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Sharing Components
Information to Clients:
a Key Element Enabling Full
Digital Design and Supply
Chain Management

From “case study” to real production: the experience of Georg
Fischer Piping Systems, global leading thermoplastic piping
solutions Provider

Maurizio M. Granata - Intergraph PPM - part of Hexagon, Milan, Italy
Hanspeter Müller, Gianluca Premoli - Georg Fischer Piping Systems Ltd., Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Soeren Rettmann - Intergraph PPM - part of Hexagon, Dortmund, Germany

Each and every project and production In the digital age, the process featuring
facility in the industry is “unique and the transition of a component from
special”; however, parts and compo- “concept” to “product”, and then to
nents belonging to them are often simi- “good”, “supply” and finally “asset”,
lar or indeed the same.
Parts and components result from ei- implies defining, managing, and sharing
ther standardized productions, or “customization” product data that producers and
on order, and evolving expertise that has been
driven by increasing needs and customers’ require- manufacturers generate and know in
ments. advance.
In the digital age, the process featuring the transi-
tion of a component from “concept” to “product”, Moreover, the more and the most efficient will be
and then to “good”, “supply” and finally “asset”, such a “sharing” information, the better chances
implies defining, managing, and sharing product for all stakeholders to work with accurate, appro-
data that producers and manufacturers generate priate, and complete information during both proj-
and know in advance. ect and asset life cycles.

Sharing Components Information to Clients
A Key Element Enabling Full Digital Design
and Supply Chain Management

Information sharing is nowadays a critical element to success. As technology progresses and global market pressure grows,
Vendors and Suppliers may make product data available to the whole supply chain.
Unique Intergraph technology is available to strengthen the ability for Suppliers and Vendors to share key information to Clients,
therefore maximizing digital cooperation and collaboration with materials stakeholders on Clients side – both EPCs and Owner
Operators - since early stage of design phase.
This article features the experience of Georg Fischer Piping Systems - global leading provider of complete thermoplastic piping
solutions, who embraced this idea and the vision of such a collaboration first, and turned it into the reality, to gain - in addition
- an innovative sales tool, and open a door to Manufacturing 4.0.

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