Connecting your Ecosystem on Cloud for Business Continuity

Posted on July 30, 2020September 13, 2024 by Arun Kashyap

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken everyone by a surprise right from the large-scale to small scale industries, academic institutions, and other businesses, challenging & disrupting the normality. This rapid outbreak has urged the businesses to shift from on-premises to remote work to ensure their business continuity. Social distancing is needed and to be maintained, business discussions has to be continued as always, more important to collaborate but on a virtual mode. A digital platform is the need of the hour to ensure business continuity and help mitigate the impact of such an unprecedented event or situation.

Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud provides full-fledged solution for every needs of companies of all sizes with a single source of information and applications, everyone on the team can access from home, allowing them to work on their projects collaboratively and efficiently in a safe environment with secured data.

Some of the solutions & services offered by 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides the team with daily work status as if they are at office despite working from home enabling them to address these unprecedented challenges as listed below.

1. Collaborative Business Innovation

This cloud-based collaborative solution delivers the underpinning apps and services that digitally connect all users in the value stream – to establish social communities with consumers and customers to share, experiment, and innovate effectively. Businesses can power their innovation processes with transformative technologies leveraging legacy tools and systems.

Highlights

Users form social communities to engage in conversations. Users can track all the interactions by reviewing the threaded discussions and can target their responses.
Cloud-only drives help to securely store documents, allow users to access them from any device, and share documents with co-workers and collaborators across the value chain. To get reviewed with partners, suppliers, and customers, pre-registration is no longer required. Users can send them a link with a simple self-registration where guests can view designs right in a browser and provide valuable feedback. The document sharing experience is greatly enhanced on mobile devices with the 3DDrive mobile app.
Inbuilt viewers intelligently recognize CAD designs and navigate the hierarchy embedded inside CAD assembly files. Users can share entire assemblies and their peers can not only visualize the design but navigate the entire assembly with ease.
With Messaging apps, users can instantly engage in 3D collaborative experiences. Users can now augment their 3D collaborative experiences with immersive voice and video.

2. Program & Project Management on Cloud

Enables program and project managers to create a competitive advantage by delivering products from concept to market faster. Organizations can concentrate critical resources on the most profitable products while standardizing on best-in-class business processes across the extended enterprise leveraging the below features & functionalities:

i. Project Dashboards

Dashboards help management with a high-level graphical view of project status by phase, assessments, costs, benefits, issues, and risks.

ii. Project Templates

The repetitive project execution in the organization will help you to develop process standards and improve predictability. The project template contains work breakdown structures (WBS) with more manageable portions, document templates, questionnaires, bookmarks, and folder structures.

iii. Work Breakdown Structure

Program managers can breakdown the sophisticated product development activities into various manageable subprojects. The project or technical leaders are allowed to assign schedules considering project roles and non-working days, which enables them to define global project teams into phase-gate activities. Project management plays a key role in every phase of the development process from ideation to project delivery and maintenance. When a project is approved, they can update it in the WBS and schedule baselines to make sure that the work is more manageable.

3. Platform of Virtual Factory

The creation and simulation of a 3D digital twin of your factory are efficient through the Virtual Factory platform. You can quickly create the 3D layout models of machines, plants, lines, and work cells leveraging the fundamental library components from a 2D drawing or the cloud generated point from scanning the actual facility. These 3D models help you to analyze the factory flow simulation, visualize & check the machine behavior, and to connect work cells to a PLC.

4. Managed licensing services – DSLS On Cloud

The managed licensing service provides you with the ability to run certain levels (essentially, 3DEXPERIENCE) of on-premises DSLS-enabled apps. Using this mode, the specific apps which are enabled to support this mode obtain their license keys from a highly available license server managed by Dassault Systèmes, which is not installed on your premises.

Enhance Product Development by implementing APQP methodologies using 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Posted on July 28, 2020September 13, 2024 by Arun Kashyap

In the competitive world of business, quality has been & remains to be a necessity. Quality failures can result in bringing down a business reputation quickly and comprehensively and that leads to the introduction of new products or any significant changes to existing ones, which is a particularly delicate process.

The dynamic business environment, including volume growth and increasing quality expectations, however, has made major players in the Automotive / A&D industry to rethink their strategies. The industry has decided to take the lessons learned from their experiences and adapt methodologies & technologies to address the issues.

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) was developed in the automotive industry to follow certain procedures and techniques and is also typically required to be audited and registered to IATF 16949. This methodology is now being used in other manufacturing sectors as well and has relevance to the successful planning, production, and release of just about any product.

