User Testimonial

SIMILIA AI in Use at Winkhaus

Company Profile

With innovative products and expert service, Winkhaus has been impressing its customers for over 160 years. Around the world, window manufacturers and dealers, architects, builders, and users value the wide range of solutions and the high quality of Winkhaus’ intelligent window technology, door locking systems, and access control solutions.

This long-established family-owned company is based in Telgte, Münster, and Meiningen, and operates international subsidiaries in several countries. In Germany alone, Winkhaus maintains five locations.

Industry:
Window and door technology, metal engineering, toolmaking

Employees:
Approx. 2,300 worldwide

Application of SIMILIA AI:
Product development, toolmaking

Benefits and Advantages of SIMILIA AI

The technical requirements of Winkhaus GmbH for fast retrieval and reuse of parts and tool components were fully met by SIMILIA in a competitive evaluation. Among the key demands were ease of use, intuitive operation, and rapid searching across all data repositories.

Over time, SIMILIA has also proven to be highly reliable and robust. Internal maintenance and administrative effort remain minimal. Due to its long-term benefits, SIMILIA was subsequently integrated not only with the PDM system but also with the SAP ERP system.

  • Part reuse in design and development
  • Feedback of cost-relevant information from SAP into product development (Design to Cost)
  • Avoidance of redundant work and duplicate designs
  • Reduction of development times

Directly from practice

How SIMILIA AI supports Winkhaus in daily operations

“We have been using SIMILIA very successfully for several years. It has established itself as a highly valuable and useful software solution in our product development. It is now also connected to SAP, which gives us additional value in our process chain. SIMILIA is reliable and easy to use. We are happy to recommend it.”

Markus Conrady, Head of Design and Development

Winkhaus

“The support and service provided by SIMUFORM were excellent from the very beginning. Over time, the quality has never declined. We enjoy working with this product.”

Stefan Niehues, Technical Development, CAD Administration

Winkhaus