Product development organizations are dealing with changing dynamics due to corporate downsizing, outsourcing, and partnerships. Despite these changes, organizations still must empower teams to innovate and produce their design deliverables on time and on budget. This paper will describe how a secure Internet- based Windchill® environment is helping many world-class organizations meet their challenges and effectively get their products to market to meet their goals.
NetIDEAS Inc. - Enabling Global Design Teams with hosted Windchill
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Global Design Teams
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Steve Bruneau, VP, Services
NetIDEAS, Inc.
www.netideasinc.com
www netideasinc com
steve.bruneau@netideasinc.com
steve bruneau@netideasinc com
856-914-9426
2. Abstract
• Product development organizations are dealing with changing
dynamics due to corporate downsizing outsourcing and
downsizing, outsourcing,
partnerships. Despite these changes, organizations still must
empower teams to innovate and produce their design deliverables on
time and on budget This paper will describe how a secure Internet-
budget. Internet
based Windchill® environment is helping many world-class
organizations meet their challenges and effectively get their products
to market to meet their goals.
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3. Situations for Most Product Development
Based Organizations Today
Today’s Design Team
• Corporate Downsizing…
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“Do more with Less”
• More Outsourcing of vital
resources
– Product development
based
– IT support based
• Partnerships and/or Joint
Ventures
• Tighter Budgets with a lot
more scrutiny and schedule
pressures
• “Build Better Products” is
still the mantra!
4. Problems that Arise
Lack of
Proliferation of
• Difficult to integrate a collaboration...
stove piped
stove‐piped
worldwide D i t
ld id Design team and d databases...
meet goals
• Difficult to implement or
support a Windchill® System
with Fewer or No IT
resources Infoglut...
• Collaborate… but Restrict
External People from getting
into your Corporate IT
infrastructure
• Less C it l t B l t IT
L Capital to Bolster Underutilized
U d tili d
Infrastructure in support of IT Capabilities
global collaboration
5. Implications of these Problems
• No collaborative tools helping design
team
• Email or other means are used to
‘collaborate’
– A these secure?
Are th ?
– Is your team working with the
latest data?
– “ the one that John emailed
“….the
last Friday?”
• Impacts to Schedule, Cost, and
Product Quality are harder to control
• Missed Product Development Goals
• Missed Business Goals
6. Critical Elements of Enabling a Global
Design Team
• Unified Application Vision – “What are we trying to Accomplish and How”
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• Sr. Management Leadership…not just sponsorship!
• The ‘Right’ Resources, properly supported & allocated
• Design Team & Windchill® Expertise
• Culture Change can be the hardest part
• Champion
• Steering Committee
• Use Case Teams
• Windchill® Infrastructure: Security, Performance, Business Continuity
• Proactive Business Process Evolution; Leverage Windchill’s Power
• Proactive Training
• Constant Care and Feeding along with 24 x 7 x 365 Support
7. Examples of Successful
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Windchill® Based Design Teams
Putting in place what’s needed to get the job done
8. BMW Oracle Racing
• Situation:
– Short Time Span for Cutting Edge Design
– Worldwide Design team with partnerships
• Multiple U.S. and European locations
– No Time/Resources for IT infrastructure
– Design Team needs to focus on design and
schedule...Windchill® must be working
• Needs:
– Collaborative Design
– Data Management
• Customer of NetIDEAS since 2004
– 2nd Campaign with NetIDEAS
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– Two very different Teams in each Campaign
• PTCUser 2010 Keynote Speaker finding success with
Hosted Windchill®
Won the America’s Cup in Feb of 2010!
9. American Standard
• Situation:
– Corporate Breakup resulting in
Refocus of this Business Segment
– Outsourcing and Collaboration with
China
– Based in NJ, Mfgr Plant in Mexico
– No Capital for their own
Infrastructure Upgrades
• Needs:
– 24 x 7 support needed
– Separate Windchill® from other
internal business systems
– Migrate off Intralink and do CAD
Data Management with Windchill®
– Change Management
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– Project Collaboration
• NetIDEAS Customer since 2006
10. LCAC
US Navy, PEO Ships, PMS377
• Situation
– Need to Better Support the Fleet ( g y Craft)
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– Need to Design a Next Generation Craft
– Complex Process for new IT Applications
– Design Team includes Gov’t and Contractors
• Washington, Boston, Panama City, Norfolk VA,
San Diego CA, Philadelphia
• Needs: SSC
– Security and performance is critical (DIACAP
certification required on the IDESC)
– Project and Program Management
– Design Collaboration,
– Data Management, Change Management
– Configuration Management
– Solidworks® CAD Data Management
• Multi-CAD Integrations will be needed
• Customer of NetIDEAS since Nov. 2007
11. Issues to Address head on
• Cultural hurdles
– Is the Team all Aligned? Remote Partners Motivated?
