ProSTEP iViP Association - Abstracts

ProSTEP iViP 2006 - Abstracts


Knowledge Automation: Driving next Incremental Gain in Productivity


Automotive competitiveness can be boiled down to three things: Appealing product, low cost, delivered quickly. To address these market pressures, automakers and their suppliers have been working for years to drive efficiency gains into their engineering and manufacturing operations through initiatives such as lean design and manufacturing, concurrent engineering, and implementation of feature based MCAD technologies. Some would argue that through these types of initiatives, most excess cost and time has been squeezed out of their processes. Yet market pressures driven by labor cost advantages of developing countries continue to put pressure on costs without sacrificing innovation and quality. Knowledge Automation is the way that companies will realize the next big gain in productivity. World class companies are moving the introduction of product innovation off line – out of the vehicle development process instead of trying to innovate during the execution phase of a vehicle program. This change in the development process helps them to reduce the number of late changes to the vehicle by introducing the new innovation when it is validated and they have a high confidence of success. Knowledge automation applications automate routine and repetitive tasks captured from the best available intellectual capital inside a company ensuring that each task is done the same way, every time and on every program. This reuse of captured knowledge allows companies to focus their human capital on more high value tasks. By implementing this new approach , automotive OEMs and their supply chain can dramatically reduce the vehicle product development cycle time, while simultaneously increasing product innovation to better meet the demands of the consumer. During this presentation, Mr. Sterling will discuss these concepts and how they can be applied within the global automotive industry to achieve significant reductions in product development cost and timing, and on delivering quality, innovative products to market.

 


Engineering Change Management: Partner process re-engineering based on VDA 4965-1


With publication of the VDA recommendation 4965-1, for the first time a standard for the process of engineering change management (Engineering Change Request, ECR) is available based on which cross-enterprise cooperation in the change management process can be substantially simplified and optimized. To be able to attain the identified potential for benefit requires strict realignment of enterprise-specific ECM processes with the new standards as well as commercial realization of ECM client and ECM server solutions which support those reference processes and messages using STEP AP214/PLM-Services. Using the example of ECM processes of the Mercedes Car Group, the consequences of productive use of VDA4965-1 to enterprise processes and today’s IT landscape are shown. Furthermore, basic conditions relevant for the implementation of commercial, ECM-compliant solutions are presented. The outlook depicts the status of the work of standardization for VDA 4965-2 in the domain of the release process (Engineering Change Order, ECO).

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„Benefit“ des Engineering Change Management


“Benefit”, this is the keyword. And the key question is: “What is the benefit?” Every decision maker who has to decide on, whether to implement the ECM standard or not, will ask: “What is the benefit of the ECM standard?” Regarding the current situation, it seems as if there are difficulties to find partners which implement the recommended standard. It is not questioned that the ECM work group of the ProSTEP iViP which developed the ECM recommendation VDA 4965-1 is convinced of the advantages and the benefit of this recommendation. But the fact that so far, there seem to be only one known company which is proceeding in implementing these results, underlines the problem in convincing decision makers to the realization of the implementation. The reason for this situation is that right now there don’t seem to be a satisfying answer to the question of the benefit of the ECM standard. This presentation will not only identify the benefit by showing the results of an analyzed use case. It will as well describe the consequences regarding the entire ECM standard. This means that by defining the key figures of the change management process and by comparing an as-is-process with the ECM process, the benefit will be shown in facts and figures. The used base for this analysis is the gained experience of UNITY AG in our common business of analyzing processes regarding profitability and benefit.

