendor experiences was very refreshing. With CADGROUP in the team, Alcoa developed a very lightweight Autodesk Vault server, servicing two Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk AutoCAD clients. Alcoa has since grown this to 5 seats, plus a fully integrated external drafting partner company and have added considerably more automation to the Autodesk Vault server thanks to the technical capability of the CADGROUP team.
The Autodesk-CADGROUP service has given Alcoa a competitive edge in the market and a strong reputation for excellence. Alcoa constantly exceeds customers and their own expectations in many aspects: people productivity, design iteration speed, depth of design insights, production accuracy, record keeping and integrity. Alcoa cannot imagine going back to the old way of working without Autodesk software and Alcoa thinks they at least get another employee's worth of productivity gain from them.
The Autodesk solution is everything you expect, at each corner you come to in your journey. There is fantastic integration and truly a tool for everything. Partnering with CADGROUP has been the key to unleashing the full potential of the software suite. They are always there to call upon for any technical issue large or small. Each time Alcoa needs something new – a new feature or to automate something – it's just a call or emails away. CADGROUP has been very efficient as Alcoa's representative, dealing with Alcoa internal IT organization requirements. Alcoa truly regard CADGROUP as part of the team.
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Winning Construction Tenders by Producing Detailed Models and Designs
Keller is a global construction company providing geotechnical solutions with a very high demand on our design team. Designing quality, detailed models specific to loading requirements, geotechnical conditions and project objectives, and presented in a tender process, may determine winning or losing the project.
Arnotts implements Vault across all Australian sites
Arnott's Biscuits Limited is Australia's largest producer of biscuits and the second-largest supplier of snack food. Arnotts current Application Data Management (ADM) didn’t suit the workflow requirements. Users were essentially generating IP drawings separately from ADM and then requiring manually uploading and inputting metadata. Another standout issue is uploading 3rd Party generated drawing packages. The current ADM was not user friendly and is time consuming.
Use the AEC Collection to Deliver High Quality Projects
TOTAL is a company that is well-equipped to take a project from design concept through to completion and provide innovative construction solutions across the aged care and health, food and beverage, renewable energies, commercial and industrial, airports and infrastructure, education and childcare, and fit-out (retail and clubs) sectors. TOTAL required a comprehensive software solution to streamline their workflow.
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