Winning the PLM game with AI
Operating principles
They say software is eating the world...
We say it can still be tamed. With years of experience dealing with the creature, Senticore can plan and execute projects from conception to reality.
- It’s often easy to point a finger at what is wrong, but much more difficult to identify the root cause and create a vision for change.
- Our methodology is founded in the “Capabilities-based planning” framework, closely aligning with project and domain-specific Agile methods.
- We make sure that your software is designed properly, priced accurately, planned, built, delivered and deployed with the highest quality.
Here is our blueprint for a successful project:
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Our services
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Senticore collaborates with companies to harness the power of generative AI, educating stakeholders and crafting a comprehensive roadmap tailored to their unique needs to achieve rapid ROI
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Specializes in deploying locally hosted LLMs that can be further air-gapped, ensuring your data remains secure and under your control
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Expert at integrating powerful LLMs with existing enterprise tools and the corporate ecosystem, ensuring a smooth and effective integration to enjoy the full potential of AI without disrupting your operations
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Excels in tailoring AI-based processes to be domain-specific and aligned with your company’s unique goals and business needs
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We specialize in developing and integrating enterprise applications that drive innovation and efficiency across various industries, with a particular focus on Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, and Industrials. Our expertise spans a wide range of critical areas, Model-Based Design, Model-Based Systems Engineering, and Long-Term Data Archiving.
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We are experienced in both software development and consulting, providing comprehensive support to OEMs and their suppliers. Our services include requirements analysis, technology review, vendor selection, acquisition, and actual implementations for on-premise, on-cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. Our deep knowledge and experience in these sectors ensure that your enterprise applications are optimized for performance, scalability, and integration.
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In today’s rapidly evolving engineering landscape, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the industry at an unprecedented pace. Companies that fail to adapt quickly risk being left behind. We can help you ride the wave of innovation and stay ahead of the competition.
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DevSecOps best practices can revolutionize your engineering systems operations, driving efficiency and positively impacting your bottom line. While DevOps emphasizes speed and agility, DevSecOps seamlessly integrates security at every stage of the software development life cycle.
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We combine deep expertise in both the engineering domain and DevSecOps to help you navigate these transformative times with confidence. Our comprehensive services include sophisticated CI/CD pipelines, hardened containers, automated testing, code security, and ITAR compliance processes.
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In today’s complex business environment, companies often acquire or develop many systems, such as PLM, ERP, MES, supplier integrations, and various analytical and reporting tools. Such systems can either be isolated in dreaded data silos or be seamlessly integrated to ensure efficient information sharing.
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Integrations can be achieved through direct bridges between systems or by implementing an Enterprise Service Bus framework. A well-designed ESB provides substantial long-term benefits, including enhanced scalability, improved security, and reduced maintenance costs.
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We excel in implementing Enterprise Service Bus technologies, seamlessly connecting all components of the engineering and manufacturing ecosystem. Our expertise ensures that your systems work together efficiently, enhancing productivity and driving innovation in a truly sustainable manner.
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A slow software system frustrates users, disrupts business processes, and directly impacts the bottom line. Great application performance often outweighs the value of numerous features. Our expertise in performance and scalability is built on a deep understanding of every layer of the application stack: databases, application servers, clients, and networking.
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When addressing performance concerns, we meticulously analyze each component and the data flows between them, leaving no stone unturned. Our comprehensive approach ensures that we identify the root cause of any issue and provide immediate solutions. If necessary, we also facilitate detailed communication with vendors to implement necessary changes. Trust Senticore to optimize your application performance and keep your business running smoothly.
Case study
Business Challenge
A major industrial OEM experienced cost and security issues in its supplier bid management process
- A separate named license was required for each vendor. Since number of vendors varied over time, the license cost was escalating.
- Vendors were allowed certain access to the PLM system located inside firewall.
Senticore approach
Implementing an AWS-based supplier collaboration portal in combination with PLM proxy system
- Separating supplier data exchange from the PLM system
- PLM system was connected to the supplier data exchange portal via a custom secure proxy server
- AWS based supplier portal used S3 and other features to guarantee highly scalable and secure access for vendors
Outcome
Major reduction in costs combined with improved company security posture
- Security and compliance concerns were entirely eliminated
- Licensing costs were brought to a predictable low value
Case study
Business Challenge
A major OEM’s engineering environment operations were regularly hindered by legacy practices
- Engineering applications heavy footprint was making every change very expensive to implement
- Application UI required a lot of manual testing; still a lot of bugs were falling through the cracks
- Collaboration between various teams was complicated, causing delays and cost overruns
Senticore approach
Use modern CI/CD methods, including pipelines, containers, automated testing and code scanning
- Fitting a fully-functional PLM environment into Docker containers
- Selenium for automating smoke and regression testing, with log analysis and video recording
- Azure DevOps, Maven and Ansible for automating the processes
Outcome
Direct positive impact on the company bottom line
- Collaboration between various stakeholders became significantly more efficient and transparent
- Operations of the engineering environment started moving at the pace of relevance
- Overall, better quality, faster deployment and reduced costs allowed engineering systems to support business much better
Case study
Business Challenge
Over the years, a major OEM created many 1-to-1 bridges between different systems to exchange data
- Adding a new system required creating new Bridges
- Older technologies created performance bottlenecks
- Complicated and expensive maintenance
Solution approach
Enterprise Service Bus for exchanging data between various systems in a standard way
- Apache Camel as a foundation
- Custom adapters for specific systems
- Standard JSON-based payload
Business Benefits
Any new application can be connected faster, and any increase in data volume can be handled confidently
- Standard data format made future integrations easier and faster to implement
- Standard dedicated messaging system
- Scalability issues resolved entirely
Case study
Business Challenge
A major aerospace and defence OEM needed unified business intelligence and reporting across all its engineering systems
- PLM, ERP, MES and other systems had different access methods and different formats, which made combining, analysing and presenting that data complicated and expensive
Solution approach
Сentralised DataWareHouse system
- High-performance database to aggregate all data from various engineering systems
- Custom ultra-fast mass-data exporters for each source system
- Built-in analytical functionality, star transformations and other techniques
Business Benefits
Reduced costs and improved efficiency for company business processes
- Low-maintenance & high-performance architecture
- Fast access to unified data views and reporting
Case study
Business Challenge
A major OEM experienced serious difficulties maintaining aircraft models designed in 1990-2000s in a legacy CATIA V4 format
- Huge plotters required to create drawings
- Physical Media had to be regularly replenished
- Creating Plot Files can be a manual effort
- Physical media storage took increasingly more space with diminishing value
- Sometimes it is necessary to plot and send physical media across the world.
- Maintaining legacy hardware/software dependencies was increasingly expensive and non-secure
Solution approach
High performance secure file conversion to PDF
- High-performance service architecture to allow massive processing
- Custom solution with vector-based transformations using open-source libraries as a foundation
- Validation method to demonstrate quality compliance and adherence to the government regulations
Business Benefits
- Major savings from no longer using legacy processes in terms of people and equipment
- Savings from eliminating need to store paper versions of the legacy engineering designs
- Increased company’s customers satisfaction due to faster ECR processing