From Spreadsheets to a Digital Ecosystem: AMS Technologies' Journey | Propulsion 2024

When they moved from spreadsheets to Propel PLM, AMS Technologies saw a 500% increase in engineering productivity. Now, they’re extending their digital thread across the entire company, connecting CAD, ERP, CRM, PLM, and PIM to deliver a single source of truth from concept to customer. ‍

Tomasz Stefańczyk, Head of Engineering at AMS, explains how his team is building an interconnected tech stack, the challenges of connecting different platforms, and why the effort is so important to AMS Technologies’ long-term revenue growth. 

AMS saw immediate results when their PLM implementation increased engineering productivity by 500%.

Key Insights

"We are engineering-minded people, so we like the flame. We like the smell of the smoke. But we don't like to lose projects. So we thought our approach to do it in small steps using Excel was not good enough. So we started to think and we started to think big. We started to think how we should build our data infrastructure for the future."

"We knew we needed to have the single point of truth. We needed to have a master data repository. We knew we needed revision control and change management. We wanted to have data that's close to the object, contextual. We were looking for a system that has open interfaces, known protocols, great community, and people who already know the system. We knew it must be cloud-based. That's why we chose Propel nine years ago."

"Of all the benefits of Propel, I would have to say the most important is very fast adaptation. Since we connected Propel with ERP, we can adapt to the changes in our processes and our business needs very quickly. That's the most important thing. The second is data on hand. All our users are using Propel, which means everyone can find all the relevant data in Propel."

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