Track: COE Briefing Center #1

1001 (PD): Using 3D CAD Software to Compress Composite Part Development Cycles Through Concurrent Engineering

Johan Grape, VISTAGY, Inc. Concurrency is highly desirable in development efforts. It enables engineering teams to work in different domains simultaneously while collaborating across disciplines, allowing multiple iterations and improved communication. The gains are found in reductions in rework, time compression and improvements in the robustness and quality of the manufactured product. Composite part design has traditionally not lent itself to concurrent development, due to the lack of mechanisms for communicating between disciplines and the high complexity of the designs. Benefits associated with refinement through optimization in the analysis phase are not realized because time constraints require full transition to detailed design as early as possible,  Similarly, design has neither been able to determine the impact of design rules on the structural properties, nor on the manufacturability, resulting in quality degradation, insecurity and inefficiency. In modern structure- and zone-based composite designs, these problems have resulted in weight and performance problems due to a combination of over-specification and design details whose overall weight and performance impacts could not be known. New developments in FiberSIM, the CAD-integrated composite part design solution from VISTAGY, Inc., provide interoperability solutions throughout the design and development phase, which enable the implementation of processes to allow multiple, simultaneous iterations in the analysis, design and manufacturing disciplines. Zone geometry, laminate specifications and thickness laws can all be modified by the analyst and their impact is evaluated and easily integrated into the design. Similarly, the analyst can evaluate the performance of the as-designed part at any stage, even manufacturing, and the designer can integrate manufacturing requirements early in the design, allowing new levels of collaboration, improved part performance, quality and robustness.

1002 (SYS): Observations of a MatrixOne Installation w/DB2, WAS, and CATIA V5 on W2003 Server

Diane Twa, IBM Corporation This presentation will review the process and observations of a MatrixOne installation with DB2, Websphere, LUM, and CATIA V5 Integration on Windows2003 Server. It's given from a Technical installer perspective. We’ll address the pre-requisites, issues you'll need to be aware of when installing these products, and recommended order of install to achieve a successful installation. MatrixOne has many components  and "Centrals" available. This presentation will reference the following components/Centrals: Base, Framework, Team Central, Product Central, Program Central, Engineering Central, Supplier Central, InfoCentral, and Designer Central. Also included is the CATIA Integration to MatrixOne.

1003 (IDM): Turning CAD Data into Business Data for the Enterprise

Rix Kramlich, Right Hemisphere With shrinking development lifecycles, fragmented global supplier networks and ever-tightening profit margins as top-level issues, the need to optimize business processes and ensure effective collaboration across the value chain has never been greater. This session will show how businesses can transform data locked in their core product data management system(s) so that it can be effectively and automatically leveraged for downstream uses and others across the value chain. This session will include live demonstrations of CAD data being automatically repurposed, combined with key business data and published into business applications, portals and standard business documents such as PowerPoint presentations and 3D PDF documents to drive top line growth and bottom line results.

1004 (INS): 3D Inspection from Scanned Data and QSR Workbench

David Gagne, Creaform 3D inspection is becoming an essential tool in many fields of application within companies. Together, laser scanning technologies and Quick surface reconstruction (QSR) workbenche within Catia V5 offer a cost effective solution for full part inspection. The presenttaion will include :   - Introduction to 3D inspection    - Examples in different fields of application    - Trends in quality inspection   - Key features of QSR in CATIA V5   - Succes story : implementing 3D inspection in a plastic injection     molding facility    - Demo      o Handyscan 3D’s EXAscan data acquisition from plastic part     o 3D inspection and features in QSR when compared with nominal    CAD data     o Final report   - Conclusion

1005 (SME): SmarTeam in the Oilfield

Danny Wolfe, Razorleaf Corporation Jonathan Scott, Razorleaf Corporation Most people think of SmarTeam as CAD-centric data management because it’s great at that. With its flexible structure and security model, it can be used for much more. T3 Energy, a fast-growing supplier of oilfield equipment, uses SmarTeam to manage multiple aspects of its business in a challenging IT environment (with remote data centers and 8 separate ERP systems). This session will show how T3 has gone beyond traditional PDM areas and uses SmarTeam to manage its quality system, to maintain its as-built manufacturing information, and to work seamlessly with CNC tools on the shop floor.