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State-of-the-art change management for OEM - Requirements and solutions


Increased pressure for innovation in the automobile industry has also increased the demand for shorter product development cycles. However, this conflicts with the greater complexity of the products themselves, which is partially the due to a considerable rise in variants. Such conditions reinforce the need for using common or synergy parts, as well as the enhanced consideration of dependencies between the individual components. This, in turn, generates further requirements for the quality of change management, where quality is defined as a combination of speed, precision, reliability and flexibility. The increased incorporation of suppliers into the actual product development process, the reduction of vertical integration and the lack of actual proximity between the involved parties (within OEM and for partners/suppliers) all create additional challenges for the integration. Adequate support of these processes through an IT solution places high demands on the change management tool, as well as on the data used during the processes (e.g. usage and commonality data). The aim of this presentation is to discuss the above-mentioned requirements and the general conditions involved in the approving change management in BMW Group’s product development, as well as to review the BMW Group’s change management system (gAMS) as the solution for the depicted challenges.

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Document Management and Collaboration between OEM and Supplier


Meeting the increasing demands within the automotive industry requires new innovative solutions. The implementation of an integrated product development process needs data exchange, particularly the exchange of technical requirements between OEM and Supplier. The presentation shows how the requirement specification process of an OEM is implemented based on SAP PLM. Each requirement specification is linked to the product structure in the early stage of development. The release and change management of the requirement specification is supported by a system workflow. Export Functionality provides the necessary requirement specification to the supplier. The web based software tool for the data exchange process is SAP cFolders. Within this tool platform, there is a collaboration room for every supplier, containing the relevant data. The documentation on the supplier’s side is called technical product description, which is based on the requirement specification. Every release of the technical documentation in the development process is recorded in the cFolders collaboration room. An automatic trigger manages the data transfer back into the OEMs PDM System. The latest document version is available for evaluation and release. The collaborative scenario of this document management process enables an overall integration into the engineering change management process. Centralised document management along with supplier integration leads to better reliability and data quality.

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Challenges of Requirements Modelling in the Product Development Process


Requirements contain fundamental information for a successful and effective development of products along the product life cycle. Requirements are in the center of attention especially at the early development stages in order to verify the properties and characteristics of a product along the product development process, during production planning and manufacturing processes. This paper will give an overview of the state of the art in requirements modelling in research, development and practice and focuses on specific challenges for handling, managing and evolving requirements within the product development process. The main problem is seen in the fact that requirements are stated in product specifications in an isolated manner and not consequently used for tracing and evolving product characteristics and properties in the later development stages. Consequently the main challenges are seen in the integration of engineering disciplines, department and company boundaries. A solution is seen in an integrated computer supported approach in which requirements build a fundamental part in product modelling. The paper will end with results from ongoing research in the context of automotive industry.

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Integration of the electrical system development processes with the KBL (wiring harness list)


The “car electric working group" of VDA and ProSTEP iViP association develops solutions for the integration of electrical system development processes. The KBL (wiring harness list) regulates the use of STEP AP212 for the exchange of wire harness data. This contribution informs about the successful conversion of the KBL with an OEM and a wiring harness supplier:

The contribution summarizes the practical experiences and gives a view over the future advancement of the “car electric working group", to provide integration solutions for the early phases of the wiring harness development.

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Protecting a Company's Intellectual Property in the Extended Enterprise


While historically many manufacturers were vertically oriented with most design and manufacturing work done inside the company, now not only manufacturing but also engineering activities are transferred. This may require collaboration within different business units of the same organization, local partners (respectively suppliers) or joint ventures (which are often temporarily limited). The company’s intellectual property is at risk in such a situation. An agile company which has found ways to cope with this environment can gain competitive advantages. Its structure has little in common with a traditional enterprise — it has turned into an “Extended Enterprise”. When taking a closer look at Extended enterprises, it becomes obvious that they are highly project-driven and that collaboration with suppliers, engineering service providers, partners in a joint-venture or simply other business units is organized in the context of individual projects. In a dynamic environment that is determined by constant changes, large numbers of projects run in parallel, each of them with experts from multiple companies and business units. This presentation describes the challenges, some insufficient approaches and – using KUKA Schweissanlagen as a reference – a praxis proven solution, which allows opening the engineering environment to partners in the Extended Enterprise while protecting the intellectual property. Slow and error prone data exchange thus can be replaced with online access.

