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Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty Adopts Siemens Digital Industries Software for Change Control
Balfour Beatty, an industrials organization in the United Kingdom, uses Simcenter from Siemens Digital Industries Software to support change control for engineering and quality.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for product lifecycle data |
| Capability | Change control stays visible to adjacent teams through Simcenter |
| Capability | Engineering and quality work from the same Simcenter record for product lifecycle data |
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Inside Balfour Beatty, change control used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in industrials groups working out of the United Kingdom. Engineering and quality needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Balfour Beatty uses Simcenter from Siemens Digital Industries Software as the working layer for product lifecycle data. Siemens Digital Industries Software offers PLM, CAD, simulation, and low-code tools that connect product design to the factory. The practical change is simple: change control has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Balfour Beatty gets from Siemens Digital Industries Software is a durable place to run change control and a way for engineering and quality to see the same product lifecycle data at the same time.
