Georg Fischer Automotive AG, technology and market leader in Europe in the areas of casting for the automotive industry, has announced that it will be standardizing its design data communications and visualization with SpinFire Professional throughout the company.
Georg Fischer Automotive has been using SpinFire Professional successfully for 6 years at various factories. As the company has grown over the years Georg Fischer’s design communication and visualization needs have grown. Due to the benefits they have received from using Actify’s visualization solution it was an easy decision to expand and standardize on Actify’s solution throughout the company in 13 locations and 5 countries.
“We have decided to use SpinFire Professional as the central data visualization and communication solution in order to achieve higher investment security and reduce costs”, Uwe Kruse, CIO of GF Automotive explained. “With SpinFire Professional, we can increase collaboration in the design process and shorten development cycles, while improving quality and customer satisfaction.”
SpinFire Professional is gaining more and more in importance as it is being used as a company-wide collaboration tool, and not only in engineering. Its usage spans across various departments, such as sales, marketing, logistics, purchasing, key-account management, quality management, and assembly. With Actify’s compressed .3D format, the relevant data can be easily and securely made available, throughout the organization and to external partners, without requiring the knowledge, or use, of a CAD system. Thus, the company can reduce costs in product development, purchasing, tender preparation and production, as well as in sales and marketing, while increasing productivity.
About Georg Fischer Automotive AG
Georg Fischer Automotive AG is an internationally-active group of companies, specializing in the development and manufacturing of highly stressed castings for the automotive industry and its suppliers. With almost 5,600 employees in 13 factories and 4 countries, Georg Fischer Automotive is technology and market leader in Europe, for all casting processes relating to series production (sand, casting, gravity die casting, pressure die casting), as well as for processing the associated materials (iron, aluminium, magnesium). The company, headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, offers solutions for the drive train, chassis and body work.