Maxis Motion manufactures high-precision roll grinding solutions — CNC roll grinding machines, roll grinding machine modernization, large machine tool modernization, and machine tool accessories. The rolls Maxis machines grind are the rolls inside steel mills, paper mills, aluminium and EV-battery-foil lines, and heavy-engineering plants — surfaces where a few microns of inaccuracy show up as defects downstream. With a 90-person team across facilities in Pune, India and Pathumthani, Thailand, and 16+ years of delivered work, Maxis builds and modernises the machine tools that other manufacturers depend on for surface precision.
Precision-machine manufacturing has an operating reality that generic ERP does not anticipate. Each machine is engineered, not catalog-picked. Engineering data — the bills of materials, the engineering change orders, the product master — is the spine of the business, and it lives in a dedicated PLM system. The manufacturing operation has to consume that engineering data faithfully without becoming a second, drifting copy of it.
The Challenge
- Engineering runs on Siemens Teamcenter, and that was not going to change. Maxis had standardised its product lifecycle management on Siemens Teamcenter — engineering BOMs, engineering change orders, and product master data all originate and version there. Engineering had no appetite to migrate off a PLM system that worked. Any operating-side system had to fit around Teamcenter, not replace it.
- The manufacturing side needed the engineering data without becoming a second source of truth. The shop floor needs the engineering BOM in the form it can plan and build against. Re-keying it, or letting it drift in a separate ERP, is exactly how precision manufacturers end up building against a stale revision.
How Linescripts Built the Solution
Siemens Teamcenter (PLM) integration — integrate, don't migrate
Rather than push Maxis toward replacing Teamcenter, Linescripts built the integration so the manufacturing operating system consumes Teamcenter's engineering data directly. Engineering keeps Teamcenter as the source of truth for the engineering BOM and engineering change orders; the integration projects that data into the operating system in the form the shop floor actually needs to plan and execute against. When engineering releases a change in Teamcenter, the change flows through with the right effectivity rather than landing on the floor as a surprise mid-build.
The architectural decision is the point: engineering kept the tooling it had chosen and trusted, the manufacturing operation got a system that fits how a precision-machine builder actually works, and the two stay in sync without manual re-keying or a drifting second copy of the BOM.
Closing
The engagement's defining decision was the smallest-sounding one: Maxis did not have to give up Siemens Teamcenter to modernise its operating layer. Engineering kept its PLM; the manufacturing side got an operating system built around it; the engineering-to-shop-floor seam — where precision manufacturers most often lose accuracy — stays connected.