APQP provides structure to the product development process in a manner that ensures customer satisfaction by planning and scheduling the tasks to be done, monitoring the timely and effective completion of tasks, and communicating, escalating, and resolving issues. In essence, APQP combines project management with the use of proactive product development tools applied at the right time.

Now the challenge is to identify a system that delivers APQP in an effective & systematic way that the industries can utilize for sustainable growth & stay ahead of the competition.

With the demand for technology & system comes the need for automation across all disciplines right from the change in design to the downstream department where these changes should be automatically notified and updated across all associated documents like Process design, PFMEA, DFMEA, and PPAP value chain. The stakeholders want a robust system with no or minimal manual intervention to avoid manual errors, manipulation, and hence automate the process right across.

Customization

With the increased demand for automation, many solution providers are enhancing the OOTB functionalities through customization to bring this automation as per customer needs as ready-made packages/bundles.

Customization capabilities are playing an important role in decision making of the solution to suit the needs of every customer when it comes to APQP process mapping.

Custom program development tools/utility available as part of the system enables these customizations for every customer’s needs/automation, of course, with the help of expert consultants who are available in the market for all such expectations.

Majority of the functionalities are available as OOTB. However certain capabilities need to be customized as per requirements using the custom tools & utilities available within it.

Many solutions are available in the market to address these requirements. However, choosing the right solution that has platform capabilities, scalability and that can address diverse requirements right from design, analysis, manufacturing, quality to downstream departments is a smart & intelligence choice in terms of ROI and on a long-term business benefit.

Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform offers solutions to map APQP methodologies covering all of its phases for any customer who is compliant & adhering to IATF 16949 or AS 9145 standards.

3DEXPERIENCE’s RFx & Project Management solution addresses the APQP requirement right from the conceptual stage to the delivery of components to its destination as shown below.

The 5 phases of APQP, from Planning, Product design, Process design, Validation to Product launch is captured as phases with associated tasks & activities with work breakdown structure in 3DEXPERIENCE Program & project management solution thus enabling the CFT members with visibility & traceability across the APQP process, including the status, resource utilization & project management.

The solution helps digitize your processes, track them in real-time, and make improvements based on data.

An example of how APQP is mapped in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is as shown below,

3DEXPERIENCE has inbuilt tools & utilities (apps) using which the APQP methodologies can be implemented successfully as per needs.

Business Benefits

By implementing APQP using 3DEXPERIENCE, the company mitigates the risks inherent in introducing or modifying a product.
Digitize your processes, real-time traceability, and make improvements based on data.
Eliminate most of the assumptions and risks inherent in the introduction of a new product or the modification of an existing one.
Improved communication with cross-functional teams/stakeholders including suppliers.
Improved decision making to work-in-progress tasks and related items such as parts across projects.
Enhanced product quality and customer satisfaction by leveraging the power of APQP as required utilizing the 3DEXPERIENCE apps.
Increased knowledge re-use through reviews of previous deliverables such as Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA), DVP & PQCs, and Control Plans

Seamless Digital Transformation of your Business with on the Cloud Solutions

Posted on March 30, 2020September 13, 2024 by admin_eds

Digital transformation is being adopted in each and every industry with business leaders affirming it as a strategic priority.

For efficient implementation, organizations have to transform how they develop products and deliver services to meet speed-to-market goals and fulfill the product requirements for unique customer experiences. This new era of business is built on the foundation of a collaborative ecosystem for partners, suppliers and customers.

Cloud is a key enabler of digital transformation to provide organizations with a collaborative ecosystem for innovation. Many organizations leading in digital transformation use various cloud platforms and cloud services. It not only reduces the overall cost but enables a greater collaboration across the value chain for an enhanced customer experience.

EDS Technologies, a leading service provide in India and the Platinum Partner of Dassault Systèmes provides a portfolio of software applications solutions on a cloud-platform called the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. 3DEXPERIENCE platform is a business experience platform that provides required applications to each department of an organization from marketing to sales to engineering. The solution offerings include industry-specific solutions delivered on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for product design, manufacturing, simulation, and project management.

Cloud-based technologies can be highly beneficial especially for startups and help scale their business challenges. Startups are typically subjected to a spectrum of challenges not limited to budget constraints, product data progression, top-shelf resources and team instability due to remote locations. 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud solution provides deft features and functionalities to handle the above challenges and instate process efficiency throughout the value chain.

Top-shelf software solution such as 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud, can be easily availed by startups at an affordable cost within their budget restrictions as the need for large IT investment is reduced and/or eliminated. It provides process visibility with real-time data to enable collaboration and precision in decision making. This allows remote teams to work concurrently with complete transparency.

