Collaboration - Apriso

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The Falcon 7X was entirely
developed in a virtual
environment, from design to
manufacturing to
maintenance. “We created
the virtual platform to work
as though we were on a
physical platform, and to
share a common database
among our 27 partners
around the world in near
real-time.”
Jacque Pellas, CIO,
Dassault Aviation.
Just one year after
implementing this virtual
product development
environment, Dassault
Aviation was able to halve
the time required to
assemble its new Falcon 7X
business jet thanks to the
Dassault Systemes PLM
solutions.
Source: Dassault Systèmes
Collaborative Environments in Design
and Engineering continued
Dassault Systèmes (www.3ds.com)
Dassault Systèmes is a major global vendor of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.
DS’s approach to creation of collaborative environments makes use of five principles:
• A common “product, process and resource” (PPR) model shared by all DS PLM solutions and accessed
by collaborating partners;
• Collaborative workspace;
• Industry specific business process optimisation;
• Knowledge management, with multiple levels of access rights to manage and share Intellectual property;
• Openness – enabling extension of the DS PLM platform with applications provided by DS partners. For
example, integration of sourcing information throughout the product lifecycle involves integrating
supplier relationship management (SRM) data.
A key trend, especially in the aerospace and automotive sectors, is that suppliers provide a substantial and
growing proportion of the value of an OEM’s final product. The supply network needs a ‘program platform’
to integrate a multi-project approach, and handle value chain re-organisations as they occur. DS sees PLM
at the heart of these industry transformations, providing the engineering hub which is the basis of
program environments.
DS has identified four important categories of collaborative environments:
Sub-contract: Complete and explicit specifications are provided by the OEM. Suppliers work to the
specification they receive, and deliver results that meet the specification.
Co-review: The supplier may generate and must consider a range of design alternatives.
The alternatives are assessed in the context provided by the OEM. The chosen alternative is integrated into
this context.
Co-design: Suppliers and the OEM share requirements, concepts, and design rules either in part, or in full,
depending on the relationship. The shared information maximises the levels of concurrent engineering,
knowledge capture, and design re-use that can be achieved.
Co-invent: Suppliers and the OEM act as one team, sharing innovation.
DS offers “Bill of Material (BOM) Collaboration” for sub-contract collaboration, and parts of co-review
collaboration. This BOM collaboration assists with exchange of configured BOMs of all types, using
standards such as STEP and 3D XML, with support for management and exchange. This includes
translation of design models into geometric representations that define interface and attachment points.
For other co-review, and all co-design and co-invent collaborative relationships, DS offers
“PPR collaboration”. With PPR collaboration, the content of product, process and resource information are
managed and shared across a distributed environment. Collaboration can be real-time or asynchronous,
supporting multiple communities and ensuring virtual co-location of distributed teams.
LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES