Magna Roof Systems

Magna works with dozens of partners, customers, and suppliers to fulfill stringent appearance, design, and quality requirements. Their innovative solutions allow clients to create both beautiful and functional vehicles. But, as necessary as that is, conforming to deadlines and precise design specifications can be even more critical. Slowing manufacturing lines or impacting warranty claims can quickly lead to supplier demerits, business risks, and extra costs. Operating efficiently in this expansive ecosystem requires solutions that streamline and manage information flow between participants. Magna was one of the first customers to use Rocket® TRUfusion™ Enterprise solution to facilitate Product Design Data Exchange (PDX) and address the challenges. The team had the vision to improve their end-to-end PLM processes with better tools, greater integration, and automation. The initial results were outstanding. When Magna Roof Systems decided to rely on Siemens Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to manage their product design data and orchestrate their design and engineering teams to drive business efficiencies, the company identified that the lack of integration between Teamcenter and Rocket TRUfusion Enterprise offered considerable potential for automating recurring manual processes. It could reduce costs in the range of 10 to 30 percent per transfer job depending on the volume of data sent and, most importantly, eliminate human errors that occur with manual processes.