Manitou Group Switches to Siemens Xcelerator as Part of Its Digital Transformation

Company will use NX for design and Teamcenter to manage its part portfolio.

Manitou Group, with headquarters in Ancenis, western France, and offices and production sites in the U.S., India, Italy and France, has chosen Teamcenter as its main product lifecycle management (PLM) application and NX as its main design application. Makers of handling, aerial work platforms and earth moving equipment, Manitou hopes to standardize its design processes with products from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.

Teamcenter will be used to manage the machine database and elements of the various components, according to the company’s announcements.

“This major investment will allow us to modernize our tools, particularly through virtual reality, to enhance our performance and to achieve the same design across several sites without having to rework the data,” says Julien Waechter, vice president of R&D at Manitou Group. “In practice, we will have unique data for each product for all Manitou employees.

A major reason for picking Siemens software was the connection Siemens Teamcenter makes with the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Manitou previously used CoCreate, having standardized on the company’s OneSpace Suite in 2007. CoCreate was acquired by PTC that same year and OneSpace Modeling was renamed Creo Direct. Manitou’s ERP system is by IFS.

The Manitou adoption will involve 1,600 users of Siemens Xcelerator, chiefly in design, R&D, methods, technical documentation as well as in post-sales and marketing.

The company aims to train its users over the next three years in several stages, starting with a definition of the core data mode by the end of 2023, followed by Siemens software being applied by Manitou’s U.S. groups in 2024 and its European groups in 2025.

Siemens promises to support Manitou during the software onboarding as part of its commitment to the digital transformation of industry in general.

From left: Julien Waechter, VP R&D, Manitou Group; Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software France; and Maurizio Achilli, VP Sourcing Manitou Group.

From left: Julien Waechter, VP R&D, Manitou Group; Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software France; and Maurizio Achilli, VP Sourcing Manitou Group.

“We are fully committed to supporting Manitou during its journey to achieving its digital transformation goals,” said Jean Marie Saint-Paul, CEO Siemens Digital Industries Software France.

About Manitou Group

Manitou Group is in the business of making forklift work-handling equipment, aerial work platforms and earth moving equipment. It has two main brands, Manitou and the U.S.-based (West Bend, Wisconsin) Gehl, which it acquired in 2008. Manitou sells its equipment through a 900-dealer network in the construction, agriculture and manufacturing industries.

Manitou Group had revenue of €2.4 billion in 2022 and has 5,000 employees worldwide.