Polarteknik delivers dependable quality
Polarteknik Oy is a leading door system supplier for rail vehicles in Europe. The company’s doors and partition walls are designed and manufactured in the city of Huittinen, Finland and used in trains around the world. Polarteknik provides customer-tailored products to meet both international requirements and the national requirements of the target countries. The company’s technical product development is based first and foremost on safety, reliability, longevity, and the optimization of lifecycle costs.
Polarteknik has successfully boosted its business through efficient product management and new ways of working. Up-to-date and accurate product data is now available to all who create and need it. Development work has been carried out in cooperation with Roima’s experts, taking advantage of Roima’s product management solution. The solution has improved the manageability of not only engineering data but also customer projects, and the company has obtained costs savings in both person-hours and product throughput times.
Polarteknik’s customers are in the rail transport sector and must comply with several national and international regulations and standards. This places specific requirements for documentation as well, which needs to meet the standards and be available for submittal on request. Polarteknik is able to satisfy these demanding customer requirements by creating customer-specific documents in RoimaSoftware Aton; this customer-specific document management enables excellent traceability of all customer projects throughout the entire lifecycle of each delivered product.
It has been a pleasure to cooperate with Roima; they have understood our needs and we have received professional service with appropriate response time.
– Jussi Kankkunen, Engineering Manager, Polarteknik Oy
As the latest enhancement to its processes, Polarteknik implemented change management through Roima’s software. This has helped to increase the visibility of changes across the organization, thus improving quality and traceability. In addition, the solution provides an easy option to export change log reports revealing who has changed what and when, as well as the number of changes. This further improves the company’s cost management processes.
Currently, Polarteknik and Roima are working on an integration that will bring the cost and availability information of items from the enterprise planning system to the product management system. Thanks to this new integration, Polarteknik will be able to further increase the transparency and cost efficiency of its engineering processes.
“We at Roima are proud of our cooperation with Polarteknik; the company is a true Finnish success story in the highly competitive international market. It has been interesting to tackle product management challenges together and to see all the benefits achieved through the new ways of working. The cooperation also helps us at Roima to further develop our software products to meet the needs of our customers even better”, says Janne Tiuttu, product management professional at Roima.
Polarteknik takes excellent care of the tools they use, including software, and keeps them up to date. The company is currently using the latest available version of RoimaSoftware Aton and is able to to fully benefit from its new features.
Polarteknik Oy is renowned in the world for its innovativeness and for its reliable, safe and durable products. The company’s broad offering includes, among others, partition and fire barrier door systems, driver’s walls, and toilet door systems. Polarteknik provides tailored solutions and services for major global train manufacturers, integrators and operators throughout the product lifecycle, which in the railway business amounts to 40 years. Polarteknik’s parent company is the Swedish Dacke Industri – for more information, please visit www.dackeindustri.se and www.polarteknik.fi.
