How Plasma-Tech Systems Cut Waste by Up to 20% with Solid Edge
Growth is great—but it can also expose the cracks in your processes.
For Hungarian machinery manufacturer Plasma-Tech Systems, expanding from plasma cutting systems into fiber laser technology, automation, robotics and contract manufacturing meant taking on increasingly complex projects. To keep up, the company needed its digital processes to scale alongside its production capabilities.
That’s where Designcenter Solid Edge came in.
From plasma cutting to complex machinery
Founded in 2010, Plasma-Tech Systems started out distributing and manufacturing plasma cutting systems. In 2014, the company spotted the growing potential of fiber laser technology and began developing its own fiber laser equipment for the Hungarian market.
The business continued to evolve. After joining the VESZ-MONT Group in 2016, Plasma-Tech Systems expanded into automation, robotics and custom production systems. Later, it added contract manufacturing services including welding, machining, portal milling, painting and sandblasting.
Today, the company operates across a 3,300-square-meter production area and serves customers in several European countries.
But moving from relatively straightforward sheet metal work to designing and manufacturing complex, high-value machinery created a new challenge: the company needed a more efficient and scalable way to manage design, quoting and production.
One design environment from quotation to production
Plasma-Tech Systems wanted more than a CAD tool. It needed a solution that could support the entire workflow.
“We needed a design solution that could be used throughout the entire process, from quoting to production handoff. Designcenter Solid Edge proved to be the right fit.”
— Béla Ladányi, Managing Director, Plasma-Tech Systems
With support from Siemens partner Enterprise Group Technologies, the company implemented Designcenter Solid Edge as a unified software environment across its processes.
One area where the benefits quickly became visible was sheet metal design. Customer designs often arrive without being optimized for Plasma-Tech Systems’ production environment. With Solid Edge, engineers can quickly adjust parameters to match manufacturing requirements.
The result? 15 to 20 percent less waste.
For a contract manufacturer working with tight margins and demanding delivery schedules, that reduction can make a significant difference. It also helps the company calculate costs more accurately before production begins.
Faster reactions when designs change
Material savings aren’t the only benefit. Design changes are part of everyday life in custom machinery and contract manufacturing. The faster teams can respond, the easier it becomes to keep projects on schedule.
By working in a unified Designcenter Solid Edge environment, Plasma-Tech Systems has reduced its reaction time for design modifications by 18 to 20 percent.
That added agility helps the company respond to customer requests, customize machines and make changes without unnecessarily slowing down production. The user-friendly interface also makes it easier to tailor machines to specific customer requirements while minimizing commissioning errors and accelerating delivery schedules.
Digitalization that scales with the business
Plasma-Tech Systems’ experience highlights an important point: scaling manufacturing isn’t simply about adding production capacity. As products become more complex and customer requirements more specific, the processes connecting design and manufacturing need to scale as well.
By standardizing its workflows around Designcenter Solid Edge, Plasma-Tech Systems has been able to:
- Reduce manufacturing waste by 15 to 20 percent
- Cut reaction times for design changes by 18 to 20 percent
- Improve cost accuracy
- Customize machinery more efficiently
- Minimize commissioning errors
- Accelerate delivery schedules
And the transformation isn’t finished. The company plans to continue building on the same digital foundation as it evaluates new tools and capabilities.
As Ladányi puts it:
“The right software, with the right support, can fundamentally transform a manufacturing business.”
For Plasma-Tech Systems, that transformation has already delivered measurable results—less waste, faster reactions and a more scalable approach to building increasingly complex machinery.
