Automation of production planning for electronic components

A major automotive industry manufacturer operates a system for the development, testing, approval and production planning of electronic components. Due to security measures against the e-discovery and industrial espionage, some locations abroad have no or only limited access to this system.

In order to do justice to the development, testing and approval process, employees at the affected locations must send their information and position names in the form of documents to employees at the German locations, which then have to be entered manually into the system. But as you imagine, this process is extremely labour intensive and error prone.

To solve this, we have developed a web-based software system that allows developers, testers and decision makers in the affected regions to enter their data. This solution allows relevant information to be imported into the group system without granting access to sensitive data meanwhile dynamic validation mechanisms provide user feedback and prevent data collection errors.

The newly established process is more transparent and comprehensible than the previous workaround and the results are obvious – manual work reduced tenfold and the quality of the recorded data is better than ever.