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FEBRUARY 2006

DELMIA V5 Automation Platform: Merging Digital Manufacturing with Automation

Executive Overview .................................................................. 3 Digital Manufacturing Comes of Age ............................................ 4 Design/Build: From Digital Mockup to Virtual Manufacturing .......... 6 DELMIA Automation Merges Simulation with Controls .................... 8 DELMIA Automation: Enabling Time-to-Market Breakthrough ........ 12 Digital Manufacturing Enables Asset Management ....................... 15 PAC and Digital Manufacturing Make Good Technology Partners .... 16 Conclusions and Recommendations ........................................... 18

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Executive Overview
To even the most casual observer it is clear that manufacturing across all industrial sectors is being driven by a new set of business imperatives. Agile response to volatile markets, drastic reduction of time to market, and high product variability are just some of the challenges facing manufacturers. Along with the need for constant innovation, manufacturers continue to focus on reducing the cost and time for producing the product, one of the single most effect means of remaining competitive. Moreover, reducing the time for product launch while optimizing manuAlong with the need for constant innovation, manufacturers continue to focus on reducing the cost and time for producing the product, the single most significant means of remaining competitive.

facturing processes, will become even more significant as product lifecycle become shorter, product models and variants multiply, market prices erode, and outsourcing increases. In order to meet the demands of the new manufacturing paradigm, manufacturers are adopting the next-

generation of Digital Manufacturing tools like the Dassault Systemes DELMIA V5 platform. This manufacturing solution set represents an integrated suite of tools that provide manufacturing process design, tool and fixture design, factory and production systems design, visualization, and automation through powerful 3D virtual simulation tools. This allows the manufacturing engineer to design, synchronize, and validate production lines, robotic workcells, machine centers, production equipment, and control systems completely prior to the purchase, installation, and commissioning of a single piece of physical equipment. The immediate effect and benefit for the manufacturer is a substantial reduction to the manufacturing lifecycle in time to product launch and significant cost savings realized by the virtual validation and commission of production systems. The Dassault Systemes DELMIA V5 platform encompasses and delivers tools to address all of the functional areas of the manufacturing/build domain described. Additionally, it works in concert with the entire Dassault Systemes V5 PLM suite of CATIA product authoring, ENOVIA for managing the entire design/build/support environment, and SMARTEAM for collaboration across all domains within the enterprise. Within the Dassault Systemes DELMIA V5 platform is DELMIA Automation, a new product which was released in late 2005, and includes a set of

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tools and applications that now enables the manufacturing and control engineer to merge the virtual production lines, workcells, robots, and other production equipment with automation and controls by generating actual control code and enabling complete validation of all control functionality and interface. DELMIA Automation provides the final step from complete simulation of the virtual factory to the real world of machine control and automated assembly. This represents a major transformation in how a manufacturer is able to design, validate, commission, and operate their production automation equipment. DELMIA Automation goes beyond the boundaries of concurrent engineering and enables complete simulation and validation of the production automation environment before a single piece of physical equipment is put into place.

Digital Manufacturing Comes of Age

When examining the current PLM market it becomes clear that providers like Dassault Systemes now offer a portfolio of design/build/support applications that extend across a much broader range of the product lifecycle than ever before. Today, the PLM solution set not only
Digital Manufacturing has arrived as a technology and discipline within PLM that provides a strategic approach for the development and implementation of manufacturing process optimization

includes a mature collaborative product design domain, but has expanded to encompass design and management of the manufacturing processes and Digital Manufacturing, the latter representing a strategic and important milestone in the evolution of PLM. Digital Manufacturing has arrived as a technology and

discipline within PLM that provides a comprehensive approach for the development, implementation, and validation of all elements of the manufacturing process, which will prove to be one of the primary competitive differentiators for manufacturers.
Digital Manufacturing: Integration of Product Design with Manufacturing Processes

When product authoring systems matured to the point of being able to render a 3D fully digitized definition of the parts and assemblies that comprised a 100 percent digitally generated product, manufacturers had crossed a major threshold. The next major step in this evolution of PLM was to fully integrate the manufacturing processes with the product design. The concept of Digital Manufacturing begins with the design of the manu-

