Success story · Aerospace & knowledge management

Safran Aircraft Engines supports its teams on four technical applications.

GIDEK brings together design rules, processes, tools and training. Newcomers first experience that wealth of functionality as complexity. K-NOW guides each of them at their own level.

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K-NOW
Step-by-step guidance
Create an opportunity
K-STUDIO
Train yourself
Qualify a lead
Issue a quote
8,000users on GIDEK
4guided applications
1extension for all the applications
Context

A tool that does almost everything, and that you have to know how to approach.

GIDEK is the knowledge management tool of Safran Aircraft Engines: design, modelling, validation and industrialisation rules, processes, input and output documents, skills and training are all gathered there. Its users describe it as a Swiss army knife, as useful to the newcomer as to the experienced engineer.

The blind spot

Training prepares people, it does not stay with them.

That wealth of functionality can be felt as complexity. For a newcomer, discovering the tool first creates apprehension. The point was therefore not only to document the application, but to support each user at the level where they are.

Initial trainingPeople learn the tool before they really use it.
A few weeks laterThe application is only used now and then.
The step that blocksNo one is around at the moment it matters.
Scope

The guided applications, and those under review.

The solution

Guidance that adapts to each person's level.

K-NOW is deployed on site, in a container independent from the applications it supports.

Matched to the profile

Segments make it possible to serve different guidance depending on the user's level of proficiency with the tool.

Matched to the navigation

Guidance follows the real progression through the application's menus.

A single installation

The extension is deployed once per workstation; adding a guided application requires no update at all.

No application coupling

The container isolates K-NOW from the applications, which simplifies version upgrades.

kSTEP 2 / 3Log the activity you completed.
kSTEP 1 / 3Open the account record.kSTEP 3 / 3Move the opportunity forward here.
K-NOW
Step-by-step guidance
Create an opportunity
K-STUDIO
Train yourself
Qualify a lead
Issue a quote
Results

Complex applications approached without apprehension.

Newcomers up and running

GIDEK gets newcomers up and running, and K-NOW removes the apprehension of discovering it.

Support by level

The content of the guidance adjusts to each user's needs and experience.

An extendable scope

4 applications are guided and three further requests are under review, with no work on the workstations.

A controlled rollout

Installation approved by group policies, isolated execution, simplified version upgrades.

“Knowmore is an agile French SME that listens to its customers. Small, but with a solid customer support.”

Bernard Robic, Digitalisation and Continuous Improvement Projects Manager, Safran Aircraft Engines.
Frequently asked questions

What people ask us about this roll-out.

Does K-NOW replace training at Safran?
No. Initial training stays in place to prepare people. K-NOW takes over inside the application, at the moment someone gets stuck on a step, sometimes long after the session. The setup stays hybrid.
Which applications are covered?
Live : GIDEK (Knowledge management, 8,000 users), FLEETX (In-service engine support), WALK (In-service engine support) and Microsoft Dynamics→ (Support applications). Coming soon : Planisware oSmoz→ (Project management, under evaluation) and CNum on 3DEXPERIENCE→ (ENOVIA PLM, under evaluation).
How large is the roll-out?
8,000 users on GIDEK, 4 guided applications and 1 extension for all the applications.
What does it change day to day?
Newcomers up and running. GIDEK gets newcomers up and running, and K-NOW removes the apprehension of discovering it.
Your project

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