For over a century, Amerequip has taken pride in delivering top-tier custom equipment manufacturing solutions to industry-leading OEMs worldwide. Sustaining this level of excellence and unmatched speed requires us to continually adapt and modernize our operations. Managing the sheer volume of engineering data generated over decades of complex projects presents a unique challenge—one that we are tackling head-on by reimagining our quality and engineering workflows.
In a brand-new customer profile video produced by CADDi, we invite you behind the scenes to see exactly how our latest technological partnership is transforming our data management to better serve our customers.
Harnessing Our Data Potential
As a vertically-integrated engineering and manufacturing organization, the sheer amount of information our team manages daily is staggering. Historically, accessing this wealth of historical knowledge was a daunting task. Our engineers might remember specific product solutions they personally worked on, but tracking down overarching information across the company often felt overwhelming.
To overcome this hurdle, we realized we needed a centralized repository to make our legacy data instantly accessible. Implementing CADDi’s software platform has been a game changer for our daily operations.
In the new video, Amerequip President and CEO Mike VanderZanden highlights the transformative nature of this integration:
“It’s allowed us to integrate all of our different softwares into one search engine. When somebody is looking for a specific part or a print, they can search that…and at the same time, they’re bringing up all of the other data and information that may be stored elsewhere for that part number in a single search.”
-Mike VanderZanden, President/CEO, Amerequip
Implementing CADDi Drawer has allowed us to streamline internal processes in several important ways:
- Simplified Part Cross-Referencing: Mismatched part numbers between customer systems and our internal database once required manual validation. Today, a single search of a customer’s part number immediately surfaces the relevant drawings and internal references.
- Enhanced Assembly Visibility: During quality reviews or nonconformance assessments, we can now instantly view specific part drawings, see all assemblies referencing that part, and review embedded specifications.
- Reducing Redundancy and Cost: Flexible keyword searching empowers our engineering team to identify existing components that might have been overlooked, preventing duplicate part numbers and driving better part standardization across our inventory.
You can read even more about these benefits in our recent case study.
Enhancing Our Operational Workflows
Integrating this technology has revolutionized how we deliver custom equipment manufacturing solutions. Previously, users had to be experts in several distinct systems just to track down the right documentation. Today, through intuitive natural language and keyword searches, both engineers and non-engineers can locate precisely what they need in mere seconds.
This immediate access to data initially accelerated our design team’s workflows, helping us release designs to the market much quicker. Now, we are experiencing those same benefits across our broader engineering and production efforts—speeding up timelines and reducing the proliferation of unnecessary part numbers.
Patrick Harrigan, CADDi’s VP of Partnerships, captured the broader potential of this capability during his visit:
“Now engineers can go find information or even non-engineers who aren’t familiar with how to access this information…quickly type in what they’re looking for and find it in in a couple seconds.”
— Patrick Harrigan, VP of Partnerships, CADDi
Evolving to Support Our Customers
As we continue to grow and diversify our business, CADDi’s ongoing dedication to understanding our evolving needs has fostered an incredible partnership. This software will scale alongside us, ensuring our team is equipped with the right tools to continually support our customers’ success well into the future.
Watch the CADDi Amerequip Customer Profile Video Here.