Unit 5 MODULES IN A PDM/PLM

SOFTWARE & CUSTOMISATION

OF PDM/PLM SOFTWARE:
MODULES IN A PDM/PLM SOFTWARE: CAD, CAE, manufacturing process management,
Enterprise system integration, supplier management, Data retrieval.
CUSTOMISATION OF PDM/PLM SOFTWARE:
Understanding of business objectives, project data management, product data management,
process management.
 CAD and CAE
• The management of analysis and simulation data aims to integrate analysis
and simulation results in the workflow of virtual product development.
• For this purpose, this information is embedded in a PDM environment.
• Most manufacturing companies today face the challenge of having to
develop faster and more complex products.
• Design and simulation play a key role for the evaluation of product
development results.
• What is new? for many engineers is that simulation is gaining an increasing
importance and for a higher development efficiency its integration with 3D
product modeling is a critical success factor.
Problems in linkage of CAD and CAE
• - Personnel separation of modeling from the analysis,
• - Many different CAE software systems,
• - Many analysis variants,
• - Lack of relationship of CAD to CAE models,
• - Lack of process orientation,
• - Inadequate data protection,
• - Insufficient supplier integration.
CAE Data Model used in Teamcenter
 CAE Data Model used in Teamcenter
• -  TC_CAE_Defining: Therefore relationship can be traced, which CAEModelRev is used by
the CAEAnalysisRev, so which meshing is computed with a SIM file. For a CAEAnalysisRev
there can be only one CAEModelRev, because there can be only one mesh for the
computation.
• -  TC_CAE_Source: This relationship indicates from which item revision a model has been
created, so what item revision was the source. It can be defined between CAEModelRev and
CAEGeometryRev or between CAEGeometryRev and CAD Master revisions. In case that no
idealized file is used, this relationship may also exist between CAEModelRev and CAD
master. There can be only one source at a time.
• -  TC_CAE_Target: This relationship documents for which CAD-Master-Revision each CAE-
Item- Revision applies (from CAEModelRev to CAD -Master-Revision, from CAEGeometryRev
to CAD- Master-Revision). There may exist several TC_CAE_Target relationships in parallel.
An example of multiple parallel TC_CAE_Target relations is the following: The simulation for
a green part shall have validity for the identical blue, yellow and red parts.
CAD-CAE integration scheme
CAD-centric approach
CAE-centric approach
New paradigm of CAD/CAE integration
Closed loop of workflow by CAD/CAE integration
Engineering Functions Affected by CAE
Manufacturing process management
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Emerging E-Business applications in Automobile
Manufacturing Process or Operations Management
• How do I run my manufacturing operations better? Different terms are just
trying to explain how wide the scope can be just trying to explain how
wide the scope can be.
• The best name to describe the whole "category" of Level 3 operations is
indeed Manufacturing Operations Management, or MOM.
• MOM represents MOM represents a holistic solution to improve
manufacturing a holistic solution to improve manufacturing operations
performance.
• MOM systems are built to consolidate the management of several
production processes, such as quality management, sequencing, non
conformance management, asset management and so on, within one
system.
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supporting multiple key business processes and systems”
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 Enterprise system integration
• Enterprise applications are systems that span functional areas, focus
on executing business processes across the business firm, and include
all levels of management. Enterprise applications help businesses
become more flexible and productive by coordinating their business
processes more closely.
• There are four major enterprise applications:
1. Enterprise systems
2. Supply chain management systems
3. Customer relationship management systems
4. Knowledge management systems
 Integrated Systems Approach
• Common set of applications
• Usually requires re-engineering of business
• processes
– Better alignment
• Limited customization – Easier upgrades
• Overcomes inefficiencies of independent systems
• Integrated data supports multiple business functions
 Benefits of Enterprise Systems
• Help to unify the firm’s structure and organization:
One organization
• Management:
Firm wide knowledge-based management processes
• Technology:
Unified platform
• Business:
More efficient operations & customer- driven business processes
 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• Supply chain management (SCM) systems help businesses to manage relationships with
their suppliers.
• These systems provide information to help suppliers, purchasing firms, distributors, and
logistics companies share information about orders, production, inventory levels, and
delivery of products and services so that they can source, produce, and deliver goods
and services efficiently.
• SCM systems increase firm profitability by lowering the costs of moving and making
products and by enabling managers to make better decisions about how to organize and
schedule sourcing, production, and distribution.
• Supply chain management systems are one type of inter organizational system because
they automate the flow of information across organizational boundaries. Firms that
skillfully manage their supply chains get the right amount of products from their source
to point of consumption with the least amount of time and the lowest cost.
Supply chain management system
 SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS

• The supply chain is also a two-way street. You not only have suppliers, but also
customers. You are a supplier to your customer. That relationship, on both ends,
needs to be examined carefully.

• Supplier Change Requests – Regardless of the form.

