Finnish company Etteplan is a pioneer in engineering solutions. Its services are geared to improve the competitiveness of its customers’ products and engineering processes. In fact, Etteplan believes that, together with its customers, it is building a world where every system, process and product can be made smarter, more efficient and more sustainable.
For this vision to be realized, Etteplan works hand-in-hand with its customers, acting as a partner as well as a supplier, and helping them to tackle problems that they don’t necessarily know how to solve themselves. To do this, Etteplan must be able to respond quickly with an effective approach.
One of its oldest and most prominent customers is Valmet, a leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.
Together with Valmet, Etteplan designs and delivers the various parts that make up paper and pulp machines and assists with the electrics and automation. These are complex projects comprising many components – such as the drive machine, the piping works and the mill technology – and therefore require collaboration between the two companies.
However, until recently, Etteplan’s ability to work closely with Valmet was hampered by its disparate technology infrastructure. Since Valmet was already a user of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and Etteplan was already using CATIA for design, Etteplan decided it made sense for it to adopt the 3DEXPERIENCE platform too.
Following a fast implementation, thousands of employees from both Etteplan and Valmet are now able to work together in real time, right within the platform. With all files stored in a centralized location, users always have access to the latest information, so versioning errors are now a thing of the past.
This means that new projects can be completed faster, more efficiently and with far fewer errors. As a result, Etteplan can do more production work than it has ever done in the past.
“If we work faster, create better solutions and make fewer mistakes, then it will be much easier to get new customers,” said Jari-Pekka Mielonen, Etteplan’s regional manager.
Learn more about the benefits that Etteplan is realizing from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Plus, discover how it plans to leverage even more Dassault Systèmes’ tools to work even smarter with more customers, and also attract a new generation of talent with its modern tools.