ProSTEP iViP Symposium 2008
Track 5/1
Global R&D Collaboration Based on a Common PLM Platform
David Lawrence, ABB Power Technologies
Dr. Christian Fiedler, IBM Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
ABB has a strategy to utilize global resources in its product development. However, its 24 globally dispersed R&D organizations used different processes and tools, and it was difficult for the groups to work together effectively. It could take months to share designs across organizations, and design change control was impossible. ABB needed to implement collaborative product development to improve quality and consistency, and to speed up time-to-market of new products.
ABB initiated a global project addressing these issues and targeted a common platform for global collaboration that ensures protection of intellectual property at the same time. Together with IBM and MDTVision, ABB has designed and implemented a globally replicated PLM system that allows sharing designs and control design changes between its distributed sites. The solution enables ABB to quickly transfer product designs between its R&D sites and to its manufacturing sites. The solution is based on ENOVIA SMARTEAM software from Dassault Systèmes.
With the new solution, the time required to transfer design data between R&D sites was reduced from three to six months to only 24 hours. Different mechanisms of IP protection have been defined and implemented, to ensure that critical know-how is not transferred across country borders. Overall, the common PLM platform leads to improved company productivity, shorter time-to-market and better, more consistent products company-wide.
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Track 5/2
Plant Database for Powerplant Operation - Web Application Data Management in the Backend System
Michael Koepsell, CSC Deutschland Solutions GmbH
Nils-Holger Wenck, swb Erzeugung GmbH & Co.KG
Abstract
The flexible WEB-Application allows a graphical access to all plants of a company. The user navigate through the generating unit, system, subsystem to the point of a single component.. On the other hand the user can directly access a system or a single component via KKS. Within a single plant the basis for the navigation are the R&I-schemas.At every level of the plant hierarchie the user will find the necessary released documents and all relevant technical information related to the functional location. If desired and if the user owns the necessary authorizations he will also be able to change technical data as dimensioning and adjustment values.All data and all documents are governed and stored within SAP PLM: functional locations, materials, documents and classification of these objects, maintenance message and maintenance order.The focus of the plant database are the information needs of the plant engineer. His point of view is the basis of the access to actual technical data and released documents:
- graphical navigation
- structured by KKS
- easy and fast access
- top-down by dopple-click
- direct access by KKS
- flexible design
The plant database is realised with PHP, a serverbased script-language for WEB-applications. The interface to SAP is working bi-directional and delivers informations via .Net-Connector and hands it over within PHP-datastructures. The starting point for calling or pushing information is the functional location and linked objects like release documents, materials and the classification of these objects and also maintenance message and maintenance order.
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Track 5/3
Learning from the Electronics & High-Tech Industry
Dr. Mathias Zagel, Oracle Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Companies from traditional industries like Industrial Manufacturing, Automotive or Aerospace & Defense don’t believe to have much in common with the Electronics & High-Tech (EHT) industry. Fundamental differences become obvious very quickly: EHT companies rely much more heavily on their supply chain, development cycles are extremely short and the amount of new product introductions is very high.
Regulations and environmental compliance hit the EHT industry first – when industrial manufacturers in Europe hardly even knew about the relevant directives. And while companies in the traditional industries have optimized development processes around the mechanical structures of their products, dealing with electronics and software too often remains a challenge to them.
So the EHT industry had to adapt earlier to many of the challenges which now started to influence companies in other industries, too. Therefore it’s worth taking a second look, identifying some key findings for other industries. These can include the streamlined data exchange (focusing on product structures mainly consisting of electronic components) along the supply chain and the overall configuration management for mechanical, electronic and software components.
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Track 5/4
Transparent R&D and Manufacturing Proscesses in the Medical Device Industry
Marc Engelhardt, World of Medicine AG
Sascha Wasse, Life Cycle Engineers GmbH
Abstract
Like other industries, the medical device manufacturers face today well-known challenges such as: rising complexity of mechatronic systems combined with the ongoing product modularization and higher participation of external services and components, reduced time-to-market in spite of higher requirements for validation and documentation in compliance with the different national quality and safety standards and finally the higher cost sensitivity of customers in changing health care markets.
Focusing on the Product Life Cycle Management the presentation will highlight how proven practises from other industries could help, but will also discuss which specific approaches need to be found to match the requirements of the medical device industry.
The commercialization of medical equipment is subject to regulations as they are issued by national authorities such as the US-resident FDA (Food and Drug Administration). These define far-reaching requirements for the documentation and traceability of product development and manufacturing processes.
This presentation shows how to cover these requirements with PLM methods and how standards and templates could be derived from. The following topics of major importance in the medical device industries will be discussed:
- Coexistence of sales, conceptional, technical and logistic product master data
- Creation of audit-compliant project, product and device documentation based on master data sets and electronic documents
- Concept, provision and management of compliance data for the product registration
- Configuration and serialization of devices in cooperation with the MRP applications
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