Cloud | Project Attributes |

Amazon

By Caroline Kaercher / May 16, 2018 / Comments Off

Established since 1994, Amazon is an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle and one of the 5 companies – known as GAFAM – that have fundamental influence on digital revolution. Today, Amazon employs more than 540 000 people worldwide.
Founded as a bookstore, Amazon offers quickly involved to other kind of products, especially cultural goods and groceries but also IT online services with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
By launching Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006, Amazon continued its diversification with a new generation of cloud services, including its famous storage service Amazon S3 or its very flexible cloud computing service Amazon EC2.

Solution

Amazon was searching for a Product Lifecyle Management Solution (PLM) and began studying the main Open Source platforms on the market.

The fact that DocDokuPLM was highly customizable was a selling point.
The platform also succeeded going through Amazon security and quality code audit.
Finally, DocDoku agile and pragmatic approach finished convincing the web giant to choose this solution.

DocDoku team has therefore deployed DocDokuPLM on an AWS Cloud Infrastructure (obviously ;), with additional developments to be aligned with Amazon business specific challenges.

John Bennett, Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon Corporate LLC, is enthusiastically summarizing his collaboration with DocDoku:

“The DocDoku team is obsessed with the success of their customers. They were able to customize their solution to meet the needs of a very specific PLM use case and deploy to our environment on time and under budget. DocDoku made it all very easy.”

Primafrance

By Caroline Kaercher / September 19, 2017 / Comments Off

Primafrance

Primafrance is supporting its clients in organizing and implementing systems of steering and projects management.
The company consists of 5 divisions : Aerospace / Defense, Architecture / Engineering / Building, Oil & Gas, Power and Telecom.

Need

The « Architecture / Engineering / Building » division wanted to offer its clients a cloud based platform of collaborative engineering, running in real time using Building Information Modeling (BIM) for their construction sites.
The building and construction industry is in fact moving more and more to collaborative or simultaneous engineering methods, to complete their projects successfully. Studies are showing that sequential engineering methods are by far less efficient, due to their overly predictive nature and lack of adaptability.
This major evolution in methodology is translated in concrete terms by the necessity to have solutions that enable sharing datas from a work project between all trades.
This sharing is made through common data model (or BIM) that centralizes all information and redistributes them according to a multipoint of view approach. In this way, collaboration is achieved with maximum fluidity with no digital break, eliminating retyping errors and information loss.

The goal of the project was to create a cloud platform to allow multiple users – from various trades, each of them connected to their own devices (PC, Mobile, Tablet) – to :

work in a distributed way in highly heterogeneous environments,
collaborate in a cooperative way during all the lifecycle of the works (from specification to implementation) using those digital datas,
visualize and manipulate simultaneous digital model of work (3D plans or BIM).

Solution

A solution of construction sites and works based on DocDokuPLM plateform
After a short adaptation period done in agile mode, we have built a cloud platform that answered the requirement of the sector i.e. the digitalization of construction sites trade process, centered on BIM datas.

IFC format care
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is a standardized and object oriented file format (ISO 16739 norm), used by the construction industry to exchange and share informations between softwares. It is the standard exchange format used commonly by softwares that enable working in BIM.
Our main task was to produce a plugin that can convert or import files under IFC standard to manage building or construction site effectivities as well as geometry.

Oktal (Sogeclair group)

By Caroline Kaercher / September 17, 2017 / Comments Off

Oktal (Sogeclair Group)

Key player in aeronautics, automotive and railway markets, Oktal is a supplier of simulation solutions adapted to training, research and engineering. The company joined the Simulation Division of Sogeclair Group in 2000.

Need

Facing a high increase in its activities, Oktal wanted to industrialize the production of some of its simulators, used by its various markets (automotive, railway, aeronautics).

With this aim in mind, the company had to get equipped with a PLM solution that can provide, for every step of the system products development cycle (design, development, manufacture and maintenance) :

product effectivities management,
modelization and application of its product conception and modification process,
management of system products configuration,
past projects capitalization, to reuse the technological bricks that have been developed,
maintenance management (multi-sites and multi-clients).

Solution

We have worked in close collaboration with Oktal in order to make DocDokuPLM platform available and matching with their needs and within the pressing due date.

So our project approach was the following :

Functional and technical analysis,
Customization according to requirements,
Setup and configuration,
Key users training,
Private cloud for solution deployment.

In less that 6 months, the project was successfully completed, running in production and using real products.

Discover below one of Oktal’s most appreciated feature, thanks to its flexibility and multi-context dimension. It is in fact the search function or “Query builder” that answers to two main goals :

Maximum autonomy : the module offers an excellent flexibility. Users can liberally make the most of the PLM datas without any required intervention on the code,
Cross-referenced search : if the datas displayed by the query are focused on articles, search results can also return informations linked to the finished products instances.

The export feature is coming from this module, allowing search result to be transposed into a spreadsheet format.

Akerys

By Caroline Kaercher / September 13, 2017 / Comments Off

Akerys

Akerys is one of the most important real estate developer in the south of France. Covering all the value chain from building to real estate sales.
Akerys was searching to improve this last step as it is crucial for the company to seal the deals in a minimum of time.

