Windchill was a natural solution for us-AGI glaspac

HSIL Ltd., Packaging Products Divison, AGI glaspac established in the year 1972, engaged in the manufacture of high quality glass containers for the packaging needs of Food, Pharmaceuticals, Soft Drinks, Spirits, Beer, Wine and other industries. With Hyderabad and Bhongir facilities put together, AGI melts 1600+ tonnes of glass per day.

AGI has played pivotal role in the development of glass containers for many critical packaging applications. Over the many years of operations, the Company has built up an excellent reputation in terms of providing excellent quality products and caters to a large and demanding customer base with a product range covering Flint, Amber and Green containers.

With in-house Design Studio, Mold Manufacturing, ACL (Applied Ceramic Labeling) facilities, AGI has fully integrated operations, which enables the manufacture of quality products as well as timely deliveries.

AGI’s customer base comprises host of Multinational companies as well as large Indian companies, catering to various business segments. Apart from the Indian market, products are shipped to North America, Europe, Africa as well as APAC regions.

The Challenge: In 2009 AGI started a new plant and the capacity almost doubled, obviously we needed to develop and market new products rapidly. With manual Enquiry process and release of drawings, the risk of delay and errors were very high, reworking of moulds re drawing samples were at a huge cost due to continuous process nature of Glass making , therefore we were looking to Automate enquiry and drive the entire product development cycle

The Solution: Windchill was a natural solution for us as we were already partners with PTC and Adroitec with Pro/E software for our CAD needs.

Implementation: In 2010 we implemented Windchill across our plants. Enquiry process is automated, our Marketing team can now generate enquiries from customers place and get online feedback and kick start product development and give approvals.

Internal teams comprising Mould shop, Forming and quality get task to complete, with online access to latest drawings and 3D CAD data, practically scope of errors became zero.

Business Impact: New product development lead time reduced by almost 30%. In less than 3 weeks we could make the concept a reality. Our sales from New products grown significantly with increase in customers satisfaction. As the hassle of releasing up to date drawings for manufacturing every time is taken away, Productivity increased from Design and development team.