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Many Dassault Systèmes customers, including Cummins, Saint-Gobain, and Alstom Transport, are finding value in digitiz- ing manufacturing processes in order to guide, control and synchronize manufacturing operations, said Tom Comstock, Delmia vice president, Strategy and Digital Production. “In that environment, you need to be much closer to the engineering world and the manufacturing world,” Comstock said. “The traditional digital manufacturing of Delmia is right in the middle of that mix, doing the simulation and process planning for manufacturing, then we take that and make it digitally execut- able, to improve manufacturing efficiency and quality—and do all that while you’re rolling out all these new products.” The race to compress design cycles can cause major problems in the supply chain, as evidenced by hiccups with high-profile commercial aircraft programs at Airbus and Boe- ing. “In aerospace, you’ve got huge supply-chain challenges,” Comstock said. “What I think a lot of companies are finding, with the news about the Airbus A380 and the Dreamliner, is that some of the designs were not manufacturable and were not able to be consistently manufactured. In high-tech, it’s often how you get to yield to get to a profitable product, as op- posed to a losing product. How do you get to those high yields quickly? The digital environment really allows you to do that.” Adding Apriso’s MES, Dassault dramatically cut time on new developments, reducing two years to just six months. “That’s the key reason Dassault Systèmes acquired Apriso, because of our capability to move manufacturing processes across locations, and synchronize those updates across multiple locations,” Comstock said. The digital manufacturing systems reduce time, the cost of all the manufacturing engineering, and the cost of engineering changes. “I can’t afford to wait, because I need to get to volume production as quickly as possible.”
Design for Manufacturing, and IoT (Internet of Things) Resolving problems caused by poorly designed products remains a huge stumbling block in manufacturing. “A big issue confronting manufacturers has been the disconnect be- tween design and manufacturing,” said Tom Shoemaker, vice president, Solutions Marketing, PTC Inc. (Needham, MA), developer of Windchill PLM. “Doing the NC programs and the toolpaths are one thing. We have that as part of our PTC Creo. Another big thing that is perhaps more impactful is process planning. We have a capability that allows a manufacturing engineer to do concurrent planning. It gives manufacturing a seat at the table.”
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PTC made two key acquisitions last year to bolster its Windchill 17 PLM for manufacturing. In September 2013, PTC acquired partner NetIdeas Inc., a software hosting provider, and then bought ThingWorx, developer of a platform for building and running applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). PTC will use ThingWorx to create IoT applications for its service strategies, including predictive maintenance and sys- tem monitoring, complementing PTC’s existing service lifestyle management (SLM) and PLM portfolio.
“Is cloud the be-all and end-all? I would say no,” Shoemak- er noted. “We’ve had a hosted option for a long time, and we purchased NetIdeas. Where things are going is this notion that the product is always on. This Industrial Internet, or the ‘Inter- net of Things’ is a huge issue that is going to be even bigger.” The market for IoT is taking off, he added, with applica- tions like remote healthcare monitoring, as with the Fitbit Force that tracks daily activities to help promote healthier lifestyles, agricultural equipment with embedded sensors, or ski-slope grooming machines that can be automated to groom hills most efficiently.
“It can be made smart, and connected, taking information from satellites and using sensors, like an intelligent tractor or with automobiles that will be able to drive themselves,” Shoemaker observed. “These things are not far off, they’re a reality.” ME
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