Welcome to this presentation on essentials for excellence in engineering collaboration for the industrial machinery industry.
Let’s first take a look at the Heavy Equipment segment and some of the challenges that many of your face. At a high-level there are four main challenges that most heavy equipment manufacturers face today:
Globalization: Heavy equipment companies are large, vertically integrated companies with multiple global locations.
Time to market: With low cost competition, time to market and improving time to value for a customer becomes paramount – so the higher cost, higher quality piece of heavy equipment is justified.
Sustainability: With regulations like Tier 4 emissions, heavy equipment needs to be more efficient and less polluting.
Complexity: Customers everywhere have their own unique configuration demands for their vehicle, and the increased amount of software content in machines simply makes the design and production of them more complex.
e.g. John Deere:
Expects 50% of their revenue to come outside of the US by 2018.
In FY12 sales outside the US & Canada were 4x that of FY2000
7 new global plants built in the last two years.
Global design, local manufacturing: customers have unique configuration needs
Process variability from plant to plant
Language challenges
Inconsistent quality between global plants
Need to manufacture locally to
Increase capacity
Decrease costs
Increase local market penetration
Increasing Process complexity
Scattered knowledge globally
To stay ahead of competition products need to be:
More Innovative
More Compelling - e.g. Telematics
Better Performing
We believe one PLM system for engineering and manufacturing will improve quality, increase productivity, and decrease costs through early iterative analysis, planning, change management, and feedback. It will also enable global organizations to meet local customer demands for uniquely configured machines.
To enable Collaborative, Global engineering that addresses local customer needs, you need PDM
Let’s talk about what we mean by PDM.
Managing today’s products is not as simple as keeping track of your design data.
<BUILD>Other information, such as documentation, supplier data, manufacturing information, customer requirement and more all have an impact on what an engineer needs to do.
<BUILD>In many cases, engineers find themselves searching through irrelevant information to find the design data they need to work on.
<BUILD>And once they find something, often times is out of date or obsolete <BUILD>
<BUILD> They often struggle to figure out how it got to this point (why was this piece added?)
And where exactly it needs to go from here.
PDM can help.
With PDM, engineers can quickly and easily find exactly what they are looking for.
Once you find what you need, you can understand the context of what you’re working on – without wading through irrelevant information.
And PDM provides process management capabilities that help you understand the history of what you’re working on, and what to do with it to move forward.
When it comes to collaborating – with your team, with the rest of the organization, or with outside partners, it is critical to be able to track all the documentation that helps to define your product.
There is a lot more that defines your part other than just the CAD design. There’s customer specifications or requirements, control plans, FEMAs, test results, supplier contracts, etc. With PDM in Teamcenter, you can manage all the documentation that helps define a part (or assembly or an entire products) aligned with the product itself. By managing all this information in Teamcenter, you can easily search and edit, control versions and revisions, use in workflows, define templates, etc. One of the key things to take away is that those documents are tied to the product itself. That means if you are working on a product, you have clear visibility to the documentation driving it’s development.
Often times, one of the road blocks to getting users to manage documents in a PDM system is usability. People who aren’t engineers are reluctant to sign up for putting documents in a system they don’t otherwise use or understand. We enable users to work directly from familiar desktop tools – such as word or outlook. They can view a document, make changes or comments, and save it right back to Teamcenter without ever leaving their desktop tool. We call this transparent PDM.
With PDM in Teamcenter, you can manage documents and product together.
All documentation that defines a product is securely managed in one place. There is no searching for missing documents or working with documents that are out-of-date or obsolete. You have one place to find all the product information.
Documents evolve with the product across the lifecycle, keeping them in sync and up-to-date.
Documents are easily captured, updated and re-used with familiar desktop tools. This makes it easier to extend PDM to the rest of your enterprise to accurately manage all needed documentation.
When we talk about PDM, another critical area of concern is responding to customer needs.
The key to responding to customer issues and needs is effective change management. When you need to make a change to the product, PDM helps you implement change quickly, accurately and comprehensively.
With impact analysis capabilities, you have complete understanding of the scope of change. What data is impacted? What people are affected by this change? What processes are in progress that may be impacted? With an accurate understanding of impact, you can more clearly assess the cost and timing of change.
Flexible processes help you manage the “right size” change. This means you can expedite simple change or formally control complex change. You have the flexibility to implement and execute change in a way that is right for your organization and for a given change. Workflows and schedules help you automate you change processes to execute most effectively.
History and signoff reports help to automatically track changes. This provides full change traceability.
Change management in Teamcenter is very flexible. From issue and resolution tracking, to simple change management, to managing complex changes across complex organizations – you determine the right level of data and process management. In this example, we use easy search and reporting capabilities to find an issue we’d like to know more about. We can see that the issue is being addressed by a change, and can continue to interrogate for additional information.
A change often addresses more than one problem or issue. This information is tracked, and is a part of the complete change history. A critical advantage to change management in Teamcenter, is that you can understand the impact of change. In this example, we can see the change item, and everything related to that change – from parts and assemblies, to documentation, to project plans and other changes that might be impacted. We can drill through the relationships to get more information. Understanding the impact of change is vital to accurately predict the cost and timing associated with that change.
As the change evolves and is better understood, impacted items, reference information, and all other details pertinent to that change are easily tracked and recorded as part of the history of the change.
You have the flexibility to execute change in a way that is right for your organization. You can use project schedules and workflows to automate your change processes. Here you can see the workflow this change is going through – and can drill down into any step to get additional information.
The signoff history is one more tool to help provide full change traceability. This history, as well as all the associated information we’ve seen, are tracked together as part of the change – in a single environment for full change traceability.
With PDM in Teamcenter, you can implement change quickly, accurately, and comprehensively.
When it comes to managing change, Teamcenter provides an optimal balance of flexibility and control to ensure the right process is used for every change
The impact of change is clearly understood, providing a clear picture of cost and time required for a change.
Everyone affected by a change is aware of it, so nothing falls through the cracks - there are no errors or last minute scrambles at the end of the process
Throughout the change process, all decisions and changes are fully documented for complete traceability
Some of our customers are already receiving some of this significant value.
Perkins Engines: achieved a three-fold increase in process planning capacity, and better product quality due to improved collaboration on a global information platform.
Zoomlion: The #2 Chinese manufacturer of heavy equipment used Teamcenter to globally manage over 100,000 data sets. Their CIO said:
"With Teamcenter, the business units of Zoomlion now have very strong R&D and development execution capacity, made possible by turning vast amounts of distinct and disconnected data into an organized portfolio of decision-making criteria."
Hitachi: A global manufacturer of “heavy equipment machinery” they were able to drastically reduce physical protoytype phases by building a 3D design plaza which they leverage with their customers
Engineering Collaboration in PDM delivers essential capabilities to enable Collaborative, Global engineering that addresses local customer needs:
<click> With PDM, engineers can quickly and easily find what they need, understand the context of the information help you know what to do with it.
<click> Transparent PDM enables user friendly document management. Products and their corresponding documentation are managed together so that all documentation that defines a part (or assembly) is aligned with the product itself. This provides the user with clear visibility to the information driving a product’s development.
<click> Flexible change management with clear impact analysis and change tracking help you implement change quickly, accurately and effectively.