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PLCS - The Product Life Cycle Support Standard - An Executive Overview
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Introduction
What is PLCS? It stands for Product Life Cycle Support It is an International Standard It is an information standard
It defines the form of information and how it can be linked together
It is a means to:▪ Exchange or share product data▪ Manage change▪ Maintain product histories
across organizational and application boundaries and between life cycle phases
Why PLCS? Management of complex products through life
involves: Multiple organizations Multiple IT systems
▪ Many point to point links for exchange/sharing Many different functions
▪ Mostly operating in “cylinders of excellence” Managing change and obsolescence
No standard existed for the joined up view required to manage and optimise products and their support systems through life
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Setting the Business Context The Key Business Problem
How to keep the information needed to operate and maintain a product aligned with the changing product over its life cycle?
Tools
TestEquipment
SupportFacilities
Consumables
Software
Transportation
Spares
StorageRequirements
Training
Product Definition Information
MaintenanceSchedules
Productin Focus
Feedback
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)Typically complex systems environment – point to point integration
7.FMECA
6.LSAR
2.Maintainers
ViewingTool
3.Stock Mgmt
8.CAD
4.MaintenanceManagement
10IETM
11Parts
Supplier Database
12 Depot Maint
Mgmt
13.Distribution,
Transportation
14 Defects & FailureReporting
9.Product
Data
Functional Requirements
LSA Data
LSA Data
5.RequirementsManagement
LSA Data
Support Data
CM Data
Support Data
Part Data
CM Data
CM DataCM Data
Defects and
Failures Maintenance
Mgt Data
DesignData
Support Data
DistributionData
Tech Pubs Data
1.Support Data
CM DataOperational Objectives
FMECAResults
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1.Support
Data
7.FMECA
6.LSAR
5.RequirementsManagement
2.Maintainers
ViewingTool
3.Stock Mgmt
8.CAD
4.MaintenanceManagement
9.Product
Data
10IETM
11Parts
Supplier Database
12 Depot Maint
Mgmt
13.Distribution,
Transportation
14 Defects & FailureReporting
Functional Req. FMECAResults
Part data MaintenanceMgmt Data
DistributionData
Defects& Failures
TechPub Data
Design data Parts Data
PLCS compliant information exchanges
Design Data
LSA DataMaintenanceMgmt Data
Support data
Maintenance
Mgt Data
In future, support system integration will be easier to implement
Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)PLCS will enable cost effective information exchanges
FinnishDefence Forces
Who paid for PLCS to be created in 1999-2005?
Five Defense Departments: USA, UK, Norway, Sweden, FinlandNote: PLCS is dual use, NOT defense specific
Major OEMs: USA, UK, SwedenRisk management
Norway
IT systems providers and consultants: ERP, PLM and specialist toolsUS, UK, Netherlands
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What activities does PLCS cover?
Provide through life
support for product
IT infrastructureSupport infrastructure
Information Information
Top level PLCS coverage
Change & Events
Product needing support Supported product
Provide through life
support for product
Top level PLCS coverage
Requirements
Disposed product
Feedback
IT infrastructureSupport infrastructure
Supported product
Information InformationChange & Events
Product needing support
PLCS Activity - first level breakdown
Provide through life
support for product
Supported product
Information Information
Manage Informatio
n to support a product
Generate SupportSolution
CommissionSupportSystem
Provide Support
Product needing support
The bigger PLCS picture
Design&
Manufacture
Business transactionsOrder, Receipt, Store, Allocate
HUMSCBM
SystemsEngineerin
g
Provide through life
support for product
Supported product
Information Information
Manage Informatio
n to support a product
Generate SupportSolution
CommissionSupportSystem
Provide Support
Product needing support Provide through life
support for product
Supported product
Information Information
Manage Informati
on to
support a product
Generate SupportSolution
Commission
SupportSystem
Provide Support
Product needing support
The bigger PLCS picture
Design&
Manufacture
HUMSCBM
SystemsEngineerin
g
Provide through life
support for product
Supported product
Information Information
Manage Informati
on to
support a product
Generate SupportSolution
Commission
SupportSystem
Provide Support
Product needing support
Business transactionsOrder, Receipt, Store, Allocate
The bigger PLCS picture
Design&
Manufacture
HUMSCBM
SystemsEngineerin
g
Provide through life
support for product
Supported product
Information Information
Manage Informati
on to
support a product
Generate SupportSolution
Commission
SupportSystem
Provide Support
Product needing support
Business transactionsOrder, Receipt, Store, Allocate
Manage Information
to support a product
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What does PLCS contain?
PLCS Content
Key
States
ProductDesigns
IndividualProducts
ManagementProcess
Details
Activity SpecificationsActivityHistory
Environment
ProductBreakdowns
ProductDescriptions
PLCS Content – very high level
Properties, People and Times and more
Faults andOperating
States
The physicalProducts
(UID)
Configurations and discipline views
Support and usage history
Tasksand
Schedules
Commissioning of Work/Change
Items of interest
ProjectContra
ctLocatio
n
PLCS business functionality Exchange and sharing of data across the product life
cycle
Capture of relationships/dependencies between items from different disciplines Which usually reside in different specialist systems
Capture of information to enable comparison of what was supposed to be and what actually happened Maintenance, failures, usage, configurations
Enable management of change
Extended Enterprise Change Management
DesignConfiguration
MaintenanceScheduleMaintenance
Task
Definition
IndividualConfiguration
Maintenance Plan
Fault statedefinitions
MaintenanceRequirements
Domain Definitions(CAD, etc)
DesignAnalysis
MaintenanceAnalysis
DesignRequirements
ManufacturingBOM
Spare PartsConfiguration
LSAR
MaintenanceTask Planning Actual
Fault states
MaintenanceTask
perfomance
As-built
As-maintained
LocationManagement
Individuals
Usage
Designs
Cross-discipline Change
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PLCS for Data Exchange
Data Exchange Specifications (DEXs) PLCS has a big scope and a rich flexible data
model For specific Data Exchanges a more tailored
specification called a PLCS DEX is used Reduces scope
▪ a subset of the overall PLCS information content
▪ XML schema to match Details how to capture specifics (e.g. Item
Unique Id) Allows for localised terminology
DEXs can be used to contracting for information Data sets from different DEXs are easily
combined All covered by the underlying PLCS data model
PLCS DEX for Maintenance and Repair Funded by Black & Rossi Stakeholders:
NATO – Coalition Logistics Interoperability US Marines – PLMAV program NAMSA UID Office
Objectives: Demonstrate interoperability using PLCS in an
international arena
Maintenance & Repair: PLCS
MaintainerOperator
Maintenance & Repair: PLCS
MaintainerOperator
PLCS DEXA Data Exchange Specification
DEX fit with Business Process
Information is communicated using a subset of PLCS expressed in XML Approach is independent of the applications used at either end of the exchange
Summary PLCS is an ISO standard that enables exchange
and sharing of technical data and feedback for complex systems/products
A DEX is a way to specify Messages for exchange that are part of a consistent broader approach that maximises information connectivity
The Maintenance and Repair DEX will support Coalition Logistic Interoperability needs In line with the NATO STANAG for PLCS