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Integrating KBE and PLM – helping Innovation


KBE is an approach to capture and use the design knowledge using design rules that are being used to create designs so as to satisfy various constraints and design pre-conditions. PLM on the other hand, is about effectively managing such designs using design and other such information as meta-data to track and search the required design. Integration between the two will be especially useful in reducing the effort for creating such designs from scratch by the way of automating various design options available for a given set of design parameters. Identification of the critical independent design parameters and also the other parameters that are dependent on them is the first step. Similarly, identification of design constraints (weight, volume, dimensional constraints etc) also contribute to effective automation of the designing based on KBE. In PLM, we can store and manage such independent and dependent information, constraints and the relation between them, apart from managing the files created using such automation. Thus, to create a new revision based on an earlier revision, a user simply needs to modify the constraints and the independent design parameters on the PLM system itself - and the CAD file will get generated automatically, which can be further processed for fine-tuning of the design and drawing generation. This approach not only reduces the time to design, it also captures the knowledge the designers use for simple modifications to design, while maintaining an easy-to-use interface and back-end processing to automatically create the new parts according to the new design parameters. This helps the user to spend more time on innovation rather than work on the modifications that can easily be automated. On an advanced level, this can also be used to find out solutions to typical design problems as the first step for innovative approaches to a given problem.

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Risks at Sharing Intellectual Property in Partner Networks and protection for 3D Engineering


The increasing amount of 3D data transfer and the rising capability of 3D CAD software solutions to manage intelligent engineering know how exposes intellectual property of companies to a high risk. Know-how might pass without control or even get into competitors hands. Increasing plagiarism is the natural consequence, especially in times of high cost pressure and problems with patent infraction in China. Efficient protective methods like user authentication for servers, limited application functionality and hiding of intelligent data can offer a practicable solution for unintentional, harmful data access.

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Integrating companies, processes and systems by using geometric part analysis


Geometric part analysis enables a company like Delphi to quickly implement flexible and cost-effective integration scenarios. A search mechanism based on the shape of parts not only improves the reuse of parts at design process. As an enhancement to an existing integration platform called Customer PDM-Integration (based on UGS TeamCenter and ProSTEP OpenPDM/DXM) – it offers a new level of collaboration between customers and suppliers. Requirements and challenges caused by organisational changes like acquisition and separation can also be fulfilled very efficient. Delphi and sd&m present innovative scenarios and use cases affecting complete ProductLifeCycle - from Marketing to Production.

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Advanced Product Quality Planning as focal point of the product evolution process

The presentation covers two aspects of APQP. On the one hand side it will be explained how APQP is integrated in the product evolution process and how it is linked to other processes. The second part of it explains how the APQP methodology could be supported through a cross-functional collaboration tool.


PDM-based integration of mechanical and electrical product development


PDM-based integration of mechanical and electrical product development
Sennheiser is one of the leading enterprises developing electric/electronic consumer products such as microphones, earphones or headsets. The function integration and the system complexity of this products increases dramatically due to the fact of integrating more and more functions in extremely small design spaces. Innovations are only possible if the mechanic und electronic components are very closely integrated. Today the IT-support of the interdisciplinary cooperation between the mechanical and electrical departments is inadequately. There are big human efforts and time delays in order to harmonize the two product developments. In order to minimize errors very early in the product development process new Digital- Mock-Up tools need to be introduced which are capable to visualize the exact electrical components geometry as well as the mechanical geometry within one 3D-representation. It is crucial for a successful implementation of such a Mechanic-Electric-DMU-system (ME-DMU) that the functions are based on a common database steered by the PDM-system. Therefore it is necessary that a 3D-component library with the exact geometry of the electrical components is established. The following topics will be addressed within the presentation:

It will be shown that the presented ME-DMU implementation shortens the iteration cycles between mechanical and electrical development. The product quality increases and the time-to-market – which is crucial in consumer products – is shortened.


