ACE 2013 Europe - Focus PLMPLM Project Manager ... agile approach • Easily follows processes evolution • Incremental development ... 04-2014 Product Knowledge Management (beyond

ACE 2013 Europe

FROM COMMERCIAL CONFIGURATION

TO ORDER DEVELOPMENT

FOR INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY

Authors:

Claudio Saurin

Product Development Director

Breton SpA

Stefano Tidona

PLM Project Manager

Focus PLM

1963: Breton was founded by Marcello Toncelli

Today

• 500 people

• 86,000 square meters of premises

• of which 47,000 square meters are covered.

Driven by Innovation

It holds exclusive patents and technologies

in the stone working and composite stone production

More than 100 Breton-Stone plants

currently work in the world

Breton is also leader in the tooling machines business,

very well known for the quality, reliability, and

performance of its products.

With its widely spread sales network Breton sells

its machines all over the world


BretonStone production Plants


Fabshop machines


Machine Tools


Aerospace Some references...

Why PLM

• Breton products are complex,

highly customized, very labor intensive

• Every customer order is a project

• Multiple disconnected

product databases

• Manual synchronization process

between departments

• Multiple CAD platforms

• Evolution to Lean and Agile Paradigms

Some «pictures» about product

Developmet at Breton

95 designer to be coordinated

18 external design suppliers

45 contemporary development projects

1600 CAD drawings released every month

700 virtual post-it every week for task

planning

Why ARAS

• Web based, flexible data model, agile approach

• Easily follows processes evolution

• Incremental development based on Agile methodology

• Easy access to data for who needs it

• Neutral CAD integration, user-friendly, easy-to-use

• Easy integration with ERP system

Project timeline

07-2012 Contract signing (250 User) 10-2012 Technical Document Management (ISO9001, NPD) 12-2012 Legacy CAD conversion 02-2013 Roll-out Aras9.3 and CAD connectors 04-2013 Remote Technical Supplier 06-2013 Order Management 08-2013 Migration to Aras 9.4 09-2013 Production Document Management (Part Programs, cycles, tooling..) 11-2013 Technical BOM configuration (master bom, work order, as built bom) 02-2014 Commercial configuration and CRM 04-2014 Product Knowledge Management (beyond BOM) 06-2014 Offline Commercial Configuration

Migration project – the features

• Full CAD and previous PDM porting

• 2 CAD systems (SolidEdge & ThinkDesign)

• 150.000 Parts

• 250.000 CAD docs

• 450.000 BOM relations

• CAD integration by FocusPLM

• Neutral, easy to learn and use true large assembly

support

• Sync between CAD Structure and Parts BOM

• Drawing approval work-flow, digital signing

• Batch printing & conversion on demand

• Automatic pdf & dwg generation

• ERP integration (EBOM SAP)

• Smart Working with remote design providers

PLM project – Document Managment

• New Product Development

• Deliverables

• Doc. templates

• Lifecycle approval

• Electronic signature

• multi document pdf

generation

• ISO9001

• Quality manual

• Document classification

• Templates management

• Lifecycle approval automatic

pdf conversion and folding

PLM – Order Development Sales BOM

All departments share the same data

• Centralized information

• Always updated

• Aligned with ERP

• Contract docs, dates ...

• Customer requirements

• Plant layout drawing

• Sales BOM and

option/accessories

• Each order row is a

machine

PLM – Order Development Technical BOM Configuration

• Each machines has

master bom containing

standard groups and

accessories

• Master bom is

configurable selecting

requested options

• Configured BOM can

be customized adding

special Parts not

provided in std

• Final configuration is

available in multilevel

bom tab.


PLM – Order Development Project Book

• Order documents are

stored in into tree

structured folder

• Each Folders contain docs

of specific machine

• Contract, specifications,

end-user manuals are all

stored into project book


PLM – Product Master BOM

• Master BOM is

configurable, selecting

available options from

the grid

• To process an Order,

each Machine can be

configured according

to customer specs.

• If customization is

required a special code

is created with

customer specifications

• Each Order Row is top level Machine with commercial code

• Commercial code is associated to a Master BOM containing

std groups (modules) and options/accessories allowed

PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR MODEL SELECTOR

MODEL X

MODEL X

MODULE

1 1A 1B

MODULO

4 4A 4B

MODULE

3 3A 3B 3C

MODULE

2 2A 2B 2C

MODULE

5 5A 5B 5C

Questions sequence to GUIDE

a salesman or a customer to

choose the right product

Selection of specific

commercial modules that

configure the product

PLM – Commercial Configuration

MODEL X

MODULE 1 e.g. Bridge

Description for Technical Form

Description for Price List

Description for offer

Technical Parameters

Images

Development Parameters (designer, effort,…)

Bill of Material

CAD Documents

MODULE 2 e.g. Basement

MODULE 3 e.g. Rotating

Table

MODULE n …





Images


Bill of Material

CAD Documents





Images


Bill of Material

CAD Documents





Images


Bill of Material

CAD Documents

LAPTOP database

Client server web based Application

For remote or in house use.

The database can be downloaded locally for offline

activities such as offers or specific queries

Thank you for your attention