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Key challenges or

product engineering

From complexity and sustainability to quality and perormance,

the challenges in product engineering are very dierent rom

those aced by our orebears. We take a look at the big six and howSiemens PLM Sowares NX can help overcome them.

Modern products are

incredibly complex. From

the smart phone in your

pocket to heavy duty

industrial equipment, they

oen ull multiple roles and

can be customised to cateror discerning customers.

Designs not only comprise

mechanical orm and

unction, but electronics,

electrical control systems

and connectivity.

NX supports all design

elements in a modern

product tools to generate

concepts and variants more

quickly, the integration o

electronics data and into the

realms o mechatronics and

systems design.

With the integration o

Teamcenter, its also possible

to manage customer or

unctional requirements,options and variants and

pull that inormation into the

design environment.

To put this all in context,

turn to page 7 to nd out how

the Space Research Centre at

the University o Leicester is

using NX and Teamcenter to

assist in the development o

complex instrumentation or

space missions.

Complexity

The responsibility or

reducing the environmental

impact o products rests in

the hands o the design and

engineering proession. This

includes the development

o cleaner, greener power

sources, the reinvention o

transportation and more

localised and smaller scale

improvements on a per

product basis.

With consumers also

demanding greener productssustainability will be a key

ocus or the design industry

or years to come.

But how can sustainable

design be accomplished

when protability is still

the number one driving

actor? Techniques such as

whole systems design, light-

weighting, materials selection

and design or disassembly

can all contribute and NX has

a broad set o tools to support

them. From the ability to

rethink existing processes

and products at a root level,

to the ability to nd, test

and rene designs based on

new materials and into theworld o product compliance,

the combination o NX

and Teamcenter gives the

design and engineering team

everything they need.

Sustainability

High Denition 3D

(HD3D) technology

in NX can help

users dive into

the wealth o

inormation held

within complex

product models

Visual reporting

can provide visual

eedback on

material choice,

weighting and

compliance.

This can give

vital eedback to

help improve the

sustainability o a

design

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Quality is hard to quantiy.

Does it relate to the perceived

quality o a product will the

user love it and cherish it?

Do the materials used give a

product an air o quality and

thereore command a higher

price premium? Does it come

down to lower reject rates on

the production line?

Many o these things can

be designed into a product

during its development, but

are oen hard to evaluate

with basic 3D geometry

displayed on a monitor.

NX supports photorealistic

rendering to enable

stakeholders to gain a better

insight into how a product

will look and eel. And once

prototypes are required,

data can be created or use in

various processes, rom NC

controlled milling machine

tools to 3D printing machines

that build parts rom raw

materials.

Consumers no longer tolerate

bad looking products whether thats a member

o the public shopping on

the high street or a new TV

or a contractor investing in

construction equipment.

Traditional unction-rst

products rom the likes o JCB

now dierentiate themselves

by incorporating the types o

design aesthetics typically

reserved or the automotive

industry. And this is an

industry wide movement.

By integrating advanced,but easy to use surace

modelling tools, alongside

the core engineering design

eature set o NX, users have

the ability to develop exterior

style to the quality required,

then move the product

orward into detailed design

and engineering.

We explore this urther on

page 6 with a look at NXs

reeorm design tools.

We all want our products to

perorm better whether its

motor vehicle or a kitchen

top coee pot, we want it to

unction well throughout

its entire lie. This places

a burden on the designer

or engineer to explore the

operating limits o a product

iteration beore it even gets to

the prototyping stage.

Using a range o simulation

technologies, NX allowsdesigners and engineers to

explore a products operating

conditions, to nd areas

where mechanical strength

can be optimised, where heat

dissipation can be improved

and orm can be adjusted.

NX also oers a range o

new tools to assist with

capturing an organisations

knowledge and expertise

in easy to reuse and deploy

templates or simulation. This

is explained in more depth onpage 4 and 5.

In the current economic

climate there has rarely

been more pressure to

reduce costs in product

development.

Rapidly increasing

materials costs, the need to

increase protability and the

drive to reduce overheadsthrough outsourcing, must all

be considered by the design

and engineering proessional.

The ull eature set o

NX allows an organisation

to reduce material use

through optimised design.

It also allows new materials

options to be explored and

geographically dispersed

development teams to be

managed.

With access to the ull suite

o manuacturing tools in NXthe soware can then help

users reduce costs urther

by taking products into a

more ecient manuacturing

process.

NX CAE can be

used to asses the

operating limits o

a product beore

it gets to the

prototyping stage

Visual reporting

can be used to

identiy which

components are

over budget or

contributing the

most cost.

NX CMM

Programming

can help provide

quality assurance

on manuactured

products

NX oers a range o

advanced suracingtools to help

design orms that

are aesthetically

pleasing

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Deriving value rom

knowledge captureKnowledge capture in CAD has always promised great things, but

unless the knowledge is easily reused, the return on investment

is minimal. We explore the Product Template Studio within NX

that aims to truly deliver on that vision.ith the introduction o

digital design tools came

the mantra create once and

reuse many times. Pretty

soon aer this, we started to hear the

term knowledge capture.

Knowledge capture diers rom

data reuse in the sense that its about

much more than just reusing geometry

and copy/pasting lines, circles and

arcs. It is about capturing the thought

processes and inputs that went into

making that geometry, and re-usingthat knowledge to create new designs.

Specialist knowledge held by a designer

or engineer can be transormed into a

digital asset that can be harnessed by

other users.

Historically, knowledge capture or

knowledge-based engineering (KBE)

systems have been highly specialised,

oen more o a consultancy gig than

a user ocussed tool. They are oen

expensive and time consuming to

program rom scratch. I it takes six

months o consultancy to automate a

process that might only take the designer

or engineer a week to complete, you

have to ask yoursel is it really worth it?

In highly complex applications, such

as conceptual engineering on turbine

engines, knowledge-based engineering

systems have proven benecial but, or

mainstream applications, the pain and

cost o setting up such systems oen

didnt make sense. But does that mean

that the benets o knowledge-based

engineering cant be applied to the

masses? O course not.

The Siemens PLM Soware team hasbeen building tools into NX that allow

us all to do just that. So lets explore how

they work, the benets they oer and

what some o Siemens PLM Sowares

customers are doing with it.

A dierent approach

NX and its Unigraphics predecessor

have included knowledge capture and

reuse tools or many years, in the orm

o Knowledge Fusion (KF). This was a

traditional style tool which required the

use o a visual programming language

to dene each instance o capture and

reuse. It was powerul, but complex and

very time consuming to program.

With NX 4, Siemens PLM Soware

introduced a new set o tools or

capturing design and engineering

knowledge that were equally as

powerul, but dramatically easier to use.

This culminated in the release o the

Product Template Studio (PTS) in NX 6.

Product Template Studio represents a

breakthrough in capturing commonly

repeated and reused processes,

workows and tasks and makingthem available or reuse. It combines

parametric modelling tools, logic and

equation-based parameterisation (using

Expressions) and an environment that

allows anyone to create templates

graphically: no programming required.

Getting started

The starting point or knowledge

capture in PTS is the geometry. The

user needs to ensure that it can be

parameterised and works correctly.

