IE 655

CONCURRENT
ENGINEERING

Home Work #0

INSTRUCTOR: Dr P Ranky eLearning Pack, IE655-Fall 2017-36-36

By: Kevin Moriarty Date: Sept 19, 2017

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The Virtual Company name will be Pneumatics Inc..

4 COMPANIES: Recourses taken from the eLearning Pack, IE655-Fall 2017-36-36

heimatec
http://heimatecinc.com/

JYOTI
http://jyoti.co.in/

PUBLICATIONS:
CW: Composite World
http://www.compositesworld.com/

PF: Product Finishing

http://www.pfonline.com/

WHAT IS - PLM
What is PLM? | Product Life Cycle Management:
Defined At the center of a good product life cycle management process (PLM) is
the foundation and crucial management of product data and technology utilized to
access all aspects of the relevant information and knowledge necessary to fully
develop, market, produce, sell, and supply goods and/or services of the organization.
PLM is the outgrowth of emergent systems and tools such as CAD, CAM, PDM,
SCM and ERP as they are integrated with the methods, people and processes
utilized throughout the phases of the product's existence.
PLM, (Product Life Cycle Management), incorporates many different concepts
throughout the organization.
Product companies (manufacturers), PLM takes into account the vision of
effectively connecting informational processes along with production data necessary
for design, production, validation, support, maintain, upgrade or enhance (extend
product market life) and the disposal of manufactured goods. Technically from
Cradle to Grave including RoHS; which is the acronym for Restriction of
Hazardous Substances, RoHS, also known as Directive 2002/95/EC, which attempts
to manage the product disposal process.

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SOME INDUSTRY DEFINITION EXAMPLES (cited)
Industry Definitions:
"PLM is a strategic business approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions in support
of the collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of product definition information
across the extended enterprise, and spanning from product concept to end of life-integrating people,
processes, business systems, and information. PLM forms the product information backbone for a
company and its extended enterprise." Source: CIMdata

"Product life cycle management or PLM is an all-encompassing approach for innovation, new product
development and introduction (NPDI) and product information management from ideation to end of
life. PLM Systems as an enabling technology for PLM integrate people, data, processes, and business
systems and provide a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise."
Source: PLM Technology Guide

"Product life cycle management is the process of managing product-related design, production and
maintenance information. PLM may also serve as the central repository for secondary information,
such as vendor application notes, catalogs, customer feedback, marketing plans, archived project
schedules, and other information acquired over the product's life." Source: Product Lifecycle
Management

"It is important to note that PLM is not a definition of a piece, or pieces, of technology. It is a
definition of a business approach to solving the problem of managing the complete set of product
definition information-creating that information, managing it through its life, and disseminating and
using it throughout the lifecycle of the product. PLM is not just a technology, but is an approach in
which processes are as important, or more important than data." Source: CIMdata

"PLM or Product Life cycle Management is a process or system used to manage the data and design
process associated with the life of a product from its conception and envisioning through its
manufacture, to its retirement and disposal. PLM manages data, people, business processes,
manufacturing processes, and anything else pertaining to a product. A PLM system acts as a central
information hub for everyone associated with a given product, so a well-managed PLM system can
streamline product development and facilitate easier communication among those working on/with a
product. Source: Aras

The investigation of Best Practices of industry organizations who fully implement

PLM systems from Product development to End of Life obsolescence is also a key
part of the development of this process.

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PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT continued
Some Steps:
PLM education
Strategy Definition & Solution Selection
Best Practices investigation
Deployment, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
Organizational Change
Key Success Factors

Key Steps 1
Determine the need
Assess where the company should be
Organize the evaluation
Determine management requirements
Determine technical requirements
Determine integration requirements
Evaluate potential vendor partners
Select a system and vendor partner
Implement and monitor the strategy 1

While PLM generally includes the Computer Aided Design (CAD ) functions of
the engineering area of organization, It further connects the Mission Critical PLM
is an enabling framework to help connect, organize, control, manage, track,
consolidate and centralize all the mission-critical functions of the organization; e.g.,
design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management, operations, quality,
marketing & sales as well as the finance and accounting areas and other internal
and external stake holders.