Benefits of Implementing Cloud-based Technology solutions into your business model

Deploying 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud solution enables organizations and startups with an optimized work experience, greater agility, an ecosystem encouraging experimentation and collective collaboration. Cloud-based software solutions are highly beneficial to a business model as they provide:

Access to the portfolio of industry-graded software applications with a single intuitive interface for the optimal user experience available at anywhere, anytime on a PC, tablet or mobile
Single dashboard for all applications that are easily customized for user groups such as engineering, sales, marketing to leverage the intellectual property
Standardized application version availed to all users across the globe immediately
Subscriptions-based offerings, especially useful for startups as a substitute to the large investment in software applications
Capabilities for customers to influence product development with direct contact to the software development team
Access to online technical support and knowledge base for any queries related to all the applications

To know more about the On the Cloud offerings, please contact us to speak to our consultants.

Transforming the Aerospace & Defense landscape with industry-specific experiences for enhanced efficiency with digital continuity

Posted on February 14, 2020September 13, 2024 by Srikumar Maganti

Customer expectations are growing with the need for lower costs, higher quality, increased capabilities and the ever-growing complexity making it even more challenging for manufacturers. Complex system requirements challenges OEMs and suppliers to amplify their creativity, collaboration and innovation by upgrading to the factory of the future focused on improved efficiency and production agility. New approaches towards conception, designing, manufacturing, validation and sustenance are required for new air, space and defense vehicles.

Aerospace & Defense companies face a spectrum of challenges as well as growth opportunities with the continued growth of commercial aviation and an increase in the defense budget. With the increasing number of projects, there is an increase in Request for Proposals’ (RFPs) but manufacturers have less time to respond to complex RFPs for multiple components in a competitive environment for better customer experience.

Dassault Systèmes provides a portfolio of industry-specific solutions through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for Aerospace & Defense manufacturers and suppliers to transform the traditional process with new and latest technologies.

Powered by Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, EDS Technologies provides industry solution experiences to transform your business processes with enhanced efficiency and digital continuity:

Engineered to Fly accelerates A&D supplier process from idea to delivery with enhanced margins
Co-Design to Target delivers aerospace programs ‘On specification’, ‘On- time’ and ‘On-Budget’

These solutions enable:

Driven & Controlled Execution: Displays the status of current proposals and KPIs regarding costs and risks to enable process visibility. Project execution is driven in a connected process. The intellectual property is secured with traceability for authorities to manage collaborative efforts with multiple customers in a single source environment to ensure OEM certifications.
Operational Efficiency: Predefined proposal templates, automated routing and tracking, clear view of projects to implement, accessibility to design and manufacturing components and collaboration with OEMs help streamline the whole process.
Digital Continuity: From design engineering to manufacturing, best in class engineering tools are in place with quality and efficiency in a controlled environment to maintain digital continuity.

Engineered to Fly

Engineered to Fly is tailored to the aerospace industry with essential features and functionalities. It includes robust tools to help A&D businesses ‘Built-to-print’ or ‘Design-and-build’ to manage their whole business process. Some of the capabilities include addressing RFPs promptly, executing the projects with APQP and quickly adapting new changes in the current manufacturing process.

Project execution is driven and controlled with real-time status tracking throughout the stages of a proposal to product delivery. Validation and quality assurance are integrated for certification to meet the OEM standards. The value chain maintains digital continuity to deliver products with enhanced process efficiency and business profitability.

For instance, an aircraft’s frame is composed of sheet metal parts comprising 4,700 rivets. With engineered to fly, the sheet metal is designed in 3D to position the rivet holes so the part assembly process is error-free and done right the first time. Also, each part is versioned and tracked for easy access to real-time product data as required to relevant stakeholders through digital continuity.

Digital continuity enables improvements in the holistic process for up to:

30% error reduction
40% productivity boost
40% process changes requested

Benefits

Win more business: Significant cut down of the proposal response and turnaround time has helped in the business growth with improved bid quality for up to 25% without additional stakeholders.
Stay in control: Execution across multiple organizations through real-time KPIs with full traceability for stakeholders or OEM certifications.
Drive design & production efficiency: Digital continuity across all value streams from engineering to manufacturing to eliminate inefficiencies in the design process and ensure product quality.
Higher margins: 40% increased productivity with 30% reduce in change process requests and errors with strong controls, rules-based optimization and seamless collaboration

Co-Design to Target

Over 50% of projects miss out on their delivery data due to issues in the later stages that are discovered in the manufacturing process. Designing right the first time can prevent these issues in the first stage with the automated validation and quality assurance against the OEM standards.