A native NX model is the ideal, as

this contains all o the parameters and

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Firewire Surfoards pushes knowledge direct to the customer

Product engineering

One o the biggest challenges or

Western Australias Firewire Surfoards

is how to serve hardcore surers who

want custom boards to suit their

individual styles and local wave

conditions.

Its important or any premium,

high-perormance surfoard brand to

oer custom boards i they want to be

recognised as an industry leader, says

Firewire Surfoards CEO Mark Price.

The rms web-based CustomBoard Design (CBD) system enables

registered customers to select models

rom Firewire Surfoards standard

surfoards, then alter the design with

their own dimensions. CBD users can

tweak the boards length, wide point,

nose and tail width, and thickness to

tailor the board to their preerences.

The Product Template Studio (PTS) in

NX was ideal or prototyping the custom

surfoard design-to-order system.

Using drag-and-drop tools, Firewires

development partner, ShapeLogic,

devised a simple user interace to drive

the parametric surfoard models.

This interace served as a template

or creating Firewire Surfoards web-based interace. The use o PTS also

acilitated testing o multiple parameter

combinations to ensure the robustness

o the models.

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calculation worksheets, dialog

images, tabular engineering data,

help documentation, and other

relevant knowledge resources stored

in the Product Data Management

(PDM) system. Changes made to this

knowledge, which can be centralised

within Teamcenter and maintained by

non-CAD users, can quickly be reected

in the Product Template, ensuring that

anyone who uses it will be leveraging

a design based on the most up-to-date

inormation possible.

Deployment o templates

Once the template has been dened

and everything is in place, it can then be

deployed. Luckily, Siemens has done a

lot o work to centralise the mechanisms

or data reuse within NX. Consolidated

into the Reuse Library, this goes beyond

the typical standard eatures, parts andsub-assembly libraries and is the central

place to locate reusable data. Anyone

within the organisation can then drag

the appropriate template into their work

space and make use o that mission

critical knowledge.

The benets o knowledge

Were all aware o the knowledge

gap that the design and engineering

proession is currently acing. There are

ewer entrants into the industry while

an ageing workorce is retiring, taking

with it a lot o knowledge and expertise

within an organisation.Alongside this, we spend much o our

time repeating work that i not done by

ourselves, certainly has been carried

out elsewhere within our organisation.

Design and engineering is oen a case

o adapting existing products, parts or

concepts to a new set o requirements. It

makes no sense to do everything again

rom scratch.Digital design tools like NX can

help, but the problem is that even i

knowledge is captured in digital orm,

those that need it oen dont know

where to start looking.

This is where NXs Product Template

Studio and the Reuse Library can

pay massive dividends. Knowledge

and expertise can be captured and

ormalised in an easy to use and

very powerul manner. But, just as

importantly, those templates can be

accessed by those that need them, when

they need them. When you combine

these two actors, its clear that thevalue o capturing your organisations

knowledge can be truly realised.

Workow Setting up a Product Template within NX

Product engineering

expressions required to drive its orm

and unction. For older legacy data,

however, or even non-native data, Sync

Tech pays some dividends. It can be

used to quickly re-parameterise the

geometry so a template can be built o a

new version o the original geometry.

Alongside a sound geometry

model, additional tasks can also

be incorporated into the template.

Essentially, anything thats used

within the NX environment to dene

a products orm and unction. An

obvious example is the increasingly

common use o CAE (Computer Aided

Engineering) or simulation. Not only

can simulation studies be incorporated

into a template to validate the geometry

thats created, but it can also be used

to eedback into other areas, such as

including part checks against customer

requirements or perormance limits.

Adding a user interace

One o the key innovations in PTS is that

the resultant templates are driven rom

a graphic user interace, which is oen

indistinguishable rom those used in

vanilla NX. The user interace provides

direct access to the parameterised

model and associated processes.

The range o input values presented in

the dialogs are set so those reusing the

template across the organisation cant

work outside the dened boundaries

and limits.

I the organisation is using Teamcenter,it is also possible to link a Product

Template to design requirements,

1 The starting point is a ully developed,

parametric part model with any associated

CAE studies and other processes.

2 Intelligence is then added. This connects the

dierent variables, inputs and parameters as

well as providing the ability to nest multiple

templates within a single deliverable.

3 A dialog is created matching native NX user

interace standards. Only those inputs and

options that the user can experiment with

are shown, ensuring best practice.

4 The user interace elements are then

connected to the appropriate model

elements.

5 Lookups pulling Requirements or other

managed resources rom Teamcenter allow

enterprise-level best practices and standards

to be integrated into a Product Template.

6 Once placed in the Reuse Library, the

template becomes available to anyone that

needs it, allowing them to reuse that data at

will and gain ull benet rom it.

1 Powertrain design

with knowledge

captured using the

Product Template

Studio in NX.

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Integrated

orm designNX has always had a reputation or supporting those that require

the ultimate in orm development. We explore how its surace

modelling tools, when used as part o an integrated design and

manuacturing process, can benet rms o all types.he requirement or high-

quality aesthetic design is

no longer the preserve o

the automotive industry or

manuacturers o exclusive designer

products. Today, more than ever beore,

design is in the mind o every consumer

and everything rom i ndustrial

machinery to the objects we previously

considered to be purely unctional,

needs to look good as well as perorm to

specication.

This has caused a shi in whatdesigners and engineers are demanding

rom their CAD tools. Whereas prismatic

shapes used to be sucient in a product

development system, now everyone

needs to be able to create and edit high

quality surace models.

While modern CAD tools have

developed advanced surace creation

and editing unctionality, they are oen

disconnected rom the soware that

is used to take a product urther into

production.

Siemens NX soware has always

provided a rich set o surace

manipulation tools. These have recentlybeen boosted by the introduction o

Synchronous Technology. Fine edits

made to surace geometry can now

be quickly propagated throughout the

whole model.

The result is an integrated toolset thats

easy to use, contains deep and rich

unctionality rom intelligent geometry

creation, as well as the industry

standard analysis and validation tools

that are expected.

But the real benet o using this

integrated system is that advanced

surace creation and editing tools now

allow the user to take the same datathrough into design, engineering and

production readiness.

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Workow Using reeorm modelling to develop a mouse

1 Freeorm design conceptualisation can

begin rom simple geometry, employing

amiliar concepts such as sketch and

extrude to quickly arrive at an initial orm.

2 To give it more desirable aesthetics the

integrated high quality suracing (styling)

capabilities can be used within the NX

Synchronous Modelling toolset.

3 A ull suite o high quality (Class-A) blending

tools are available or dening complex

transitions. All tools work the same across

surace or solid model geometry.

4 Zebra stripe reection analysis can be used

in combination with surace to surace

intersection analysis while shaping the

thumb wheel scoop.

5 The ull capabilities o NX can be used

including support or engineering suracing,

component breakout and detailing, and

template based parametric design tools.

6 All design data rom styled to mechanical

can be reused rom the NX Reuse Library

making it possible to capture and reuse

elements o a products design language.

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The nal

rontierThe Space Research Centre

relies on NX to ensure the devices

it develops or space missions can

survive in harsh environments.ending spacecra into orbit

to explore the unknown

is inherently exciting. The

Space Research Centre

(SRC), part o the University o Leicester

Department o Physics and Astronomy,

has a long history o involvement in

major international space missions.