Need

Akerys needed a centralized but also innovative tool to improve their sales. For this purpose, we were asked to develop an app dedicated to sales representatives to show real estate features to their leads on an iPad.

Solution

We created an app that reached the 2 goals of Akerys in this project :

A full-web back-office for their catalogues creation (pictures, videos, links, geolocation).
An iPad app to show real estate property, including a CRM, to save lead informations.

The iPad app is running offline : data exchanges – from product catalogue to CRM informations – are transmitted by a synchronized process.

LCI Europe

By Caroline Kaercher / September 13, 2017 / Comments Off

LCI Europe

As a partner of international companies operating in high tech fields, LCI Europe (for Linguistique Communication Informatique), is positioning itself as an information processing specialist, able to answer to all issues related to multi-cultural communication and technical training.

Need

For one of its clients, LCI Europe consulted us for the development of a mobile App for students, to allow them to take notes directly on touch-screen tablets during maintenance operators training.

Solution

Production of a native iOS (iPad) application for industrial use. The app is allowing to annotate and highlight PDF presentations on iPad using a free drawing tool then save this annotated PDF on a computer.

Mia Electric

By Florent Garin / May 4, 2016 / Comments Off

Mia Electric

Mia Electric designs and builds electric vehicles, 100% made in France only. Based in Cerizay, in the French department of Deux Sevres, the Company provides emission free mobility at an affordable price and accessible to all, to answer to the realities of urban and suburban transport needs and the increasing price of fossil fuels.

Need

In 2010, the construction plant was entirely re-equipped. The team was strenghtened to reach 16 designers and an R&D department of no less than 80 engineers. The Production capacity is now reaching 12,000 vehicles per year eq. to 1200 per month.
Obviously, all of this should comply to the most demanding aspects of current legislation, such as ISO 9001 and 14001 certification standards.
To raise such challenges, a robust PLM solution was mandatory.

Solution

We deployed DocDokuPLM on a tailored, high availability and secured private cloud infrastructure. We also developed small extensions that enabled the car maker to successfully passed crucial certifications.

AFPA

By Shirley Leroy / October 8, 2015 / Comments Off

Afpa

AFPA is a french professional training organization dedicated to adults. Thanks to its distributed network of regional centers, AFPA is developing a global and complete offer of training courses and tailored services to all publics, beginning with adults who face the greatest difficulties in finding employment.

Need

As part of its numerical campus deployment, AFPA was looking for a PLM/Technical EDM solution able to manage their pedagogical ressources in a modular way. This solution was intended for their population of 100 to 200 training engineers to provide:

a cross-platform and ergonomic web interface,
with storage, provided by Google Cloud Storage,
using the SCORM format standard.

Solution

Our first step was to set up a connector able to manage folders storage on Google Cloud Storage. Then we built and embedded a SCORM viewer in our platform.
The provided solution is 100% cloud based and maintained in operational condition by our team.

i3M

By Shirley Leroy / October 2, 2015 / Comments Off

i3M

i3M is a multimedia engineering company specialized in training solutions dedicated to Aerospace, Defense, Industry and Health sectors with highly technical contents. Thirty employees are currently working in Toulouse. From the beginning in 1996, the company was dedicated to educative CD-Roms and graphic design. But very quickly, as the company listened to its customer needs, its activities extended to multimedia services and solutions for the industry.

Need

i3M called on our services for the whitelabelling development of a satellites sales support tool (web back office and cross-platform front office) for one of its customer.

Solution

As i3M requested a cross-platform application (PC, Mac, Tablets), we advised an hybrid development, building most of the application on web technologies (HTLM5/CSS3/Javascript) and integrating this Web app to a native application through a WebView component. The final result is a standard application which is distributed, installed and executed like any other application. To be in line with this approach, we have based its development on the Open Source frameworks Apache Cordova (for touchpads) and Node-Webkit (for PC and Mac).

The back office has been fully built using Play framework and HTLM5/CSS3 technologies. Play is a productive Java framework which allows the creation of web management applications. The communication between the client application (tablet or PC/Mac) and the back office has been implemented with REST Web Services (JSON) on HTTP transportation protocol.

Wapp6 (Conject Group)

By Shirley Leroy / September 30, 2015 / Comments Off

Wapp6

Wapp6, a Conject Group company, is a software editor providing solutions for the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management. The company offers a wide range of cloud based solutions, ressources and skills, adapted to all construction projects.

Need

Being able to capture, organise, distribute and track all project defects among participants throughout the project lifecycle is key in the construction industry. Eliminating defects lead to ensure on-time and quality-assured project delivery as well as cost control.

So getting a collaborative defects and inspections management tool for construction and facilities management was mandatory. Thanks to touch-screen tablets, it is possible to digitize those tasks and increase productivity.

Solution

We have developed a mobile application dedicated to look after the processing steps to complete an inspection.

The application was implemented by leveraging the Titanium framework, using its ability to target the two main mobile operating systems, iOS and Android with the same codebase. Moreover, both versions provide high performance native rendering. The application is designed upon a disconnected paradigm where the user downloads all the necessary information (plans, existing defects, punchlists…) for his inspection and then works onsite without being dependent on the network. After the visit, a report can be generated and sent instantly.