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IMAGINE in a Nutshell
Lean Product Development
Lean manufacturing inspired
principles (Light Six Sigma,
ITIL) moved into
development
• Streamline Manufacturing
Processes
• Continuous Improvement
through monitoring of KPIs
and network reconfiguration.
Collaborative Product
Development
Increasing dynamic demands on manufacturing: Ability to create
collaborative, dynamic manufacturing networks in order to achieve
improvements in productivity, lead-time, & agility for the design, engineering,
deployment, & operation of manufacturing processes & systems.
Infrastructure Consolidation &
Streamlining
Reduction of point solutions
in product development
infrastructure
• Agile & responsive assembly
& governance of
operations to deliver
extended product features
• Re-useable plant resources
• Plug and play plant floor
Sharing of distributed
resources to support savings,
integration & innovation
• Plant & enterprise-wide
integration of mfg data &
processes paired with
modelling & simulation, will
create “mfg intelligence” to
enable flexible mfg, optimal
production rates, faster
product customization,
& improvements in safety &
environmental impacts.
Derived from Table 1.1a: Essential S&T Objectives

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IMAGINE: Manufacturing Network
Collaboration
Dimension From To
Manufacturing Autonomous & dedicated production facilities
designed for low product mix & economies of
scale
Active demand shaping to level load,
supply sensing, design for mfg in
collaborative manufacturing networks
Product Lifecycle
Management
New products introduced in silos, independent
of previously launched products
Products/brands introduced as platforms
to deliver extended features & services
& reduced product cycles.
Innovation Internal-driven design, focus on optimized
engineering, unstructured prioritization of
projects
Collaborative, market-driven design and
simulation aligned with strategic business
initiatives

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IMAGINE Framework
Supplier
Supplier
Supplier
Local Mfg
Partner
Offshore Design
Partner
Customer
End-to-end management of DMN production processes
Planning
O1.1
.1
O1.1
.2
O1.2
O1.2
Sourcing
SC1
SC2
SC4 SC5
Manufacture
Collaboration platform & Information/Service Bus
Configure Design
Deliver
blueprint blueprint blueprint blueprint
Product
Mgt
Processes
Monitor & Govern
ERP
IMAGINE Framework
CRM ERP
Offshore Mfg
Partner
CRM ERP SCM PLM
Mfg Lifecycle

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Anatomy of DMN

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Synoptic view of the DMN
Lifecycle Phases

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IMAGINE Blueprints connected to
PLM and Lifecycle Phases

8. • Blueprint’s Purpose:
– To capture information about the (potential) participants in the DMN
– To distribute information between DMN Partners
– To form, develop and deploy DMNs based on specific production
requests (e.g., to produce a specific type of car seats to be deliver on
date X, in quantity Y, on production site Z)
– To monitor and manage the DMN
• Four types of Blueprints:
1. Partner blueprint
2. Manufacturing blueprint
3. End-2-End Process blueprint
4. Quality Assurance blueprint
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Blueprints in Perspective

9. • Capture unique skills and capabilities in the DMN and makes
them available to potential partners to help address
opportunities in new network configurations. It includes:
– Company Background: contact information, size, annual reports,
financial growth and annual turn-over
– Products / Services: types of product and services, market, industry
sector, geographical region
– People: their skills, track record
– Processes: core processes, key process skills,
– New Potential: potential new products, case histories of other
network collaborations,
– Qualifications: name of standards awarded, patents, references to
customers (testimonials), ranking?.
– Costs?
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1. Partner Blueprint

10. • Uses MBOM information. It includes the components, the
equipment, elements of work procedures & associated
resources needed to accomplish production requests:
– Resource Definition Information
• Material and equipment resource definitions used for production. Also
segments of production
– Environmental Information
• CO2 footprints, spills and waste (hazardous & non-hazardous)
– Production Schedule Information
• Minimizes production time and cost, by providing a production facility
with information regarding what to make, when, with what resources
– Production Capability Information
• Current capabilities of production for equipment and material.
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2. Manufacturing Blueprint

11. • It identifies four core processes that manage business rules,
supply chain performance, data collection, inventory, planning
configuration, process flows, regulatory requirements &
compliance, on the basis of a vendor neutral PLM product
generation data:
– Plan: targets sourcing, manufacturing & delivery requirements. It
establishes plans for the whole product development.
– Source: procures goods & services to meet planned or actual demand.
It schedules deliveries, receives, verifies, and transfers products, &
authorizes supplier payments. Identifies and selects supply sources.
– Make: transforms a product to a finished state to meet planned or
actual demand. It schedules production activities, issue product,
produce and test, package, stage product, and releases product to
deliver.
– Deliver: provides all order management steps from processing
customer enquiries and quotes to routing shipments and selecting
carriers. (Limit to high-level deliver data only.)
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3. End-to-End Process Blueprint

12. • Structures a collection of metrics for operations analytics (MESA)
• Forms the foundation for activity-based metrics for MFG
operations, logistics, & costing :
– Production Schedule Information - what products are to be made.
• Contains start or completion times,
• Defines the resources to be used in production
– Production Performance KPIs – per product or scheduled item
• In terms of equipment and material used
– Per production segment,
– Per product,
– Or per scheduled item
– Environmental KPIs
– Example Manufacturing Metric, including:
• Manufacturing Lead Time
• Rate of Production
• Production Capacity
• Work in Progress
• Design Times
• Utilisation/Availability
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4. Quality Assurance blueprint

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End-to-end Process Blueprint
Exemplified
SCOR Level 2 model for
a typical manufacturing
network for make-to-
order configurable
products

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SCOR Level 3 and 4 process for
make-to-order

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SCOR Level 5 Process Check
Production Plan

16. • IMAGINE DMN Lifecycle Methodology & Associated
blueprints;
• A living lab driven approach for defining the lifecycle and
blueprints, including a supporting IMAGINE platform;
• Current results are core results in nature;
• More information:
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Summary and Outlook
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