Speaker Abstracts
Making PLM Matter: Information and Business Practices driving Commonality and Platform Technologies
Gahl Berkooz, Technical Team Leader, Ford Motor Company
Commonality and platform technologies have direct and demonstrable impacts on business metrics such as part costs, tooling costs, and time to market. How companies manage product information and the business practices around this information can make a marked difference in the degree of commonality achieved and the reuse of platform technologies. However, corporate organizational structures and culture such as those found in large U.S. corporations present a challenge to leverage information to reap these benefits. With the right approach, IT organizations can persevere and use technology to catalyze a competitive advantage. Off-the-shelf PLM and other tools can be used to support this endeavor provided IT understands the tradeoffs around them and where they need to be augmented.
PLM Downstream: A key area for ROI
Richard Button, Manager, Engineering and Manufacturing Automation, Abbott Laboratories
This presentation will show how Abbott Laboratories efficiently and cost-effectively published 3D product design and associated product manufacturing information (PMI) across its extended enterprise in the PDF format without compromising security. Suppliers understood design intent faster and therefore increased component reliability sooner. Manufacturing assembly instructions were developed earlier in the development phase and enabled faster ramp-up time to production. Support training and service manuals were developed faster and sooner so that field service and support call centers were ready when products first shipped. Downstream PLM publishing is a key component of any successful PLM strategy, and a significant component of PLM ROI.
Model-based Definition (MBD) In The Product Support Environment -Technical Data Development and Use
Joed Dougherty, Manager, Product Lifecycle Management, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems - Rotorcraft
Model-based definition (MBD) and advanced design tools have become ever-increasing industry design approaches within the aircraft manufacturing industry. Identified as processes and tools that have been proven to greatly decrease engineering design non-recurring costs, MBD's requirements and impacts for implementation at the product support level are often overlooked. This discussion will encompass experiences, lessons learned and challenges of MBD in the product support (technical data) world.
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Xavier Francois, Satellite Mechanical Operation and Engineering Team Manager, Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) Industrial Unit, Alcatel Alenia Space
The presentation will explain how Alcatel Alenia Space uses MVP solutions in a complete cycle of satellite design and manufacturing, from early engineering to final part assembly using engineer-to-order (ETO) business process management. It will show the savings provided by MVP solutions and how these solutions lead to a better understanding of product, process, and system needs from end customer to workshop operator.
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Richard Hoyle, Design Engineering Manager, Air International (US) Inc.
The purpose of the this presentation is to outline how and why Air International has implemented EASA as a tool in our product development portfolio. Included will be discussion on EASA's alignment with Air International's global engineering strategy; the vision for the changing role of the analyst and designer and EASA's role in this vision; why we chose EASA; business case considerations; before and after process illustration; examples of applications authored and industry CAE applications that have been unified utilizing EASA, and; future plans for the tool.
SHIFT_Vehicle Development - Power of VPD
Toshikazu Kishimoto, General Manager, Engineering IS Department, Global IS Division, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Nissan's mid-term business plan, NISSAN Value Up, calls for releasing as many as 28 new vehicles and providing customers with high-quality products incorporating the latest designs and technology. To successfully achieve the goal of this business plan, Nissan is now shifting from the conventional development based on physical confirmation to a new vehicle development process relying on a digital study, virtual product development (VPD). NOTE is the first VPD model and was released in January 2005. VPD helped Nissan significantly reduce the number of design changes, speed up development time, and improve the product quality of the NOTE model. The NOTE development clearly proved the power of VPD.
