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Mendix Again Leads in Gartner Quadrant for Low-Code Platforms
Great news! Mendix has been declared a leader in low-code platforms for the 7th time according to the annual Gartner Magic Quadrant 2023 research.
Legal Studio and Emixa Assist the Legal Sector in Digitizing Workflows
The legal sector is known for being traditional and conservative. Digitalization is making strides, but most methods have remained the same for decades. The new KLEA platform (Knowledgeable Legal Entity Automation) helps legal organizations and departments digitize workflows and repetitive legal work. The platform is currently operational in more than 50 countries for companies such as Levi Strauss, Imerys, and Carrier. KLEA has assisted various legal departments in achieving a 60% time savings and a 40% reduction in operational costs. Emixa built the platform's first prototype within two weeks.
Smoothly Optimise your Production Process with Simulation
IGS GeboJagema is a full-service partner in the healthcare industry, specialising in high-volume moulds. With a strong belief in delivering the highest quality in all their endeavours, the organisation enables healthcare companies supplying products on behalf of a brand supplier to produce top-notch items in large quantities. The moulds are produced with high precision tolerances, which requires high accuracy in engineering, manufacturing and validation. This allows them to offer an end-to-end solution encompassing design, engineering, qualification and supporting services to all their customers. “We dare to innovate!” - Rob Doorakkers, Chief Innovation Officer at IGS GeboJagema. To meet the high precision requirements, being able to tackle problems that may arise during the injection moulding process is an important step. These problems are often a combination of product geometry and the materials to be injection moulded, such as: Detecting air traps: Trapped air causes bubbles or voids in the products and can lead to surface finish issues. Using Moldex3D allows for visualisation of potential air traps in advance. Detecting heat concentrations: Heat concentrations in the product and in the mould indicate where cooling can be optimally applied and provide insight into the required cooling time. Detecting flow patterns: Wavy lines visible in the final product indicate how plastic fills the mould cavities and highlight potential issues. Detecting the pressure expected in the mould In the past, simulations were outsourced due to a lack of in-house expertise and manpower. To speed up the simulation of the injection moulding process and add value for clients, IGS GeboJagema chose to bring simulation in-house. IGS GeboJagema selected Moldex3D based on its seamless integration into existing processes, combined with associated costs, capabilities, and support for software implementation. "The assistance we received during the procurement, initiation, training, and the promptness in addressing technical queries throughout simulations significantly influenced our decision to opt for Emixa Industry Solutions." - Rob Doorakkers, Chief Innovation Officer at IGS GeboJagema. The implementation of Moldex3D has revolutionised IGS GeboJagema's simulation process, resulting in a faster, more optimised, and thoroughly validated production process. Fast adjustments during mould validation have become a reality, and simulation serves as a crucial tool for validating optimisation ideas before committing to costly mould implementations. This software allows the proactive detection of issues like air traps, heat concentrations, and flow patterns, preventing expensive mould modifications and streamlining the validation process. Moving forward, IGS GeboJagema plans to engage in multiple straightforward simulations as part of the quotation preparation process, gradually building the necessary expertise to conduct extensive simulations independently. The company envisions a future where they continually explore and expand the possibilities within simulation. "What sets us apart is our ability to strategically place elements such as venting and cooling in advance, significantly reducing the optimisation timeline. Conducting cooling simulations provides a comprehensive view of temperature dynamics in the mould, enabling us to effectively inform and persuade customers during the design phase." – Rob Doorakkers, Chief Innovation Officer at IGS GeboJagema Discover the power of Moldex3D for performing injection moulding analysis.
Tony's Chocolonely Joins Forces: a Sustainable Journey to Quality in Boomi Processes
Tony's Chocolonely, the renowned Dutch manufacturer of fairtrade chocolate bars, has enlisted our assistance, along with Omnext, to enhance the quality of their Boomi processes. This collaboration underscores Tony's Chocolonely's ongoing commitment to transparency and sustainability, extending even to their business operations
Initiate the Digital Transformation of your Organization
Edwin Bergamin, from Emixa, assists organizations with challenges at the intersection of Business and IT. These organizations aim to prepare themselves for the digital journey into the future, also known as digital transformation.