1006 (PD): Implementing Lean in Product Design

David Prawel, Longview Advisors Inc. There has been much activity in recent years in implementing Lean principles. Nearly all of this has focused on manufacturing processes and the value of Lean in manufacturing. Recent studies indicate fifty percent or more of a typical CAD user’s time is being spent in non-value-added activities like repairing CAD model, or figuring out a fellow designer’s intent. Most of this is caused by poor CAD practices and the lack of standardized design techniques. This session will present ideas you can implement to reduce waste in your CAD department, while better integrating CAD with downstream functions like manufacturing and analysis.

1007 (COL): Collaboration: Designing and Analyzing Composites in the Era of Globalization

Greg Albrechtsen, SIMULIA Rani Richardson, Dassault Systèmes The most common challenge designing and building composites parts isn’t the design of parts, but the collaboration necessary with different people and teams involved in the design, manufacturing, and analysis composites. Lack of concurrent engineering causes misunderstandings, errors, delays or considerably slow the design and manufacturing process. This session will examine the intricacies of collaborative composites design and outline strategies to accomplish not only cutting edge part design, with decreased breakage, lower cost and optimized part strength, but also collaborative processes tailored for composites manufacturing that can be extended across the entire supply chain. The analysis portion will demonstrate both CATIA and SIMULIA solutions.

1008 (NC): Integrated CATIA V5/Control Emulator MCD Simulation While Incorporating SIEMENS VNCK

Brian Francis, ICAM Technologies ICAM presents integrated Control Emulator (CE) for MCD simulation within CATIA V5 / DELMIA. This presentation will also demonstrate ICAM's integration of SIEMENS Virtual NC Kernel (VNCK), a CE add-on feature that fully emulates SIEMENS 840D programming language for the accurate testing of NC programs. The VNCK product deployed in conjunction with CE enables the simulation of  advanced functionalities of the 840D. VNCK contains a virtual copy of the Sinumerik which encompasses a NC kernel motion logic used by the actual SIEMENS 840D; subsequently, VNCK enables NC programmers to reliably emulate NC programs of machine tools equipped with an 840D.

1009 (COL): Collaboration: Designing and Analyzing Composites in the Era of Globalization

Greg Albrechtsen, Dassault Systèmes Rani Richardson, Dassault Systèmes The most common challenge designing and building composites parts isn’t the design of parts, but the collaboration necessary with different people and teams involved in the design, manufacturing, and analysis composites. Lack of concurrent engineering causes misunderstandings, errors, delays or considerably slow the design and manufacturing process. This session will examine the intricacies of collaborative composites design and outline strategies to accomplish not only cutting edge part design, with decreased breakage, lower cost and optimized part strength, but also collaborative processes tailored for composites manufacturing that can be extended across the entire supply chain. The analysis portion will demonstrate both CATIA and SIMULIA solutions.

1010 (PD): Building Machined Assemblies in V5

Ron Butler, TechniGraphics In this session, we will disclose the best practices and methodologies for building machined assemblies. We will begin with an assembly of symmetrical pre-machined parts, move into a weldment, and then finish the design of the weldment adding the machined areas as well any additional holes and/or features that are required. This presentation will include some of the newer functionality inside of CATIA that helps to improve this process.

1012 (VPS): 3D Live for CATIA - FT&A Review / Kinematics Playback Overview

Michael DeVillier, Dassault Systemes of America

Every Enterprise has intellectual property (IP) and often finds it spread across different systems, often largely co-located within the engineering and detail design departments and not readily accessible to many of the people who need that information to make key business decisions.

3DLive provides an intuitive, lightweight 3D paradigm for on-line collaborative intelligence, leveraging enterprise 3D and PLM information. Through a single immersive user interface everyone across your enterprise can search, navigate, and collaborate on your PLM (IP) to optimize decision making and accelerate business execution.  3D Live for CATIA also leverages the 3DXML file format through the 3DXML Connector.

This session provides a brief overview of 3D Live for CATIA interface and functionality.  Specific focus is made on the 3DXML Connector…information is presented and demonstrated on the Functional Tolerancing & Annotation (FT&A) Review Live application, Kinematics playback, and use of the ENOVIA Collaborative Review Live application for annotations creation in 3DXML.