SIMUFORM realises the identification of duplicate or multiple drawing parts with a specially developed process sequence. With this procedure, for example, 10 billion comparison processes for 100,000 drawing parts can be realised in just 4 days (approx. 32 hours). With these prospects, no company should shy away from cleaning up its database, because the first step is quickly realised. Far quicker than expected. The result is a list with all part numbers for twins and triplets in the database enriched with all master data and metadata from the system landscape.

Once these duplicates have been recorded, the question often arises as to how they should be dealt with. This is a particularly important issue during the migration phase. The recorded data should not simply be deleted, but labelled instead. This labelling makes it possible to mark the items as invalid in the new system. Alternatively, the warehouse stock can be used to use up the items and then mark them as invalid, while at the same time referring to the reference part.