2. - Next wave in productivity
PLM - Active for few years
- Outcome of Lean Thinking
- Apply for entire product lifecycle through enterprise
- Automobile, Aerospace, Electronics, Consumer &
NEXT LEVEL OF LEAN THINKING Industry Products, Medical devices, Pharmaceuticals
Lean Manufacturing:
- Only for Manufacturing
- Time intensive CURRENT PLM SYSTEMS
- Limited hypotheses to be tested
- Siemens NX
PLM - DASSAULT CATIA
- IT Power
- For whole product lifecycle - Autodesk PLM 360
- Collaboration through enterprise - PTC PLM
- Shared information
- No physical test required - Aras Innovator
- Others
FUNDAMENTALS FOR PLM
1. Information instead of wasted time, energy & materials
2. IT Development
3. Visualization of Physical Objects
4. Turn Practices to Process
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3. Contents
1. Brief introduction of PLM
2. PLM – Next level of Lean Thinking
3. PLM Foundation
o Information to substitute wasted time, energy & materials
o IT developnment
o Virtualization of physical objects
o Turning practices to processes
4. Current PLM Systems
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4. Brief introduction of PLM
New wave in productivity, few years recently
Outcome of Lean Thinking
Apply for entire product’s lifecycle
First piloted in Automobile, Aerospace, Electronics induries
Now in everywhere: consumer products, industry products, medical
devices, pharma
America, Europe, Asia – worldwide attention
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5. Next level of Lean Thinking
Lean Manufacturing: Engineers find & eliminate wastes, inefficiencies.
Time intensive
Test
Find Waste & Hypothesis to Revised
Hypothesis &
inefficiencies remove waste Process
Reconfigure
PLM: product info + computers + software, + simulations => decide
optimized process from beginning => no interruption & for whole life of
product
PLM: complete integration of everything related to a product into the
organization. Offer better information flow across the entire organization.
PLM’s greatest promise is in its larger strategic use that is cross-
functional, enterprise-wide, or even supply chain inclusive.
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6. Next level of Lean Thinking
PLM optimize the process before it starts
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7. Information for wasted time, energy & materials
Experience Curve. How PLM helps?
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8. IT Development & PLM
Processors
Memory
Storage
Network
Algorithms
Cloud?
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9. Virtualization of Physical Objects
Virtualization: to storage, transfer, discuss,…
Self-virtualization: coffee cup ~~ (Limitation?)
Virtualization: clay prototypes
Virtualization: drawings
Virtualization: 2D & 3D CAD Models
Virtualization: Models w/ simulation
Beyond?
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10. Turn “Practices” to “Processes”
Process: Deterministic, well defined. Input => exact output
Art: non-deterministic, not sure the output => not good
Practice: between Process & Art, popular case.
Organizations prefer PROCESSES. PLM in-need
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