Takeshi Nagashima
Assistant Division Manager, Industry & Commerce Systems
Nihon Unisys, Ltd.

Takeshi Nagashima has more than 30 years of experience in the design and development of many of Nihon Unisys’ proprietary software products dedicated to CAD/CAM/CAE, including Dynavista. He supervises Nihon Unisys' CAD/CAM solutions development service for Toyota and Nissan, and Dynavista worldwide marketing.

Abstract

Digital Manufacturing Trends in Japan's Automotive OEMs

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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