Distribution joint venture agreement

The Smart Fac­to­ry — the expan­sion of dig­i­tal plan­ning and man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es — is one of today’s deci­sive trends for greater effi­cien­cy and com­pet­i­tive­ness of man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies. Solid­Line, based in Wal­luf near Wies­baden in the Ger­man state of Hesse, is gear­ing its range of prod­ucts and ser­vices even more strong­ly to the chal­lenge of the Smart Fac­to­ry and IIoT (Indus­tri­al Inter­net of Things).

To this end, Solid­Line has brought a pow­er­ful part­ner on board: FORCAM GmbH, based in Ravens­burg, Baden-Würt­tem­berg, is one of the world’s lead­ing providers of solu­tions for pro­duc­tion con­trol in the IIoT. The mod­u­lar IIoT solu­tions enable more effi­cien­cy, sus­tain­abil­i­ty and inno­va­tion in pro­duc­tion and planning.

Added value for customers: Digital solutions even closer to needs 

“Solid­Line’s PLM sys­tems already help to make numer­ous process­es in indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ing more effec­tive. Through the part­ner­ship, we can now adapt our port­fo­lio even bet­ter to the needs of our cus­tomers. This allows them a mod­u­lar com­bi­na­tion of dif­fer­ent apps and solutions.”

- Chris­t­ian Popp, Head of Man­u­fac­tur­ing Solutions

Mikyung Inn, Glob­al Direc­tor CE & Part­ner­ing, added: “We sup­port com­pa­nies with mod­u­lar store floor solu­tions to man­age the dig­i­tal jour­ney in man­age­able steps and at the speed they choose. We are pleased to have gained a strong and reli­able part­ner in Solid­Line GmbH to joint­ly sup­port small and medi­um-sized enter­pris­es — SMEs — in dig­i­ti­za­tion in line with their needs.”

Part­ner­ship ben­e­fits both companies

For the com­pa­ny, the part­ner­ship means a gain in know-how and more flex­i­bil­i­ty in offer­ing mod­u­lar solu­tions, says Chris­t­ian Popp of Solid­line. “FORCAM GmbH is an ide­al part­ner for us, it fits our val­ues and cov­ers the wish­es of our cus­tomers. The com­pa­ny is already well estab­lished in mar­kets world­wide, large com­pa­nies have been suc­cess­ful­ly using the solu­tion provider’s tech­nol­o­gy for a long time.” Chris­t­ian Popp con­tin­ues, “Smart Fac­to­ry and Indus­tri­al Inter­net of Things.”

Mikyung Inn adds, “As the lead­ing PLM house in Europe, the Group is a cen­ter of excel­lence for solu­tions to increase effi­cien­cy in indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ing. We look for­ward to work­ing with Solid­Line to bring our solu­tion exper­tise to a strong SME net­work. Whether it’s machine data acqui­si­tion MDE or over­all equip­ment effec­tive­ness OEE, our joint mis­sion is to real­ize the right dig­i­tal solu­tion for com­pa­nies for more trans­paren­cy and effi­cien­cy in production.”