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14 UGS’ Tecnomatix is one of the key solutions in Volkswagen’s virtual vehicle program and is helping VW reduce development time, increase product and process quality, and increase communication of product and process data between departments, plants and external engineering partners. A VW representative explains “The collaborative environment helps us to coordinate with our engineering partners and suppliers. We are now able to digitally plan and simulate production processes, balance lines and optimise throughput very early in the preparation of production, and we can store manufacturing processes that can be re-used on the next car program”. Source: UGS (www.ugs. com/about_us/success/ volkswagen.shtml) Collaborative Environments in Design and Engineering continued UGS (www.ugs.com) UGS is a major global product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor and provides solutions for creation, sharing, management and use of both product information and the associated manufacturing process information. Open technologies and an open business philosophy are important focus points for UGS, including: • Open business model, leveraging standard, open components; • Open data model, ensuring interoperability; • Open architecture, providing integration; • Open applications, for automation and customisation; Open communities for innovation, promoting partner and customer communities. • Originally, users of UGS applications were designers and engineers, but UGS has extended the use of product data across the enterprise, and to other phases of the product lifecycle, and now serves many other categories of user. UGS’ Teamcenter supports collaboration by giving simultaneous access to shared data, and, when required, enforces access control, update procedures, and authorisation processes. By combining change management and shared access, UGS enures that distributed multi-functional teams, working on projects of all sizes, can communicate and collaborate. One area of Teamcenter development has been to integrate support for less formal, ad-hoc, spontaneous collaboration between people inside a team and across teams. This type of collaboration is used to discuss and develop ideas, and to resolve issues. Users can instantly create a collaborative session in which they access relevant data from the controlled environment, share free format ideas including data from other sources, then make decisions. This online support for immediate collaboration is particularly valuable for people at different sites, for example: • Same company, different locations; • Multiple companies; Temporary location at customer site – for example, installation and service personnel. • In deploying capabilities for spontaneous collaboration, UGS has confirmed that users should plan for cultural as well as technological change. Then the new techniques bring out information, knowledge, and creativity that is not usually captured by the formal processes of a company. This emergence of new ideas is sometimes called “ideation”, and the results can be discussed and managed. It may be new information rather than new concepts that keep the project moving. For example, a manufacturing engineer involved in a spontaneous collaboration may share a personal spreadsheet that defines actual tolerances achieved using certain procedures. Or a designer may remember “…we had a similar issue three years ago, we solved it with a local increase in the material thickness…”. LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
For UGS users this has opened up new opportunities to capture design intent and the reasons behind technical decision making, creating an environment for innovation. By saving content from the spontaneous collaborative session, and connecting this content to the controlled environment, it is possible to maintain structured access to the newly visible-unstructured information. Then, when a decision is made – for example, following a collaborative session between designers and a sub-contractor manufacturing company – the necessary actions can be initiated – for example, creation of an engineering change order. To implement support for spontaneous collaboration, UGS has made extensive use of Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Office Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 with add-in Web parts, instant messaging, conferencing, and BizTalk Server as well as Office System integration including e-mail and calendar and support for access to engineering models from Office applications. UGS technologies such as PLM XML, and JT, the lightweight 3D data format, have extended the potential reach of the collaboration sessions to include users of other PLM systems. UGS and Microsoft jointly demonstrated inclusion of PLM XML, JT and XML in a single file that could be viewed using Windows Presentation Foundation, the new presentation subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system. LEADING EDGE COLL ABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS IN DISCRETE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 15
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