I keep engineering data in order, from first design to the production line.
I'm Uğur, a mechanical engineer working in the Engineering IT team at BMC Otomotiv. I administer a 500-user 3DEXPERIENCE / ENOVIA platform, and the licences and servers behind more than 15 engineering software products.
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
Experience
PLM Solutions Engineer
Engineering Applications Specialist
- Platform migration and upgrade. Moved a 500-user 3DEXPERIENCE / ENOVIA platform from 2021x on Windows to 2024x on Linux, with the production cutover done over a single weekend and no business downtime. I ran the system tests, wrote new documentation and updated the old, prepared the acceptance-test template users followed and answered their findings one by one, trained users through meetings and demos, and brought the Offline Help module into service.
- Large-scale data correction. Corrected the location matrices of solid models across hundreds of thousands of assemblies with server-side MQL scripting, saving an estimated 1,100 man-days of manual engineering work.
- DELMIA rollout. Deployed DELMIA to about 30 users in Manufacturing Engineering, with training and hands-on support through and after go-live.
- Electrical design migration. Led the move from Vesys 2018 to Capital Essentials without disrupting electrical design work.
- User adoption. Trained and onboarded more than 100 users from Vehicle Design, Configuration Management, Manufacturing Engineering and Production.
- Engineering software and licensing. Manage licences and application servers for more than 15 products, including ANSYS, MSC, MATLAB, PTC Creo / Windchill and IBM DOORS, on FlexNet and RLM licence servers.
- Information security and audits. Represent PLM in the annual ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 audits. Built the PLM asset and risk inventories and wrote the access management procedures.
Skills
Thesis
PLM Migration Strategies and Approaches from Windows to Open Source Servers
Many companies run their PLM systems on Windows servers and pay for it in licences and limited flexibility. My thesis asks what it takes to move such a system to Linux, looking at the technical, organisational and financial sides together.
Its centre is a case study from a 500-user PLM environment: an ENOVIA upgrade from R2021x to R2024x in which the application and document servers moved from Windows to Oracle Linux. The database stayed on Windows, on the same hardware.
- In the three months after the switch, help-desk requests about a slow system fell to a quarter of their earlier level.
- Windows Server licences dropped from nine machines to two. Together with a disk upgrade that was no longer needed, direct savings passed 15,000 USD in the first year.
- The migration is a change-management project as much as a technical one. Training, management support and clear roles decided how smoothly it went.
About
I studied mechanical engineering at Dokuz Eylül University, where I worked on the aerodynamics of the S11 solar vehicle with Team Solaris, and moved into PLM soon after. It is the point where a design stops being a drawing and becomes something a factory can build, and I like being the person who makes sure everyone is working from the same version.
Away from work I play electric guitar and piano, tinker with 3D printing and make time for sport.
Contact
Working on a PLM problem? I'm happy to talk.