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2008. Oracle Customer Snapshot. Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. Novi, MI.
Oracle Customer Snapshot
Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. Accelerates Innovation and Saves Time with Visualization Solution Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. Novi, MI www.cooperstandard.com
Industry: Automotive
Annual Revenue:
Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. is a leading global automotive supplier specializing in manufacturing and marketing of systems and components for the automotive industry. Products include body sealing systems; fluid handling systems; and noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) control systems. CooperStandard Automotive Inc. operates in more than 70 facilities throughout the world.
US$2.5 billion
Challenges Employees: 19,000
Oracle Products & Services: Oracle AutoVue 3D Professional
Increase agility to compete in the ever-changing and increasingly price sensitive automotive component market Accelerate time to market Share product design information with suppliers and customers around the globe Streamline IT maintenance and reduce costs
Advanced – Web
Solution “AutoVue 3D Professional Advanced – Web helps our users better collaborate to enhance estimating accuracy and accelerate innovation. The Web-based capability provides much more flexibility in terms of managing the software.” – Geoff Alexander, IT Supervisor, Body and Chassis Systems Division, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.
Upgraded to Oracle AutoVue 3D Professional Advanced – Web version to simplify management of the company’s visualization tool Avoided the need to purchase licenses for individual PCs and eliminated having to install and manage the application on each user’s desktop with the Web version of Oracle’s AutoVue Saved time and money on upgrades and maintenance because the Web application allows the company to complete upgrades almost instantaneously Avoided purchasing numerous computer-aided design (CAD) software licenses, saving approximately US$5,000 per license, by deploying a visualization solution Helped purchasing and estimating departments to more accurately estimate how much material—such as rubber—is needed for a particular product Provided the ability to share component designs with vendors for faster, more accurate estimates Enabled estimators to break down a product design by components and accelerate prototype development Delivered a solution that even non-technical users could master quickly
