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Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced the availability of a new PLM solution developed specifically for the high-tech industry. Based on Dassault Systèmes’ recently announced V6 platform, the ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development enables key decision makers in the product development process to collaborate on the creation of, or request for, new parts regardless of geographical location without requiring any specialized software. Offered as an out-of-the-box (OOTB) solution, it allows companies to more effectively manage the approval, delivery, cataloging and utilization of new parts. This assists in the elimination of part information errors and enforces standardization and re-use by the establishment of a single PLM platform designed for global intellectual property management vs. multiple standalone component data libraries or databases.
“With increased competition and shrinking margins, it’s important for high tech companies to build greater efficiency into every stage of the development process. As we have seen in recent years, managing the risks associated with a global business and complex part requests are key to long term success,” said Ed Miller, president, CIMdata. “By effectively managing those burdens, PLM solutions play an integral part in helping the industry focus attention on continuous innovation and enabling companies to realize the benefits of a truly collaborative environment.”
Built on the ENOVIA V6 platform, the latest ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator promotes innovation via an online environment for global collaboration. This approach reduces costly queue times by ensuring that real time, concurrent work processes occur. In addition, all deliverables are accomplished on a single PLM platform helping to manage intellectual property and eliminate translation errors. Customers can also gain immediate value by using the OOTB processes for almost any part request, which ultimately helps to drive lower total cost of ownership.
The latest in a line of industry-specific solutions produced by ENOVIA, the High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development provides multiple benefits to manufacturers, including:
- Maximized Part Reuse and Reduce Proliferation: the ability to bring innovative products to market faster and reducing costs is optimized by applying consistent part processes and optimizing part reuse.
- Streamlined and Standardized Part Development: rapid response to market opportunities is enabled by streamlining new part development for new part design definition. By providing a method for standardizing the process for new part request, development process efficiencies are maximized and best practices are enabled.
- Enhanced Monitoring and Improved Decision Making: the capability to monitor part development business metrics, at the company, project, or product level, is included, giving companies real-time information and facilitating decision making within the organization. In addition, this allows for supply chain optimization by supporting both internally developed and purchased part business models.
Commentary By Jeffrey Rowe, Editor
ENOVIA really took off in earnest a couple of years ago when Dassault Systemes acquired MatrixOne Inc., a provider of collaborative PLM applications for the supply chain. The PLM Collaborative Environment portfolio, which took on the ENOVIA brand name, was intended to address customers' requirements across a wide spectrum of product and business processes, from small-scale teams to extended enterprises with many thousands of users. ENOVIA offered several levels of collaboration and addressed a broad range of industry needs with:
- ENOVIA VPLM - 3D Collaborative Virtual Product Lifecycle Management of complex product, resource, and manufacturing processes in
medium and large organizations.
- ENOVIA MatrixOne - Collaborative Product Development business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries.
- ENOVIA SmarTeam - Collaborative Product Data Management for small and mid-sized enterprises, engineering departments of larger organizations, and across supply chains.
Since its inception, Dassault's ENOVIA has attempted to integrate virtual product modeling, lifecycle management, and decision support for companies that manufacture complex products. The ENOVIA products are intended to help companies developing large engineering-intensive products to manage the product lifecycle in a unified environment. In theory, all parties involved with a product's lifecycle can access, share, and manage product information.
One of the side results of the acquisition was the evolution and redefinition of what PLM actually is. Has it caused competitors to take stock and reevaluate their PLM offerings and strategies? Possibly. Has it benefited ENOVIA and/or MatrixOne customers? Probably. Has it proven to be a wise move for Dassault and the PLM industry as a whole? That still remains to be seen. From the beginning, the biggest challenge for Dassault surrounding the acquisition was how to convey what its positive impact, implications, the direction it's heading, and why it's compelling.
ENOVIA is interesting because its platform is delivered via a flexible Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This gives high-tech companies that grow over time the ability to scale up and add additional capabilities without re-implementation or obsolescence issues.
ENOVIA provides high-tech and electronics companies with collaborative PLM tools to:
- Manage the design and development of complex products (electronics, mechanical, software, IC design) to ensure products meet or exceed requirements
- Address the issue and complexity of globalization and out-sourcing through-out the entire product lifecycle
- Address IP and design re-use to optimize time-to-market, cost, and quality
- Enable end-to-end traceability from concepts and requirements to service and retirement to manage changes and impact analysis
- Ensure the ability to meet regulatory compliance and quality standards goals
- Optimize design for the supply-chain to meet cost, quality, and delivery expectations
- Manage the matrix of needs, design for cost, compliance, quality, manufacturing, test and assembly to optimize products earlier in the product lifecycle.
The ENOVIA collaborative PLM environment is popular in three primary industries – automotive, aerospace, and high-tech/electronics, because it integrates with MCAD, EDA, and ERP applications. With the current state of manufacturing and the economy, the latter industry is probably the best place to be and is likely the impetus behind the high-tech accelerator.