• Cultural Adoption
– Is the Team Resistant to Change?
• Maturity of Design Processes
– Review and Approval Process Clarity
• Maturity of Design Competencies
– CAD Modeling Acumen big factor in 3D collaboration and PLM
• Time for Team to Develop and Learn new Processes
– Some PLM Processes simply take time to solidify
• Remote Partners Internet/Network Provisioning
– China Example: Traffic was being dropped periodically. It stopped when
Customer leased private line through Singapore
12. With NetIDEAS on the Team - Instant
Production Infrastructure Ready to go
Security/Performance/Disaster Recovery
13. NetIDEAS DIACAP Certified Infrastructure
can be Backbone for Design Team Success
• DoD Information Assurance
Certification and Accreditation
Process (DIACAP) is the process for
authorizing the operation of DoD
Information Systems (IS) consistent
with:
• The Federal Information Security
Management Act (FISMA)
• DoD Directive (DoDD) 8500.1
Information Assurance (IA)
• DoD Directive 8100.1 Global
Information Grid (GIG)
15. NetIDEAS Boundaries 1 & 2
• Firewall (1)
– Limits access to servers by protocol. Only HTTPS (port 443)
is open for inbound initiated traffic.
• VLAN / Router ACL (2)
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– A combination of VLAN and router ACL control is used to
isolate traffic to required subnets only.
• VPN (1 & 2)
– Remote administration by NetIDEAS system administrators
is tunneled through VPN.
Access to Production Infrastructure is limited to safe and necessary
protocols.
16. NetIDEAS Boundary 3
• Application Security • Host Security
– Users Authenticated: Username/Password – Operating System security patches
Operating System security patches
• Users Manage their own Password are kept up to date
• Password rules are enforced – Limited access to root based
functions
• Automatic account suspension is
enforced on successive failures
– Servers are secured in accordance
with DoD Secure Technical
– SSL3 encryption Implementation Guidelines (STIGs)
• Class 3 Server Certificate with 128 bit
encryption
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– Optional token based authentication
• Certificate, SecureID, Smart Card
17. Physical Security
• SunGARD Mega-Center in Philadelphia PA
– Former Packard Automobile Facility with 12” concrete
reinforced floors and 18” concrete reinforced pillars every
floors, 18
22’ throughout the building from Basement to roof.
– Clandestine External Facade
– 24x7 Ph i l
24 7 Physical security and monitoring
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– Access control desk
– Card reader and finger p
g print accesses
– Video surveillance
– Only a few NetIDEAS Personnel able to access Production
Hardware
19. Availability: Making sure Windchill® is
there when you Need it
• Availability is broken out and managed as a function of several
different system components
– Facility
– Network
– Hardware
– Software
– Scheduled Maintenance
• Availability =1-(MTTR/MTBF)
– Build a robust, High Availability infrastructure and
application to increase MTBF
– Build robust monitoring and recovery procedures to reduce
MTTR
– NetIDEAS SLA = 99.5%
20. Infrastructure – Facility
• Power
– Redundant f feeds from power company configured
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with automatic fail-over
– Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)
– Emergency diesel generators
– Redundant Power feeds to each equipment cabinet
• Environmental Controls
– Compartmented facilities
– Under floor chilled water cooling with excess capacity
– Gas charged fire suppression system
21. Infrastructure – Network
• Private Internet eXchange (PIX) PIX Level #
– Purchased transport from multiple Tier 1 E
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ISPs (AT&T, Sprint, AOL, C&W, Level3) C
MAE
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• Avoids congested NAPs and MAEs
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AT&T
• Provides end-to-end performance Swi
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management t AOL
• Provides alternate routing for major
backbone failures • Redundancy and Fail‐over
– No Single Points of Failure (SPoF) • Core routers configured with Hot
Core routers configured with Hot
• Spatial diversity of ISP connections Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
• SONET rings in the local loop
• Cross‐connected switching fabric
• Single incident (i.e. backhoe operation)
cannot cause service interruption • Clustered Juniper Firewalls with
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Intrusion Detection
22. Infrastructure – Servers
• NetIDEAS utilizes redundant servers and supplemental
servers
– Redundant components include CPUs, memory,
power supplies, fans, and interface boards
– Servers are powered from 2 independent AC power
sources