Introduction to NASA's Integrated Collaborate Environment (ICE)
Joaquin J. Martinez de Pinillos, ICE Program Manager, NASA
The Integrated Collaborated Environment (ICE) is a web-centric environment which will be used by industry, academia and government for sharing, collaborating, integrating, accessing and controlling management information and product data defining all of the products which are part of Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). ICE provides a secure data repository with the necessary access control for data protection in conjunction with a collaborative environment, which enables real-time decision making relative to program deliverables. ICE is defined as an integral component for decision support throughout the program lifecycle and is predicated on availability of needed information to team members involved in the making of those program decisions. ESMD will use ICE to facilitate effective feedback, efficient change management and rapid change propagation. ICE will support a wide variety of uses including support for Intermediate Program Reviews (IPRs), major and minor design reviews, linking with potential users of the systems, team meetings, documenting issues, and calculation management. This discussion will cover an overview of what ICE is, an overview of how it works, and the CAD/CAE/PDM/PLM tools used in the architecture.
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Vaughan Morris, Manager, PDM Development & Deployment, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
The Lockheed Martin PDM presentation is the story of the business problems and needs created by the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) program. The JSF is a globally distributed design, manufacturing and sustainment program that has to be managed in an ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) environment. The key theme is "Digital from Design through Sustainment." A cornerstone of the solution is collaboration and horizontal integration in the design development environment, and leveraging that capability all the way through manufacturing and sustainment phases. Issues discussed will be the specific business problems that had to be overcome and the depth to which PDM was used to solve them. The presentation finishes up with lessons learned.
Digital Manufacturing Trends in Japan's Automotive OEMs
Takeshi Nagashima, Assistant Division Manager, Industry & Commerce Systems, Nihon Unisys, Ltd.
Mr. Nagashima will present digital manufacturing trends in the Japanese automobile industry. He will talk about today's status of PLM at the major Japanese automotive OEMs and the PLM challenges they face in the context of their high-level priorities: minimizing time-to-market (Nissan and Toyota are targeting 12 months or less); globalization (more than 50% of production volume will be outside of Japan); and capturing know-how (many key engineers and managers will retire in 2 to 3 years). Mr. Nagashima will also touch on the major PLM and work process issues Japanese automotive OEMs are working to solve. These include: front loading parametric design; increasing collaboration to achieve more concurrent engineering processes; and deploying knowledgeware to capture the know-how of soon to retire key people. Finally, Mr. Nagashima will introduce Dynavista and LightMAGIC as examples of typical Japanese digital manufacturing solutions. He will conclude with a review of likely future PLM directions in Japan.
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Alice Popescu-Gatlan, Project Engineer, Deere & Company
This presentation will share some of the challenges and successes the product verification and validation (PV&V) side of the Tractor Engineering Organization at Deere&Co had with outsourcing simulation and analysis work. The outsourcing was to low cost countries (LLC) in an environment where the development process is already distributed in multiple countries. Learn about the factors that both helped and hindered the process, and the opportunities that exist for the CAE software suppliers to take a partnership role in helping their customers realize the full benefit of using engineering workforces from LLCs.
The Hidden Cost of Mismanaging Engineering Calculations
John Sheehan, Vice President of Services, Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc.
Engineers understand the value in simulating how a design will "behave" before having to spend money building prototypes or manufacturing the product. Hours of design work, careful calculations and research go into developing the design. So why would you invest so much time and money in intellectual property, but fail to capture the critical math and engineering calculations used to design a product?
The thousands of organizations that fail to manage these calculations are risking needless redesign and disastrous errors, all the while squandering their precious intellectual capital. Calculation management applies sound principles and technologies from the realms of information management to the current calculation clutter. In this session, attendees will learn how the calculation process—advancing over the course of a project—is fundamentally what enables businesses to leverage and get a return on their intellectual property.
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Grant Williard, Group Product Manager, Adobe Security Solutions, Adobe Systems, Incorporated
As the supply chain grows and is extended into areas of the world that have very capable manufacturers, but who have very different views of intellectual property law, we must be aware of the risks and take steps to protect our intellectual property. This presentation will look at some of those risks and what can be done to protect your company from misuse and mishandling of your intellectual property. Adobe’s Policy Server and how it provides protection from many of those risks will also be mentioned.
