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In addition to the use of Teamcenter and Tecnomatix, many <\/em> AGCO <\/em> specialized engineers around the world count on the tools from the Simcenter portfolio<\/a> to design and develop the various AGCO products in the company\u2019s diverse agriculture brand portfolio. Learn how<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGCO company in a nutshell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With its global footprint, AGCO has pursued a design-anywhere, build-anywhere strategy in tandem with a platform product architecture. Founded in 1990, AGCO has grown dramatically through a series of acquisitions that have brought together decades of collective agricultural equipment history and know-how, and now has a strong global presence with more than 40 manufacturing sites around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though you might not\nknow the company, you definitely know its brands: Challenger\u00ae, Fendt\u00ae, GSI\u00ae,\nMassey Ferguson\u00ae and Valtra\u00ae. AGCO products are distributed by approximately\n3,000 independent dealers and distributors in more than 140 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deploying PLM software to improve products development, manufacturing, and management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

product With its global footprint, AGCO has pursued a design anywhere, build-anywhere strategy in tandem with a platform product architecture. The goal is to more efficiently develop, manufacture, and manage the company\u2019s large portfolio of products. With that objective in mind, AGCO adopted Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and Tecnomatix\u00ae software for digital manufacturing, both from Siemens Digital Industries Software. The company first deployed the software at the company\u2019s Hesston, Kansas facility in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several factors influenced\nAGCO\u2019s decision to deploy Teamcenter and Tecnomatix in manufacturing, including\nthe need for standalone, paper-based manufacturing work instructions; the need\nto better manage design engineering process changes; issues with the use of the\nengineering bill-of-materials (EBOM) in the company\u2019s manufacturing resource\nplanning (MRP) system and manufacturing execution system (MES); and the ability\nto better serve the needs of manufacturing engineering in developing the\nmanufacturing bill-of-materials (MBOM) and process plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe build the same product\nat various sites,\u201d explains Susanne Lauda, global project lead, manufacturing\nautomation at AGCO. \u201cWe want to re-use the bill-of-process, we want to re-use\nthe MBOM and we want to re-use the majority of our electronic work\ninstructions, so it makes a lot of sense that our manufacturing engineers are\nworking on a common global platform, which for us is Teamcenter. With the use\nof Teamcenter, we are able to have one site basically doing 80 percent of the\nwork that is necessary for all sites that are building the same product, so\nthat\u2019s a huge savings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the case of design anywhere, build anywhere, all of our new product introductions are going to be platform-oriented, and will re-use data,\u201d says Gary D\u2019Souza, manufacturing engineering lead, global manufacturing PLM at AGCO. READ the full case here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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