Founded in 1993, Mingmen is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise located in Qingxi Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, one of China's most beautiful towns. Currently, the company occupies 330,000 square meters and mainly develops, manufactures, and sells baby strollers, baby car seats, cribs, high chairs, etc. Through outstanding design and R&D technology and quality management capabilities, Mingmen has established its own brands, Nuna and Joie, which are loved by a wide range of consumers and have gained a foothold in the European and American markets. At the same time, for many years, it has continuously received OEM and ODM commissions from leading international brands, including American brand GRACO and Japanese brand APRICA, earning the recognition and trust of consumers and clients.
After decades of development, Mingmen has implemented ERP systems, PDM systems, and several self-developed digital systems, covering change process management, problem management, material management, BOM management, and mold management. However, all systems operate independently, forming information silos and hindering data retrieval and referencing. Users often need to find data in one system and then manually enter it into another, leading to frequent errors and reduced efficiency. This prevents the system from truly leveraging its advantages.
To break down these system barriers, senior management decided to implement a PLM system to manage all business processes related to product development, from requirements, R&D, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and delivery. After thoroughly evaluating mainstream PLM products on the market, they decided to adopt Siemens' PLM solution. Scope of Implementation:
Product Management
Image Management
Document Management
Part Number Management
BOM Management
Change Management
Integration with Other Systems
Historical Data Transfer
Platform Basic Management
Report Management
Problem Management
Fashion Industry Basic Library Management
— Building a brand-new digital R&D platform
— Constructing an international, intelligent, and ecological R&D system
— Achieving unified management of core R&D capabilities across the group;
— Multi-system integration and application, breaking down information silos, improving R&D innovation efficiency, and reducing R&D costs;
— New digital process applications empower intelligent manufacturing;
— Integrating the Internet of Things to achieve digital twin empowerment of product development and enhance innovation iteration capabilities. (I) Sub-sectors of Sales or Services; Infant and Toddler Product Manufacturing Industry (II) Main Problems to be Solved; Import an enterprise-level product lifecycle management platform to replace the existing PDM system and more than ten fragmented peripheral systems related to R&D and engineering, integrating them into a unified PLM system. Support multiple production lines and meet the management needs of multi-factory manufacturing. Combined with the customer's product development process, manage R&D and engineering-related processes online; centralize management and data sharing of product R&D, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and sales-related business areas, and standardize basic data sources. Achieve deep integration of the PLM system with software tools and various upstream and downstream systems to improve collaboration efficiency. (III) Main Approaches and Practices; Through hundreds of thematic meetings, we conducted in-depth discussions to capture business value and realize customer value by applying industry best practices; based on the 5W2H model, we comprehensively defined system-related processes and decomposed them to the Capability level.
(IV) Overall Solution Architecture Description (can be shown using images, videos, etc.);
The overall solution covers product management, project management, drawing and document management, part number management, BOM management, basic library management, document management, problem management, change management, system integration, etc.
(V) Effectiveness of Solution Promotion and Application.
After the system went live, it supported online operations for over 1000 users across both sides of the Taiwan Strait; it unified the data flow of the entire group's product lifecycle, unified the system management platform, and unified the business process. It avoided opaque operations outside the system, improved business efficiency and management level, and fulfilled the mission of digital transformation of enterprise R&D.
