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The real power of V5
Manufacturing News Center
Abstract-- Dassault Systems V5 - Not Just a CAD System
If your company is using the Computer Aided Design (CAD) system inside
V5, called CATIA you probably found it much more powerful and easier to
use than V4 CATIA. But if you're only using V5 for its CAD system, you're
missing the real power of V5.
V5 is based on a set of tools that support how companies actually do
product development. The complete product development process consists
of more than just designing the saleable product; it also involves designing
a manufacturing process, laying out production facilities, designing tools
and machines, and integrating all the consumable and non-consumable resources
used in the manufacturing process. It involves managing a complex business
process which begins with a glimmer of an idea, through a detailed definition
phase, to production and delivery, and finally to customer support and
final product retirement. It may also include collaboration with a global
network of partners and suppliers. And through the whole product life
cycle process, there's a requirement to manage all the product, process
and resource data generated by the process.
At the Boeing Company, we believe the real power of V5 lies in its ability
to provide an integrated environment to define, optimize, manage and integrate
products, processes and resources throughout the entire product life cycle
across the extended global enterprise. That statement says a lot, so let's
look at each piece:
...Define, Optimize, Manage, and Integrate...
V5 has a complete set of authoring tools to define products, processes
and resources. The CATIA suite is used to define the geometry of physical
items including the salable product along with tools and machines used
in the production process. The geometry creation process is augmented
by the inclusion of tools to perform relational design, capture of best
design practices through knowledgeware applications, and the ability to
create fully annotated and attributed 3D solids to eliminate the need
for creating traditional drawings. Included in the V5 suite is a full
range of tools to analyze and optimize product designs. Similarly, the
DELMIA suite is used to define manufacturing processes and includes a
wide range of analysis tools to ensure development of an optimized manufacturing
process. The ENOVIA suite is used to manage business processes through
workflow and actions, and also provides configuration management and storage
capability for product definition data. The PPR Hub in the DELMIA suite
is used to manage product, process and resources from the view of the
manufacturing process. By combining the tools for definition, optimization
and management in the V5 suite, it enables product development teams to
collaborate and integrate their work in a way that ensures physical, functional,
manufacturing and support integrity.
...Products, Processes and Resources...
In order to ensure that a product can be successfully brought to market,
it must be integrated with the manufacturing process, and the resources
used in the manufacturing process must be compatible with the process
and must be designed to ensure compliance with the product's engineering
requirements. The ability to integrate products, processes and resources
is the key to a company's ability to create value, and to sustain its
success and profitability. V5 allows functionally diverse groups of people
involved in the PLM process to participate in product development from
their own unique perspective to integrate their activities. V5 users include
not just product designers, but also manufacturing engineers, tool designers,
NC programmers, quality assurance engineers, production planners, machine
designers, building designers, industrial engineers, skilled trades people,
business process managers, suppliers and customers working together using
a single steam of digital data and a common set of tools to do their work.
V5 incorporates a powerful set of tools to support the
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process for all users. Product designers
use CATIA to design and analyze products while using ENOVIA to store product
and configuration data. Those involved in manufacturing process design
can import product and resource design data from ENOVIA into the Product/Process/Resource
(PPR) Hub and then use the DELMIA suite to develop manufacturing processes.
The DELMIA suite allows manufacturing process planners to create and analyze
factory layouts, create detailed process plans using the digital models
of the products and resources, and create graphical work instructions
with annotations to be used on the factory floor. Standard processes from
a process library can be applied to a manufacturing plan reducing the
amount of process definition work while ensuring that known robust processes
are used to the greatest extent possible. Manufacturing resources designers
can use CATIA to design buildings, tools, fixtures, machines, and transportation
equipment, and can simulate their use in a virtual manufacturing environment
in DELMIA. Resource libraries can be established in DELMIA and can be
used to complete the resource management process by identifying such things
as the quantity and type of skill requirements, consumable resources,
and other resources used in production.
...Throughout the entire product life cycle...
The lifecycle of a product begins when somebody has an idea, and extends
through engineering, production, delivery, use and retirement. V5 has
the ability to manage every phase of a product's life cycle and allows
everyone involved in the process to work together concurrently. In the
early phases of the lifecycle, V5 can be used to develop concept models
and manage configuration trade studies. Production engineers can develop
factory layouts and analyze throughput capability, and resource requirements
can be identified to support capability studies. As the product lifecycle
matures, V5 is used to create the actual product design, authoritative
manufacturing plans, and a definition of specific resource requirements.
The production process can be run in a "virtual" mode to ensure producibility
of the product, and work out problems before any hardware actually appears
on the factory floor. During the production phase, product engineers can
make product improvements and production engineers can make process improvements,
and link their actions together by using the relational design capabilities
in CATIA while sharing their data through ENOVIA. While the product is
in service in the marketplace, customer support engineers can use V5 to
develop maintenance and repair processes using the same methods and data
as their colleagues on the product development teams. Throughout the lifecycle,
everyone involved with the product definition, production, and support
can use V5.
...Across the extended global enterprise...
The extended enterprise is more than just the Original Equipment Manufacturer.
It also includes a network of global partners and suppliers. Commerce
is becoming increasingly global with the equivalent of 1.2 trillion dollars
of international transactions happening every day. The emerging business
model for a typical OEM is to become an integrator and supply chain manager
collaborating with a network of global partners and suppliers who provide
complete assemblies and systems. V5 enables members of the global enterprise
to collaborate to ensure complete and integrated product definition by
allowing everyone involved in the product lifecycle management process
use common tools with a shared product data.
Where does PLM go from here?
The PLM vision is clear: Functionally diverse global teams collaborating
to bring new products to market more effectively than ever before using
V5 as the key technology enabler. Leading companies around the world today
are beginning to use V5 to integrate their products, processes and resources
in the aerospace, automotive, industrial and architectural markets, and
realize the vision of PLM. In the future, PLM systems will become increasingly
connected and integrated with the other main components of the global
enterprise including Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain
Management (SCM), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing
Execution System (MES) to provide unprecedented levels of effectiveness
at providing the products demanded by global markets.
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Source: By Mark E. Van Horne, The Boeing Company from COE
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