Co-Design to Target enables OEMs with disparate tools and processes in a single stream to optimize the form, fit and function within an integrated Digital Mock-Up system (DMU). This system eliminates many integration issues that majorly affect cost and schedule.

Digital Continuity allows driving projects with a real-time view of KPIs across the organization with multiple stakeholders, sites and suppliers to proactively sustain the project as per the timeline.

For instance, hundreds of engineers work on detailed product development in the design phase. Thousands of specifications cascade to sub-systems and components based on top-level requirements. Project targets are met with lean development through efficient integration of engineering teams. With Co-Design to Target, these teams work with parallel timelines and collaborate in real-time for quick and easy detailed definitions of each component and system within the finished product.

Benefits

Manage programs in real-time: Stakeholders can review the real-time status of projects with a quick view of all KPIs with full traceability until delivery. The works-in process is consolidated with various different tools for program controls, systems engineering, design engineering, contracts management, subcontract administrations, configuration management, and data management. Comprehensive management and real-time process visibility improve the success, profitability and value to customers.
Achieve manufacturing excellence by design: Design, engineering and manufacturing processes are efficiently integrated and validated with the digital mock-up function to evade costly issues in the later stages. This solution simplifies the product development process by integrating value streams. Transformation in the development phase significantly lowers the cost and time of projects with Co-Design to Target.
Reduce costs and improve quality: Program execution is enhanced with multi-discipline simulations to guarantee the delivery of performance, reliability and cost targets. Reducing the complexity in product development stage enables organizations to reap the profits at a lower recurring and non-recurring costs. Co-Design to Target industry-specific solution transforms the product development phase to ensure significant reduction in cost with improved quality.

To know more about our aerospace & defense industry-specific solutions, submit an inquiry to speak to our senior technical experts.

Model, Design, Simulate and Collaborate: Upgrade your business process with 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud

Posted on January 28, 2020September 13, 2024 by admin_eds

Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE on Cloud provides tools to oversee real-time view of the whole ecosystem and activity progress to realize the business vision and goals. 3DEXPERIENCE is a robust collaborative platform with a portfolio of solutions and an interactive environment across the organization and communities available to cloud-based users at all times. Easy-to-use interfaces allow multiple collaborators to ideate, design, simulate and deliver innovative projects for unique customer experiences. With the 3DEXPERIENCE on Cloud, users break free of the IT constraints with a faster, safer and reliable business process that support global collaboration.

The key capabilities of 3DEPERIENCE platform are as follows:

3D Modeling
Generative Design
Simulation
Collaboration

Design right the first time with 3D Modeling

In this competitive world, it is crucial to have a faster product to market cycle with saved time and cost. Also, there is huge demand to develop and deliver a wide variety of products with advanced engineering and complex processes. Cloud-based mechanical design and surfacing with 3D Modeling provides state of the art engineering capabilities, design tools to collaborate and maintain digital continuity with stakeholders. Users can also:

Develop high-quality complex mechanical shapes
High-end surface quality with local surface modifiers and global deformation
Resolve complex manufacturing deformations without Product re-design and tooling
Save expert product data and reuse it as required
Easily access real-time information
Validate idea by designing products in motion with structural insights

Design complex shapes and patterns quickly with Generative Design

Major challenge of a designer is to develop increasingly complex and innovative 3D models, shapes and patterns to exceed customer demands. There are several limitations in the designer’s ability to explore and capture the variation of ideas. With generative design tools, users can explore, design and validate the complex variants with repetitive non-regular shapes and patterns. Users can also easily collaborate with stakeholders with the browser-based solution to maintain digital continuity and work remotely. Users can also:

Boost the design process with the large number of alternatives to the main design with varying styling capabilities
Make informed design decisions and shape research with a dynamic 3D modeling experience
Provide the best geometry quality with parametric modeling that provides immediate useable geometries

Validate innovation of products faster with Simulation

Countless rounds of trial and errors before production is eliminated by incorporating virtual simulation at each stage of the product design cycle. Real-time collaboration with engineers from different teams accelerates the product innovation and development process by communicating the insights from virtual simulation to relevant key stakeholders at the right time.

