WRENCH helps BHEL trim product design cycle time

WRENCH helps BHEL trim product design cycle time
WRENCH PLM has helped BHEL reduce design document movement time by 35 percent and cut advice processing time by 50 percent, a perfect example of how Indian product manufacturers can bring products faster to market by reducing the time spent in designing products, says Akhtar Pasha.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), Hardwar, designs and manufactures a large number of products such as hydro, gas and steam turbines, turbo generators, condensers and motors. Products manufactured at BHEL's Hardwar unit are mostly engineered-to-orde r. Implementing WRENCH PLM from Cadd Solutions helped BHEL cut down product design cycle time, and in improving its change advice system, thereby bringing out products faster to market.

The Engineering Design department of BHEL prepares engineering drawings, which are then approved by its technology arm before releasing the same for manufacturing. It is a critical process as the technology cell first studies the feasibility of manufacturing the components in-house. The check-prints of a drawing are sent to the technology section as paper printouts. The technologists work on these paper drawings, adding comments and remarks. The process was complex and time-consuming and following up on these drawings was a tedious process. Some critical problems BHEL h