As in many other areas, digitization is often an open/underrepresented topic in research&development of high-tech manufacturing processes. This causes a lot of friction in the communication and coordination in small as well as large engineering departments. One major obstacle is the missing knowledge management across the complete organization. The introduction of a Process Development Execution System (PDES) can significantly improve knowledge management and facilitate internal communication and coordination.
The customer of this use case study is a small company in the field of graphene technology development with several research locations in a few countries. Historically, the company originated from basic research and commercializes these research results. Their current business model is
based on the production and sale of functional graphene components.