Instron, an Agile customer for more than eight years, provides testing equipment designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components. Instron’s products are used in research laboratories, production lines, quality control, education, large government installations, automotive companies and small independent laboratories.
The Agile 9.2-based custom engineering process was rolled out to Instron’s UK division in October 2006 and will be extended to its US operations during January 2007.
With the latest version of the product lifecycle management (PLM) offering, stakeholders in the extended design and supply chain process have secure access to critical product record data, including bills of material, attributes, manufacturers, configurations, specifications, documents, models, work instructions and revisions.
Prior to implementing this function in Agile, Instron used multiple legacy databases across its enterprise to manage custom engineered solutions. Using Agile, Instron can now manage its databases through one system across its entire enterprise, enabling the company to reduce time-to-market and increase its productivity.
