Teamcenter X: Unlocking innovation at Lightera
How Lightera cut project timelines by 25%
In the dynamic global telecommunications market, companies face relentless pressure to innovate faster and with greater precision. Lightera, a leader in manufacturing advanced network infrastructure and telecommunications solutions, understands this demand all too well. The company knew that to stay competitive, it needed to streamline its product development processes and drive faster innovation. This is where Teamcenter X, a part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform, became an indispensable tool, enabling Lightera to cut development time by 25% and significantly optimize operations.
Formerly known as Furukawa Electric LatAm, Lightera LatAm S.A. has united with its Japanese and U.S. counterparts under the Lightera brand, leveraging global expertise to deliver a world-class optical solutions portfolio. Lightera’s mission is clear: to identify, select, and develop products that exceed diverse customer expectations. With headquarters in Paraná, Brazil, and a focus on cable and connectivity advisor products, Lightera is at the forefront of technological innovation, manufacturing telecommunications solutions that support critical network infrastructures worldwide
Overcoming barricades to innovation
Despite its success, Lightera confronted several significant challenges. First, capturing accurate product history was difficult, hindering decision-making and product development optimization. The decentralized management approach led to operations lacking a unified methodology. These hurdles slowed down the development process, affecting the speed to market of new products.
Lightera leadership recognized that digitally transforming their processes was imperative. It required restructuring how products were documented, eliminating redundant systems, and establishing transparency in project decision history.
The biggest technical challenges were mainly related to documentation, to organize the documentation well and ensure accurate history so that, in the future, we can revisit it and understand past decisions.
Xavier Chiron, Global Portfolio Manager at Lightera
Teamcenter X accelerates product development
After a thorough Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) selection process, Lightera chose Teamcenter X for its strong reputation and excellent capabilities in document management, scheduling, reporting, and analytics. Siemens supported Lightera with workshops to demonstrate the technology and assisted throughout the selection and integration process, guiding them from feature selection to implementation.
The cloud-based PLM solution from Siemens provided several strategic advantages:
- Streamlined product development
- Lightera ensured robust communication and a streamlined flow of information across teams with document management. This new approach helped eliminate email clutter and lost information, paving the way for better organization and efficiency.
- Optimized ideation
- Previously informal, the ideation process at Lightera gained structure with Teamcenter X, which enabled the team to filter out less promising ideas swiftly. This structured approach was vital in ensuring that only the most viable ideas reached the development phase.
We believe the best way to reduce time-to-market is to use Teamcenter X to improve the product idea selection process and monitor project evolution.
Xavier Chiron, Global Portfolio Manager, Lightera
Quantifiable success with Teamcenter X
Implementing Teamcenter X manifested several remarkable outcomes:
- 25% reduction in development time
- Focused on promising projects, Lightera reduced development time, enabling new products to reach the market faster
- Focused on promising projects, Lightera reduced development time, enabling new products to reach the market faster
- Enhanced decision-management
- The global accessibility of Teamcenter X enabled Lightera to collaborate efficiently across multiple development centers worldwide
- The global accessibility of Teamcenter X enabled Lightera to collaborate efficiently across multiple development centers worldwide
- Improved ROI and operations
- With efficient resource management and operational optimization, Lightera witnessed reduced time-to-market, a critical factor in staying competitive.
Lightera at the forefront
Teamcenter X has substantially improved the operational efficiency, innovation pace, and project management processes at Lightera. This transformation has not only enabled them to meet their immediate operational goals but has positioned them for the future. The adoption of cutting-edge technology, exemplified through this collaboration, stands as a testament to the impactful role digital tools can play in today’s fast-evolving business landscape.
Our philosophy is to choose long-term partners who understand our business and can grow with the value we can produce with the partnership… We also do a lot of benchmarking in the market, both technically and in terms of our partners’ delivery capabilities. Through this process, we decided that Siemens was a valuable partner with great potential to deliver what we needed.
Guilherme Hoffmann, Digital Transformation Manager at Lightera
So far, this partnership has been very fruitful.
Unleash your potential with Teamcenter X
For companies looking to streamline their operations and drive innovation, exploring the capabilities of Teamcenter X could be the strategic advantage they need. Contact Siemens today to discover how digital solutions can elevate your business.
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