{"id":769,"date":"2018-08-13T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tecnomatix-News\/Astrium-achieves-production-efficiency-with-Tecnomatix\/ba-p\/516357"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:56:11","slug":"astrium-achieves-production-efficiency-with-tecnomatix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/astrium-achieves-production-efficiency-with-tecnomatix\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrium achieves production efficiency with Tecnomatix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Learn how Astrium is reducing manufacturing time and costs to bring in new business<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In this case study summary you will learn how quality and efficiency improvements gained through Tecnomatix software enable in-house facility to sell manufacturing services to external customers.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Europe-based Astrium is one of the few companies in the world that provides complete end-to-end tailored solutions for surveillance, communication and satellite navigation. It designs and manufactures customized satellites; it also provides services through its own space platforms.&nbsp; Being susceptible to economic and political cycles, the aerospace and defense industry has traditionally experienced periods of varying demand. A key objective for Astrium is to balance the company\u2019s workload by providing manufacturing services to external suppliers as well as to its in-house design departments.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>To be competitive in an external market, Astrium\u2019s Payload Equipment Manufacturing Department had to cut the cost and time of manufacturing components and assemblies. Tecnomatix software from Seimens PLM Software is playing a key role in this effort.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Keys to success<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI>Replacing paper-based process with manufacturing execution software<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Clear visibility of lead and queue times; ability to predict bottlenecks<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Faster implementation of design changes<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Better communication among manufacturing teams<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Results<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI>On target to achieve overall manufacturing cycle time reduction of 50 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>60 percent less time spent on engineering change requests<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Five engineer days per month saved on administration<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Documentation errors reduced by 15 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Overall facility quality increased<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Clean room paper costs reduced from \u00a315k to \u00a32k (US $30k to US $4k) per year<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Ten percent increase in manufacturing capacity<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<EM>\u201cWe selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/tecnomatix\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix<\/A> on the basis of ease of use, cost and compatibility with our existing infrastructure.\u201d&nbsp; <\/EM>Jonathan Roe, Project Manager<EM>, <\/EM>Astrium<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Read the complete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/tecnomatix\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix<\/A> customer success story in the attachment.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Astrium-main-blog-image-1.png\" alt=\"Astrium main blog image.png\" title=\"Astrium main blog image.png\" \/><\/span><\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how Astrium is reducing manufacturing time and costs to bring in new business <\/p>\n<p> In this case study summary you will learn how quality and efficiency improvements gained through Tecnoma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51290,"featured_media":773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Astrium-main-blog-image-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}