{"id":297,"date":"2019-03-18T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Teamcenter-Blog\/Electrolux-implements-digital-manufacturing-worldwide\/ba-p\/575914"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:47:57","slug":"electrolux-implements-digital-manufacturing-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/electrolux-implements-digital-manufacturing-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrolux Implements Digital Manufacturing Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">With Tecnomatix and Teamcenter, Electrolux creates a uniform, digital manufacturing process.&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electroluxgroup.com\/en\/electrolux-headquarters-17256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Electrolux AB<\/a>, based in Stockholm, Sweden, sells appliances for household and commercial use in 150 countries around the world. With around 58,000 employees and 46 production sites, the company develops and manufactures products of numerous brands: in addition to Electrolux, the top brands Grand Cuisine, AEG, Zanussi, Frigidaire and Westinghouse enjoy a particularly high reputation. Today they produce 600,000 stoves and 1,400,000 cooking ranges per year for the European market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The factory is too expensive to use as an experimental field. To test new concepts, there are efficient simulation tools that make production downtime superfluous.<\/p><cite>Bernd Ebert, Director of Global Manufacturing Engineering \u2212 Food Preparation<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, Electrolux began selecting software for its global platform for digital manufacturing. In 2012,&nbsp;Teamcenter was deployed as a strategically important product development platform for product lifecycle management at Electrolux. Discussions about Siemens\u2019 future strategy led to an offer to test a pre-release version of the 3D layout software Line Designer in an early adopter program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main reasons for this decision were the advantages of tight Teamcenter integration of these solutions: \u201cWe can save all resources created with Line Designer as libraries in Teamcenter, manage them and make them available to all users worldwide,\u201d explains Ebert. \u201cThis way we preserve an entire infrastructure of software and hardware including training material and can build on the existing users\u00b4 experience with Teamcenter. \u201d The expected results were a close alliance for product development and a global, common platform for factory planning and material flow optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Electrolux started searching for digital manufacturing software they were facing these business challenges:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create globally uniform production facilities and assembly processes<\/li><li>Achieve higher efficiency in the assembly process and material flow<\/li><li>Develop, test and optimize automation concepts<\/li><li>Combine product development with production planning<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Electrolux found the following keys to success during their digital manufacturing adoption period:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-circle-mask\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/09\/Electrolux-1-1.png\" alt=\"digital manufacturing\" width=\"315\" height=\"163\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Worldwide implementation of Teamcenter for Manufacturing<\/li><li>3D factory planning using Line Designer with Central libraries<\/li><li>Robot Simulations with Process Simulate<\/li><li>Checking of material flow and train routes, simulation, and optimization of assembly processes with Plant Simulation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After the process was over, the results came in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Saved $2 Million in buffer space and associated investments<\/li><li>Protected plant designs and investments<\/li><li>Ramped up new plants without errors and delays.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We can save all resources created with Line Designer as libraries in Teamcenter, manage them and make them available to all users worldwide.<\/p><cite>Bernd Ebert, Director of Global Manufacturing Engineering \u2212 Food Preparation<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> Check out the full story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/our-story\/customers\/electrolux\/57807\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electrolux&#8217;s digital manufacturing<\/a> journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Tecnomatix and Teamcenter, Electrolux creates a 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