Carry over Concept: Parametric-Associative Body in White Development - Integral with Styling and PDM/PLM


This breakthrough method, jointly developed by a german OEM and PTC, will enable OEM and their partners in the extended Design-Chain to collaborate on a Car´s Development online, no matter where they are and what parts they design. This method is derived from a well known practice common in the Automotive Industry which is called “Carry over Parts” and deals with reusing physical parts within different platforms. Within a Carry over Concept Car Development, Body in White-Structures adapt to any design-as it matures or even more spectacular, if designs are exchanged drastically – platform independent. It combines knowledge capture within structures and references as well as integral Product Lifecycle Management. By a top-down approach changes in design (outer shape) or engineering changes will propagate everywhere in the federated Product-Structure, where Configuration and Workflow/Lifecycle is tracked on an internet webbased Architecture.

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Rolling Out Visualization Technology to All Your Business Processes Provides Huge Cost-saving Potentials


Visualization can be used in a wide range of business processes and is not limited PLM. Users need to define their requirements, try to match with existing and upcoming standards and need to decide, if and when niche applications need to be used for certain purposes. Todays typical limitations of standardized visualization software packages are

Kisters as a technology partner, who works for 6 vendors in the meantime, is specialized on visualization and will outline cost saving potentials of visualization solutions truly outrolled on all stages of the customers business processes.

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Solutions with Intelligent Documents


The simple and secure use of engineering data in various divisions of a company as well as across company borders is becoming more and more important for the manufacturing industry, especially when it comes to the production of complex products. Thereto, mapping the required processes by document-based workflows could provide a solution in many cases. Here, the standard format PDF (Portable Document Format) offers a foundation due to the various new and extended functionalities it provides and because it is easy to use. The new functionalities include manifold possibilities to integrate 3D geometry data, monitoring and automation of document workflows as well as secure distribution of documents within and across companies. The presentation will focus on solution-oriented approaches in order to realize an optimization and simplification of domain- and company-spanning processes and workflows by using different tools.

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Augmented Reality: Cutting-edge Technology in the Manufacturing Process


Augmented Reality adds virtual objects to a real physical environment. Airbus investigates in this technology in order to reduce time to market, to realize cost reduction in the areas of design, manufacturing and service. One pilot project within harness manufacturing is the so called electronic jig-board. Instead of serial production, harnesses need to be adapted today manually, especially for the cabin. This meant up to now time- and material-intensive prints of harness structures. Thanks to the electronic jig-board, the printing is not necessary any more. Instead of that, the design of the harness structure can be displayed with a rear protection system without delay. This represents already a huge process improvement. The data derives from the CCD-database directly which is up-dated regularly on-line.

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Unified R&D Process - Integrating Mechanics, Hydraulics and Electronics


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Closed-Loop Engineering – Integrated Product Development Process


The product development process at car manufacturer is still today often characterized by significant number of disruptions in the process and the underlying IT system landscape. The consequences are non-up-to-date and inconsistent information, which can only be reconciled after the fact with an enormous effort. Since the product development process does not stop such reconciliation can never follow reality. Closed-Loop Engineering is an approach to a completely integrated process, which runs on a single system, and therefore avoids any data redundancy or inconsistency. It integrates the functions project management, product documentation, parts progression, lab and vehicle test planning & execution, prototype build as well as problem recording & resolution. The involved organizations are platform management, design, parts description & documentation, prototype build, development, labs and quality management. It supports a parts and a vehicle view.

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Innovation through Integrated Variant Management

 

In the presentation we highlight the next generation of an integrated variant management from engineering to logistics and sales. The SAP NetWeaver architecture in combination with the iPPE opens a new dimension for the development and implementation of integrated solutions for discrete industries. CENIT, as the CATIA development partner of SAP, together with SAP R&D develops a novel solution for the integration of the engineering world into the SAP NetWeaver architecture. The variant management is build upon SAP’s product-variant structure PVS for configurable products.


