Scania Selects EAI's VisFactory for Standardized Factory Design and Layout

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Scania, a leading Swedish manufacturer of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, has chosen VisFactory, a factory layout and design software by Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI), as its international standard for factory design and layout. By implementing VisFactory, Scania aims to streamline its factory layout methods, analyze and design new manufacturing layouts, and improve efficiency, productivity, and output. VisFactory's 2D and 3D factory design, analysis, and visualization capabilities will enable Scania engineers to reduce factory planning time and bring factories online faster.

Key Takeaways:

  • Scania has selected VisFactory, a factory layout and design software by EAI, as its international standard for factory design and layout.
  • VisFactory will enable Scania to streamline its factory layout methods, analyze and design new manufacturing layouts, and improve efficiency, productivity, and output.
  • VisFactory's 2D and 3D factory design, analysis, and visualization capabilities will reduce factory planning time and bring factories online faster.
  • Scania engineers will use VisFactory to create workstations, production lines, and factory layouts more effectively and in less time.
  • VisFactory will improve the quality, speed, and presentation of Scania's production designs and enable the company to bring new products to market faster.
  • EAI's VisFactory solution has been chosen to standardize Scania's factory design and layout system, improving the company's productivity and efficiency.
  • Scania's selection of VisFactory demonstrates EAI's leadership in providing full-spectrum visualization solutions to the manufacturing industry.

Statistics:

  • Scania employees: 25,800
  • Countries where Scania's products are marketed: approximately 100
  • Percentage of Scania vehicles sold outside Sweden: 95%
  • Products marketed by Scania worldwide: trucks, buses, industrial and marine engines
  • Facilities with production operations: Europe, Latin America
  • Time saved by Scania engineers using VisFactory: reduced factory planning time
  • Number of 2D and 3D factory models producible using VisFactory: unknown
  • Number of VisFactory users: unknown
  • Number of Scania's factories online faster with VisFactory: unknown

Sources:

  • "EAI's Solution to Standardize Factory Design, Layout, Analysis and Visualization" by PRNewswire (June 19, 2001)
  • VisFactory website (no date)
  • Engineering Animation, Inc. website (no date)
  • About Scania (no date)
  • About EAI (no date)