Stretching back more than ve

decades, its activities are diverse with

its core engineering pursuit being the

development o instrumentation or

space missions.Considering that it costs in excess

o 20,000 per kilogram to launch

hardware into space, product assurance

and reliability are paramount at

SRC. In conjunction with its in-house

acilities, including test laboratories,

environmental test chambers,

clean rooms, electronics design and

manuacturing acilities, it uses Siemens

NX or mechanical design, analysis and

manuacturing.

NX and Teamcenter are very much

core to our research as it really has

allowed us to be a lot more ecient

in how we deliver quality to scheduleand budget, says Piyal Samara-

Ratna, mechanical engineer and CAD

administrator or the SRC.

The SRC has been using Siemens

PLMs soware solutions or around 15

years and over the past our years it has

slowly moved completely over to a ully

integrated NX and Teamcenter solution

a transition managed by Siemens

soware reseller, TEAM Engineering.

Out o this world

One o SRCs ongoing projects that

has beneted rom Siemens soware

is its work on the MIRI (Mid InraRedInstrument) or the James Webb

Space Telescope (JWST), the next-

generation mission to replace the

Hubble Space Telescope. Led by NASA,

the project represents an international

collaboration o around 17 countries and

has a rather hey goal o studying the

birth and evolution o galaxies.

Siemens products have been used

extensively in this programme or

design, analysis and manuacturing and

have been essential tools in ensuring

that the ight instrument passed its

structural testing with ying colours,

explains Jon Sykes, University o

Leicester lead mechanical engineer or

the instrument.

The SRC is also involved in the

development o the Mercury ImagingX-ray Spectrometer Instrument (MIXS),

one o the key instruments onboard

the BepiColombo spacecra that is

being developed by the European

Space Agency. Due to launch in 2014,

it will reach its nal destination o

Mercury in 2020. MIXS will be used

to help determine the composition

o the planets surace by measuring

uorescent X-rays.

Unlike MIRI, the SRC are actually

leading the MIXS project and are

responsible or managing the overall

consortium, which consists o a number

o international partners and teams.MIXS represents a leap orward in

scientic capabilities and, because o the

challenges involved, an iterative design,

analysis and test campaign has been

undertaken, with increased unctionality

introduced at each stage.

We are designing a product o

optimum eciency with strictly

controlled margins o saety, comments

Samara-Ratna. I our instruments

ail in space then there is nothing that

can be done to x them. Thereore we

undertake an extensive analytical and

test programme to ensure reliability.

We nd that the NX Nastran solver is an

industry standard tool and this promotes

the sharing o models and data with our

project partners.

The group has recently nished

the structural thermal model, which

combines the ight structure with partialelectronics and optics. The next stages

will be launch load simulating vibration

and environmental testing. This is an

expensive process and we rely on our

analysis data to give condence that the

design will work. To move eciently

through these design phases quickly

we need a multi-unctional tool like NX,

comments Samara-Ratna.

Technology transer

Although the core o what the SRC

does is space science and related

instrumentation it is also heavily

involved in technology transer. Ourwork is applicable to a board range o

industrial sectors, stresses Samara-

Ratna. Currently research is being

carried out into medical detectors that

use technology spin-os rom space

instrumentation to detect tumours.

We are also making increased use o

new manuacturing technologies like

additive manuacturing and or this

we make extensive use o NXs wave-

linking and synchronous modelling

tools to allow us to take advantage

o the geometries easible with this

technology, he adds.

Now that the SRC has ully transitionedto NX and is using Teamcenter or

CAD management, the next phase is

to incorporate document and project

management. We want to use the ull

breadth o what Teamcenter is capable

o doing, concludes Samara-Ratna.

S 1 CAD model o theMercury ImagingX-ray Spectrometer

Instrument (MIXS).

In collaboration

with Magna Parva.

2 CAD model o

the Mid Inrared

Instrument (MIRI)

or the James Webb

Space Telescope.

3 The University

o Leicester Space

Research team inthe clean room with

their hardware

contribution to

the MIRI.

At the University

o Leicester,

JWST activities

are unded by

the UK Space

Agency (UKSA),

BepiColombo

activities by UKSA

and the European

Space Agency.

3

1

2

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Simulation at the

core o designUnder pressure to shorten time-to-market,

manuacturers are seeking to take advantage

o simulation earlier in the design process,

writes Jan Larsson at Siemens PLM Soware.

ith traditional product

development workows,analysis and physical

prototyping are used

to conrm the intended unctional

perormance o a design. But, i design

problems are ound at this late stage,

development schedules can slip,

costs can skyrocket and products can

oen all short o market and business

requirements, increasing the risk o

customer dissatisaction and/or recalls.

In many instances, the design team

and the simulation analysis team are

working almost entirely independently.

Even when bringing simulation into

the process earlier, teams are usingdisparate, specialised tools that are

disconnected rom each other. This

creates redundant data and workows,

and ultimately impedes the speed o

simulation.

According to a report by the AutoSim

Consortium, o the total time needed by

engineers to perorm a ull simulation

or a system or subsystem, 80 per cent is

devoted to generating the model.

To speed things up, every step in the

simulation process must be aligned. The

goal is to get to a point where simulation

is in sync with design and, in some cases,

leading design so analysis results canbe ed back into every design decision.

Simulation models (such as nite

element models) with detail matching

the accuracy desired at a particular

design stage must be available.

In a simulation-driven design process,

engineers have access to powerul

geometry editing tools, like direct

modelling and dimension-driven design.

The most recent advance comes in

the orm o synchronous technology,

a unique capability that combines the

speed and exibility o direct modelling

with the precise control o dimension-

driven design. These powerul toolsallow engineers and analysts to easily

edit and obtain the idealised geometry

they need without having to wait or

designers to perorm these tasks. This

enables them to respond rapidly to

design changes or suggest changes to

the design based on simulation results.

Because models and data can beshared easily, this level o integration can

provide condence or a manuacturers

decision makers. Through a centralised

hub, its possible to deliver tools which

allow designers to run basic simulations,

and analysts to make any necessary

tweaks to a models geometry. This helps

garner greater synchronicity and trust

between the designers and the analysts,

and gives both teams the ability to make

alterations without having to go through

a complex and time-consuming back

and orth process.

By turning to a simulation-driven

approach and introducing it right atthe concept stage, product developers

can reuse existing models and design

geometry instead o rebuilding them

rom scratch. This allows them to explore

alternatives, spot aws and optimise

product perormance beore the physical

prototype or detailed design is created.

The process allows important decisions

to be made on unctionality, geometry

and materials early in the cycle based on

simulation results.

This high level o coordination

between designers and analysts can be

achieved through the implementation

o a complete suite o integrated processautomation tools, such as Siemens

PLM Sowares NX soware. By using

NX which integrates high-end analyst

modelling tools with world-class

geometry capabilities - and combining

it with data management soware, such

as Siemens PLM Sowares Teamcenter,

users are able to develop and share

analysis models aster than with

traditional CAE workows.