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facturing processes, and then manages the manufacturing process information and supports effective collaboration between design and manufacturing engineering by sharing access to common digital product definition. Additionally, Digital Manufacturing represents an integrated suite of solutions that supports manufacturing process design, tool design,
Integration of Product Design with Manufacturing Processes Generative Process Planning Material and Work Flow Planning Assembly Definition, Ergonomics, and Sequencing Process Design for Production Line, Workcells, and Machines through Simulation Process Improvement Metrics and Reporting Work Instructions and Shop Floor Documentation Process Optimization Modeling Automatic Generation of Controls Logic

and visualization through powerful virtual simulation tools that allow the manufacturing engineer to validate and optimize the manufacturing processes. Today, this concept is being accomplished by the use of integrated tool suites such as DELMIA V5 that are capable of generating powerful simulation, visualization, and other applications that can generate a virtual manufacturing world of production lines, work cells, machines, tooling, and other equipment. The digital product design is then placed in this virtual environment in order to integrate the product design with the build process. This offers the manufacturer the

ability to simulate entire the production process, along with the validation of these processes before the assembly lines are built, the machines and equipment are purchased and deployed, and resources are allocated. The integration of Digital Manufacturing into PLM solutions is providing the critical link between design and manufacturing engineering, and enabling the collaborative environment that is so essential to successful execution of concurrent engineering practices. PLM suppliers have developed and are offering digital manufacturing solutions as key components of their overall PLM strategy.
New Manufacturing Process Design Tools Redefine Concurrent Engineering

The concept of concurrent development of both the product and the process to produce the product was introduced with concurrent engineering. It was based on the notion of designing a part not only to meet fit, form, and functional criteria, but also designing to meet manufacturability requirements. The idea was to foster a design environment that involved collaboration between the design engineer and manufacturing engineer early in the design process. While this concept worked well for designing

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parts, assemblies, and even installations, there remained a fundamental disconnect between the design process and the complex set of manufacturing processes. Design/Build developments are typically two distinct but related development organizations. Concept and product engineering are primarily concerned with development of a product, and manufacturing engineering is primarily concerned with development of the process to produce the product. From a software perspective, CAD/CAE tools are employed to help define "what" is to be built and manufacturing process design tools are used to help define "how" it is to be built. Todays next generation Digital Manufacturing and process design tools like Dassault Systemes DELMIA V5 enable the product design to be integrated with the manufacturing processes. This allows manufacturing engineers to create a virtual manufacturing environment through powerful simulation applications that can develop plant layouts, production lines, work cells, material and work flows, automation designs, and all manner of production processes. Just as concurrent engineering delivered a product design that allowed manufacturability, DELMIA V5, by simulating the manufacturing processes of virtual products in virtual production environments early in the product design process, allows for a better product design while optimizing the production processes. Manufacturing engineers are able to generate process plans, work steps, work flow, assembly definition and sequencing, tool design, and even generate control code. Moreover, the cost savings generated are significant and immediate due to more efficient use of manufacturing assets and reduced production cycle times. In essence, the concept of Digital Manufacturing facilitates the holistic view of product and process design as integral components of the overall product life cycle and enables product design methods to be not only be sensitive to process constraints and capabilities, but, in fact, be completely integrated with the manufacturing processes.

Design/Build: From Digital Mockup to Virtual Manufacturing

The emergence of Digital Manufacturing tools is directly linked with the evolution of PLM and the digital definition of products and processes. As

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manufacturers made the leap from paper drawings to 2D, and subsequently to 3D wire frame, solids, and fully digitized mockups of the assembled product, the technology and tools that made this possible has steadily progress in scope, capability, and sophistication.
At the heart of Digital Manufacturing are powerful next-generation 3D simulation applications that enable the manufacturing engineer to virtually simulate exact models of machines, robots, conveyor lines, workcells, and specific production equipment.