The challenges of high-tech add a layer of complexity onto almost every decision these companies make in the drive to profitability, growth, and bottom-line results, and the accelerator aims to aid in these endeavors.
The Week’s Top Stories
At MCADCafé we track many things, including the stories that have attracted the most interest from our subscribers. Below are the news items that were the most viewed during last week.
Bunkspeed Releases HyperShot V 1.5 for photographic 3D rendering
Bunkspeed announced HyperShot V 1.5, an upgrade to the groundbreaking HyperShot product released a year ago. The new version delivers key performance enhancements that make for solid interaction between HyperShot and all major 3D solid and surface modeling products, as well as brighter, more realistic photographs rendered yet faster from 3D models. Major improvements include:
- Faster Performance through improved real-time raytracing by providing faster calculation of self shadows, better real-time handling of materials on objects without texture coordinates, and cached material library, which will display all materials instantly.
- Improved Rendering through sharper shadows in the final rendering, sharper texture maps, and better turntable animation in HyperShot Pro.
- Improved Translators including support for Rhinoceros on the Mac, plug-in available for Rhino on Windows, improved support for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4, and improved SolidWorks file and IGES support.
ReverseEngineering.com has announced HIPP (HighRES Integrated Point Processor), a new stand alone proprietary software technology that saves engineers time by providing versatility and control over scanned 3D point clouds. HIPP can handle millions of points and directly processes raw digitized data from CMMs, PCMMs, retro-fitted CNCs, laser trackers, laser scanners and optical scanners. Developed to work with standard file formats, HIPP can import and export DAT, TXT, XYZ, ASCII and HighRES files. HIPP integrates to leading CAD/CAM packages. There are three modules: HIPP SHOP, HIPP PROFESSIONAL, and HIPP ULTIMATE. In addition, HIPP files integrate seamlessly with the HighRES CAD native integrated software, eliminating the risk of moving digitized geometry through the design and manufacturing cycle. Data sets can be imported upstream to ten major CAD systems as organized native entities, completely eliminating data translation issues. HIPP provides the following features:
- Thinning
- 3 point alignment
- Creating custom planes
- Point ordering and filtering
- Multiple plane configurations
- Adjustable probe tolerance maximizing accuracy
Dassault Systèmes announced that Variation Reduction Solutions, Inc. (VRSI) has selected DELMIA robotics solution for use in the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Guided Robots and Robotic Applications in Confined Spaces project. VRSI has received an AFRL Small Business Innovative Research grant to develop a vision-guided automated solution for drilling inlet ducts in the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) center fuselage, being manufactured by Northrop Grumman Corp. Currently, the air inlet duct is integrated with the fuselage by attaching aluminum frames to the composite duct via mechanical fasteners. Each duct is about nine feet long, but only 20 inches in internal diameter. Despite the ergonomically challenging space constraints, the operation is done manually and requires the drilling and countersinking of 800 holes per duct. Each of the 800 drilling points has a unique safe-radius area and that DELMIA allows VRSI to create multiple collision and near-miss queues to ensure collision free robot trajectories within the confined duct space. It is expected that the automated drilling solution will reduce the frame attachment process flow time by 50 percent. The prototype system, expected to be delivered mid-2008, will rely upon a vision-guided Fanuc Series 2000/125L robot to enter the narrow duct opening. A laser tracking system will then help locate the correct positioning within a very narrow tolerance of each hole in order to perform the robotic drilling operation. A laser inspection process is then performed to evaluate the quality of each hole.
Striker Systems Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Receives Autodesk Inventor 2009 Certification
Striker Systems announced that the latest release of FAB Professional, its sheet metal nesting and CAD/CAM software, has been certified for Autodesk Inventor 2009. FAB Professional integrates with Autodesk Inventor 2009 via Striker’s PARTshare system. PARTshare provides direct access from Autodesk Inventor software to FAB Professional’s sheet metal nesting library. Parts can be added to the nesting library individually, or entire Inventor assemblies can be processed. Routing codes assigned to the Inventor models control which of the assembly parts are to be nested. Material properties and other manufacturing data are also extracted from Autodesk Inventor software to ensure that nest jobs are properly constructed for subsequent punching or cutting operations. FAB Professional’s PARTshare interface for Autodesk Inventor 2009 software provides true, real-time integration between CAD and CAM functions.
Jeffrey Rowe is the editor of MCADCafé and MCAD Weekly Review. He can be reached at Email Contact or 408.850.9230.
