DELMIA V5.18 expands IBM Product Lifecycle Management digital manufacturing

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1 IBM United States Announcement , dated March 11, 2008 DELMIA V5.18 expands IBM Product Lifecycle Management digital manufacturing Description...2 Product positioning... 4 Reference information... 5 Additional details...6 Education support...26 Technical information...26 Ordering information...35 Terms and conditions Prices...52 At a glance DELMIA V5.18 expands the IBM Digital Manufacturing Portfolio with the addition of DELMIA Process Planning Solutions and new and enhanced Release 18 functions. The DELMIA Process Planning suite delivers powerful tools for process and resource planning. Enhancements to previously announced products deliver a seamless end-to-end final assembly process planning solution. Further developments extend the production-ready solutions for the automotive body-in-white and shipbuilding domains. Improved usability exploits V5 fundamentals to create a powerful 3D model-based definition (MBD) manufacturing process planning solution that includes engineering requirements. 3D simulation for assembly processes and human factors capabilities benefit from significant usability enhancements and breakthroughs. Overview DELMIA V5.18 adds the DELMIA Process Planning suite of five configurations and 17 products. Through methodically structured planning, this suite supports the early recognition of process risks, re-use of proven processes, traceable changes and decisions, and access to process knowledge that is distributed across the enterprise. Process Planning applications can be used from the conceptual product design phase, through the preplanning and detail planning stages, and on to the production phase as alternative designs and manufacturing scenarios mature. Digital manufacturing solutions designed and built for your industry V5.18 enhancements that extend capabilities for work instruction authoring will significantly benefit the aerospace domain by employing unique process functional tolerancing annotations that are not dependant on design datasets. In the automotive domain, V5.18 supplies enhancements for automatic line balancing that can benefit the final assembly domain plus a series of enhancements for the body-in-white domain that extends its capabilities in production implementation. Collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM) to leverage knowledge and expertise across your enterprise Significant enhancements improve the interoperability between the Manufacturing Hub and the DELMIA Process Detailing and Validation solutions. IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1

2 Usability is improved by exploiting V5 fundamentals for powerful 3D model-based definition (MBD) manufacturing process planning, including engineering requirements. New support for manufacturing assembly and manufacturing kit definition based on "black-box" work packages is added. Enhanced capabilities in manufacturing change management extend support to a wider range of business process scenarios, such as reducing constraints for end-users. Breakthrough technologies to help you gain productivity Significant usability enhancements and breakthroughs improve 3D simulation for assembly and human factors. Key prerequisites DELMIA V5.18 runs on selected versions of: Microsoft Windows AIX Hewlett Packard HP-UX Sun Solaris Planned availability date March 14, 2008 Description DELMIA allows manufacturers in any industry to virtually define, plan, create, monitor, and control all production processes. It offers an array of dedicated applications for industries, combined with an environment for knowledge-sharing, process and resource management, and the ability to capture and implement best practices for manufacturing. DELMIA PLM technology allows manufacturers to interact with factory processes early in the design stage and months before actual production commitment. Engineers, management, and stakeholders across the extended enterprise can have a 3D visualization of the real world with the ability to evaluate "what-if scenarios," make changes, optimize shop floor operations, and identify and eliminate costly errors and design mistakes. These capabilities allow any enterprise to facilitate higher quality and foster greater innovation. DELMIA also extends its PLM technology to smaller businesses within the supply chain to allow smaller companies to better connect and collaborate with larger manufacturers. DELMIA Process Planning This release adds the suite of process planning configurations and products to the DELMIA portfolio. DELMIA Process Planning delivers a comprehensive process and resource planning support environment. The resulting process diagrams help to create a clear overview of the sequences and links between processes and resources early in product design conception. Process Planning can be used to perform planning tasks such as: Layout planning Time measurement Process and resource planning Product evaluation Cost analysis Line balancing Its applications deliver a high-quality solution for early recognition of process risks, re-use of proven processes, traceable changes and decisions, and access to distributed process knowledge. This comprehensive treatment of the relationships among product, process, and manufacturing resource data, including plant layout, helps to avoid planning mistakes and to obtain a precise overview, early in the design process, of the required investment costs, IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2