At the heart of Digital

Manufacturing are powerful next-generation 3D simulation applications that enable the manufacturing engineer to virtually simulate exact models of machines, robots, conveyor lines, workcells, and specific production equipment required to fabricate, assemble, and install parts, sub-assemblies, and components of the product. Additionally, the actual factory environment of the production process can be modeled including buildings, production lines, transportation, workflow, and other facilities that represent the complete physical production environment. In earlier versions of PLM tools, CAD digital designs were integrated with CAM applications to enable the fabrication of machine parts. CAM tools enabled virtual cutters to be driven over digitally rendered part surfaces that would eventually be converted to machine code that CNC controllers used to drive physical cutters to machine parts. This Numerical Control (NC) function is now a standard module within most PLM solutions sets today. Along with the CAM functionality of NC came the first simulation tools to virtually model the machine parts fabrication process. These were applications that a manufacturing engineer and NC programmer could use to build virtual models of the machine tool, work piece, and cutter to simulate the motion of the machine, removal of material, and check for interference and collisions. These CAM simulations tools were the forerunners of the powerful simulation tools used today in Digital Manufacturing.
Digital Mockup for the Manufacturing Processes

Just as in product design where digital mockup tools allow the design engineer to develop virtual mockups of the product that would enable them to visualize the assembly of various parts, sub-assemblies and installations, so do digital manufacturing tools allow the manufacturing engineer to visualize the production processes. With a digital mockup the design engineer is able to simulate mating surfaces, fastening constraints, component assembly, interference points, and

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even mechanical movement to determine clash points with adjoining structure. By simulating the actual product to be produced, many design erable time, expense, and labor are reduced by eliminating many of the physical prototypes that are required to validate product design in a physical state. The entire notion of validation through digital simulation can now be applied to manufacturing processes. Digital Manufacturing now extends visualization and virtual modeling beyond the product into the production processes and factory floor
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mistakes are avoided and product improvements made. Moreover, consid-

automaton systems providing not only a simulated representation, but affording the

ability for validation of production equipment and controls before the factory or production line ever exists. Additionally, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma principles and methodologies can be incorporated and validated into the production processes to further optimize production systems. These Digital Manufacturing concepts can also be applied down to the detailed level of work processes that would include tooling and fixture positioning and alignment, welding paths, fastening sequences, and even ergonomic considerations for operators and assembly workers. In essence, with this technology it is possible to simulate the entire manufacturing environment, but clearly the overwhelming benefit to manufacturing operations is that all of this can be accomplished in advance of any physical implementation of production systems.

DELMIA Automation Merges Simulation with Controls

In the virtual 3D world created by the PLM technologies of solid model product authoring, digital mockup, and manufacturing process simulation, the final link to the actual production work environment is making the connection to machine control systems. It is one thing to simulate the machine tool, conveyor line, robotic work cell, PLC, clamping fixture, motors,

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drives, pneumatics and hydraulics systems; but quite another exercise to generate accurate information that is capable of driving control systems for all of this production equipment. This merging of Digital Manufacturing with automation is exactly where tools such as the DELMIA V5 Automation Platform are taking manufacturing in this final link to the factory floor.
Examining the Capabilities of the DELMIA V5 Automation Platform

Today, automation systems and the controllers integral to this process such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are programmed through a time consuming 2D graphical representation environment based on one of the IEC 6-1131-3 programming languages and each automation suppliers proprietary control mapping of this control logic standard. Moreover, after the

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Within the V5 3D digital environment DELMIA Automation provides a collaborative workspace for mechanical design, manufacturing, tooling, and control engineers to share knowledge, exchange system features and attributes, integrate domain process information, and react to engineering change and version updates. In the ramp-up of production lines to commissioning and product launch, as well as the design/build process of the machine tool and packaging machine OEMs, cost, time, design changes, and risk of errors become critical factors in product delivery and ultimately profit or loss. What DELMIA Automation offers to the participants in this process is the ability to reduce errors, validate control systems, and mitigate risks in a virtual environment well before using real equipment to accomplish commissioning. This truly represents the merging of the 3D virtual simulation environment with the physical automation world of control logic and the control platforms that perform the production processes. The DELMIA V5 Automation Platform is comprised of several modules that take the automated system from design to development to commissioning. The process begins with the Smart Device Builder. This module uses existing 3D CAD models (CATIA, Solidworks, UGS NX, ProE, Solidedge, and others) to represent actuators, sensors, motors, and drives that will actually define kinematic motion, internal logic, and electrical I/Os. Once these smart devices are created they can be assembled to build the virtual automated system complete with a set of I/Os.

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Smart Device Builder provides the control engineer with the capability to create a virtual library of Smart Device control logic for reuse purposes. This is essential to manufacturers for knowledge capture of manufacturing processes.