This Week
Lead Story
Dassault Systemes Unveils ENOVIA High-Tech Accelerator
Product and Company News
Parker Hannifin Selects iLogic
MAKO Uses SolidWorks to Design Robotics and Implants for Minimally Invasive Surgery Alternative
CCE’s EnSuite Adds Useful Updates for the Extended Product Development Team
Geometric Releases v6.1 of eDrawings Professional for Autodesk Inventor
Carbon Motors Selects Dassault Systèmes as its PLM Solutions Partner
AboutSolidWorks.com Now Offers SolidWorks Web-based Video Training and SolidWorks Training DVD
Saab Aerosystems Selected Teamcenter MRO for Handling Its Customer Support
Roland Develops New CAM Software for RP & Custom Rapid Manufacturing
Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Connectors for Aras
DevEX 2.0 Released With Features and Functionality That Take a Completely New View on PLM
University of Glasgow Purchases 200 Licenses of SolidWorks
Daktronics Selects Fishbowl Solutions and EAC For Its PTC Product Development System Initiative
CFdesign v10 Upfront CFD Focuses on First-Time User Experience
Audio Report: From PTC World 2008 - The importance of PLM for small to medium businesses
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company Debuts Russia's First Paperless Aircraft Using Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter Collaboration Solution
Awaited release of KOMPAS-3D V10 is coming soon
CSI Integrates HyperWorks Simulation Tools into Its Automotive Product Development Process
Delcam's PowerSHAPE Used for Conformal Cooling Project
Mastercam #1 among CAM Software Applications; Mastercam Ranks 1st in Installed Seats Worldwide for the 14th Year in a Row
Cambric Switches to the HyperWorks CAE Suite as Its Simulation Backbone Worldwide
Cash Offer for Flometrics by Mentor Graphics
Yamaha Motors & Shonan Unitech (division of Isuzu Motors) Select VX CAD/CAM
Rapidform and Creaform Announce Sales Agreement and Bundle Offer
3DVIA 3D Update
EDS and Siemens PLM Software Deliver Best-in-Class Defense Logistics Solution
JSC NPO Saturn Extends Its Usage of ANSYS Software
New PartMaker Version 8.6 Now Shipping
Direct Digital Manufacturing: Stratasys Takes Order for Five Large-Format Machines
Optimizing Sail Design for the 2008 Olympics Using 3D Air Flow Simulation
Delcam's Online Forums Reach 10,000 Members
hyperMILL Certified and Seamlessly Integrated in Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009
CGTech Ships New Version of VERICUT Software
Delcam Sets Up Representative Office in Vietnam
Wanders celebrates 20 years as a JETCAM user
Rapid Sheet Metal Cuts Prototype Part Lead-times Again
Quickparts Assists in Manufacturing Award Winning POWRsyringe for Pinyons Medical Technology
SofTech's ProductCenter PLM Solution Selected by Fluidigm Corporation
Vero USA signs Original Concepts Design as VAR
Cimatron Increases its Holdings in Microsystem
Design benefits filter through highly tuned software
Pilgrim Software introduces SmartEngineer™
IDEAL Scanner Distribution Division Acquired by Contex
Schott Systeme Enhance Engraving for Mould Design and Machining
Catalog Data Solutions Catalog selected by Hi Plains Filtration
Enable Regulatory Compliance with printLogic 5.6 Dassault Enovia MatrixOne Batch Printing Integration
Invention Machine Adds New Multi-Lingual and Risk Analysis Capabilities to Goldfire Innovator
Invensys Process Systems Unveils PRO/II 8.2 Simulation Software
Cimatron's Microsystem Offers GibbsCAM in Italy
ANSYS Added to Russell 1000 Index
Custom Cut sees ROI in 6 months with JETCAM driving OMAX waterjet
New WorkNC module optimizes feedrates to cut machining times by up to 20%
Gordon Murray Design Tackles Full Lifecycle CO2 Damage in Automotive Design, Development and Manufacturing
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Corporate Moves
Stephen Diehl Named President and CEO of Surfware, Inc.
Alibre Announces Management Changes
HighRES, Inc. Changes Name to ReverseEngineering.com, Announces New Branding Effort
Dassault Systemes Spins Off its French PLM Sales Division "DSF" to Keonys
Industry Events
DP Technology Italy hosts third annual user meeting July 15 in Parma, Italy
Surfware to Present Major New Release of SURFCAM Velocity(R) 4 Powered by TrueMill(R) at IMTS 2008
Lean Expert and Co-author of Toyota Culture, Michael Hoseus, to Keynote at CPDA's PLM Road Map 2008
Webinar - MADYMO Side Impact Methodologies: Development of Side Impact Restraint Systems
Delcam to Host ArtCAM User Group Meeting
Vero USA Continues CAD/CAM/CAE Excellence Webinar Series
Swift-Carb TrueMill Cutters to be Launched at IMTS, 2008
Boeing Sponsors Local Teachers on Weeklong 'Space Mission'
Sogeti's Manager of High Tech Simulation, Philippe Sottocasa, to Keynote at PLM Road Map™ 2008
Delcam to Launch New FeatureCAM release at IMTS
Vero USA to Launch VISI 16 and PEPS 7 at IMTS 2008
AxSTREAM Turbomachinery Flow Path Design Course, Oct 7-9, Boston MA
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