ProSTEP iViP Symposium 2008
Track 1/1
Enhanced Change Management
Joachim Seliger, ZF Friedrichshafen AG
Matthias Schmich, Oracle Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Whether for driving comfort, safety and reliability or simply being economical to purchase and operate, the standards for all ZF development activities are set by the benefits to vehicle manufacturers for driveline and chassis technology. ZF earns 30 % of its sales from products that only went into series production in the last five years. In order to stay successful with innovative products, ZF continuously works on improving its products and thus incorporates thousands of engineering changes a month. Since most of them come in a large number of explicit variants, one of the goals of the Change Management is to keep the bills of materials of many assemblies and products consistent. Another goal is to have full insight in the impact in the logistic supply chain of any such modification before it is approved. This presentation reviews not only the challenges associated with the situation described above, but also the enhancements to the PLM Solution, that ZF and Agile / ORACLE jointly designed. The resulting Enhanced Change Management support the sophisticated change processes at ZF Friedrichshafen, while being implemented as a standard solution available to all Agile PLM customers.
Presentation
Track 1/2
Standard- and Knowledge-Based Kinematic Design in the early Stages of Product Development
Luc Andréani, Airbus Deutschland GmbH
Michael Kirsch, :em engineering methods AG
Abstract
Today, the increasing necessity to reduce cost and time to market does not spare aircraft con-struction any more. In order to develop innovative mechanisms for high lift devices such as flaps or slats, numerous requirements and boundary conditions have to be satisfied. Experience-based assumptions, made during the early stages, can be substantiated and validated only step by step, as the aircraft development continues. As a result, frequent revisions and adaptions to the high lift kinematic design are essential.
When it comes to kinematic mechanisms, today´s 3D CAD systems provide a variety of tools for the DMU kinematic analysis. In the end, however, it is the expert choice of hinges and actuators that makes a sophisticated mechanism. Since the CATIA V5 standard functions do not cover this crucial step of kinematic synthesis, the CATIA V5-based design workbench cadkinas has been set up to provide comprehensive support for the 2D and 3D high lift kinematic design.
The design environment includes a catalogue of CATIA V5 reusable templates, implementing a wide variety of standardized methods for aerodynamic-compliant flap positioning, the synthesis of various types of linkages and the geometric and kinetostatic analysis. A CAA V5-based and XML/XSD-customizable wizard assists users with the appropriate aggregation of templates to a user-defined and schema-compliant CATIA V5 model, representing a full parametric model of the high lift kinematic mechanism.
Presentation
PDF Document, size, 3,0 MB
Track 1/3
Role Based Clients in a Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Dr. Karl-Heinz Sternemann, Microsoft Corporation
Abstract
Enterprises have taken enormous efforts during the past years in order to map and automate business processes within Line-of-Business (LOB) Systems. Customer specific products and services are increasingly requiring more flexibility and agility in handling - missing links and inconsistencies between business and desktop applications however, are not offering collaborators the required flexibility and are causing media gaps. As a result hardly accessible, outdated or inaccurate data which partly has to be searched for and conditioned – are the primary cause for the inherent data quality problem and for “non compliance”. Working in the respective context of the process or application with comparable user guidance is only insufficiently supported. A permanent change between applications and constantly changing user guidance’s is usual.
New concepts like „Role Based Clients“ and „Service Oriented Architecture“ are enabling collaborators to make valuable information from business applications available according to their individual requirements. In order to achieve a high user friendliness and acceptance, software solutions have to fulfill the following conditions:
- Requirement based provision of information by means of a user friendly client and in the individual work context.
- Interaction with system processes, applications, collaborators and partners;
- Consistent data and information in flexible activity sequences and processes.
The flexible integration of collaborators in business applications – Human Interaction Management – is offering great potentials of improvement; interaction of collaborators in the context flow of their work and business processes can be described as “heart and soul” of an agile Enterprise Architecture Concept. In this abstract the potentials of Human Interaction Management are shown and demonstrated using the example of a Change Request Engineering Scenario. For that purpose data and information from involved applications like SAP, Siebel or Dassault as well as Microsoft applications like SharePoint or Project Server are staff-oriented shown and presented in context in diverse user applications like Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel as well as CATIA as an exemplary engineering workplace. At the same time role specific interactions on the basis of Meta data driven services are shown by means of these applications.
Herewith it is intended to show how collaborators can creatively achieve enormous added value in ad-hoc-processes in their familiar applications like Excel or CATIA. At the same time it is pointed out that people can be integrated in system processes in the sense of Holonic systems, i.e. people decide and control the entire system – structured system processes and ad-hoc processes of collaborators remain under controllable system conditions and are no longer the primary causes for problems with data quality and “non compliance”.
Presentation
PDF Dokument, size, 2,4 MB