Project management software in the electrical industry

To ensure that all components are available at the right time in tightly timed product development cycles and the dynamic development of the entire electrical industry, it is not only the internal organization that is crucial, but above all the complex network of relationships with a network of different suppliers and customers. With Projektron BCS, you make all information available centrally and up-to-date for all stakeholders by creating a perfect image of your internal organization and your external relationships and making any information available at the right place.

Efficient communication processes and the immediate availability of all relevant information and materials are the keys to keeping development and production costs as low as possible in your company in the electronics industry and reliably meeting deadlines in your product development cycles. Projektron BCS is your central platform on which all this information flows together and is intelligently networked.

Projektron BCS is a tool that supports you throughout the entire project lifecycle, regardless of the method or standard used. BCS not only offers support for classic methods such as PRINCE2, GPM/IPMA or PMI as well as agile methods such as Scrum, but also all the necessary tools, functions and wizards to apply hybrid project management methods and industry-specific standards such as V-Scrum. BCS supports you with high flexibility and maximum customizability to map your individual project management requirements.

With the help of BCS you can get informative schedule and deployment plan overviews for research, development, investment projects in the electrical industry. BCS supports project managers in all phases of the project, from initiation and planning to controlling and closing. You can generate project proposals from ideas, compare them, and use BCS' PPM tool to compile project portfolios on different focus areas to decide which projects to implement.

BCS' multi-project controlling helps you keep track of all projects with their current status and resource utilization. With project-specific and cross-project evaluations, you can analyze not only planned and actual values, but also the remaining effort estimated by the individual project teams. The project team documents all efforts continuously and directly on the project and makes them available for invoicing at any time.

Projektron BCS is a web-based project management software that enables your company's development or production teams in the electrical engineering and electronics industry to collaborate efficiently, regardless of location. Through integrated collaboration tools and central access to projects and documents, the software enables seamless connection of all project participants on one platform.

This collaboration is internationally barrier-free, as the system supports multiple languages and currencies. This allows teams in different countries to use their preferred language and currency; for example, your German site can work in German and bill in euros, while your development service provider in Budapest uses the Hungarian user interface and currency. Projektron BCS offers a total of ten different language versions.

Using a simple web browser, your employees can access Projektron BCS from anywhere. Thanks to browser-based access, a suitable license structure and detailed rights management, not only internal teams from different development and production locations, but also customers and external project staff can be actively involved in project work. Project participants with the appropriate rights can access the same central database regardless of location and keep track of tasks, deadlines and schedules.

The integration of your customers creates transparency and informs them about the current status of the project work as well as resources, efforts and costs. Direct communication via BCS can accelerate approval processes and lead to trusting teamwork, which in turn saves time and money for everyone involved.

Ticket system in BCS - Versatile for task assignment and external communication

The ticket system in Projektron BCS opens up several options at once:

Not only can you document your entire communication process on a ticket and attach documents required for processing a task, but you can also directly record the processing effort.

Quality management: sources of error dry up

With Projektron BCS, you can easily check your quality management through a variety of evaluation options and the use of the ticket system and gain important information, such as identifying frequently occurring product errors. Standardized checklists enable you to map known error sources and efficiently support your employees in improving quality. Projektron BCS offers proven inspection methods at numerous points, such as in projects, tasks, workflow steps and milestones.

Quality management plays an important role, especially for ISO 9001 certified companies, for which Projektron BCS templates, checklists and workflows provide efficient support. The program can be flexibly adapted to your company's processes and workflows.

By documenting the course of the project in Projektron BCS, you can easily and quickly save valuable experiences in the appropriate remark fields. In this way, you can already contribute to well-founded process analyses during project work and promote continuous quality improvement.

Product management with BCS

In the "Products" workspace of Projektron BCS, you can organize your products in a hierarchical structure of product structure elements. This hierarchy can be as deep as you like and is visualized by a graphical network diagram. The hierarchy includes related products by predecessor-successor relationships and represents them by hierarchies. In addition, custom relations can be represented. If you click on a product, you can open a detailed view in which the predecessor-successor relationships are even more clearly visible.

When collaborating with external business partners, your company in the electrical industry benefits from the customizable reports you can create in Projektron BCS: A project preparation report, for example, creates a common project understanding, while effort reports on projects and tickets increase transparency and secure the trust of your clients and customers.

Would you like reports that are precisely tailored to your company? Thanks to the interface to the open source report designer BIRT, you can design completely individual reports. You want to provide your customers with regular reports? You can create project status reports with statements on the current production status, the stability and quality of the project results, risk assessment and deviations from the original planning at the push of a button using the reporting function in BCS. You can do this efficiently using report orders with an integrated e-mail function: In the ergonomic wizard, you create all the required information on the report, output interval and recipient once, and Projektron BCS takes care of everything else for you automatically.

Projektron BCS offers your company in the electrical industry the opportunity to model your individual production, sales and business processes with the BPMN process designer. As an internationally recognized notation standard, BPMN is a central component of business process management and enables you to visualize and optimize your business processes and workflows. Furthermore, it creates more transparency about the processes within your company and towards potential customers.

BPMN processes enable you to assign tasks in a transparent and clearly defined manner in teamwork and in collaboration across departmental boundaries, hierarchical levels and locations.

Typical use cases for BPMN processes are:

 complex verification processes

 invoice workflows

 procurement processes/purchasing processes

 approval processes with approval workflow (vacation request, request for business trip, home office, time off compensation, expense reimbursement, etc.)

Projektron BCS supports business process management with the BPMN Designer, with which you can design, model, execute, monitor, document, evaluate and optimize processes. In the process, often repetitive business processes and workflows can be automated. The BPMN Designer enables every employee to keep track of when they need to complete which task and how they contribute to the overall goal.