Case Study: Structural Concepts achieves 32% revenue growth and 50% reduction in new product lead time with Aras Corporation

Structural Concepts Corporation Achieves Enterprise PLM Success

Structural Concepts, a Michigan-based leader in temperature-controlled display cases for foodservice and retail clients (Starbucks, Wal*Mart, Hilton, Safeway), faced growing pains as rapid business growth and a mostly engineer‑to‑order model (80% custom orders) created poor cross‑functional visibility, missed deadlines, and lengthening engineering lead times. Executives needed to transform to a configuration‑oriented, platform-based process to speed quoting, estimation and new product development.

The company implemented the Aras Innovator enterprise PLM on its Microsoft stack to centralize product configuration, requirements, program management, BOM and document control, change workflows, pre‑production planning and enterprise collaboration. The results: revenues up 32%, NPDI lead time cut nearly 50%, order‑to‑delivery throughput up 40%, productivity up 67% (about $675,000 savings to date) and increased platform reuse enabling a planned >50% platform rationalization.

Structural Concepts

Viktor Anderson

Director of Engineering