Effective support for the digitalization of product development
Event technology specialist Adam Hall Group expands product development and relies on CIM Database and Project Office
- Manufacturing and distribution of solutions for event technology, AV integrators, and industrial customers
- More than 350 employees (2023)
The products of the Adam Hall Group ensure inspiring events worldwide: The event technology provider supplies the industry with high-quality equipment for live shows, studios, broadcasting, and fixed installations. The portfolio includes professional audio and lighting technology, cables, stands, other stage equipment, and hardware components. Dealers, event technicians, AV integrators, exhibition builders, and industrial customers thus receive everything from a single source. Since 2019, the Adam Hall Group has relied on CIM Database for product data management and Project Office for project management – benefiting from the further development of its processes and tool support.
- Integration of efficient product data and multi-project management
- Organizing and managing a rapidly growing number of development projects with a heterogeneous mix of disciplines, tasks, and competencies
- Coordinating collaboration with external development and manufacturing partners
- Ensuring high product and service quality
- Replacing task management and time tracking based on Excel
- Improving project profitability through standardization and reuse
- CIM Database as a platform for Product Lifecycle Management
- Project Office as a tool for multi-project management including support for agile methods – linking planning and execution with hybrid project management methodology
- CAD data management for SolidWorks for mechanical design
- New object class for patterns and prototypes with links to project, document, and parts management
- Foundation for building modular kits and product platforms
- Efficiency through standardized processes and binding milestones
- Simplified reporting, improved overview of project status, and transparency regarding team workload for management
- Perfect integration of management support tasks (project planning and control) and agile, self-organized teamwork
- Improved profitability through increased reuse thanks to structured product data organization and simplified product variability
- Easy and secure testing of externally manufactured prototypes against requirements including documentation of states, results, and decisions
- Scalability and easy configurability of the Elements platform as well as a wide range of powerful standard components
"With CIM Database and Project Office, we have the right tools to take our product development to the next level and drive forward the digitalization of our processes."
Andreas Modschiedler
CTO of the Adam Hall Group