Changing the culture

The simulation-driven design process

represents a signicant cultural change

or many companies. In addition to new

technology, these requirements will also

call or dramatic changes in processes

and attitudes. It may mean re-organising

the way groups work together and it is

likely to mean changing old habits.

People that used to hold data or

as long as they could to get as much

context rom other groups and to

minimise their chances o revision,

or example, have to be encouraged to

release preliminary inormation early

to support a more rapid process. Each

group working on the design has to learn

the needs o the other groups.

This kind o concurrent andcollaborative engineering where 3D

models, data and results are shared so

everybody is able to see the geometric

model in real time creates workows

that help acilitate design reviews

and enables multiple departments

to review and approve or reject the

design. As an added benet, by properly

synchronising and centrally managing

processes, companies can more easily

adhere to all regulations around tracking

and traceability.

Innovation

Simulation guides critical trade-odecisions to balance competing product

objectives such as reliability, cost and

weight requirements. But it also plays

a major role in product and process

innovation. New ideas have to be tested,

qualied and rened beore they can be

put into practice.

Usually hundreds o concept

alternatives are evaluated beore

detailed design is begun. In the past this

required physical testing, so very ew

design alternatives or radical ideas were

tested and products evolved slowly.

Advances in technology and

processing power, combined with thecoherence o a centralised design and

analysis hub mean that there is much

greater scope or experimentation. This

is crucial to innovative product design. I

the simulation and eedback process is

ast enough, even radical but uneasible

ideas can reveal useul inormation and

increase insight into a design. This is

especially true early in the design process

when you want to eliminate potential

losers and ocus subsequent eorts on a

smaller set o potential winners.

The message is clear by putting

simulation at the heart o the design

process, engineers are better ableto understand, predict and improve

product perormance digitally. More

design concepts can be explored, which

in turn reduces direct costs associated

with expensive physical prototypes and

enables aster, more inormed decisions.

W

1 Jan Larsson,

marketing

director, NX,

EMEA Marketing

at Siemens PLM

Soware.

2 NX enables you tocompare physical

test data with CAE

analysis results

and to optimise

your models to

ensure results will

accurately predict

physical tests.

2

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Part Manuacturing

Pump up

the volume

PLM and CNC integration provides

seamless data ow rom CAD/CAM to

machine tool controllers, automating

production and saving time & moneyndritz Ritz manuactures

pumps and submersible

motors used or municipal

and industrial water

supply and sewage systems, mining

applications and oshore platorms.

The rm is a leading manuacturer in

its market segment with more than

one million pump systems installed

worldwide. It produces pump systems

and replacement parts, and on occasion

embarks on spectacular engineering

projects, such as the worlds largestpump, which was created or the Las

Vegas, Nevada municipal water system.

Andritz Ritzs IT inrastructure is

constantly evolving and improving. For

example, aer implementing abas ERP

soware or 58 users it was able to retire

our legacy systems. An upgrade rom

2D CAD to a 3D design process using

Solid Edge rom Siemens PLM Soware

improved the eciency and accuracy o

the engineering department.

The next goal was to improve numerical

control (NC) programming and cutting

tool management. We have organised all

o our technical and commercial systemsin such a way that colleagues benet rom

the work o others throughout the design-

through-production process chain, says

Hans-Juergen Steeb, manager o IT and

organisation at Andritz Ritz. Thereore,

our CAM system selection criteria were

heavily ocused on the ability to establish

a ully integrated process.

A number o computer-aided

manuacturing (CAM) systems were

evaluated based on selection criteria

such as cycle time reduction, quality

improvement, user riendliness, and the

ability to deliver a higher degree o process

automation between engineering, NCprogramming and shop oor machining.

The company chose the Adanos partner

network, led by A+B Solutions. The latter

partners with Siemens PLM Soware

to provide solutions such as NX and

Teamcenter, as well as comprehensive

product liecycle management (PLM)

services including implementation.

The implementation proposal included

streamlining the manuacturing planning

and shop oor production processes by

integrating Teamcenter (data and process

management) with Shop Floor Connect

(a web client or use on the shop oor to

access, manage, view and deliver CNC

programs to machine controllers).

Integrated PLM environment

Today, when an engineer begins asession using Solid Edge, Teamcenter

is started at the same time and every

newly created component is registered

and managed by the PLM system. All

design changes, update notications,

and release processes are initiated and

carried out automatically.

Design and manuacturing revisions

are also managed and tracked

throughout the entire process, rom

initial design, to each design variant,

and on through to manuacturing.

Standard parts are classied within

the library or ast and easy retrieval,

and their use is tracked within everydesign. Finite element analysis (FEA)

simulations are also saved and managed

with Teamcenter. The NC programs are

created at two NX CAM workstations,

which are connected to Teamcenter.

Even the packaging and release o

NC data to production is managed by

the manuacturing release process o

Teamcenter. Using Teamcenter, NC

programmers can easily nd and select

the required tools and clamping devices

or their respective CNC machines.

Beore running the actual machine,

all NC programs are run through a

virtual machining simulation usingNX CAM. These simulations allow NC

programmers to check tool paths in

the context o the complete machine

assembly, providing comprehensive

collision protection. Finally, tool lists

and setup sheets are created and stored

together with the work plan, detailed

drawings, NC data and machining

simulation videos.

Closed-loop manuacturing

Another important aspect o Andritz

Ritzs implementation is the seamless

transer o project inormation rom

manuacturing planning to production.

On the shop oor, workstations are

connected to one or several machine

controls. There, machine operators

log into Shop Floor Connect to gainrole-specic access to released data.

For each job, the user is shown only the

inormation that is needed. Simulation

data, CAM parts, CAD models, pictures,

videos, and work plans may supplement

the deault inormation o NC data, shop

oor drawings and tooling sheets.

NC programs are transerred

directly to the controller. Sometimes,

programs need minor adjustments and

optimisation at the machine controller.

When this occurs, the machine operator

can easily record the changes, and then

notiy and transer the modied program

back to NC programmer via Teamcenter.

Shop oor inormation within PLM

By bridging the worlds o engineering

and manuacturing with PLM, smarter

decisions can made to produce better

products. Andritz Ritz has established

an integrated work environment that

ensures a reliable process chain, rom

design through production. Project

cycles became more ecient, while

continuing to remain lean. The ongoing

trend toward business growth suggests

the need to hire more. All the while,

the undamental principles o process

reliability and continuous improvementremain uncompromised. We are able

to identiy and x potential issues much

earlier in the process, says Steeb. We

save a lot o money, because we can

avoid nding errors late in the process

when they are the most costly to x.

A 1 Andritz Ritzproduces pumpsystems and

replacement parts

or a wide range o

industries

2 Andritz Ritz

uses a variety o

soware rom

Siemens PLM

Soware, including

NX CAM, Solid Edge

and Teamcenter

3 Pumped up: theteam at Andritz Ritz

2

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Key challenges or

part manuacturing

Beset by pressures on all sides, part manuacturing is ripe or

optimisation, both in terms o process and worklow. We look at

six o the top challenges and how Siemens PLM Sotwares partmanuacturing solutions can help overcome them

In the context o

manuacturing, discussions

on eciency oen ocus on

the optimisation o a limited

band o processes such

as NC programming and

machining.Todays leading

organisations, however, are

widening their gaze to the

entire process rom the

preparation o a 3D model all

the way to the production o

the nished part.