The second module of the DELMIA V5 Automation Platform is the LCM Studio. The LCM Studio is a PLC programming environment that uses the standard IEC 6-1131-3 programming languages such as Ladder Logic or Function Blocks. LCM Studio produces a generic PLC program that is independent of the PLC hardware platform. The generated control logic code is targeted to a specific PLC by running the generic control code through the LCM Control Setup module (an optional add-on to the Automation Platform) which post-processes or maps the control logic to the targeted PLC platform. The LCM Studio provides the control engineer with structured views of the control logic that include hierarchal and Sequential Function Chart (SFC) views. There is also the capability to program and validate control logic in the context of the virtual equipment designed using Smart Device Builder. The third module is the Controlled System Simulator, which allows the user to simulate, debug, and validate a complete PLC program against virtual equipment prior to any real equipment being deployed. This module represents one of the real value propositions of the DELMIA V5 Automation Platform in that the manufacturer is able to dramatically reduce the development, validation, and commissioning time cycle for their production systems. Reducing the time and cost of product launch is one of the most critical factors for companies today, where hitting the market window for their product can often make the difference between success and failure. A PLC program can be simulated using either a virtual controller or a physical PLC using open connectivity such as OPC. All aspects of the PLC control logic can be validated, including I/O setup, tag values, functions, program branching, etc. The Controlled System Simulator can perform DMU verification of motion simulations using clash detection and analysis, sectioning analysis, measurement, distance analysis, and 3D comparison tools. The LCM Control Setup is an optional add-on that provides the user with capability to translate (post-process) control logic created with the LCM Studio to a PLCs native logic language. LCM Control Setup provides Das-

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sault Systemes CAA Partners with APIs necessary to target to specific PLCs (Siemens S7, Schneider, Omron), and allows control and maintenance engineers to work in the same environment as the PLC they are using. Another optional module is the HMI Control Panel Design, which is used with the Smart Device Builder, LCM Studio, and Controlled System Simulator to provide the user with the capability to create a virtual HMI panel. The user is able to map virtual equipment and real PLCs and HMI panels using standards such as OPC client/server interfaces. Virtual HMI/PLC interfaces are created and translated to real OPC servers in the physical PLCs, and real HMI and dashboard clients.

DELMIA Automation: Enabling Time-toMarket Breakthrough

The maturity of PLM design/build solutions is quite evident in the automotive industry. Car makers were one of the first industries, along with aerospace, to adopt digital design (CAD) and digital manufacturing (CAM) technologies. Today, with the integration of product design and manufacturing processes manifested in the emergence of Digital Manufacturing, the automotive companies again appear to be the early adopters of this technology and stand to benefit significantly. In their quest to continually reduce time-to-market from concept to product launch, the car companies can depend on products like DELMIA to achieve this goal.
Driving Down the Cost of Automotive Production

The Automotive sector is indicative of an industry that is adopting Agile/Flexible manufacturing methods in order to remain competitive and drive down the cost of producing their product. Companies like GM and DaimlerChrysler are introducing new models targeted to niche markets resulting in very limited production runs (20-30K) that require timely and efficient model launches if the car maker is going to realize any profit. Production lines, Workcells, and control systems must be designed, installed, and deployed in the shortest possible time and, even more importantly, work correctly with the least amount of test and validation. Digital Manufacturing tools to virtually design and test production lines will be essential in designing and implementing these agile production systems.

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Timely and Efficient Model Launches Are the Goal

While an on-demand business model for the automotive companies has direct impact on many aspects of the product lifecycle from product design to manufacturing process optimization, the structure and approach to the model launch represents an activity that will significantly affect the success and profitability of the new model. In order to respond to projected short model runs and already abbreviated production lifecycles, the production lines that are comprised of control systems, conveyors, robotics, welding and fastening systems, paint systems, metal forming and stamping, and factory networking infrastructure must be designed, installed, and commissioned in a very optimized and efficient manner.
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The key will be the amount of time it takes to deploy, install, and commission new production lines for general assembly, paint, stamping, body-inwhite, and other assembly systems, and bring all of these systems up to production rate. Additionally, these engineering organizations will have to be accountable for the engineering resources expended, whether in-house or outsourced, to accomplish the model launch. Since the goal is to reduce the cost for new model launches, both time and resources have to be controlled while still satisfying the requirements for the production lines and the delivery of the new vehicles on schedule.
Digital Manufacturing Tools Shorten Automotive Launch Time