Requirements for today's E/E process chain and its impacts on integrated data management

 

From an enterprise point of view, requirements for today's E/E process chain which also include management of complexity and interdependency of systems within the E/E process chain along development, production and after-sales-services can't be covered satisfactorily by traditional IT- technologies. Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) as a new concept is expected to achieve the balance of IT on the one side and business goals on the other. Presently we see a change of paradigm concerning IT architecture and distributed applications. The concept of service orientation is in fact not a new, but due to increasing maturity of web-based service technologies the SOA concept is gaining more importance. Within Siemens multiple merger and acquisition activities are additional driver for flexible, adaptive process- and IT-architectures, because following m&as a company's processes and IT must be harmonized as soon as possible, which also includes identification and extinction of redundancies. The time factor is the most important competitive advantage in this area. This presentation provides first ideas and thoughts for the upcoming usage of SOA in the field of E/E and it also explains initial experiences achieved within Siemens.

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Innovative System Architecture for Integrated Technical Information Management to support Class Approval Processes in Shipbuilding


Class approval processes in shipbuilding present new requirements for technical information management systems. By now, these requirements are not sufficiently addressed by traditional PDM/PLM solutions. Classification societies have to manage classic, product-oriented structures (as designed, as built), associated simulation data (FEM, substituted systems), and relationships to part catalogs and material databases. Additionally, the underlying information model has to be extensible and adaptable during production use in order to satisfy short-term requirements from different certification projects. In the context of the TIS project at Germanischer Lloyd we implemented a "Technical Information System" that is based on the ice.net Plattform. TIS integrates data models from various legacy systems, provides configurable XML and WebService interfaces to associated simulation programs and addresses the general and shipbuilding-specific requirements mentioned above. In addition to the information model and system architecture we present how to provide functional prototypes within short timeframe and limited budget that enables process-specific organization of information in networked, project-oriented folder structures with access control mechanisms, tracking, effectivity and audit support. On the basis of a project example we demonstrate the requirements-driven extension of the data model with the UML-based development tool ice.net Studio.

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A scenario for efficient CAE data management in digital product development


New and highly sophisticated simulation methods and tools increase the number of simulations during the product development process. The increasing number of simulations in combination with faster computing machines leads to an exponential increase of data. To handle this tremendous amount of data the simulation departments need to have an efficient data management system. Such a simulation data management system is one of the core parts to reach the goal of integrated and economic virtual product development. One of the goals is that all simulations refer to the same dataset. Another goal is to take away regular jobs like meshing, assembling, definition of boundary conditions as an example from the engineers. Automation of such jobs leads also to quality assurance in the simulation process. On the other hand an integrated usage of such a simulation data management system leads automatically to the advantage that this system acts as a knowledge management system if used for several years. But all these advantages can only be generated if the simulation data management system is accurately integrated in the overall system architecture and the business processes of a company. Furthermore this system must be highly accepted by the users to be effective.

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Innovation through Integrated Variant Management


In the presentation we highlight the next generation of an integrated variant management from engineering to logistics and sales. The SAP NetWeaver architecture in combination with the iPPE opens a new dimension for the development and implementation of integrated solutions for discrete industries. CENIT, as the CATIA development partner of SAP, together with SAP R&D develops a novel solution for the integration of the engineering world into the SAP NetWeaver architecture. The variant management is build upon SAP’s product-variant structure PVS for configurable products.

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Mapping CAD Product Structure and Bill of Material


Developing and manufacturing different versions of a car is a major source of complexity in the automotive industry. Mastering this challenge requires a tighter integration between engineering and business systems. Managing structure and configuration in business systems is based on numbering systems. Engineering systems manage data based on product structure and CAD document structure. In business systems structure is represented as “part to part” - relationship, whereas engineering systems rely on relationships between different revisions of the CAD documents. Additionally the speed by which information change happens in both systems is not the same. Synchronization between engineering and business structure is therefore a manual process – done at predefined gates within the development process- and therefore for long periods of time the structures are out of sync. Often collisions within a structure are found too late. The presentation introduces an approach to map business and engineer structures to allow continuous validation of a car configuration.