But optimisation is not just

about tuning individual parts

o a process. The connections

between the various

applications, systems, people

and equipment also need to

work as eciently as possible.

Building intelligence

into the process such

as by reducing the

need or repeated dataentry, introducing more

encompassing search tools

and enabling access to up to

date inormation can pay

huge dividends here.

Siemens can assist with

whole process eciency by

providing intelligent design

and NC preparation tools

sitting on a Teamcenter

powered digital backbone.

Efciency

Across all industries there are

increasingly complex design

requirements or ever more

sophisticated products.

Quality has always been

a prime concern, but it is

oen dicult to quantiy

particularly in these hyper

competitive times.

The idea o perceived

quality is paramount to

many customers, with the

key drivers being improved

surace nishes, accuracyand t.

Alongside this, quality

relates to manuacturing

parts according to their

specication with better

management o the

complete process, using

a ully documented plan.

As traceability gains more

importance, this will only

become more key to many

organisations.

And o course, theres then

the traditional metrics or

quality and ensuring that

parts are manuactured to

the required tolerance.

NX has a range o tools

to integrate the use ocoordinate measuring

machine (CMM) inspection

into the digital process, rom

CMM programming to reuse

o 3D PMI.

Quality

NX provides the

manuacturing

engineer with a

single platorm or

part preparation,

tooling and xture

design, CAM and

CMM programming

Teamcenter

provides complete

data and process

management or

the entire process

including the

ability to connect

release work

packages to the

shop oor

NX uses design

requirements

to automate the

programming o

CMMs directly rom

the model-based

measurement

and tolerance

annotation (PMI)

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Within a manuacturing

context, cost oen relates

to both raw material and

machine running costs,

but in todays economy, it is

also about making the most

o all resources; materials,

machines and people.

Standardising the

manuacturing process is

one way to maximise cost

savings. For example, this

could mean using a standard

set o cutting tools across all

machining acilities (see the

Manuacturing Resource

Library on page viii o this

document).

When it comes to

machining time optimisation,

Siemens PLM Sowares NX

CAM suite is perectly placed

to help create operations

which are lean and ecient.

It not only helps save time,

but can reduce wear and tear

on both machine tools and

cutter hardware.

Ecient working processes

based on digital partmanuacturing data require

control. Oen seen as an

additional burden, i done

correctly, data control can

actually make processes

more ecient.

While control helps ensure

that data is centralised and

up-to-date, it also has the

advantage o delivering

a much richer set o

inormation to those that

need it. Within the context o

manuacturing, this meansthat work packages are based

on the latest release data.

It also allows consumers o

that data to interact with the

related assets and to eed

back errors when they occur

quickly and eciently.

Teamcenter is an intelligent

backbone through which

data is controlled, complete

and made accessible to all

those that need it.

Many industries are now

acing increasing regulatory

and compliance demands.

While already widespread in

the aerospace and medical

sectors, traceability is now a

key requirement or many

more organisations.

Satisying this demand

or record keeping and

data tracking presents

a serious headache or

organisations without dataand liecycle management

systems in place. Additional

problems arise when the

data moves rom design

and development into

manuacturing where data

management processes

arent as commonplace.

Siemens Teamcenter can

assist with these challenges

and help ensure that a

complete record o change

and decisions is maintained

rom development right intoproduction and inspection.

Globalisation is a major

challenge aced by many

manuacturing organisations.

While the mainstream media

tend to portray it as a threat

o impending doom, those in

the know see globalisation as

a opportunity or expansion

and business growth.What is key particularly

when dealing with multi-

site, geographically

dispersed manuacturing

centres is the ability to

balance workloads, keep the

production acilities exible

enough to handle rapid

introduction o new business

lines, cope with demand

uctuation and handle new

machine tool deployment

eciently.

Siemens PLM SowaresNX and Teamcenter have

been developed to meet

these many challenges o

globalisation or some o the

worlds leading global players.

Teamcenter with

secure access, ull

records o change,

and managed

delivery o the

work package

all the way to the

point o execution

(machine tool)

NX is used by the

smallest job shops

to the biggest

global companies.

Teamcenter

provides a

platorm or a

design-anywhere

build-anywhere

business

Teamcenter or

managing standard

resources such as

cutting tools and

xtures

Teamcenter or

data and processmanagement

- revision

control, workow

notications, and

the production

release o work

packages

Globalisation and exibility

Compliance and traceability

Control

Cost

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Planning to

productionFrom world-leading design and engineering to the provision o

tools through the PLM Soware group, Siemens is synonymous

with innovation. We detail how it can help take parts to

production with a rapidly expanding product portolioanuacturing is the rapidly

changing stage o a process

that leads a product rom

conceptualisation, through

design and engineering and into

production.

While historically, the design, make,

sell company has been common place,

global pressures, lower cost economies

and the battle or survival have meant

that the manuacturing sites o our

athers are not ours and ar rom it.

Manuacturing today sees the toolsused to design a product combined

with the manuacturing execution tools

that allow data to be reused. That same

intelligent 3D data source can be used

to drive the development o tool-paths,

to create and optimise inspection

processes, and to produce job sheets

and work lists.

The problem is, this process can oen

become ragmented, disconnected and

unmanaged.

Into this ray steps Siemens, an

organisation steeped in global

engineering and manuacturing

heritage. In the manuacturing sector,Siemens has been a supplier o machine

tool control and drive equipment

or decades. Its Sinumerik machine

controllers have long been leaders in

the aerospace industry and many more

machine tool builders are now oering

Siemens controllers.

The establishment o the Siemens

PLM Soware division, with the NX

product suite, has brought with it a set

o tools to assist not only in the design

o new products and parts, but also

with the preparation o those parts or

production. This includes mould anddie design, advanced applications

or the programming o multi-axis

machine tools, mill-turns and into CMM

programming and inspection.

Part manuacturing

Siemenss part manuacturing solution,

taken in the context o the whole NX

oering, takes this oundation, along

with Siemens activity in manuacturing

in general, and builds a complete

solution that can truly benet any

organisation that takes it on board.

From the development o the part

geometry within the context o NX, itspossible to develop, iterate, simulate and

nalise the orm and unction. When

required, this same geometry with

associated tolerance and manuacturing

inormation, can be taken urther. Here

technologies such as NXs Synchronous

Technology, which enables history ree

editing, can be taken advantage o to

create tooling, add machining stock and

other preparatory processes.

CAM programming is something that

NX has been well respected or since its

beginning, building on the tools already

present within Unigraphics. These havebeen expanded since.

This means that production-ready

machining programs can be created,

optimised and output. This output

can then be combined with the

documentation required to produce a

part to orm an intelligent work package

or delivery to the shop oor

As a result o the legacy o the NX

system and the direct experience

Siemens has at the controller or DNC

level, the system is able to control not

only the mainstream machine tool

equipment, but also the advanced

technology now becoming availablesuch as embedding the Siemens

M

Delphi Thermal - improving protability with intelligent processes

Delphi is a leading global supplier o

mobile electronics and transportation

systems, including powertrain, saety,

steering, thermal, and controls and

security systems, electrical/electronic

architecture and in-car entertainment

technologies.

