Case History
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ITG based in Greensboro NC has selected and deployed Porini PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) from Porini into the Burlington Worldwide and Cone Denim business units.
Chattanooga, Tennessee July 27, 2005
-- After careful consideration, ITG’s selection of Porini’s PLM Product Development and Lifecycle system was predicated on
flexibility to match their dynamic business needs, capability in automating product development processes and strong
collaborative tools to enable speed to market.
Barbara Sorkin, Chief Information Officer credits the CDS system with creating buy-in from the ITG user community resulting primarily from flexibility and ease of use.
“As a company we are by no means new to the world of PDM solutions, so when latest technology demanded that we replace our legacy solutions this was met with a high level of concern amongst staff. Now that we have gone-live with the Porini systems in two business units we are confident that product development system power users in our other divisions will be equally satisfied with our decisions.”
Today Porini PLM is live and over 100 users are satisfactorily daily using it. Software have been
translated in Chinese in order to be used users by company’s subsidiaries in China.
FTS (formerly Ozella weaving mills S.P.A.) is a weaving mill with about one hundred looms that for the last 70 years has been specialized in technical fabric for industrial applications.
FTS has successfully implemented the “Porini Weaving Manager” solution that blends production planning, monitoring and quality control. Moreover all the data regarding articles and machine settings are available in the PDM database inside of the solution.
FTS’ requirement was to unify and integrate areas such as order planning, manufacturing order and requirements creation, and order advancement; all these areas were previously managed independently of one another. A fundamental objective of the collaboration with Porini is to achieve an organizational-business improvement along with the maintenance of high quality standards.
The most remarkable results of the project are
the noticeable increase in loom output, the strict adherence to
delivery dates, reduction in manual data input and timely
traceability of every single manufactured roll.
Canda International OHG is a sourcing company of C&A Group, one of the largest European retailers with more than 500 stores. Canda is responsible for a good part of the overall apparel business of C&A and follows the process from the idea developed by the stylists to the delivery of the garments to the different stores around Europe
For managing such a complicate process which
has a shorter and shorter lead time (few weeks from first sketch to the shelfs),
Canda has chosen Porini’s PDM solution.
The entire organisation is using Porini Product Development as a way
to speed up and re-organize the process, increasing the control level
on all operations and the reliability of the data interchange with
their suppliers network all around the world.
Ten Cate Nicolon, Georgia (USA), an innovative technical fabric manufacturing and development company, deployed Porini Loom Monitoring.
Ten Cate Nicolon’s primary goals in selecting a CIM system were flexibility to accommodate manufacturing changeovers and a proven track record with enabling lean operations in the technical textile sector.
Ten Cate Nicolon chose Porini Loom Monitoring as its CIM backbone after an extensive competitive benchmark.
Porini Loom Monitoring combines leading industry-specific capabilities and consulting expertise to effectively enable a lean approach to manufacturing.
Key success factors of the Porini Loom Monitoring system are the ability to integrate with existing business systems, dynamic
report generation tools and ease of use.
“Manufacturing prowess and continual improvement is one of the strengths of our company and therefore is of the utmost
importance,” said Kevin Cook, Engineering Director of Ten Cate Nicolon. “We believe that the Porini Loom Monitoring CIM system
improves our manufacturing execution and provides us with a state of the art platform for monitoring the shop floor.”
Leonard is a French Haute-Couture Maison. The Company is well known for the use of sophisticated and luxurious printed fabrics in its garments. They implemented a brand new and advanced Information System choosing Porini as the solution provider.
Main target of the project: help them gaining in efficiency and quicken their response to customers’ requests and their time-to-market.
The first of the two pillars of this new I.S. is G-TeX, the Porini ERP, which allows Leonard to manage all the sales, purchases of material, production and delivery of finished garments.
The second pillar is Porini Visual PLM, the Porini solution in the area of product development which is the real link between creation (designed in Paris) and prototyping and product engineering in Milan.
What influenced the choice of Porini as a partner was the technical data sheet. As it is integrated in the Management System and is extremely complete and at the same time intuitive in use.When the technical specification sheet is available, the top management of Leonard starts defining the colour combinations for each style/fabric/print.
These selling combinations can be exploded in a
price list where to make all kind of simulations until the last
minute just before the catwalk starts. At this moment, in a matter
of minutes, the sales catalogue is printed and available to
the sales-force, prices and all the necessary data are transferred
to G-TeX, which is immediately able of processing orders for the finished garments.