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Systematic Effort Estimation for Software within Vehicles


Software within vehicles evolves to a product differentiating the competition. Therefore systematic effort estimation for software within vehicles is important for all automotive manufacturers: It's required for stable planning of vehicle projects and the development of new business models between automotive manufacturers and supplying industry. We will show how to systematically estimate the development efforts for software within vehicles and give some rough rules for risk estimation and the validation of proposals for software based vehicle functions.

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A New Interface for Supplier Integration - Structured Data Exchange


BMW currently supports CATIA V5/V4 data exchange on the basis of STEP AP214 for PRISMA documents and structures. Following the deployment of the third delivery (Leistungsstufe 3) of the PEP PDM project, this supplier interface will be extended on the basis of OpenPDM to support structured data exchange in accordance with new CATIA V5 design methodology. The lecture presents these new functionalities in the context of development co-operation between BMW and its partners. Data exchange to suppliers will support multi-level CATIA V5 assemblies accompanied by a STEP-file with positioning information and master data in OMG PLM Services format. Suppliers will have the flexibility to package/assemble relevant information from PRISMA and SAP via a web client. The interface consolidates the data and, in addition, supports delta-exchange to reduce data exchange volumes. The lecture will include practical examples. Current schedules and future process for development co-operation will be explained.

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Exchanging Complex Vehicle Structures and Configurations with Various Partners


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STEP as an Enabler for Managing Complexity and Optimizing the Process Chain of Supplier Integration


In the automotive industry up to 80 % of the development services are provided by suppliers. The constellation, that several development partners work on the same product simultaneous, demand a grate deal of data availability and actuality. Furthermore the switch to the CAD system CATIA V5 means a further challenge for the integration of suppliers. Task in doing so is the process proof, needed and cost optimal exchange of development data in the development network. Aim of supplier integration is the reduction of complexity within data exchange processes by increasing data emergence and -volume. The provided delta data exchange of assemblies and the comparison of product structures by the use of STEP is an important milestone in the supplier integration at DaimlerChrysler. The present contribution is the demand on the supplier integration by establishing CATIA V5 in the product development process. The main focus of this presentation lies on the notion of efficient, STEP based methods like the delta data exchange, the comparison of product structures and the interaction of SAM with the PDM system Smaragd. A further point is the task „Design-In-Context“ and IP Protection based on the visualization format JT. The efficient solutions used by DCAG will get presented as a Life-Demo. In terms of a utility consideration the potentials will get explained. Afterwards, the experiences made by the supplier integration are summarized and we will get a prospect about the future developments.

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The Car – A Laptop on 4 Wheels

 

The increasing part of software and electronic in the car is a simple fact. This lecture illustrates future requirements on service organizations as well as processes of Car Manufacturers. Alternatives for future business potentials and a more intense end-customer loyalty will be described in this trend simultaneously. Initially, the actual situation of the value chain between end-customers, dealers, manufacturers and 1st Tier suppliers will be demonstrated. After presentation of principle sales strategies in the Automotive Industry, the technological consequences will be derived. In analogy to already implemented services processes in IT Infrastructures, this lectures essays to identify and assign reusable elements for the Automotive Industry. In this lecture consciously not the technology comes to the fore but the application and consequences to strategies, processes and systems.

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Mechanics, Electric/Electronics & Software - Theory and Practice

Bosch will give an overview of how they handle synchronous Engineering based on the Project NextGen eCAD. NextGen eCAD covers the integration of the eCAD Toolchain into an eADM System, electronic Application Data Management and also the unified Design Process for electronic control units and car multimedia.