Next generation Digital Manufacturing tools such as DELMIA and the V5 Automation Platform are helping the car makers meet the new model

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launch challenge. Initially, automotive manufacturing engineers will be able to design the manufacturing processes, workflow, assembly and installation planning, and work instructions, and essentially engineer a set of optimized production processes using DELMIA manufacturing process management tools. Next, they will be able to create the virtual production lines, robotics workcells, assembly areas, and transfer lines for body-inwhite, stamping, paint, general assembly, and powertrain with DELMIA simulation. Finally, controls engineers will be able to create virtual control devices, generate control code logic, and validate the entire automated assembly area with DELMIA Automation. The end result will be a dramatic reduction of time and engineering resources needed to validate and commission new production lines for new product launches as well as supporting Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma initiatives.
Many Industry Markets Will Benefit from Digital Manufacturing

While the automotive sector stands to gain immediate benefits from the application of Digital Manufacturing tools, other industry verticals along with systems integrators can apply this technology to gain substantial payback. The packaging machine OEM market represents an industry that would be able to use DELMIA V5 Automation in the design and commissioning of packaging machines that support the Food & Beverage and CPG industries. Typically, a packaging machine OEM will have to design and build a machine based upon the specific requirements of the users product. While there is a concerted effort to employ common platforms, components, and reuse in the design, build, and commissioning of the machine, a degree of customization is always a factor in the delivering the machine. Placing the digital design model of the packaging machine in the virtual production environment that can be created by DELMIA V5 Automation and validating machine functions and synchronization along with controls logic generation will significantly reduce the packaging machine lifecycle development and delivery time to the customer. Since time to market and product launch are critical to the Food & Beverage and CPG industry, increasing the availability of packaging machinery for new products will be a highly valued factor.

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Digital Manufacturing Enables Asset Management

Today, manufacturers are placing significant emphasis of maintaining and preserving their factory floor production assets. Asset management methods along with the applications and tools to support it have emerged to become one of several strategies that manufacturers are following in order to drive down the cost of producing the product. With the advent of tools like the DELMIA V5 Automation Platform, factory operations managers and maintenance engineers have the capability to define all of their production assets virtually including the interface with machines, devices, production equipment, sensors, and monitors.
Defining a Virtual Asset Management Environment

Using a tool such as DELMIA Automation, the maintenance engineer can use the Smart Device Builder module to create virtual models of production equipment. This could include everything from small devices such as sensors, monitors, measuring instruments, motors, actuators, and servos to entire machining centers, automated assembly tools, and complex workcells. Using the Smart Device Builder, the user can define electrical I/O interfaces for sensors and monitors, which can then be incorporated into more complex systems to support machine condition monitoring and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) applications. The maintenance engineer can then use the virtual asset management design simulation to build, validate, and commission these systems. More complex asset management applications such as Dynamic OEE can be virtually designed and validated using DELMIA Automation. Dynamic OEE helps determine the real-time impact that the current performance of any individual piece of equipment has on the overall efficiency of the plant. Methods used to display this information include digital dashboards, which can be designed to show Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, such as throughput or downtime. Dynamic OEE analysis and reporting tools are used to identify typical problem types, when and where they occur, and provide data such as availability, performance, and quality factors per order, per product, and per shift. Designing and building asset management systems with DELMIA Automation provides operations managers and engineers with the capability to implement these systems quickly and efficiently.

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PAC and Digital Manufacturing Make Good Technology Partners

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Future controller selection will be based on factors such as adherence to open industry standards, multicontrol discipline functionality, technical feasibility, cost effectiveness, ease of integration, and maintainability.

maintainability. More importantly, embedded systems and small footprint, industrial-strength operating systems will gradually change the architecture, merging robust hardware with open control. Adding up all these factors, and including modular architecture that mirrors applications, and the increasing role of software in automation solutions, leads to an

emerging role for Open PLCs, defined by ARC as Programmable Automation Controllers, or PACs. today and in the future. PACs will not replace or supercede the traditional PLC, but will play a major role in plant and factory automation This functionality can be found as part of DELMIAs product focus, which includes multi-control discipline solutions that merge hardware with open control, along with a complete family of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.
PLC Evolution to PAC