3 production space, and manpower required. Excellence for manufacturing production performance The addition of the process planning suite to the portfolio, combined with enhancements to the previously announced Process Detailing and Validation Solutions, deliver a new level of excellence for manufacturing production performance. DELMIA PLM for your industry: Aerospace DELMIA V5.18 provides a new option for rendering work instruction text using process functional tolerancing and annotation (PTA) as opposed to the preexisting capability utilizing 2D standard text windows. Such PTAs, combined with user-definable visualization of engineering requirements employing standard functional tolerancing and annotation (FTA), offers a flexible mechanism for manufacturing to define explicit immersive visualization to support work instructions independent of design engineering content and/or data management. As a result, manufacturing planners can define 3D work instructions with unique visualization characteristics without requiring any changes to design engineering datasets, thus reducing the cost for supporting authoring and related change activity. Moreover, the independent control of the 3D definition to support uniquely manufacturing-oriented authoring scenarios increases the value proposition in general because otherwise the required design/manufacturing coordination might be viewed as an undue burden. Automotive For final assembly, DELMIA V5.18 provides a seamless, end-to-end final assembly solution from process planning to 3D validation. Benefiting from the V5 resource-centric approach, automatic line balancing results can be automatically viewed and edited in 3D. As a result, manufacturing planners can easily see and check the tasks performed by workers at each station or each workplace of the assembly line. It also allows them to validate the assembly line layout and do fine tuning of operations between stations using 3D. Additionally, automatic line balancing now supports both "Green Field" (new factories) and "Brown Field" (existing factories with established lines and processes) scenarios. For body-in-white processes, V5.18 delivers a new assembly specification tree to replace the product flow viewer. This capability allows the user to define assemblies and sub-assembly bills of material (BOMs) derived from the manufacturing process plan. Additionally, this release delivers new capabilities for defining manufacturing line concepts in 2D, independent of the resource layout. This includes the capability to define input parts, assemblies, and sub-assemblies as well as output assemblies for each line. Furthermore, new simulation roll-up capabilities provide the mechanism to combine simulation data from multiple stations for multi-station/line level simulation. These resource-centric capabilities and views of product, process, and resource data provide the automotive planner with essential capabilities for production implementation of the DELMIA body-in-white and final assembly solutions. Shipbuilding With the release of V5.18, DELMIA DPM Structure Lofting 2, a process planning solution for the shipbuilding domain, moves from controlled to general availability. This configuration provides the shipbuilding planner with a wide variety of structure lofting (large sheet-metal layouts) tools and process planning and validation, in-process model generation, and shop floor documentation capabilities. It delivers the power of V5 collaborative 3D technology to a domain that is presently moving from 2D technology to advanced 3D design and planning. Collaborative PLM DELMIA V5.18 delivers new capabilities to perform volume filtering when loading arbitrary product data from the DELMIA Manufacturing Hub into a DELMIA session. Such volume filtering can significantly reduce the complexity of datasets and also improve overall system performance for general usage. The net result and value to the end-user is that they can complete their authoring tasks in much less time because the system will provide faster performance. Moreover, they will be able to make better decisions within their planning activities owing to the decreased complexity and thus the overall quality of the plan will be higher, resulting in decreased problems and changes driven from the shop-floor, all leading to decreased production cost and reduced time to market at the required quality/cost targets. With this release, DELMIA now supports all possible types of FTA and linked geometries for use as engineering requirements within design and for use during manufacturing process planning. This enhanced support is mandatory to enable a "3D-only" business process. IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3