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Integration of Software Management and PLM - Business Cases

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PLM Services based Service Oriented Architecture

Today’s efforts in the automotive industry concentrate on integrating legacy applications along the product life cycle using high level, standardized and reusable Web services matching the existing processes and enabling new ones in a flexible manner, both within as well as across the company borders. Since the beginning of the PDTnet consortium project at the ProSTEP iViP association in 2001, the Commercial Vehicles Division of DaimlerChrysler supported the attempt to define AP214-based PLM Web services and validated it together with Delphi. The PDTnet results have been the main input for the OMG standard PLM Services. During 2005, a validation of the PLM Services V1.0 has been successfully carried out together with Delphi in the area of Engineering Change Management. The management attention given to the PLM Services by both sides can be interpreted as a signal that we move in the right direction. The strength and potential of the V1.0 has been analysed based on the industry pilots. Now the pilot of DaimlerChrysler Commercial Vehicles Division is being extended to the support of PDM data out of the system Smaragd, taking advantage of many new features of the emerging PLM Services V2.0. Using the newest results of the ECM and PLM Services work groups at the ProSTEP iViP association, combined visualization of Engineering Change Request, Engineering Change Order and product structure data is now supported, for a large coverage of the product development processes. The purpose of this presentation is to summarize the results and lessons learned out of this pragmatic validation of the PLM Services V2.0.

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Industrial Computer Tomography


Computer tomography is synonymous with the diagnostic procedures in medical technology. CT application screens the interior of objects and even analyzing the objects surface. As in medical diagnostics this inspection method, in a somewhat modified form, is now being used with great success for measuring and nondestructive inspecting tasks. This fact makes CT particularly suitable for industrial applications. The technology in fact can be applied to many diverse structures of the Delphi portfolio. More and more requests from other product-lines and divisions are received to screen their products for analyzing purposes. In addition to testing for material defects, DELPHI DCS Europe will develop the CT process as a dimensional measuring system. The use of CT data allows distances and areas to be measured and compared to the nominal data from CAD to an accuracy of several thousandth of a millimeter in the region of interest. The next step is to release the CT technology as a “Dimensional Measurement System” in accordance to ISO/TS 16949 and QS 9000.

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Collaboration for Specification Controlled Products

Most companies are today facing the challenge of providing the market with complex products faster and to a lower cost fulfilling an increased set of safety and environmental requirements. One approach to this challenge is to better utilize the knowledge and know-how of partners, suppliers by involving them in the complete product lifecycle, from early requirements to maintenance and disposal. This approach puts additional requirements on efficient information sharing, introducing requirements, specifications and information about produced products. This presentation will discuss some issues related to product information management for requirements and specification-controlled products based on experience from Volvo Penta. The presentation will also mention some applicable standards in the area.

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Electro-Mechanical Design Collaboration, An Update

At last year's ProSTEP executive forum, Mr. Potts discussed challenges facing today's electronics companies and introduced the need for in-depth electro-mechanical design collaboration. He challenged EDA and MCAD companies to work together with key electronics companies to facilitate this collaboration. In this year's presentation, Mr. Potts will briefly review the continuing needs for EDA/MCAD collaboration and then report on progress made by Mentor Graphics and MCAD suppliers towards these goals.


Workshop 1: Collaboration Platforms to Support Cross-partner Development Networks

In the automotive industry today there is an increasing trend to set up collaboration platforms for cross enterprise engineering. Experiences being made with respect to the coupling of processes, IT-Architectures, implementation, necessary standards etc. will be presented based on the following projects

where the following aspects have been covered among other

Scope & Objectives of the Workshop: Short presentations and group work to cover the following issues:

The results will be evaluated and presented to the audience in order to initiate a discussion to identify a possible framework for future collaboration platforms and define necessary standardization activities for the future. In addition, we are looking for supplier companies willing to participate in a process pilot.


