It’s about a year ago that Siechem Technologies selected CableBuilder© to further boost the efficiency and quality of their design and quoting processes. Mr. Damodaren, Managing Director at Siechem Wires & Cables explains the benefits that his company enjoys from the InnoVites software and services.
Siechem commenced its operations during March 2002. The company is engaged in manufacturing Wires & Cables for many specialized applications. The company has installed modern and state-of-the-art machines, such as an electron beam irradiation facility. It operates an R&D Centre, Compounding facility and fully equipped laboratory. Siechem’s products meet RoHS norms as per European standards.
CableBuilder© is a popular cable design software that is used by many cable manufacturers around the world. It’s 15 years ago that CableBuilder© was first installed at the customer. Today more than 70 cable manufacturers use the software to streamline their designing and quoting processes.
Siechem Wires & Cables was one of the first customers of CableBuilder© in India. Mr. Damodaren, Managing Director, Siechem Wires & Cables, understood the value of the software after thorough evaluation.
Today, Mr. Damodaran looks back at the CableBuilder© implementation and comments at the solution. He is convinced that CableBuilder© is the ultimate design tool for a cable Industry. Evaluating the product after 1 year of usage he identifies a number of key benefits:
The system helps him to document the knowledge and experience of product and process development in the company. This makes Siechem Wires & Cables less dependent on the availability of individual employees, and the technical details are now accessible online from any place.
Also, CableBuilder© helps the company to properly and efficiently store and maintain customer-specific and industry standards. The technical requirements are kept up-to-date with minimal efforts. As Siechem Wires & Cables maintains a database with up to one million parts, CableBuilder© is instrumental in reducing the costs to keep the technical data consistent.
Siechem Wires & Cables uses CableBuilder© to improve and accelerate their designing and quotation processes. By formalizing the procedures they are able to eliminate errors. With the simulation capabilities of CableBuilder© the company continuously develops competitive pricing strategies.
Siechem Wires & Cables also minimizes their efforts to create designs and keeping them consistent. E.g. CableBuilder© will automatically calculate the impact of any design modifications on the effective metal weights of the cable.
Mr. Damodaren adds: “The implementation of CableBuilder© has put Siechem Wires & Cables in the position to further optimize our business processes. The next step will be to use the system capabilities to enhance the Quality Assurance processes. Also we believe that the CableBuilder© implementation is the crucial starting point for a successful ERP implementation. With CableBuilder© we have an effective tool to manage our product and process data and this information will seamlessly integrate with ERP.”
Summarizing, Mr. Damodaren concludes: “The investment in CableBuilder© delivers a lot of value to Siechem Wires & Cables, and the professional support of the InnoVites experts helps us to achieve these results.”
Siechem Cables is engaged in manufacturing wire and cables for aero space, automotive, marine, solar, wind energy, rolling stock, oil & gas, power, control, instrumentation, hybrid special cables and fire performance cables, and other specialized applications.
The company has ISI certificates for the different types of wires & cables and ISO: 9001 certification and prestigious AERB, Mumbai approval for the world class Electron Beam Irradiation facility. The company also specializes in design, development and manufactures any type of cable and accessories as per customer’s specific requirements, however complex it may be.