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 PLM supports informational conduits of product and process safety and control.
This is especially important in critical industry sectors such as; aerospace,
automotive, medical device, military and nuclear industries.
Some other processes related to PLM are the disciplines of; configuration
management, the predecessor of data management systems, which then further
evolved to product data management (PDM).

A highly developed PLM process / system will improve the management and
development of all of the following; the engineered product Bill of Materials
(BOM), and / or the manufacturing BOM, the Materials Requirement Planning
MRP, MRPII Management Resource Planning and eventually ERP Enterprise
Resource Planning, Marketing, SCM Supply Chain Management, document storage,
collaboration, workflow - and other areas all essential to product development.

It becomes much more important to have a fully developed system as products

become more complex and interactive connectivity increases and have been
increasing at such a vapid rate. It is very important for the PLM to fully cover the
range of the product's lifecycle, integrating a cross-functional discipline of all
product functional areas; e.g. development, manufacturing and field service. This
will enable agile, flexible collaboration throughout the processes across the
enterprise, including suppliers, customers, partners, service/maintenance and other
stakeholders.

A PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) FRAMEWORK

Areas to Incorporate
Product engineering & development -
Configuration document management -
Manufacturing -
Supply Chain Management, ERP Enterprise Resource Planning -
Operations
Field Service
Marketing -
Sales
Finance
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PLM Process Steps-
Training & education
Develop a Strategic Plan
Establish Best Practices components
Deployment of the plan;
o DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control)
Monitoring
Improve Continuously
Implement Organizational Change
Identify Key Success Factors KPIs

Influence and Contribution of the eLearning Pack Collaborators.

COMPANIES:
heimatec
http://heimatecinc.com/
This company is a key contributor to the manufacturing industry. heimatec
provides key equipment tooling necessary to incorporate green manufacturing
processes as well as flexible manufacturing, lean manufacturing, rapid proto-typing
as well as one piece flow.

JYOTI
http://jyoti.co.in/
This company is also key contributor to the manufacturing industry. JYOTI offers
key equipment necessary to implement green manufacturing processes as well as
flexible manufacturing, lean manufacturing, rapid proto-typing as well as one piece
flow. JYOTI is in an industry aligned with the goods and services of the previous
collaborator, heimatec.

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PUBLICATIONS:
CW Composite World
http://www.compositesworld.com/

This next collaborator is a publication providing key materials information to the

manufacturing industry. The implementation of green technologies are provided in
the way of information and digital copy of key information for both Green
Technologies and key components of leading edge Product Lifecycle Management.

Influence and Contribution of the eLearning Pack Collaborators.

continued
PF Product Finishing
http://www.pfonline.com/
This last collaborator from the eLearning Pack, is also a publication providing key
finishing technology information to the product manufacturing industry. The
implementation of green technologies, here too are provided in the way of
information and digital copy of key information for both Green Technologies and
key components of leading edge Product Lifecycle Management. In this area of
manufacturing, the most important topic is Hazardous Materials, and the disposal
of, as well as Emissions issues in the way of VoCs, Volatile Organic Compounds'
and the impact on Indoor | Outdoor Air Quality.

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THE PLAN:
The Virtual Company will be named Pneumatics. In an attempt to keep it simple
the products will be air actuated cylinders used in industrial automation. The
product requires machining, finishing, raw materials, sub assemblies final assembly
and quality testing.
For this first assignment the collaboration is limited to internet searches to identify the scope of
service and collaboration necessary from the four companies provided in the eLearning packet.

The Green technologies that will be investigated for the machining processes will be on the
environmental side of the machining process, e.g. aqueous cutting fluid, recycling of machine
waste and environmental friendly finishing processes ie powder coating, etc.
Anotherr step in the process will be to perform a GAP Analysis comparing the current
processes and environment to the expected planned environment.

SAMPLE PRODUCT:

The PLM Green plan will start with a project management mile stone Gantt chart
of the steps necessary to implement a successful PLM process. See example
attached;

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Product Sample Gantt Chart / Schedule (created by K. Moriarty)

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Sample PLM Step Diagram (to be developed for this case) 2

RESOURCES -
CIMdata
Aras
PLM Technology Guide
Product Lifecycle Management
SIEMENS; https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en/plm/

1- http://www.product-lifecycle-management.info/plm-elements/plm-selection.html
2- Sample example of steps in the plan

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