– Hardware Vendors contracted to provide on-site
parts delivery and technical support
– Primary servers run on proven Solaris operating
system for maximum stability and availability
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23. Infrastructure – Storage Arrays
• NetIDEAS utilizes High Availability RAID disk arrays with
snapshots
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– Redundant, hot-swappable components include
controllers, power supplies, fans, and disk drives
– All array components are powered from 2 independent
AC power sources
– Hard are Vendor contracted to pro ide on site
Hardware provide on-site
parts delivery and technical support
24. Data Security – Disaster Recovery
• Use of High Availability RAID storage arrays virtually eliminates data
loss due to system failure
– High availability hardware uses hot-swappable, redundant
components to eliminate single points of failure
• Tape Back-up Strategy
Back up
– A regular program of Full and Incremental backups is performed
to optimize system performance and possible data recovery time
– Recovery from accidentally deleted files or catastrophic system
failure will role back a maximum of 24 hours
• Off Site Storage
– Tapes are carried off site and securely stored to provide data
safety in the event of a local catastrophic event
– Tapes are rotated in a 4 week rotation
25. Monitoring and Recovery
• SunGard Network Operations Center (NOC)
– Physical Security
– SunGard Network
– PIX
– PPower
– Environmental Controls
• NetIDEAS System Monitoring
– Real time monitoring of critical hardware and services
– Automatic paging and e-mail alerts
• Recovery Procedures
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– Server reconfiguration procedures
– Hardware service contract
– Tape recovery procedures
26. With NetIDEAS on the Team - Windchill®
Expertise to Get Your Team up the
Learning Curve
Windchill® & PLM Process Consulting and
Design Team Support
27. Windchill® & PLM Expertise
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• Seasoned Consultants with Decades of Project and Design Experience.
• Work closely with Customer Windchill® Team on highest priority Use Cases
• Define “As-IS” Process via Interviews and documentation
• Architect “To-Be” Process and Windchill® Configuration/Customization (*if needed)
– Prefer to Leverage out of the box vs. Customize
– D Draw on EExperience f
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hundreds f Use Cases with Wi d hill®
ith Windchill®
– Avoid pitfalls (Whether Technical or Cultural)
– Just Because Windchill can do it, should you do it?
– Assistance with Justification process (*if needed)
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• Development/Test Environments made available to our Customers when necessary
• Train Customer Windchill® Team…who in turn teaches their users locally
• Revisit and Audit the Processes routinely
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• Maintenance and Full Version Upgrades Performed at no additional cost
28. The Learning Curve
• How Best to Leverage Windchill
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– Perform Configurations like IBA’s, objects, workflows, templates
– Customizations are Expensive but sometimes Needed
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• Dashboards, UI, Various Utilities, etc.
• Use Case Approach to solving biggest challenges first and getting
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– Design Collaboration
– View and Markup
– Action Item Tracking
– Change Management
29. Design Team Support
• Users around the world need help!
– 24 x 7 x 365 Call Center Helpdesk
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• Phone for Urgent
• Email for Non-Urgent
• User determines urgency
– Technical Issue resolution
– Process Usability Issues on Customer Specific Windchill®
Instances.
• Organizational Administrators at Each Customer:
– Windchill Strategy and Business Process Support from a
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NetIDEAS Implementation Specialist Assigned to your Account.
– Weekly usage reports, real time user queries.
30. NetIDEAS is the Leading Provider of Hosted
Software Solutions for Product Development.
• Hosted Software Solutions for Product Development
– Windchill® PLM
– IDE Systems
– Design-to-Order Systems
– P Program MManagement t
– Requirements and Risk Management
• World Class Secure Hosting Environment Come See Us
– Dedicated & Multi-Tenant Environments @
– DOD and National Accreditations
– 99.5% SLA
– Tier 1/2/3 Help Desk Support (24x7)
– SunGard - Collocation Partner
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• Subject Matter Expertise and Use Case Implementations
– Business Process Reengineering
– Training
– Migration and Integration Services
– Use Case Effectiveness Model