Industrial Equipment Case Study: Doosan Infracore

Doosan Infracore, a globally renowned player in the industrial equipment industry, aimed to become one of the top three global machinery suppliers by 2020. To achieve this, the company needed to improve the productivity and product quality of its 14 subsidiaries and R&D centers in the US, China, Norway, and the Czech Republic. The company faced challenges in reducing product development time, errors, and rework, and improving data integration and security throughout the product lifecycle. Their existing PLM system, a collection of heterogeneous, tailor-made, in-house software applications, generated data incompatibility issues from one site to another, making it difficult to address these challenges.

Doosan Infracore, part of the Doosan Group, began as a shipbuilding machinery plant in 1937. Today, it is a globally renowned player in the industrial equipment industry, and is ranked fifth in the machinery, machine tool, and small equipment construction sector worldwide. It is also the number one manufacturer of mid-size diesel and gas engines and articulated dump trucks in Korea. Since it joined the Doosan Group in 2005, Doosan Infracore has been busy expanding its business, acquiring companies such as Bobcat and CTI in the USA, ATL in Germany, Moxy Engineering AS in Norway, Yantai Machinery in China, and the machine tool business division of Doosan Mechatec in Korea. As a result, the company’s exports increased almost two-fold in just two years, earning it the 2 Billion Dollar Export Tower Award from the Korea International Trade Association Day in 2007. Maintaining this steady growth, Doosan Infracore has positioned itself to overtake its global competitors and become one of the top three industrial machinery manufacturers worldwide.