Spline Designs faced challenges in maintaining leadership in engineering design
Spline Designs experts solve challenging surfacing and other design problems across varying industries including automotive, heavy equipment, specialized high performance machines, military systems and consumer products. Their customers are demanding OEMs, with lots of in-house talent. To thrive in this technically demanding environment requires top-notch technical talent, as well as the ability to gather input and coordinate the tasks of project team members across dispersed locations.
Spline Designs has thrived to the point where their customers have requested additional assistance beyond standard design consulting. For example, Spline Designs now assists in outsourcing, both locally and abroad.
To manage the complexities of a dynamic and growing business requires sophisticated collaboration infrastructure. They needed the ability to quickly bring project teams up and running with new participants on demand. However, their budget did not allow for the typical 6 to 7 figure deployment of an in-house PLM system.
The Collaboration Suite solution
Gary Trzcianka, President of Spline Designs surveyed the market place for solutions and quickly determined that Collaboration Suite’s hosted solution best fit the needs of their company for a number of reasons;
- Multiple Locations “We have engineers at customer sites and at local offices throughout the region and at an office in China. We also need to collaborate with outsourced component manufacturers in the United States and abroad. A hosted solution ideally fits this type of distributed product team. We can do instant web-conferencing and share our desktops so that everyone can see what we are talking about. It saves us all a lot of time and money that we would otherwise spend driving to design review meetings.”
- Speed of Deployment “With a hosted solution, we were up and running in minutes, not months. Just as important, we were able to bring our customers up on the system in about 10 minutes without any training or complex software installation.”
- Cost “Our customers demand top quality design work and value for their dollars. In turn, we have to demand the same of our software vendors. Collaboration Suite is a fraction of the total cost of ownership of competitive solutions.”
- MultiCAD environment “We need to be able to work with customers and component suppliers using any CAD system. Collaboration Suite’s viewer helps us bridge that gap. We found that inexpensive solutions don’t handle multi-CAD environments like ours, but high-end PLM solutions are priced out of reach.”
Summary
Spline Designs has demonstrated a commitment to remaining at the leading edge of engineering collaboration. With Collaboration Suite, Spline Designs can gather input, track projects and deliver great design work from multiple sites faster and more accurately than ever before.
Website: Spline Designs
Email: info@splinedesigns.com 
