Sanitary product manufacturer Geberit leverages the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for handling mechanical engineering and design management, thereby transforming the company’s entire approach to product development and collaboration.

Challenge

Leading European sanitary product manufacturer Geberit has expanded its value proposition to design and make ceramics, allowing it to deliver both the reliable technology behind the wall alongside perfectly designed bathroom equipment. As part of a long-term vision to optimize its business processes, the company required an end-to-end innovation platform for collaborative global product development.

Solution

Geberit transitioned to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its industry solution Perfect Product to manage its ceramics design and engineering processes. It now has a global solution for handling mechanical engineering, design management and enterprise collaboration, opening up new possibilities for bathroom design and transforming the company’s entire approach to product development and collaboration.

Benefits

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables effective design-for-cost strategies to launch better products faster. Working within a virtual collaborative environment, Geberit can test and validate designs, and program and simulate manufacturing to ensure manufacturability early in the process, improve quality and boost innovation.

Having access to an entire back catalog of product designs is also bringing significant efficiencies to Geberit’s product development processes.

“The shared knowledge pool has been a huge advantage,” said Jürg Huber, head of Research and Development Applications, Corporate Information Services at Geberit. “Previously, we held all our expertise in lots of different systems, but that knowledge was of no use to a colleague on a different system. Now, we have this pool of knowledge within the company, this vast database on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform that we can tap into. It’s so valuable and something we can really nurture."

To learn more about how Geberit is tackling ceramics mold making complexity, optimizing enterprise collaboration and standardizing its production plants by creating virtual twins of its equipment and buildings, read the full case study on 3ds.com.