4 This release also expands the support of V5 "black-box" work packages for use when defining manufacturing kits and assemblies. This capability further enables a "3D-only" business process across the design-manufacturing disciplines. DELMIA V5.18 provides additional features within the manufacturing change management module to allow flexibility of the applied constraints. For example, the user can now specify if specific attributes within a process object should be excluded from change control, even while the rest of the metadata in the same object is subject to change control. The key benefit is that it reduces the complexity for end-users, thus increasing their efficiency in completing their tasks. Ultimately this leads to reduced time and cost for completing the required manufacturing planning activities. Breakthrough technologies: Four new human factors catalogs deliver significant usability enhancements to the DELMIA human factors suite. These catalogs include hundreds of predefined postures, preferred angles, various sized manikins, and tasks. Through the use of these richly populated catalogs, the ergonomist can reduce simulation model build time by as much as 70%. DELMIA V5.18 provides an additional capability for process verification using 3D state management. A simplified definition of 3D states and positions combined with new commands (such as Synchronize position or Redefine reference object) allows simulation engineers to significantly reduce the set-up time of their 3D environment. Accessibility by people with disabilities Owing to the graphics-intensive nature of its engineering design applications, this product has been granted a deviation. Product positioning DELMIA brings together a set of digital manufacturing solutions targeted for industrial sectors in which continuing optimization is a determinant factor. These solutions allow manufacturers to bring their products to market more quickly, while reducing production costs and encouraging innovation. DELMIA digital manufacturing solutions assist industries where continuous transformation and optimization of manufacturing processes are critical. These include automotive, aerospace and defense, fabrication and assembly, electrical and electronic, consumer goods, and shipbuilding. The DELMIA PLM suite of computer-aided process planning and engineering solutions enables companies to achieve lean, build-to-order manufacturing by fostering a concurrent engineering environment. Coverage extends from the conceptual phase of product and process design, through simulation and monitoring of manufacturing processes, to shop floor operations, such as capacity planning, implementation and monitoring. DELMIA digital manufacturing solutions deliver many benefits, including: Comprehensive process planning in the early design phase Maximization of production efficiency and factory utilization Optimization of investment Ability to capture and re-use best practices and enterprise knowledge Ability to anticipate and correct potential problems in the design and manufacturing pipeline Derivation and carry-over of process engineering and production resources Reduction of time-to-market and manufacturing costs Reduction in the time required to start production and related costs Ability to improve time-to-volume Ability to foster innovation of products and processes Ability to gain maximum profitability IBM has worked with thousands of manufacturers of all sizes around the world to implement solutions designed to enhance product development and streamline manufacturing processes. PLM solutions from IBM are the industry standard for OEMs, supply chain partners, and IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 4

5 suppliers. IBM has over 31,000 PLM customers worldwide in a wide range of industries that include automotive, aerospace, industrial products, electronics, chemicals, and petroleum. IBM does not just install technology. We serve as a trusted advisor to provide the best-of-breed PLM applications, IT environment, integration capabilities, and business strategy to help you achieve your business objectives. IBM and Dassault Systemes have partnered for over 20 years to develop and deliver leading PLM solutions. IBM and Dassault Systemes have one of the largest PLM practices in the world with over 2,000 application engineers and consultants worldwide. Dassault Systemes, IBM, and our clients have collaborated to implement Dassault Systemes and IBM technology to power digital manufacturing, resulting in significant return on investment (ROI) and improvements in manufacturing and engineering effectiveness. IBM Global Business Solutions also has a complete suite of services offerings around the DELMIA, CATIA, ENOVIA VPLM, and ENOVIA SmarTeam products, including consulting, planning, implementation, integration, training, support, and managed services. Hardware and software support services SmoothStart /installation services: SmoothStart/Installation Services are not available for DELMIA products. DELMIA V5 services plan PLM Services, part of IBM Global Business Services, offers a robust portfolio of services to assist with the implementation of DELMIA V5. Careful planning and implementation are essential to getting the most from DELMIA V5. IBM can help with assessment, solution design, planning, installation, data migration, custom application development, best-practices consulting, user and administrative training, support, and project management. For additional information on service offerings and how IBM professionals can assist with the implementation of DELMIA V5 in your environment, contact an IBM representative or IBM Services organization or visit Select PLM Services from the list of related links. Reference information For information about CATIA V5.18, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 25, For information about ENOVIA VPLM V5.18, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 25, For information about ENOVIA SmarTeam V5.18, refer to Software Announcement , dated September 25, Trademarks XT and SmoothStart are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. AIX and SP2 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 5