Workshop 2: Functional DMU: Requirements and Objectives Regarding Integration, Simulation and Visualization

The motto of ProSTEP iViP Science Days 2005 has been ‘Cross Domain Engineering’. It is without controversy, that mastering the integration of the disciplines ECAD. MCAD and software development is the decisive factor for future successive development of ever increasingly complex mechatronic products. Today, Digital Mock Ups (DMUs) are mainly static. However they play an important role for early geometric integration in the development process and support functionality such as clash and clearance analysis to assure geometric consistency. A Functional DMU has to integrate the above mentioned disciplined and must no longer be static. A Functional DMU must be able to interactively simulate behaviour in real-time – similar to MIcrosofts Flight Simulator. The vision is. A user can interact with a virtual mechanic prototype, e.g. push the brake pedal, this sensor information is processed by the software which is running on a virtual ECU that triggers an actor which entail the mechanic movement of the brake. Today, such scenarios can be realized partially with tremendous manual effort. A key requirement for the future is an easier, better and tighter integration and interaction between the disciplines and tools. In the workshop we want to collect and discuss requirements regarding Functional DMUs (what shall they enable – what is out of scope?). Today’s possibilities and imitations shall be pointed out and future realisation possibilities towards data and service integration will be discussed.


Workshop 3: Engineering Change Management: Implementation of VDA 4965-1

With publication of the VDA recommendation 4965-1, for the first time a standard for the process of engineering change management (Engineering Change Request, ECR) is available based on which cross-enterprise cooperation in the change management process can be substantially simplified and optimized. To be able to attain the identified potential for benefit requires strict realignment of enterprise-specific ECM processes with the new standard as well as commercial realization of ECM client and ECM server solutions which support those reference processes and messages using STEP AP214/PLM Services. In 2 workgroups motivation as well as obstacles of the process realignment in the enterprises for possible IT solutions should be considered and discussed.


Workshop 4: Effective Project Management in Collaboration Structures

Within the scope of this workshop a scenario for a collaboration project will be simulated. This will be done by using the recommendation developed in the ProSTEP iViP project group Collaborative Project Management (CPM) and the methods and tools created within this project. Afterwards the result and the benefit of the CPM tools will be discussed with those participating. The new insights will be compiled and evaluated. The expected benefit for participants is: Suggestions for the improvement of cross-company collaboration in projects.


Workshop 5: Intellectual Property Protection

Current parametric and feature-based 3D-CAD systems enable the user to embed comprehensive product knowledge into the CAD-models. Many suppliers use the functionality of modern 3D-CAD systems and enrich their 3D-CAD models with internal knowledge about modelling methodology, manufacturing processes or quality assurance. Product knowledge items can consist of geometrical knowledge, parametrics, features, history, product structure data or KBE-elements. In many cases product knowledge representing a company’s unique selling point is deeply embedded into the CAD-data. Today product data is increasingly exchanged in complex OEM-supplier relationships. Thereby one partner wants to protect the IP (intellectual property) before sending data to another partner. For this reason during data exchange processes between OEMs and suppliers a new area of conflict arises: on the one hand the OEMs require the fully parameterized intelligent 3D-CAD models with all knowledge inside, on the other hand the supplier wants to exchange only a very simplified 3D-geometry without any information about the former intelligence of the model. In the workshop the basics of intellectual property protection for product data will be presented, such as

In the interactive part the participants will gather requirements for using IP-protection and digital rights management for their product data. Subsequently the requirements will be refined and categorized. The workshop will conclude identifying future needs and calls for action in the field of IPP.


Live Demonstation of an ECM Implementation based on VDA 4965-1

With publication of the VDA recommendation 4965 4965 Engineering Change Management (ECM), Part 1 Engineering Change Request (ECR) for the first time a standard is available on which a uniform and consistent cross-enterprise cooperation for the process of change management becomes possible. You will see an early implementation of an application for ECM which utilizes a couple of standards provided by ProSTEP iViP. Beside the VDA 4965-1, the Object Management Group (OMG) specification for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Services is in use, which is designed for exchange of PLM data using Web Services.


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