Success story
SMS group GmbHIndustry• Manufacturing

Solution• OpenText™ Exceed™ TurboX

SMS group improves engineer
productivity with OpenText

OpenText Exceed TurboX helps manufacturer increase productivity
and reliability, reduce costs and enable global collaboration
Results
Increased productivity forengineers with global user
access to data
Improved performanceof graphically demanding
applications
Reduced costs by eliminating
expensive, dedicated workstations“After evaluating a number of solutions, we chose
OpenText Exceed TurboX, which is very reliableand provides us the remote data center access
we need, from anywhere in the world.”
Dr.-Ing. Christian Imiela

Manager Calculations and Structure Analyses
SMS groupSMS group improves engineer productivity with OpenText

SMS group GmbH (SMS) is a German, family-owned business originallyfounded in 1871, with approximately 13,500 employees and annual
revenues of €3.5 billion. As a leading, global partner for the metalindustry, SMS focuses on quality and innovation, striving to add
value worldwide.
SMS engineers perform numerous complex calculations and simulations when designing and constructing a solution for clients. The group
was using expensive and noisy personal workstations, and desperately
needed a more efficient, flexible and collaborative way to work.
Dr.-Ing. Christian Imiela, manager of Calculations and Structure Analyses
at SMS group, expanded on the challenges and why they ultimately
turned to OpenText™ Exceed™ TurboX. “In order to prepare finite element
calculations, our engineers use MSC Marc and Mentat software, which
requires enormous graphical and computational power. More than adecade ago, we decided to move away from personal workstations toa Unix based data center. This meant we needed a powerful remote
access solution for our staff to gain access around the globe. Afterevaluating a number of solutions, we chose OpenText Exceed TurboX,
which is very reliable and provides us the remote data center access
we need, from anywhere in the world.”
No longer tethered to a fixed workstation, engineers can now suspend asession on their laptop and resume it later when visiting other offices orcustomer sites. Regardless of the location they find themselves in, SMS
engineers can log in to the data center to seamlessly display and workon models.

Dr.-Ing. Markus Finck, manager of Calculations and Structure Analyses
at SMS group, explained further: “Working with my colleagues in
Mönchengladbach and Düsseldorf, we share one data center. For us,the users, the OpenText Exceed TurboX solution is very easy to use.
We simply access a hyperlink and we’re presented with a web userinterface. The performance is excellent and works as seamlessly
as if I had my own Unix workstation under my desk. The solution
provides the flexibility to move to another location, plug in my laptopand show my computational results to colleagues or customers.”
When producing and working on finite element models, reliable performance is imperative for OpenGL 3D to enable interactivity, such as
the moving and rotating of models. Exceed TurboX employs ThinX
Protocol-technology, which uses several compression engines and alocal graphics card on the server to ensure a fast and reliable connection—even over low bandwidth.
“Using OpenText Exceed TurboX, we can share results with our customers in real-time and any changes that are made or work-in-progress
can be suspended for later resumption. This means that work is neverlost,” added Finck.
Administration is just as straightforward. There is no maintenance once
deployed and the costs that were formerly associated with local, dedicated Unix workstations have been eliminated.
“As an administrator, once set up, OpenText Exceed TurboX just works.
We have been using the solution for more than a decade now and mycolleagues are very happy with the performance and especially thesuspend and resume feature. Exceed TurboX provides us with a costsaving and reliable solution—it simply works,” stated Imiela.

“OpenText ExceedTurboX provides uswith a cost saving andreliable solution—itsimply works.”
Dr.-Ing. Christian Imiela

Manager Calculations
and Structure Analyses
SMS group

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