6 Additional details This release introduces the DELMIA Process Planning suite of configurations and products and adds 19 new Process Detailing and Validation products to those announced in DELMIA V5.17. Seven Process Detailing and Validation configurations and one AOP are withdrawn. About hubs The DELMIA Manufacturing Hub: DELMIA Process Planning configurations and products are built around the DELMIA Manufacturing Hub. The hub is a customizable database that supports the DELMIA product, process, and resource (PPR) data model. It is the repository for all data and relationship definitions for products, processes, and resources used in manufacturing planning. Hub libraries contain all global data, such as plantype sets with related template projects, work system components, global scripts, planning states, raw materials, as well as standard data types and V5 catalogs. It employs an object-oriented data model where project-specific containers store all the data objects that belong to the plans related to a project. The data model supports three main types of components: Products Processes Resources Customization features allow the data model to be extended for both user-defined data types and attributes. The ENOVIA Engineering Hub: The ENOVIA Engineering Hub manages the "engineering-owned" intellectual property gathered during the product life cycle. Using the same product, process, and resource data models as found in the DELMIA Manufacturing Hub, the ENOVIA Engineering Hub provides a consistent information infrastructure and supports the complex web of inter-relationships that relate individual data components. The Engineering Hub's unique configuration modeler interprets effectivity and option conditions for relationships to allow an unprecedented degree of variability while minimizing data redundancy. Included in the Engineering Hub are interoperability features with CATIA Version 4 and Version 5, ENOVIAPM, ENOVIA SmarTeam, and DELMIA. CATIA V5 is built on the same data model as ENOVIA VPM allowing for the engineering knowledge implemented by the product designers, such as assembly relations and constraints, to be accessed in ENOVIA and utilized for impact analysis and automatic change propagation. Connection to DELMIA hubs enables complete "cradle-to-grave" IP life-cycle management. DELMIA Process Planning The DELMIA Process Planning solution suite delivers a comprehensive process and resource planning support environment. The resulting process diagrams can provide a clear overview of the sequences and links between processes and resources early in product design conception. The products in this suite can help in performing such planning tasks as: Layout planning Time measurement Process and resource planning Product evaluation Cost analysis Line balancing Ordering DELMIA Process Planning products: Products can be ordered as a predefined set of products included in a standard configuration or as a shareable product delivered with its own license key. Shareable products allow one user to obtain the license at the beginning of a session or to leave it for another user within the network. Some products are included products. These can be distinguished from configurations and shareable products by the lack of the 5671 prefix in their product identifier. Included products are available only in configurations; however, they are described here to provide insight into the capabilities of the configurations in which they are included. IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 6

7 Products can have one or more pre- or corequisite products. Refer to the Software requirements section for details. Process Planning configurations (all new in this release): DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Access (5671-EAC) The DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Access Configuration allows DELMIA V5 clients to access the ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub. There is no user interface. The configuration comprises the following products: DELMIA Manufacturing Change Management (5671-MCM) DELMIA Configuration & Effectivity Filtering (5671-CEF) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Client (EMH) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Server (EMS) DELMIA Process Engineer (5671-EEC) DELMIA Process Engineer enables users to recognize process risks early in the process design, to reuse proven processes, to trace changes and evidence of the decision making process, and to access process knowledge scattered across the enterprise. Process Engineer's comprehensive treatment of the relationships among product, process, and manufacturing resource data, including layout, allows users to avoid planning mistakes, paving the way for a precise overview of the entire process early in the planning stages. This clear-cut overview details the investment costs, production space, and manpower resources required. Process Engineer delivers a structured planning methodology that systematically leads to an optimal solution by considering all process-related costs and by analyzing alternatives early in the planning process. Risks are drastically reduced because Process Engineer allows for the re-use of proven processes. Because it supports multiple users and allows for collaborative planning, planning time is shortened. Process Engineer organizes each project based on the unique structure of the product, processes, resources, and plant layout involved. This solution customizes the user interface and reporting formats to meet individual requirements and promotes an identical planning environment for all projects. It provides built-in documentation of planning history and reflects any data change immediately across the entire project. Process Engineer can be used as a DELMIA Manufacturing Hub-based solution, either stand-alone or in conjunction with other DELMIA products, to build a complete, enterprise-wide solution. It enables users to administer access rights to the DELMIA Manufacturing Hub and allows mapping to project- or company-specific reporting systems. The DELMIA Process Engineer configuration comprises the following products: DELMIA Configuration & Effectivity (5671-CEF) DELMIA Target Tracking (5671-TGT) DELMIA Product Viewing (5671-PVW) DELMIA Process & Resource planning (5671-EPR) DELMIA Standard Time Management (5671-STM) DELMIA 2D Layout Planning (5671-L2P) DELMIA Plantype Editor (PTE) DELMIA Report Designer (RPD) DELMIA Object Customization (OCU) DELMIA 3D Layout planning (L3P) DELMIA PPR Navigator & Editor (PRN) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Client (EMH) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Server (EMS) DELMIA Industrial Engineer (5671-EIC) DELMIA Industrial Engineer is a powerful browsing and administration tool for accessing and manipulating any item of information stored in the PPR Hub. IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 7