Faced with increasing competitive

pressures in a contracting automotive

market, subsidiary Delphi Thermalrealised that good enough wasnt

going to accomplish its ambitious goals

nor satisy automotive OEMs that are

demanding lower cost components with

tightening quality requirements.

One o the key components o

the automotive supplier process is

a strict compliance to OEM quality

requirements through Production

Part Approval Process or PPAP. With

a quality solution or inspection

programming and execution built on

Teamcenter, Delphi Thermal has been

able to meet PPAP requirements much

more eciently while increasing itsnal PPAP acceptance rates.

This has had a positive impact across

multiple domains, but especially in

removing delays rom production.

www.delphi.com

Part Manuacturing

Mirko Baecker

EMEA Marketing

Director; DigitalManuacturing

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Eective connection to production

To support the deployment and use o

these tools, Siemens has now released

the Shop Floor Connect or Teamcenter.

While you can read more about thebenets o this technology on page vi, the

concept is as ollows: The shop oor is a

dramatically dierent environment to the

design or production planning oce, but

the same access to data is undamentally

key i eciency is to be boosted.

Shop Floor Connect or Teamcenter

provides a web-based architecture

or those on the shop oor to interact

with the Teamcenter-managed work

packages and supporting inormation,

along with process integration. This is

delivered in a stripped back manner that

makes it suitable or lower powered PCs,

tablets and even more advanced DNCs,right where its needed.

Integrated quality solution

When it comes to building a complete

workow around intelligent data and

process management solutions, it is

essential that the complete processis covered and closed out. For part

manuacturing, the nal stage in the

process is quality inspection.

Again, there is oen a disconnect

between the quality department

and shop oor inspection and the

core backbone o data. However, the

combination o NX and Teamcenter can

bring this back into the production loop.

Capabilities include CMM programming

with the new tools introduced into

NX, the management, distribution

and execution o those routines using

Teamcenter, and the storage and sharing

o the resultant reports with those thatneed them.

Workow The CAD/CAM/CNC process chain

controller cycle soware code into NX

CAM.

Data and process management

Alongside the core creation and

preparation tools, Siemens also has

Teamcenter, its Product Liecycle

Management solution. While PLM is

oen seen as a design-heavy solution,

Siemens is building a new set o tools

into the system or managing and

controlling all manner o manuacturing

and production i normation.

This ranges rom the direct

management o the part geometry,

through to the various constituent parts

o the CAM tool-path, such as xtures,

machine tool models, cutters, work

piece and individual operations.

The new Manuacturing Resource

Library provides a new integration

between NX (or geometry creation)and Teamcenter which allows the

modelling o both orm and metadata o

the cutter so the whole enterprise can

access a standardised and centralised

library. This saves both time and cost

in procurement (see page viii or more

details on the Manuacturing Resource

Library or Teamcenter).

Teamcenter is well versed in process

management and now has specialised

workows and processes to support part

manuacturing. This includes production

plan building, task assignment,

job approval and release, change

management and traceability which isbecoming increasingly important.

1 Siemens Synchronous Technology allows

geometry (either part or xture) to be edited

and re-purposed without prior knowledge o

its construction or source

2 Using the new Manuacturing Resource

Library or Teamcenter, tools can be selected

rom a centralised library, which is optimised

and managed across the enterprise

3 NX CAM provides the environment in which

to create, optimise and output the NC code

required to drive all manner o machine

tools and cutters

4 Using Teamcenter in combination with NXs

production preparation solutions, a work

package can be put together and distributed

eciently to those that need it

5 Siemens Shop Floor Connection allows

the entire up to date work package to be

accessed in a controller environment on the

shopfoor - and allows eedback to be given

6 From basic parts to complex programming

o multi-turret mill/turns, 5 axis mills, NX has

all the bases covered. It can then move into

inspection and quality

1 The ull suite o

Siemens solutions

relating to part

production, rom

design through

machining and

into inspection and

quality inspection.

All are built on abackbone managed

and controlled by

Teamcenter

1

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Connecting the

work packageData and process management are becoming commonplace,

but their benets oen break down when projects move into

production. To bring order to this chaos, the new Shop Floor

Connect or Teamcenter aims to keep production in the loop

hen considered in the

context o the whole productdevelopment process,

manuacturing is one o the

most complex stages. However, it is oen

unmanaged, disconnected rom the

source data and ragmented.

Then come the connections rom

the shop oor to the critical data

used or actual manuacture. Due

to the reliance on paper and a lack

o appropriate search and retrieval

tools, even i an organisation is using

a data management solution, there

can be problems with incorrect or out

o date data. Theres oen no reliable

change record available and its dicultto ensure that those tasked with

managing production can nd the right

inormation at the right time.

On the shop oor there are multiple

disconnected databases and

applications. These include tooling,

jigs and xture supplier catalogs,

cutting libraries, 3D models and stock

management perhaps even machine

tool specic applications. All o these

disparate sources o inormation add to

the complexity and potential or error.

Many o these issues can be traced to

the methods available to the enterprise

to take the inormation already parto a data management process and

make it available to the shop loor.

However, the tools available to search,

view and retrieve key inormation in

the design or management oice are

oten entirely inappropriate or the

shop loor. This is where Siemens PLM

Sotwares new Shop Floor Connect

(SFC) or Teamcenter comes into play.

The higher level concept o SFC is

to build on the capabilities within

Teamcenter or managing, tracking

and controlling product data across

all manner o industries, then

provide access to the manuacturinginormation right at the point o use

namely, the shop oor.

Task appropriate interaction

Teamcenter has been extended beyond

the existing tools that manage and

control CAD geometry and liecycle

during the design and developmentphase to manage part preparation,

tooling and xture design, CAM

and CMM programming process

management and tool libraries.

With the addition o Shop Floor

Connect, those on the shop oor now

have a number o ways to interact with

Teamcenter.

Using a server-based solution,

SFC can be accessed by any device

available. Much o the extraneous

unctionality o the ully unctional

Teamcenter client is stripped away

and a much simpler interace used.

This means that the data can beaccessed not only on a standard or

lower-end PC, but also other hardware

platorms with l ighter requirements,

whether thats an iPad or a more

modern machine controller with a

web browser.

W1 Todays DNCsare much more

powerul allowing

the shopoor

to access

manuacturing

critical inormation

directly at the point

o use

2 Shop Floor

Connect or

Teamcenter

provides a stripped

back interace to

access production

data live rom

Teamcenter which

can be delivered to

a range o devices

rom the DNC orApples iPad

2

1

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Manuacturing

Resource LibrarySiemens PLM Sowares Manuacturing

Resource Library takes a novel approach to

tool management and allows you to get even

more rom your resources

hen you need a cutting

tool or NC programmingdont waste any more time

hunting through that clunky

library or separate vendor catalogues.

With the latest release o Teamcenter,

Siemens PLM Soware introduces the

Manuacturing Resource Library (MRL)

oering a new approach to managing

resources that lets you easily nd and

use the tooling you depend on every day.

Nowadays, most CAM systems come

equipped with built-in tool libraries.

