PLM Summit Featured Speakers

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Experience Innovation with PLM
Bernard Charles, President & CEO, Dassault Systèmes
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) as the next era of product development capability is becoming a reality today. Building on previous generation business practices such as DMU (Digital Mockup), PLM provides the potential for manufacturing companies to significantly improve their product development activities by integrating corporate operations and simulating the complete lifecycle of a product as well as the means and methods required to produce and maintain it. PLM is based on five fundamentals that include: - a focus on end to end business processes optimization, - a unique, shared & unified Product, Process and Resource model, - solutions architected around 3D Engineering & Manufacturing and Enterprise collaborative Hubs - the services and technology to help corporations exploit Next Practices and manage key Intellectual Property - And an open object architecture and community that ensures full solution coverage and facilitates deployment. The V5 Architecture is increasingly becoming the de facto open and standard offer for PLM today. Effective PLM implementations, relying on Dassault Systèmes’ industries Solutions & optimized Best Practices are enabling new product development capabilities, from system engineering to product simulation to shop floor automation and are bringing direct return of investment.

This session will highlight Dassault Systèmes unique vision, strategy and PLM portfolio and will focus on today’s Market businesses & trends. Some examples of emerging new technologies will also be uncovered, establishing V5 capabilities as today’s & tomorrow’s unmatched lead for innovation.

Aerospace Industry
Goodrich and C&D Zodiac

Automotive Industry
Bentley

Keynote: Harbour Consulting
Laurie Harbour-Felax, President, Harbour-Felax Group

COE General Session Featured Speakers

Rapid Design-Chain Alignment and Synchronization
Mike Fecek, Vice President, Virtual Services
Every company is under constant competitive pressure to deliver its products at lower cost, in less time, and with increased product quality.  A company, however, is only as good as the sum of its suppliers.  Any weak link in its supply-chain can compromise the objectives of speed, cost and quality.  In worst case scenarios, a weak critical supplier can jeopardize the total success of the entire product program.  Program risk increases when new products are rolled out, new suppliers are added to the supply-chain, or new technology must be adopted throughout the extended enterprise.  In order to address these challenges, a comprehensive approach to rapid supply-chain alignment and synchronization was developed called LEaP© (Linked, Enabled and Proficient).

LEaP© is an end-to-end, process-driven, generic framework that is used to architect supply-chain synchronization solutions.  Synchronization solutions are specific and unique to each supply-chain owner and supplier community.  The LEaP© framework includes processes, methods and technology to accelerate supply chain alignment, measure its proficiency, and monitor its ongoing performance.  LEaP© has been tested, validated and refined over the past three years.  Some of the key underpinning technologies include the Virtual Team Management Systems (VTMS©), the Virtual Learning Management System (VLMS©), and a rapid deployment product call LEaP Express©.  The LEaP© framework can be applied to any design-chain albeit an external set of suppliers or an internal set of corporate divisions.  LEaP© solutions are currently in broad use by two major OEMs.

The application of the LEaP© framework is critical to the success of companies who depend upon their supply-chains.  Suppliers are connected faster, supply chain implementation costs are dramatically reduced, and ongoing alignment and synchronization is assured.  Resistance to change within the supply base is minimized by substantially reducing adoption costs.  The LEaP© framework provides high value output for IT, Product Development, Purchasing and Manufacturing.  LEaP© yields win-win solutions for supply chains and their owners in a way that promotes long-term success amidst the uncertainties of an ever-changing global economy.

787 PLM - Challenges of Living a Dream
Jim Green, Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Boeing has been working toward a vision of Product Lifecycle Management for years, including digital work statement, full 3D MBD, flatter product structure, geometry-based process planning, global design/build/support, and rapid customer implementation, all the while maintaining the highest data quality standards. The 787 Airplane Program has provided the opportunity to drive a stake in the ground on the vision, and implement CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, as a full PLM solution. This has challenged the development and implementation teams. This talk will highlight some of the vision and what was implemented as a step in that direction.

Implementing Product Life-Cycle Management – “The Good, The Bad, and The Legacy”
Richard Parr, LCA Project Lead, Sikorsky
Inherent in the high engineering design content of complex Aerospace and Defense (A&D) products, data management is mission critical. As companies adopt virtual enterprise concepts, the information infrastructures must support inter-company exchange of product data along the supply chain and it’s customers. To meet these challenges Sikorsky Aircraft is migrating to the next generation of Product Life-Cycle Management systems (PLM). This paper will address how Sikorsky Aircraft is implementing Enovia’s Life-Cycle Application (LCA) software across their virtual enterprise. It will discuss the good, the bad and the legacy data aspects of this challenge.

Virtual Collaboration in a Global Enterprise
David Prawel,  President, Longview Advisors Inc.
This presentation will present key success factors for effective collaboration in a global organization. 3D software technology, supported by PLM processes and technologies, provides a foundation that enables globally distributed organizations, such as design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, maintenance, and service, to collaborate with customers and each other to speed exciting, innovative products to market. I will discuss people, process and technology considerations and solutions, along with benefits, impacts, and risks, and I will highlight Dassault’s recent developments to facilitate collaboration throughout the product lifecycle. It’s not easy to collaborate effectively, but there is huge, proven value of getting it right.

Legacy Data Requirements and Strategy for MBD Datasets Archiving
Terry McGowan, Systems Engineer IV, Boeing Phantom Works ALE
This presentation will address relevant issues specific to long term retention of authority CAD datasets from both a regulatory compliance standpoint and internal policy perspective. The ISO 10303 STEP AP 203 edition 2 standard will be a primary focus of this presentation. The concepts of collaborative and consumable data are discussed and what role each of these classes of data yield in terms of future reuse of data. General process flows will be presented which outline basic approaches to establishing a long term retention strategy. The final part of the presentation will discuss the importance of establishing a robust validation method for insuring the integrity of data being stored.