Godwin Pumps adopts keytech PLM - keytech Software GmbH

Success Story
Godwin Pumps adopts keytech PLM
Godwin
Leading Pump Manufacturer adopts keytech
PLM to assist with managing mixed 2D
and 3D working practices, enterprise-wide
document management and ERP integration.
For over 100 years, Godwin Pumps
has designed, manufactured and supplied
pumps renowned for quality, reliability, and
long life. Today, the company’s products are
in service all over the world in construction,
industry, oil refineries, chemical plants,
mines, heating and ventilating, irrigation and
water distribution. The Godwin range is now
one of the most extensive available from a
single manufacturer and includes Dri-Prime
automatic self-priming, fire, wet self-prime,
ISO end suction centrifugal, vertical multistage
and submersible pumps. Flows up to
300 cubic metres per hour and heads up to
230 metres can be handled according to the
type or system. To maintain its high standards,
the company always has been quick
to embrace new technology in all its forms.
The company has been using CoCreate’s
ME10® for 2D drawing creation and Work-
Manager® for drawing management, but
wanted to move to 3D. According to David
Braithwaite, Engineering Director at Godwins,
“The selection of the SolidWorks®
was quite clear, it seems to be the industry
standard within in the pump industry and
we were looking to build on the 3D-system
using new technology tools (such as Finite
Element Analysis and Computational Fluid
Dynamics) that having a 3D package allows
you to do.”

Godwin - the decision for keytech PLM
Need of PLM-system
As with any successful business, zeal to
adopt new technology has to be tempered
with the need to maintain existing processes
and data. Godwins have in excess of
20,000 ME10® drawings and these need to
be live and working for the next five years.
Braithwaite explained their plans for implementation
of 3D-CAD and how it affected
their PDM selection process “We see 3 to
5 years time before all of the legacy data
in 2D becomes ‘for reference’ only, rather
than live working drawings. At present,
we’re going to be working with 2D and 3D,
developing new drawings and new parts
in 2D, as well as introducing 3D; so we’re
running two CAD-systems at the same time
and will be for at least the next two years,
possibly three. It will be three to five years
“keytech PLM is not just a drawing
management system; it’s a document
management system.”
before we drop 2D all together and just use
it for maintaining legacy data.” As a result,
Godwins needed a PDM-system that would
allow them to manage and work with both
their extensive 2D drawing data and newer
data generated within SolidWorks®.
Initially Godwins explored expanding the
implementation of its existing 2D drawing
management system, but it discovered
limitations when handling SolidWorks®
data. Braithwaite explains that “It worked
to a point but had limitations so we could
just store 2D and 3D information in one
management system, but there were issues
in that it was not supported properly, we
could not carry out certain functions such as
creating Bills of Materials combining the two
sets of information and could not do simple
things like batch plots. So, we started
looking around for another PDM package
that would enable us to manage the legacy
data and the new SolidWorks® data in one
system.”
Exploring their options further, Godwins
revisited its 3D-CAD supplier. Braithwaite
explains that “SolidWorks is supplied with
a basic document management system,
PDMWorks® Workgroup, which will handle
the SolidWorks data, but it wouldn’t allow us
to access the legacy 2D data; we couldn’t
mix the two.” Having discounted PDMWorks
Workgroup, the final short list came down to
two potential systems, PDMWorks® Enterprise
and keytech PLM.
While Godwins saw the benefit of a single
supplier and support from the SolidWorks®
channel, critical issues meant keytech PLM
gained the competitive edge. As Braithwaite
explained, “PDMWorks® Enterprise would
allow us to store and view ME10® drawings
alongside SolidWorks data, but currently it
had issues with combining the two to create
Bill of Materials for transferring to our
ERP-system. It did not allow us to do all
the things we wanted to do, most critically,
running two live systems – which keytech
PLM does.”
Alongside the ability to control and management
two CAD-systems, Godwins are also
looking to keytech PLM to assist with providing
more access across the enterprise. As
Braithwaite explains, “The other advantage
and the reason we picked up on keytech PLM
was the potential for the company. keytech
PLM is not just a drawing management
system; it’s a document management system.
Our previous system was a drawing
management system, solely used for CAD
data. keytech is going to be used by all departments
within the company. We can give
access to everybody within the company to
the technical data, drawings, etc.”
The implementation of keytech:
Phase One
In terms of scope for roll-out, Godwins are
planning a two stage implementation. Phase
One will see it set-up within the Engineering
Department. This will provide the
Drawing Office, Service, Quality Assurance

and Development departments. keytech
will be used to manage all documents,
not just CAD-data, but also sales sheets,
data sheets, O and M books – essentially,
anything that the staff produce and control
will be stored, managed and controlled
within keytech PLM.
Phase Two
The second Phase of implementation is to
expand access to the remaining departments,
which will critically mean Sales and
Purchasing department will be using keytech
PLM alongside Godwins’ ERP-system. ERP
integration was the third critical selection
criteria for the PDM-system. As Braithwaite
explains, “Godwins’ have our own in-house
developed ERP-system and we’re now in
the process of replacing it. So, I wanted a
system that would integrate with the newer
proprietary ERP-systems. So that was another
reason that we went down the keytech
route. We want to set-up a document
management system which is
independent but
would integrate
tightly with
our
new
ERPsystem.”
Phase Three
A product of Godwin.
Phase Three of implementation will see use
of the keytech PLM expanded beyond its UK
manufacturing and design centre. Godwin
Pumps is owned by Godwins Pumps of
America, so the next step is that keytech
PLM is going to be used communicate and
share data with the US. As the US part
of the company is currently using Auto-
CAD, this might have caused issues with
other PDM suppliers or as Braithwaite put
it “They don’t use SolidWorks, they use
AutoCAD, so if we’d have gone down the
route of PDMWorks® Enterprise, we would
have been struggling to integrate within our
document management system.“
Pros of data management
When asked about why the design and manufacturing
industry has begun to believe in
the benefits of data management, Braithwaite
explained how he saw keytech PLM fitting
into the company’s processes and the benefits
that would naturally ensue from adoption
of the system, “Everyone now works electronically.
We were printing 150 drawings a
day in different departments – we don’t need
to do that. If everyone has controlled access
to the latest issue of a drawing, and we can
set permissions as to who sees what and
who does what with it – It has to be the way
forward.”
About keytech
keytech is a leader in the integration of
CAD-, ERP- and Data Management-systems
into cohesive, yet affordable, environments
that fulfill its customers’ requirements
and boost their productivity across many
areas of the enterprise. With integration of
major 2D- and 3D-CAD-systems and integrations
into major ERP-systems, keytech’s
flagship offering, keytech PLM, is a scalable
solution, beginning with simple document
management and ending in a complete Product
Lifecycle Management solution.
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