Unortunately many o these libraries

come with a hidden cost. These

systems require your time to populate

them with tool records and to maintainthem whenever a new version o a

vendor catalogue is published. Plus,

each vendors catalogue is organised

dierently, so you ca nt easily import

their data into your system or you will

spend countless hours sorting through

these catalogues to nd the tool you

need.

The MRL stores and classies its

content in Teamcenter, with a ull range

o search unctions and graphical

displays so you can easily nd and

access your tools. Most importantly you

can easily import vendor catalogues

and then select the tools you wantto use. You can even add your own

content i you have special types o

tools or other resources such as special

xtures to manage.

Direct access to the tool library

Siemens PLM Sowares NX CAM

system, with its connection to

Teamcenter, directly accesses all o

the resource inormation using built-in

menus. From NX CAM, you can s earch

the library, nd the tools you need,

and pull accurate 3D models o the

selected cutting tools right into the CAM

programming session. This helps youcreate NC programs aster, run more

accurate machine tool simulations, and

automatically create complete shop

documentation that contains up-to-

date and correct inormation about the

tools used.

The MRL supports current standards

or dening and categorising cuttingtools including the DIN and ISO

standards. It is also exible. Although the

system is provided with an advanced

classication structure, you can create

your own structure. You can also use

it or the other resources around your

shop including machines, xtures,

robots, and tool handling equipment.

You can even use it to keep your

digital assets organised, such as CAM

process templates, CAM wizards,

drawing templates, programming setup

templates and almost any other digital

item you can think o.

Working with tool vendor catalogues

The MRL is divided into three areas that

keep the tooling vendors catalogues and

your tool components and assemblies

separate. I a cutting tool vendor

provides a CD or DVD with its catalogue

content you can import this data directly

into your librarys Vendor Catalogue with

a ew simple clicks. The MRL intelligently

maps the vendors tool classes and

attributes to its matching elds.

With the vendor data in your

system, you can pull rom this data

to populate your Customer Area (the

working library) with the tools and toolassemblies your shop uses. This way you

dont clutter your working library with

thousands o tool components that you

never use.

Cutting tool assemblies

O course the system has to be able to

handle both the tool components tool

holders, extensions, cutting inserts and

so on as well as ully assembled tools

that are needed or machining. The MRL

system helps you assemble tools based

on rules that dene connection points

or the various tooling components.

PLM integration

Because the MRL uses Teamcenter

technology it means that the ull range o

PDM type unctions can be used in the

tooling area. For example its possible to

search or all jobs that used a specic tool

assembly or component. I the selection

o tools in the customer (working) area is

changed you can easily see which jobs

or NC programs would be aected. This

can help you make decisions on how

to maintain your working database o

cutting tools.

What the Manuacturing Resource

Library doesnt do

The MRL is not intended to replace

shop oor or other production systems

that manage physical tool inventories

or resource procurement solutions.

The MRL is designed or use in the

manuacturing engineering stage o

the process where programmers and

planners are dening methods and

setting up work packages. It can be set

up to synchronise with shop oor tool

management systems; or example

to allow the programmer to check

inventory levels beore selecting a toolor a job.

Key value

The big benet associated with the

Manuacturing Resource Library is the

ease with which you are able to handle

multiple tooling vendor catalogues and

construct your own working library. This

advantage, coupled with the tight solid

model based integration with Siemens

PLM Sowares NX CAM, makes the MRL

a step up in handling critical cutting tool

inormation.

W1 Drive the use ostandard tooling

rom your working

library to help

reduce tooling

inventory costs -

rather than have

NC programmers

select new tools

rom vendor

catalogues

2 Teamcenter can

be congured so

that tool lists or

released jobs are

sent to the shop

oor or inventory

checks in case new

tool supplies will be

needed or job

3 The data in the

library can be used

in the CAM system

to populate output

in tooling lists, shop

documentation,

and run machine

tool simulations

3

2

1

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Teamcenter solves

key challenges or theProduct Liecycle

As increased product complexity, dispersed supply chains and

the onslaught o globalisation continue, many organisations

are looking to Product Liecycle Management to help solve thekey challenges acing many in todays environment

Collaboration is increasingly

proving to be a key strategic

advantage in quickly and

securely delivering product

inormation across the entire

value chain.

To reduce costs and pursueglobal markets, leading

companies are increasingly

dispersing engineering,

design and manuacturing, as

well as marketing, sales and

service activities to where

theyre most eective. This

poses challenges to keeping

these teams in sync with one

another and with up-to-date

product inormation.

Many organisations are

deploying collaboration

capabilities in a tactical,

piecemeal ashion. The end

result is oen expensive

systems that are poorly

integrated, costly to maintainand which in some cases

cause more problems than

they solve.

Without a holistic approach,

the negative impact can

greatly overshadow the

benets. A balance between

unctional local level ocus

and collaboration at the

enterprise level is needed.

Collaboration

Managing the risk o ailing

regulatory compliance has

become an important part

o the product development

and introduction process.

Organisations today ace

an overwhelming number o

regulatory requirements that

impact their daily activities,

product development, time

to market, and their cost to

bring a product to market.

Leading companies

recognize that record

keeping practices havesignicant legal and nancial

consequences - they cannot

aord to be ound non-

compliant.

An approach to solving

these issues is to provide a

controlled environment to

reduce risk by promoting

awareness, ensuring

ownership, enorcing control,

tracking accountability

and auditing or regulatory

compliance.

When combined with

advanced tools this allows

companies to manage

and anticipate issues by

embedding regulatory

compliance needs

and requirements intodevelopment activities,

across the liecycle, to quickly

and simply identiy any areas

o non-compliance.

Compliance and Sustainability

Teamcenter

provides a

unique and

highly productive

collaborative

environment that

supports company

specic businessprocesses

It simply and

easily extends

product liecycle

inormation to

help eliminate

unctional and

organizational silos

across a distributed

enterprise

Teamcenter

supports document

and record

management

or Records

Management

Application (RMA),

International

Trafc in Arms

Regulations (ITAR),

CMII (Conguration

Management II)

Environmental

Compliance,

End-o-Lie Vehicle

(ELV), RoHS, WEEE

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Dispersed locations,

multiples time zones,

localised processes, dierent

applications and systems,

alternative cultural attitudes

can all provide signicant

obstacles to success.

Companies are continually

challenged to reduce

engineering & development

costs and improve

productivity, while pursuing

global markets. Engineering

is not in a single location. It

has gone global. Engineers

are wasting too much cycle

time on engineering changes

and reviews, and making

design decisions based on

out-o-date inormation.

The ability to manage these

complex design tasks and

collaborative change process

is critical to remaining

competitive in the global

market place.

Companies must careully

examine all o theirdevelopment projects

to ensure that product

development portolios

are making the best use o

valuable scarce resources. A

majority o companies dont

know whether they are ully

leveraging all their resources

or the greatest impact and

prioritising their products in a

way that drives orward their

strategic business objectives.

Most companies have

been ocused on executiono programs/projects. Too

oen they nd their portolio

is not aligned with the

company growth strategy, or

thatthey have no resources

or the right projects or they

continue to invest in loosing

projects. Companies need

a way to compare ROI, cost,

resources, and schedules

o each project so they can

make inormed decisions.