There are a variety of perspectives on what an Open PLC or PAC truly is. Some consider it a traditional PLC with open architecture software, standard languages such as IEC61131-3, standard communications protocols, open APIs and tool sets to use them. Others include Slot PLCs, which are traditional PLCs in a PC compatible form factor and integrated into the PC environment. Some include SoftPLCs or other PC-based controls integrated into the PC environment. PACs must also open up proprietary technologies to users and integrators for their applications, especially for machine builders and OEMs where small and smart products are required as those machines and equipment become smaller and more distributed. The concept of the PAC coupled with the manufacturing process and automation design capabilities of DELMIA can address the requirements of a collaborative manufacturing environment.

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A PAC must be a controller that meets users needs for real-time control and be flexible and configurable enough so users can customize and optimize it to meet their particular needs. In a perfect world, a PAC would be an automation system with all the components for controlling and automating both machines and plants. All parts of the system would be designed to maximize software and hardware integration. There would be one programming and engineering tool as well as one programming language for the complete system.
Market Needs for Integrated Controllers

The ability to directly push or pull data between the controller and the enterprise database using open standards is a huge advantage for a PAC. Where traditional PLC products can only be controlled via proprietary programming languages, a PAC can be commanded via standard IT queries such as XML and SQL, coupled with open data transfer technology such as OPC and the web, or through the use of Java programs. This allows the controllers resources such as I/O points, registers, and motion parameters, to be monitored and/or controlled via a network connection. Use of well established open IT standards allows IT professionals instant access to all controller resources without learning a new language, or having to install an intermediary PC and software to process the data. The connectivity to ERP, MES and the enterprise world is increasing demand for tighter integration, more information, and a higher expectation that the control system will initiate communication, update the controller at the device level in real time, and serve up information. And only automation platforms which allow instant access regardless of hierarchies and software interfaces without proprietary protocols could handle this. lution. So PACs that utilize open IT and internet/intranet standards offer the best so-

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Conclusions and Recommendations

It is clear that the business drivers receiving the most focus today from manufacturers are: Reducing the cost of producing product Shortening the Product Launch Lifecycle Flexible Manufacturing Systems Common Processes and Reuse Process Optimization Asset Preservation and Management

Manufacturers are competing for market share in a fiercely competitive environment by offering ever-expanding product lines to meet customer demands for more variability and selection, as well as maintaining product quality and delivering their product in a timely manner. This means operating in an Agile/Flexible manufacturing mode where production must respond to more changeable markets, shorter product lifecycles, the need to adapt to market demand and an overall more sophisticated buyer. Given the intense competition for market share, and the absolute necessity to get products to market in time to hit the market window for consumer acceptance, companies are looking for any competitive edge that they can leverage including the optimization of their manufacturing processes. Manufacturers now have the opportunity to use next-generation PLM tools like Digital Manufacturing to help them meet the requirements mandated by these business drivers. Streamlining the design, validation, and commissioning of production systems will be a key factor for the manufacturers in meeting requirements for cost-effective and efficient product launches, and market windows. Digital Manufacturing tools like DELMIA V5 and the Automation Platform have emerged at precisely the right time in a global manufacturing climate where accelerating time to market and implementing manufacturing process optimization will be critical to a companys success.

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Analysts: Dick Slansky, Craig Resnick Editor: Chantal Polsonetti

Acronym Reference: For a complete list of industry acronyms, refer to our web page at www.arcweb.com/Community/terms/terms.htm
API CAD Application Program Interface Computer Aided Design MES OEE Manufacturing Execution System Operational Equipment Effectiveness OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OLE OpX OPC PAC PLC PLM Object Linking and Embedding Operational Excellence OLE for Process Control Programmable Automation Controller Programmable Logic Controller Product Lifecycle Management

CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing CMM Collaborative Manufacturing Management CPG Consumer Packaged Goods Management CRM Customer Relationship Management EAM Enterprise Asset Management ERP HMI IEC Enterprise Resource Planning Human Machine Interface International Electrotechnical Commission XML CPM Collaborative Production

ROA Return on Assets RPM Real-time Performance Management eXtensible Markup Language

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