This document discusses the challenges of managing product lifecycles and collaboration across complex supply chains. It notes the need to bring together data, processes, people and systems from suppliers, partners, manufacturing and customers. Key challenges include managing large product records, change and release management, internal and external collaboration, enterprise visibility and efficiency. The document promotes an electronic PLM (product lifecycle management) solution to address these challenges by integrating CAD, ERP and other systems and enabling secure external partner collaboration.

1. Electronic PLM

2. Virtual Value Chain Evolution Drives Complexity
Suppliers’
Suppliers
Suppliers
Design
Partners
Mfg Partners
Service
Partners
Procurement
Quality
Service
Engineering
Manufacturing
Marketing
Customers
Government
and
Standards

3. Customer
CM‘s
Supplier
Engineering
BOM’s
RFQ’s
Requirements
Management
Compliance DB
Engineering
D Drive
Costing
Tool
ERP
ECO Database
Quality
CAPAElectronic (EDA)
Software
Hardware
MCAD
Shared
Drives
Supplier
DB
Supplier
BOM’s
PDM Vault
Bringing Data, Processes and People (and systems) together

4. Challenges in focus
• Managing a Complex Product Record
• Change & Release Management
• Internal Collaboration
• External Collaboration
• Enterprise visibility
• Efficiency

5. What is it
CAD
Network Drives

6. Import Tool
CAD
ERP
ECO

7. Design Engineer
Demo
End
Login
Find Product
Find ECO
Applied
Changes
Run ECO
Import
 Delta on ECO
 Complete ECO
 Applied Changes
Import

8. What is it
CAD
Network Drives

9. Standard Electronic, Standard Mechanichal
and Product Documents
Software, Custom Electronics, Custom Mechanical,
Custom Electronics, Finished Good, Assembled Part,
Production Equipment, PCBA
All non-product Documents
Lifecycles (examples)
Preliminary Approved
Preliminary Prototype Pilot Production Phase Out End Of Life
Draft Approved Obsolete
Obsolete
Different classifications have different Lifecycles

10. DegreeofFreeedom
Lifecycle Development
Preliminary
Prototype
Pilot
NPIRampUp
Volume
Production
Phase
Out
Change Management - Concept

11. Pending
Internal
review
Customer
Approval
Mfg.
Partner
Approval
Released
Pending
Internal
review
Mfg.
Partner
Approval
Released
Pending
Internal
review
Customer
Approval
Released
Pending
R&D
Review
Operations
Approval
Released
Pending
Internal
review
Released
Pending Released
Medium Internal
Change Workflow
Fast Track Workflow
/Minor Internal
Major Internal Change
External Changes
Change Management

12. Change Management
Dynamic Workflow based on
business rules

13. What is it
CAD
Network Drives

14. Managing – Data Objects
Product
Mechanical
Document
Data Objects
Executable
Electronics
Part
Document
Documents. Category ??
Document
Component
AML
Document
Software
Document
Document
Partner A

15. External
Partner
Design
Engineer
External Collaboration
End
Login &
Search
Login
Grant
Special
Permission
Find product
External Partner
Login & find
granted
product
Grant Permissions
 Security for External partners
 Start collaboration
 Grant Permissions
 See the result
 Complete Pending ECO
 Create & Send ECR
 Login as Employee & Find ECR
Inbox
Complete ECO
ECR
Login
Find ECR

16. Company A
CEM/EMS
Design Partner
Example Process
CEM/EMS II
Logical_01
600_1
900
700
800
ECO
Items
1.
2.
3.
SYM_CAP01
Logical_01
Physical_01
Fab_01
600_1
900
700
800
600_2
11-1111-01
11-222-01
11-333-01
Approval
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
ERP

17. For EHT the distribution of product information with partners outside the company is essential. Therefore
Minerva have developes a PDX tool for Aras, and this Tool is a part of the EHT template
PDX Export

18. Challenges in focus
• Managing a Complex Product Record
• Change & Release Management
• Internal Collaboration
• External Collaboration
• Enterprise visibility
• Efficiency

19. Thank You
• For more details visit
www.electronic-plm.com
• Other Minerva products
– ConfInnovator
– Medical Device Industry solution
– Mobile
– Reporting
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