RISE with SAP Makes Cloud Transition Easy
Transferring a business-critical system such as SAP from on-premise to the cloud does not happen overnight. Organizations want to be able to switch without disruption, achieve the promised financial business case and innovate faster. From the employee's perspective, no change should be noticeable; for the employee, the data must be available. On-premise or online does not matter. For the IT department, this is more complex; with networks, availability and technical changes, a plan is needed. With RISE with SAP, the implementation side becomes easier than ever. RISE with SAP removes barriers through a simple step-by-step plan with which every organization can benefit from the benefits of cloud. RISE with SAP simplifies transition to the cloud in three steps, fully guided by SAP: Step 1. Business Process Intelligence Step 2. Business Case Step 3. Integrate with cloud environment Step 1. Business Process Intelligence The first step to the cloud is a comprehensive analysis of the processes. You could almost call it an ERP tradition, but there is an important change in approach in the approach of RISE with SAP: it is done via intelligent tooling instead of intensive workshops, interviews, observations and analyses. The goal is to adapt the business processes to the S/4 HANA standard. This phase gives you insight into the delta between current SAP use and the fit-to-standard at S/4 HANA. This translates into less customization, easier maintenance and faster implementation. In addition, the way is clear for future intelligent solutions, such as Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which are supplied as standard by SAP. Step 2. Business case If it is clear what can be directly supported and what adjustments are required within the business processes, the costs can be made transparent. RISE with SAP contains standard tools that provide immediate insight into how much work the implementation requires. The custom code analysis tool immediately makes it clear how many deviations from the standard there are in the current system. Based on this data, you know in advance where you stand and where the impact and change will be per user group. This means you know at an early stage which departments need extra attention. Transformation tactics can be used to help organizations and departments with this change. Finally, the figures for hosting via cloud at SAP also become clear compared to the current costs of an on-premise hosting construction. Step 3. Integrate with cloud environment Within RISE with SAP, technical management of the environment is in the hands of SAP itself. As a customer, you choose the cloud in which your software runs (Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services). SAP integrates with that environment and ensures that the ERP system continues to run. Emixa is the point of contact for issues. Whether this concerns user support or direct contact with SAP: Emixa remains the first point of contact. Emixa also supports the transition to S/4 HANA and all technologies and processes that are implemented during this process or afterwards. SAP Business Technology Platform The switch to SAP's cloud solution provides direct access to the SAP Business Technology Platform. Within this platform there is a SAP Store for (Fiori) apps. The store contains both third-party apps and those offered by SAP itself. This allows future apps to be selected and added quickly and securely by authorized employees. The SAP Fiori launchpad ensures that employees have only one login portal for all ERP-linked systems. The SAP Business Technology Platform also supports integrations with other software products, such as low-code solutions to support innovative and new process developments. By dividing the management of your landscape into mode 1 and mode 2, you can experiment with these innovations safely and quickly. Move to the cloud with RISE with SAP Switching to the cloud seems like a big step. Thanks to RISE with SAP, this is not so bad. The new implementation approach and the tooling to identify the required work in advance makes the transition easy. For employees, it doesn't matter where the data comes from, as long as it is there. Life becomes easier for administrators thanks to RISE with SAP. Just as important: organizations increase their performance and agility to switch. And these are qualities that an organization needs in today's rapidly changing world. Get in touch Ready to make a business change? At Emixa, we'd be glad to share our comprehensive insights. Contact us to discover how our approach can help your organization thrive in the cloud era. Let's embark a journey towards enhanced efficiency and effectiveness together! Patrick Beks As Director Technology and innovation Patrick plays a crucial role in driving technological innovation, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and maintaining Emixa's competitive edge in the market.
Manufacturing Menu: A Strong Foundation for the Perfect Product
Before a product reaches the market, a manufacturing company must go through various preparatory actions and processes. It starts in the design phase with a precise product design. How will the product look? What need does it fulfill? What are its functionalities and features?
The Digital Twin for Industrial Machine Building
The world is going digital. This is not only changing how we work, learn or shop; it is also changing how products are made. Even the smallest machine builder must be able to develop modular, adaptable, multi-functional machines that can be tailored to consumer demand. This requires a high degree of flexibility, which can cause problems for data reuse. The requirements for each machine are then namely customer specific and turn each project into a custom design with a series size of 1. How can machine builders achieve this level of flexibility without increasing costs? In addition, industrial machine builders must show their customers, even before the machine is delivered, how it will work and integrate with other systems. This way, they can demonstrate that their design can achieve the high ROI (Return On Investment) and low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) that production companies are looking for. They also have to comply with more and more legislation relating to the full life cycle of a machine, from energy consumption to eventual recycling costs. Everything here must be well documented so that it can be demonstrated at all times that the relevant legislation has been complied with. All this costs a lot of time, time that machine builders do not have because they have to compete with competitors from all over the world who are trying to supply the same machines faster and cheaper. Integrated process To cope with this pressure from customers, competitors and legislation, they need integrated tools that prevent working in silos. There is simply no time to design, build and commission a machine in separate consecutive steps by different departments. Such a sequential process is not only slow; you also run the risk here of losing information and introducing errors at any time data goes from one department to another. The designs themselves are becoming increasingly complex. They often have sensors that can monitor the performance and output of the machine and are part of a uniform production system together with other machines. That complexity affects the physical design. You cannot afford to waste time at the end of a project redesigning a component or assembly because the wires and cables cannot be connected correctly. Or when you are testing the physical machine, it is much too late to discover that the control software does not take into account the mechanical limits. Digital Twin With so much software, automation and electronics in modern machines, a mechatronic design platform is needed for a good design that can do much more than just deal with the mechanical CAD design. To solve certain problems, it is necessary to be able to work with multiple disciplines at the same time. The solution lies in new digital technologies that create a digital thread of information between all departments involved in a project and runs through every phase of the product life cycle: from the initial requirements, through design, production, commissioning, delivery and ultimately maintenance of the machine. This form of digitisation allows you to create a digital representation of the smart, connected, custom machine that customers demand: The 'Digital Twin'. This digital twin goes much further than just a 3D CAD design and makes use of the latest technologies and tools for, for example: Electro-mechanical design Topological optimisation Virtual commissioning Simulation Additive Manufacturing Virtual Reality The benefits of digitisation can amount to a substantial increase in production, creating more (and more efficient) machines with the same resources and lowering costs or increasing output at the same cost. See it as a kind of digital productivity bonus. Investing in the next generation of design tools needed to make custom machines is the way to overtake competitors who cannot act as quickly or deliver exactly what customers want, giving you a loyal customer base. Interested in what a digital twin can do for your business? Contact us to find out more about the possibilities.
Multi-Factor Authentication for Mendix
As Emixa places great emphasis on creating high-quality and secure applications, we are currently actively implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) for multiple clients. Typically, this is done using available Mendix modules from the Mendix Marketplace. However, the Emixa team believed that a better and more secure solution could be developed. Therefore, the team recently created an improved standard module during one of the Emixa R&D days, making it available to the entire global Mendix community.