More performance and greater efficiency coupled with optimum security—thanks to NX and Teamcenter

Founded in 1780 as a blacksmith's shop, the seventh generation of Lemken is now one of the leading international specialist suppliers of agricultural equipment for soil cultivation, sowing, and crop care. Customized solutions for a wide range of farm sizes, soils, markets, and requirements are all part of Lemken's portfolio, which generated sales of €380 million in 2018. Represented in 49 countries worldwide, 1,600 employees at 5 production and assembly sites develop, manufacture, and sell plows, cultivators, seed drills, and other high-performance, versatile, and high-quality technology for professional crop cultivation.

Lemken's vision:

Profitable farm management, interaction between farmers, retailers, and manufacturers as the basis for mutual success, and a sustainable supply of food to the world through efficient technology—this is what makes Lemken the Agrovision Company, one of Europe's leading companies in the sector.

 
To develop and design the special machines, the company’s choice fell on the CAD system NX, which enables an optimized and accelerated product development process. NX for Design is the sector's leading product development software in terms of performance, flexibility, and innovation. For product data management, the company relies on the modern, adaptable product lifecycle management system Teamcenter as a central source of information for product and process knowledge. Since 2001, Lemken has relied on MAIT as an experienced partner for end-to-end digitalization of product development processes to implement these two Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions and provide service and support for the 50 NX CAD workstations and 243 Teamcenter workstations.

 
The decisive factor behind the use of new solutions and technologies was that the CAD/PDM systems previously used at Lemken were having an increasingly business-critical impact. Connecting production-related areas to the Teamcenter environment and constant availability of the information systems meant that the entire system had to be updated and a highly available IT architecture provided. Parts of the existing IT system landscape no longer met the increased availability requirements and had to be replaced.

To keep everything running smoothly and reliably in the future, Lemken is drawing on MAIT's ongoing service and support—including regular updates, training, and workshops on special tools and applications.