which earlier acquired the Pertinence manufacturing operations intelligence suite of software. “We’ve fi lled out the equation for a continuous loop for PLM,” said Todd, who formerly was presi- dent and CEO of Intercim. “Now the hard work starts—making
sure that the technologies work together well and we have a long-term vision, which is underway from an R&D perspective. “In the shop-fl oor arena, manufacturing execution and
The moment you realize that new requirements do not require new equipment. This is the moment we work for.
manufacturing operations intelligence area, those were I’d say fragmented areas that were being addressed in some fashion, but not in an integrated fashion, with a PLM concept,” Todd said. With the latest Delmia V6 Release
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2013, the company has added a host of enhancements to its 3-D collabora- tive applications, including new tools in Delmia Robotics Spot Welding (RSW) that allow robot programmers to auto- matically generate a robot task that in- cludes the spot operations for a group of welds. Spot welding programs can also be analyzed and optimized prior to downloading to robots, and V6R2013 now supports the display of Weld Study Analysis results during collaborative review sessions, including weld report listings of ‘clash’ and ‘reach’ status for each weld point, and weld accessibil- ity graphs for each problematic weld point, shortening review and subse- quent iterations.
“It’s basically like an
electronic traveler, the paper documents that are so popular on shop fl oors.”
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Besides its core customers in aerospace and automotive, Dassault/ Delmia has made headway with new applications in life sciences, such as Sanofi Pasteur (Lyon, France) using the tools to update and optimize its work on fl u vaccines twice a year, Todd added. Another newer application area includes use of Dassault PLM tools for improving production of composite blades used in wind energy farms.