Users can perform sophisticated simulations using the robust technology that enables collaboration and digital continuity with the 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud. Simulation solutions offerings are:

An environment integrated with CAD, CAE and PLM tools
Intuitive applications to eliminate guesswork for improvised product design
Meets all the simulation demands at any given time and place
Increased productivity by enabling engineers and designers to focus on engineering problems than menial manual tasks
Streamline the engineering workflow with quick insights into product performance and quality

Product data and lifecycle management with Collaboration

Stay digitally connected with product design data and collaborative teams to formulate efficient plans that enable development and release new products. Easy access to secured product data and lifecycle management with team-based planning enables real-time sharing of design data. With the 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud, users can seamlessly collaborate with product data from anywhere at any time on any device. Users can also:

Share and discuss ideas in a secure community
Manage product design and documents with the CAD environment
Define multiple discipline products for release to manufacturing
Collaborate using web-based design reviews and track issues
Modify under the governance of a change process that notifies relevant stakeholders
Define projects, assign tasks and track the real-time status of deliverables
Explore and edit multiple product structures with a web-browser

Benefits of 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud:

Cost Effective: Without any IT requisites, the 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud easy to deploy and ready to use. The complete offering includes an all-in-one solution required by the organization to achieve their business vision with a portfolio of applications such as CATIA, SIMULIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA.
Adaptability: With automatic updates, the latest versions of the applications are available with frequent new features. The 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud is flexible as it can be tailored to the user needs with the subscription model. With the ever-changing market, add applications and user as required to align with the business.
Foster Collaboration: With the cloud-based option, working online and remotely is possible at any given time encouraging collaboration with tools to quickly innovate from idea to delivery with multiple stakeholders.
Data Security: Fully secured and encrypted product data with tools for tracking and management of data and activity.
Environment Friendly: Compared to on-site servers 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud uses 30% less energy.

To know about 3DEXPERIENCE on the Cloud, contact us to speak to our experts.

How automotive manufacturers can optimize their products for BS VI norms compliance with Dassault Systèmes’ solutions

Posted on January 20, 2020September 13, 2024 by admin_eds

Bharat Stage Emission Standard (BSES) is the yardstick for regulating the air pollutants from automobiles with combustion engines. BS VI is the sixth stage of the BS Emission norms instated by the Government of India and Central Pollution Control Board to regulate the emission from motor vehicles. Automakers in India must conform to the standards and implementation timeline of BS VI by April 2020. Leading automotive manufacturers have a huge stock shelved that do not comply with the BS VI emission regulation and risk facing huge losses. Automakers need to invest in technology that enables them to upgrade their vehicles in stock. Also, they will have to invest in R&D and infrastructure in the manufacturing plants to develop new kind of auto machinery.

The Supreme Court of India has barred the sale and registration of automotive vehicles not in compliance with the BS VI across the country from 1^st April 2020. Leading to automotive manufacturers having a huge stock shelved that do not comply with the BS VI emission regulation and risk facing huge losses. Automakers need to invest in technology that enables them to upgrade their vehicles in stock. Also, they will have to invest in R&D and infrastructure in the manufacturing plants to develop new kind of auto machinery.

Main challenge for automakers is to reduce their development cycles by up to 50%. The process towards compliance is accelerated with advanced design and manufacturing simulation. This digital workflow enables design innovation within the confines of the new regulation. Integration of existing data and IP into a single enterprise platform that is accessible universally enables inter- and intra-team collaboration for digital creation and validation of enhanced designs.

The key to achieving reduced emission is the simulation of each part of the interconnected system. With the 3D simulation model, engineers analyse the vehicle behaviour thoroughly to realize ways for improvements. Redesigning a particular part or the entire engine digitally is done easily and accurately with desired outcomes. Having a clear view of the discrete system and how it operates in real-world scenarios helps in reducing development times within the OEM and supply chains.

Existing vehicle models can be upgraded for BS VI compliance by retrofitting new systems and components. Deploying simulation throughout the supply chain aids the improvement in quality before the production of parts. Complex interfaces and co-relationship are easily analysed to address the integration and functionality issues within the new regulations.

Dassault Systèmes solutions help customers certify the numerous variants, meet regulations to ensure on target vehicle launch that helps manufacturers streamline the certification process from design, portfolio management, requirements, test results and verification. Simulation solutions enables the certification process with real-time tracking and achieve challenging targets through enhanced design by leveraging the industry insights and know-how.

Using 3D product development and simulation solution such as CATIA, SIMULIA and more, manufacturers are overcoming major process-related issues to innovate new transportation concepts integrated with the developing infrastructure will help realize this new policy. Few ways to reduce emission using simulation can be done by light weighting, aerodynamic efficiency, powertrain efficiency, electrification, tyre engineering and real driving emissions.

To know how our solutions can help in emission standard adherence, contact us to speak to our expert consultants now.

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