Key findings:
• User pain point: the existing ERP system ledger form mode for equipment management can no longer meet the requirements of equipment management optimization and innovation required for Bourne’s business growth.
Solutions: A joint solution that integrates Siemens’ Mendix low-code platform with SAP PM modules to provide a solid foundation for data management throughout the lifecycle of customer equipment assets.
• Implementation effect: After the PMS equipment management system was launched, it realized functions such as electronic equipment maintenance record library and electronic equipment maintenance inspection for customers, improved the operation stability of customers’ equipment, helped customers realize comprehensive digital equipment management, shortened the overall project implementation cycle by 40%, increased the daily inspection efficiency by 10%, and increased the business and data standardization rate by 40%.

Change will come and go

Founded in 1989, Bourne Optics is a pioneer in the global optical industry. Over the years with exquisite professional technology, after more than 30 years of development, Bourne optical has become one of the world’s largest production scale, the highest production capacity, production technology and equipment of the most advanced mobile phone screen manufacturers, adhering to the “scientific and technological innovation, green environmental protection, cooperation and win-win” concept, Bourne optical adhere to innovation as the starting point, demand-oriented, To provide customers with high-quality products and services to create good economic and social benefits, promote the rapid development of social economy.

Under the background of increasingly fierce competition, unpredictable international environment, and continuous innovation of information technology, as the largest manufacturer and supplier of optical devices such as mobile phone screens, the market has also put forward higher quality and management requirements for the equipment management business of Bourne, which also brings greater challenges for the construction and upgrading of its equipment management system, and also brings opportunities for the information transformation of equipment management.

In terms of data analysis, intelligent operation, maintenance and other aspects, Bourne has put forward higher requirements for equipment management systems.

“We needed a unified Siemens digital platform where users could log in and browse data assets, app stores, training materials and events in one place,” says Laura Bern, device management Manager. This platform can realize the integrated management of data, saving users’ time and effort. ”

The old and the new are beginning to show their strength

Under such challenges and opportunities, Mendix and its partner Nenke Technology team, after several rounds of communication with Bourne, finally adopted a joint solution to implement the project with SAP PM+ Nenke device management mobile APP developed based on Mendix.

“The joint solution is a complete business and technology overhaul: SAP and Mendix-based mobile applications provide Bourne with device business and core data management capabilities to meet the requirements for device master data specification and core business management,” said Meng Xuexue, IT technology manager at Bourne.

In the face of customized and fragmented business needs, especially the mobile device management APP, the traditional SAP secondary development method is limited by the product design framework, and cannot fully meet customer requirements in terms of response speed, flexibility and demand matching degree. The NENTech Device Management APP solution and the Siemens Mendix platform complement these capabilities. With the agile response, continuous innovation and natural integration with SAP, the Siemens Mendix platform ensures that the system is highly scalable and easy to maintain, while responding quickly and high-quality to customer needs. External applications allow high system flexibility without contaminating SAP’s core data and business.

Functional architecture diagram

During the implementation of the project, Bourne’s IT technical team also put forward higher requirements for Mendix and Nengke Technology. Meng Xuexue, IT technology manager of Bourne, said: “The customized mobile APP required for the implementation of this project not only needs to meet the needs of the equipment management business of the three factories required for the current project, but also needs the system to have the equipment data and business management that can be extended to other factories, and the scale of the master data of the equipment in the future may reach 70-90W.” Ensure that system stability and performance are not greatly affected. The Nengke mobile device management APP and the Siemens Mendix platform require solutions and further technical verification during the implementation process.”

After three rounds of technical discussion and verification, Mendix and the Nengke technology team delivered a satisfactory solution to the customer:

01 In terms of project structure:

For the first time, Mycat component integration is used in low-code projects. Through reasonable sorting of business data, the performance of querying and reading forms with large data volume is ensured. Under the horizontal fragmentation opening mode, some partners in the industry have tested 600 million lines of records. This is also the first successful practice of using mycat components to solve this kind of problem in Siemens Mendix platform in China.

02 In terms of deployment:

To ensure system stability and reliability when a large number of applications are concurrently accessed, containerized management platforms such as K8S, Docker, and Nginx and related technical components are combined with Mendix low code for application deployment. The container management platform provides automatic capacity expansion and elastic scalability. It solves the problem of system stability and performance under large concurrent access very well, and can ensure the stability and performance of the system when 50,000 users access concurrently.

Deployment architecture diagram

Agile and efficient, full of work

“This is not only an innovation of Mendix low code combined with traditional technology components implementation practice, but also an innovation of customer business expansion and management model,” said Ruan Yizheng, head of low code platform at Mendix partner Nengke Technology. In traditional low-code projects, because the low-code itself advocates lightweight APP development, in the case of multiple factories and huge data base, the model of each factory independently deploying apps and independently managing business and data is generally adopted. However, this mode will greatly increase the customer’s implementation and deployment operation and maintenance costs, and can not meet the unified management requirements of multi-plant data. The implementation of the Bourne project helps customers shorten the implementation cycle and reduce the cost of future expansion, and also well confirms the ability of low code to do large data volume and high complexity business scenarios.

In this Bourne mobile device management system project, Mendix, as the end-to-end platform for project development, accelerated the combing of requirements. Based on the model canvas, demand research, business solutions, and sub-module design were completed in less than one month. Then I stepped on the accelerator and completed the actual development work in 8 weeks. Provides ample time for integration with SAP. Finally, with the Siemens Mendix low code platform, Nengke’s strong low code implementation and delivery capabilities, and the tacit cooperation with the SAP team, the project was delivered with high quality and won the praise of the customer’s business and IT.

Laura, Byrne Business Manager, says: “This project can complete the full launch of the system in three months, which is very difficult, Siemens Mendix and its partner Nengke Technology, And the SAP team helped us to realize the integrated construction of business systems from equipment master data, preventive maintenance, equipment daily management, fault and work order management, equipment maintenance/audit, equipment allocation/scrap, etc., to achieve master data standardization, process standardization, business integration, and management precision. Help Bourne to improve the equipment life cycle, save operation and maintenance costs, increase corporate profits. Through this project, we also deeply understand the fast response and agile delivery capabilities of Siemens’ Low Mendix code platform, which provides new construction ideas for the expansion and innovation of device data in the next step.”