• Material Rejections – At receiving or in receiving inspection.
• Deviation Authorizations – Internal or initiated by the supplier.
• Material In Process Rejections/MRB – Assembly, test, burn-in.
• Customer Returns Field Failures – Bad part or product.
• Customer Change Requests – Regardless of the form.
• Customer Change Approval Time – And percent rejected.
Developing Business Process Management for PLM
BPM enabled by Services Oriented Architecture empowers the
business process management
• Achieve strategic business objectives by directing the deployment of resources
from across the organization into efficient processes that create value
• Efficiently align the organization with the wants and needs of your customers
• Promote business effectiveness and efficiency, while striving for innovation,
flexibility and integration with technology
• Continuously improve processes
• Rapidly create and restructure process driven applications and integrations
• Tightly integrate the organization and value chain, but with the flexibility to
rapidly change and adapt as circumstances require.
 Project management
• The main task of this module is supervising project works according to
a specific plan.
working procedures,
time frames,
main stages,
responsibilities and
competences.
 Project Management
• In PDM systems, a “project” as unit of information is used to build the structures of all
data in the individual tasks within a project.
• Projects in a PDM system are defined like all the other units of information, by means of
the main record, standard and user-specific features, and the possibility to build
structures.
• For better understanding and clarity, a project can be divided into subprojects.
• Each (sub)project contains assigned products and documents, which can be arranged in
a hierarchical structure and connected with one another.
• A PDM system allows for programming any cycle of information connected with a given
project.
• While making the project, the system creates the history of the course of the project.
• Monitoring the progress of work enables the manager for continuous supervision of the
undertaking.
• Each stage of the project must be approved or the system will not allow the next stage
to begin.
 Product Data Management
m a n a g e m e n t (R D B M S ) a re u s e d , a lth o u g h th e re h a s b e e n a tra n s itio n
to w a rd s o b je c t-o rie n te d d a ta b a s e m a n a g e m e n t s y s te m s .

Network and Data Management

Communication System

PDM
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Aplications Source data

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 Function of PDM systems
• a concept in product data management in a company;
• system of product data management.
Functionality of PDM systems is limited to two categories:
user functions and utility functions.
• user functions are divided into five categories:
1. Data and document management;
2. Workflow and process management;
3. Product structure management;
4. Classifications;
5. Project management.
• utility functions are divided into four categories:
1. Communication and notification;
2. Data transport;
3. Data Translation;
4. System Administration.
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d u rin g th e p ro je c t, w h ic h g re a tly fa c ilita te s la te r a n a ly s is re la te d to its q u a lity .
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 d o c u m e n ts , d r a w in g s , N C p r o g r a m s , e tc ., c a n b e r e a d .
Structure of documents
Methods of finding a document
Name

Classification Indexes

Document 1

Creation time

Other parameters

Released date

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File management without and/or with the aid of a PDM/PLM system
Functions of a Data Vault
 p u rp o s e s (fo r v ie w in g ).
Check-in function in a PDM system
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Process Management
w e ll a s w ith th e ty p e o f th e p ro c e s s .
Features of typical of business workflow processes:
1. Workflow is always forced. It can be triggered by a particular event,
e.g. customer or order modification or a certain deadline.
2. Workflow always contains several (sequential) procedural steps.
3. Individual steps of a process can be shared among several levels.
4. Workflow can contain (depending on conditions) the whole steps,
or executed alternatively in parts.
5. Apart from sequential steps, workflow can also contain step of the
process realized in a parallel way.
6. Workflow is always closed, either after reaching desired results or
by aborting the process.
Important workflow attributes are briefly described:
• Level of process complexity depends on quality and number of variants of its
steps, as well as on the existing dependency between those steps. The level
of complexity is high, if the number of parallel or alternative steps is high.
• Detail level describes the decomposition of the process into partial steps. If
the steps contain large subtasks, the detail level is high.
• Level of work division means the number of employees needed to reach
desired results.
• Process integration means the quality of existing interfaces between various
process steps (shared data, resources, employees).
• Dynamics of the workflow illustrates the level of changes dependent on the
process, caused by other steps of the process.
• The speed of tasks is a further attribute describing how often a certain
workflow is performed.
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Workflow management
c h a n g e s c o n c e rn in g p ro d u c t d a ta .
Workflow management module performs the
following tasks:
• provides information about tasks that were, are and will be
performed and about data that were used in subsequent steps;
• controls changes in product configuration, part definitions, versions,
etc.;
• gives a possibility to define and control processes connected with
changes concerning product data.
Objectives of product structure implementation
Objectives influence all areas of the company and the following
advantages for individual departments result from them:

• facilitating offer calculation according to a uniform assembly

structure,
• promoting repeated use of product units within product
development,
• accelerating logistic processes connected with gaining materials, raw
materials and purchased parts,
• improving production and assembly supervision.
Some PLM Software
Vendor Offerings Products and Services
Aras Corp PLM Software (Open Source) Aras Innovator
Arena Solutions PLM On-Demand Arena
Enovia MatrixOne
Dassault Systemes PLM Software
Enovia SmarTeam
Ingenuus Software PLM Software BPMplus
PLM Strategy Consulting
PLM Process Consulting
PLM Evaluations
PLM Consulting
Metafore PLM Assessments
PLM System Integration
PLM Implementation
PLM Application Integration
PLM Operation and Support
Agile 9
Oracle PLM Software
Agile e6
PLM Software Windchill
PTC
PLM On-Demand Windchill On-Demand
SAP PLM Software SAP PLM
Teamcenter Unified
Teamcenter Engineering
Siemens PLM Software PLM Software
Teamcenter Enterprise
Teamcenter Express

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