Research indicates that about

65% o product launches

ail. The uture value o a

company is dependent on

the successul launch o new

innovative products and

services.

Customers buy products

that meet their needs. Best-

in-class companies are much

more likely to work closely

with customers to identiy

needs and problems than

their poorer perorming

peers.

Requirements gathering

activities are one o the

strongest discriminators in

determining marketplace

success.

Requirements must be

aligned with customer and

market needs, then balanced

with other requirements such

as regulations, quality, cost,

capacity, etc.

More and more people in

product liecycle processes

need access to design

data in a ormat they can

understand.

In order to make better

inormed decisions,

early enough to impact

product development,

PLM stakeholders andcontributors - not just

engineers - need ready access

to the 2D documents and 3D

models used to describe a

design.

It is estimated that or every

author o design data, there

are 10 - 100 times as many

people who need to consume

the data.

Unortunately design and

process data is typically

maintained in proprietary

and incompatible CAD

ormats making them hardto share. Many companies

spend signicant time and

money converting CAD data

rom one authoring ormat to

another with mixed results.

Teamcenters

capabilities

or systems

engineering and

requirements

management

improve the

delivery o

products that

reect the voice o

the customer.

Teamcenter or

provides a view

o your products

throughout

their liecycle

with a complete,

scalable amily

o solutions or

allowing liecycle

participants to

visualise product

data in 2D and3D ormats even

when this data

is created using

dierent authoring

applications.

Teamcenter

integrates

the extended

enterprise into

all stages o

the product

development

process and

automates the

process o supplier

integration,

managing supply

chain design and

process data at a

granular level

Teamcenter

allows companiesto connect their

strategic portolio

plans to program

and project

management

and to detailed

operational

execution to

improve time

to market and

optimise their

Product Portolio

Clarity across the enterprise

Up to date inormation / Building the right product

Portolio and Project Control

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Active Workspace

bringing rich 3D& context to PLMIn todays competitive environment, pressures on all

manuacturers bring the need or a new breed o solution to help

manage a products liecycle and to oster greater collaboration.

Eduard Mar, marketing director at Siemens discussesconomic, demographic, and

competitive realities have

contributed to creating a

challenging environment or

product companies. For many, success

depends on the quality and speed o

decisions. In an ever-expanding universe

o product data rom multiple disciplines

and sources, being able to make sense o

the data is critical.

Todays design engineering is less

isolated or limited to physical variables.

Not only does an engineer have toconsider a given design in and o itsel,

but also as part o a bigger ecosystem,

having to actor in a variety o other

considerations, across a variety o

increasingly multi-disciplinary teams.

The product liecycle environment

is increasingly multi-disciplinary,

bringing engineers, industrial designers,

marketing and sales proessionals and

nance experts together. This enables

richer, more comprehensive trade-os

across orm, unction, eatures and price.

Currently, decisions are requently

made in a vacuum, with no way to

communicate their impact. The bestdecisions are made when every person

involved has access to all the relevant

data they need, in a way that makes

sense to them and when they know the

impact their decision will have. However,

the very nature o this environment

creates several signicant challenges.

The challenge

The modern manuacturing engineering

design process comprises a number

o dierent aspects including

research, conceptualisation, easibility

assessment, sustainability, establishing

design requirements, preliminary &detailed design, production planning

and nally production.

Each involves dierent stakeholders

making decisions, and dierent

processes and tools working under

challenging cost and timing constraints.

This challenges many design decision

applications because the type o

inormation and the representation o

that data varies across each discipline,

making it dicult to nd common

analytical solutions. Either each

stakeholder ends up sub-optimising

their piece o the problem or, more likely,

decisions are made subjectively, through

negotiation rather than calculation.

This kind o decision making oen

leads to various trade-os, which can

be complex in nature. Furthermore,preerences or these attributes

typically dier across stakeholders,

such as customers, operators and

manuacturers. These compromises

are also subject to many uncertainties

regarding stakeholders dierent

buying or manuacturing preerences,

department, role and even language.

These decisions usually cut across

disciplinary boundaries in terms o

balancing weight, power, speed, cost

and economy o use. They also require

data rom a number o sources including

design, manuacturing, quality, analysis

and even end-user eedback.

All o this leaves designers aced

with growing volumes o increasingly

complex data. This inormation is all

interconnected, but individual usersoen cant see these relationships. Users

need to be able to rame and resolve

these trade-os, by processing large

amounts o inormation, rom a wide

number o sources, with input rom

other people, and all in a timely manner.

E

1 The Visual

Navigator brings

high perormance,

rich 3D data to the

centre o product

management and

collaboration

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Under these conditions, the quality o

most decisions can be improved through

the application o computer-based tools

that allow or better contextualisation,

collaboration and visualisation.

Context-centric design

Each decision maker needs to know that,

at any point, they have the complete

context or their decision. At the heart

o this is the need or inormation to be

aggregated into a single database or

common backbone without the user

needing to know exactly where all the

data comes rom.

A central backbone o inormation

eliminates the need to search in multiple

systems, helping users to nd the right

inormation as quickly as possible.

Centralising the data is just one part

o delivering a context-centric model.

Adding context to this, means that the

system can adapt itsel to the navigationneeds o the user. Furthermore, by

adding intuitive lters to search on

results urther removes complexity and

ensures users have all inormation they

require, but no more.

Context-centric design means

providing tools that inherently

understand and adapt themselves to the

context o the user and the data. In this

case, or example, a system will recognise

that a given user is not just a CAD

operator, but also a powertrain engineer

or airoil designer and automatically

personalise the workspace to put that

individual in the right context or thetasks being perormed. The system

will then proactively assist the user in

accomplishing tasks by inorming them

o issues to be addressed, seeking out

pertinent inormation to consider and

individuals to collaborate with.

Sharing the context o a decision is

dicult, but providing a tool to store

the recipe or how a user got to a

set o data and enabling the sharing

o these recipes enables eective

communication amongst colleagues and

partners.

CollaborationBringing together dierent decision

makers as part o the product liecycle

creates a undamental need or a

platorm that allows them to collaborate,

exchanging inormation and reaching

decisions, as well as understanding the

ramications o those decisions on other

stakeholders. This platorm should allow

individual decision makers to work more

eciently, look at data in a way that is

more conducive to the right decision

making, ultimately resulting in products

that are cheaper, o higher quality and

reach the market aster.

As well as assisting users in proactivelymaking collaborative decisions, the ideal

system helps to aggregate, analyse and

monitor inormation, notiying the user

when action is required and suggesting

collaborators to aid in their decision

making. It should be able to access

2 Systems

Engineering

relationships are

clearly displayed in

Active Workspace

with the Network

Navigator

3 Active Workspace

suggests key stake

holders or a user to

collaborate with

4 Eduard Mara,

Marketing Director,

Teamcenter,

Siemens PLM

dierent data stores and tools, and

provide a way o synthesising all this

data together into a single view that is

easy to use and accessible to all.

This allows all pertinent inormation

necessary to a process to be instantly

delivered to the right people, regardless

o location, via a wide variety osupported devices including smart

phones and tablet computers. By

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