Key findings:
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User pain points : Managing equipment in the form of the existing ERP system ledger form can no longer meet the requirements of equipment management optimization and innovation required by Bourne's business growth.
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Solution : Using the joint solution of Siemens Mendix low-code platform and SAP PM module for integrated development, laying a solid foundation for realizing the full life cycle data management of customer equipment assets.
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Implementation effect : After the PMS equipment management system was launched, it realized electronic equipment maintenance record library, electronic equipment maintenance inspection and other functions for customers, improved the stability of customer equipment operation, helped customers realize comprehensive equipment digital management, and implemented the overall project The cycle is shortened by 40%, the efficiency of daily inspections is increased by 10%, and the rate of business and data standardization is increased by 40%.
As the weather changes, it will meet the season
Founded in 1989, Bourne Optics is a pioneer in the global optical industry. Over the years, relying on superb professional technology and more than 30 years of development, Bourne Optics has become one of the mobile phone screen manufacturers with the largest production scale, the highest production capacity, the most advanced production technology and equipment in the world, adhering to the "scientific and technological innovation, green With the concept of environmental protection and win-win cooperation , Bourne Optics insists on innovation as the starting point and demand-oriented, providing customers with high-quality products and services to create good economic and social benefits, and promote the rapid development of social economy.
Against the background of increasingly fierce competition, unpredictable international environment, and continuous innovation and advancement of information technology, as the largest supplier of optical devices such as mobile phone screens, the market has also put forward higher quality and requirements for Bourne's equipment management business Management requirements, this also brings greater challenges to the construction and upgrading of its equipment management system, and also brings opportunities for the transformation of equipment management information.
Bourne has put forward higher requirements for the equipment management system in terms of data analysis, intelligent operation, maintenance and repair.
Laura, Bourne Facilities Management Manager, said:
We need a unified Siemens digital platform where users can log in and browse information such as data assets, application stores, training materials, and events in one stop. This platform can realize integrated management of data, etc., saving users' time and energy. "
Renewing the old and reforming the old, showing the edge
Under such challenges and opportunities, Mendix and its partner Nengke Technology team finally adopted the joint solution of SAP PM + Nengke equipment management mobile APP developed based on Mendix for project implementation after many rounds of communication with Bern.
Meng Xuexue, Bourne’s IT technology manager, said: “The joint solution adopted this time is a comprehensive innovation of business and technology: SAP and the mobile application developed based on Mendix provide Bourne with equipment business and core data management functions, which can Meet the requirements for device master data specification and core business management."
In the face of customized and fragmented business needs, especially the device mobile terminal management APP, the traditional SAP secondary development method is limited by the product design framework, and cannot respond in terms of response speed, flexibility, and demand matching. Fully meet customer requirements. Nenke's equipment management APP solution and Siemens Mendix platform just make up for these capabilities. With the help of Siemens Mendix platform's agile response, continuous innovation and natural integration advantages with SAP, it can respond to customer needs quickly and with high quality. , which can ensure that the system has strong scalability and easy maintenance capabilities. The plug-in application makes the system highly flexible, and will not cause pollution to SAP core data and business.
Schematic diagram of functional architecture
During the implementation of the project, Bourne's IT technical team also put forward higher requirements for Mendix and Nengke Technology. Bourne IT technical manager Meng Xuexue said: "The customized mobile APP required for the implementation of this project not only needs to meet the needs of the equipment management business of the three factories that need to be launched in the current project, but also requires the system to have It can be extended to the management of equipment data and business in other factories. In the future, the scale of equipment master data may reach 70-90W units, and it is necessary to ensure that the system stability and performance will not be greatly affected. Nengke mobile terminal equipment management APP and Siemens Mendix The platform needs to provide corresponding solutions and further technical verification during the implementation process.
After three rounds of technical discussions and verifications, the Mendix and Nengke Technology team delivered a satisfactory solution to the customer:
01 In terms of project architecture:
It is the first time to use Mycat component integration in a low-code project. Through the reasonable sub-database and table division of business data, the performance in large-scale form query and reading and writing is guaranteed. Under the horizontal sharding mode, some small partners in the industry are under pressure 600 million rows of records have been tested. This is also the first successful practice of Siemens Mendix platform using mycat component to solve this kind of problem in China.
02 In terms of deployment:
In order to ensure the stability and reliability of the system in the case of a large number of concurrent access applications, K8S, Docker, Nginx and other containerized management platforms and related technical components are combined with Mendix low-code for application deployment. With the help of the container management platform, automatic expansion and flexibility The scalability feature solves the system stability and performance problems under large concurrent access very well, and can guarantee the stability and performance of the system when 50,000 users access concurrently.
Deployment Architecture Diagram
Agile and efficient, full success
Ruan Yizheng, head of the low-code platform of Mendix partner Nengke Technology, said: " This is not only an innovation in the implementation of Mendix's low-code combined with traditional technology components, but also an innovation in customer business expansion and management models. " In traditional low-code projects Among them, because low-code itself advocates lightweight APP development, in the case of multiple factories and a large data base, it is generally adopted that each factory independently deploys APP and independently manages business and data. However, this model will greatly increase the customer's implementation and deployment operation and maintenance costs, and at the same time cannot meet the unified management requirements of multi-factory data. The implementation of the Bourne project helps customers shorten the implementation cycle and reduce future expansion costs, and at the same time, it also proves the ability of low-code to handle large-scale and high-complexity business scenarios.
In this Bourne mobile terminal equipment management system project, Mendix, as the end-to-end platform for project development, accelerated the sorting out of requirements. Based on the model canvas, it completed the demand research, business plan, and sub-module design in less than a month. Then it stepped on the gas pedal, and the actual development work was completed within 8 weeks. Provides ample time for integration with SAP. In the end, relying on the Siemens Mendix low-code platform, Nenke Technology's strong low-code implementation delivery capabilities, and the tacit cooperation with the SAP team, the high-quality project delivery was achieved, which won unanimous praise from the customer's business and IT.
Laura, Bourne business manager, said: "It is not easy to complete the full launch of the system within three months. Siemens Mendix, its partner Nenke Technology, and the SAP team helped us realize the slave device master data, The integrated construction of business link systems such as preventive maintenance, daily equipment management, fault and work order management, equipment maintenance/audit, equipment allocation/scrap, etc., realizes master data standardization, process standardization, business integration, and management refinement, helping Bo En improves the life cycle of equipment, saves operation and maintenance costs, and increases corporate profits. Through this project, we also deeply appreciate the rapid response and agile delivery capabilities of the Siemens Mendix low-code platform, which provides the next step for the expansion and innovation of equipment data. a new way of thinking about construction.”
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