References
References & Success Stories
The Best Proof of Our Competence: Our Customers
The strongest confirmation of our expertise comes from those who work with us every day: our customers. Across industries such as aerospace & defence, machinery and plant engineering, automotive, and medical technology, leading companies rely on ILC to optimize their product development processes and achieve measurable results.
Customer Quotes That Speak for Themselves
Our customers value our combination of excellent consulting services, innovative PLM solutions, and seamless integration with SAP and Microsoft technologies. Their testimonials highlight how ILC has helped them accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and strengthen their competitive position.
“With ILC, we streamlined our product development process and gained transparency across all lifecycle stages.” – Customer from the machinery industry
“ILC’s PLM expertise and ⁴PEP platform gave us the flexibility to manage product variants more efficiently.” – Customer from the automotive sector
Success Stories That Inspire
Behind every project lies a story of transformation. Our reference projects show how companies are taking their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to a new dimension with ILC. Whether it’s implementing ⁴PEP, integrating SAP solutions, or redefining entire product engineering processes, our success stories demonstrate the tangible value we deliver.
Customer Quotes
Successful customers speak for themselves
“ILC is a reliable partner with excellent market expertise, who supports us with advice and assistance at any time. By implementing ⁴PEP Engineering Change Management, we were able to develop a uniform standard that can be used for all our change processes and to subsequently increase the quality of the procedures substantially.”
Florian Mühlbauer
Product Lifecycle Manager Research
Development and Technology
“Within the framework of the cooperation with ILC GmbH, we appreciate the high level of professionalism, the prac-tice-oriented way of working and the pleasant personal and also reliable cooperation. By using ⁴PEP Regulatory Affairs Management, we were able to improve our approval process efficiently.“
Elmar Seeberger
Project Manager
“We have grown fond of ILC and their staff for being a professional and strategic partner in our projects. They have always suggested possible ways to the right or to the left, presented the pros and cons to us and have thereby allowed us to move our projects forward in an efficient and, most notably, an error-free way.”
Oliver Bethke
Director of IT-Applications ITM Procurement Solutions & Warehousing
“⁴PEP Master Data Management allowed us to standardize our processes, to increase data quality and to eliminate redundancy of material master data. Furthermore, we were able to considerably reduce the time and effort needed for the data maintenance in the different areas of responsibility.”
Stefan Hackert
Engineering Data & Tools Management
“With ⁴PEP Regulatory Affairs Management, we control our international approval processes safely and quickly. We were able to always represent our requirements flexibly with the solution from ILC. ILC consultants’ high process competency resulted in a high quality implementation.”
Fernand Portenier
Head of IT
“We chose ILC as our consulting and implementing partner in order to be able to achieve our project goals faster and more effectively. The PLM7 extension based on the reliable ⁴PEP platform was the only way for us to realize the necessary functionality.”
Gerard Engelkamp
Director of IT and Organization
“Since the implementation of ⁴PEP Engineering Change Mangemenent, we have reduced the processing time of changes in the development field by approximately 50 per cent.”
Markus Braun
Ltr. Engineering Change Management
“With ⁴PEP Master Data Management, we were able to significantly cut the time needed for the creation of our material masters.”
Steffen Bauer
Head of IT
“Our close collaboration with ILC has been instrumental in helping us master the complexity of our processes. With ⁴PEP, we have been able to manage product variants transparently, harmonize processes, and thus significantly increase efficiency and flexibility in our change management processes.”
Maya Knaup
SAP PLM Application Consultant & Developer
“⁴PEP Engineering Change Management gives us a high level of security and transparency in the planning and steering of our worldwide change processes. The ‘return on investment’ was reached in a very short time.“
Helmut Peters
Manager Commercial Services
“With the solution from ILC, we bundle all data relevant to changes in SAP and can therefore use it as a basis to integrate all departments.”
Dr. Friedrich von Wachter
Director Quality, Energy, Environment & Occupational Safety
“Thanks to ⁴PEP Master Data Management, we can efficiently manage our international material master maintenance processes and ensure high-quality master data.”
Thomas Tetzlaff
Head of product data and standardization
“With their good understanding of processes and with their consistent coordination and time management, ILC made it possible to smoothly carry out a project that met all our requirements.”
Anja Herterich
Industry Solutions
Product Engineering Services
“With ⁴PEP Product Qualification, we achieve worldwide transparency in our sample processes. The flexibly producible descriptions of technical deviations are very valuable to us.”
Michael Klöwer
Manager Commercial Services
„With the user-friendly solution ⁴PEP Product Definition, Variant and Structure Management, employees are now able to create complex characteristics-based sets of rules for product variants after only one day of training without any programming or expert knowledge, while significantly saving time.“
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Christian Wlczek
Development Business Processes
“With the innovation of LED, our number of variants has sky-rocketed. Thanks to ⁴PEP, the same team can handle up to 40 times more product variations! ⁴PEP is our core for the entire product life cycle.”
Andreas Schütz
Research & Development
Team Leader Project Management Office
“NPP and ⁴PEP revolutionized our process!”
Dr. Larissa Sapronov
NPP, Pool Car, Support MB Truck Group
Department ITC/EE
“⁴PEP Document and Regulatory Affairs Management is surprisingly flexible. Even if you are not an SAP power user, the product makes work much easier. Thanks to the professional support of ILC’s consultants, we were able to adapt the system well to our specific needs.”
Waltraud Behr
Design and Regulatory Documentation
“The use of ⁴PEP enables our development department to take a direct and primary role in the mapping and maintenance of variant diversity. This allows us to achieve a profound integration of variant management into our development processes.”
Daniel Rudolf
Mechanical Design Dept.
Project manager variant configuration
“Variant management helps us to manage our extensive product portfolio more efficiently and reduce manual labour, while at the same time improving data quality. Most importantly, we can offer our customers a wider range of solutions.”
Yannic Ohms
Head of Product Management Valves
“With ⁴PEP, we were able to completely digitize our engineering change process, significantly increase quality and transparency and shorten throughput times. The ⁴PEP Process Engine makes it very easy to map our complex processes and respond flexibly to new requirements.”
Yvonne Niggemann
Process Manager Innovation, Processes, IP Products & Services
“⁴PEP brings together global standardization, secure, harmonized processes, maximum efficiency, and full transparency – and with its future-proof ECM-system, it provides the technological foundation for tomorrow.”
Dr.-Ing. Tobias Wittkopp
Head of IT Engineering
