Case Study: Müller Martini achieves streamlined variant and option handling and reduced manufacturing costs with Zuken E³.series

Müller Martini enhances variant and option handling and reduces manufacturing costs by moving to an object-oriented ECAD environment

Müller Martini, a Swiss global leader in print processing machines, faced rising complexity from growing options and variants and needed to replace an end-of-life ECAD tool while improving integration with SAP, MCAD and automation systems. To address distributed collaboration, variant management and manufacturing handover requirements they selected Zuken’s E³.series as their new object‑oriented ECAD platform.

Zuken implemented E³.series with a 150% feature‑tree approach, SAP and Automation Studio interfaces, and direct outputs for cabinet NC drilling and wire processing. As a result, up to 80% of all variants can now be represented in a single E³.series project, manufacturing costs were reduced by using E³.series data for panel drilling, cross‑section and connection checks cut rework, and information transfer across engineering, production and sourcing was significantly streamlined.

Müller Martini

Markus Husner

Head of Control Systems Technology