8 It allows users to access the entire planning content and all logical relationships stored in the Hub. PPR items and their relationships, as well as planning prerequisites and objectives, are easily accessed by a Windows -like user interface. Its easy-to-use interface can be used to tailor PPR Hub content to project- and company-specific requirements. Additional powerful customization capabilities allow users to adapt the interface to the terminology of project- and company-specific requirements. The configuration's user manager can be employed to administer access rights to the PPR Hub through the PPR Navigator. Individual users and groups and their access rights to planning content, functions, and structures are easily defined. Industrial Engineer also allows the user to map to or incorporate project- or company-specific reporting systems. A powerful forms editor enables users to rapidly define forms for evaluations and reports. Industrial Engineer integrates seamlessly with other DELMIA process planning and simulation products. Task automation can be defined programmatically with easy-to-use Visual Basic and Java scripting on the supported Windows platforms. Industrial Engineer also allows users to efficiently and reliably determine the time required to perform a specific job sequence based on commonly used time measurement methods or proprietary time standards. Its intuitive user interface allows multiple users to work efficiently after only a brief familiarization period. DELMIA Industrial Engineer offers: The ability to access the entire planning content and all logical relationships in a common planning environment An easy-to-use interface to tailor PPR Hub content to project- and company-specific requirements The ability to adapt user interface terminology to project- or company-specific requirements Support for project- or company-specific reporting systems Administration of access rights to the Manufacturing Hub Quick and efficient generation of time analyses with all common analysis procedures (UAS, MEK, and MTM2) Capture and management of estimated and recorded time values Checking of rules for accuracy and totality Structured management of time analyses with a central repository for general purpose data Data compression capability across any number of data levels Structured data management Automatic update of time values Creation of user-defined formulas for determining process time Flexible search mechanisms based on search patterns The DELMIA Industrial Engineer configuration comprises the following products: DELMIA Standard Time Management (5671-STM) DELMIA Plantype Editor (PTE) DELMIA Report Designer (RPD) DELMIA Object Customization (OCU) DELMIA 3D Layout planning (L3P) DELMIA PPR Navigator & Editor (PRN) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Client (EMH) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Server (EMS) DELMIA PPR Navigator for Manufacturing Hub (5671-EPC) The DELMIA PPR Navigator is a powerful browsing and administration tool for accessing and manipulating any item of information stored in the PPR Hub. It allows users to access the entire planning content and all logical relationships stored in the PPR Hub. PPR items and their relationships, along with planning prerequisites and objectives, can easily be accessed by a IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 8

9 Windows-like user interface. The PPR Navigator includes an easy-to-use interface to tailor PPR Hub content to project- and company-specific requirements. Additional powerful customization capabilities allow users to adapt the interface to the terminology of these project- and company-specific requirements. The configuration's user manager allows system administrators to manage access rights to the PPR Hub. Individual users and groups and their access rights to planning content, functions, and structures are easily defined. The PPR Navigator also allows the user to map to or incorporate project- or company-specific reporting systems. A powerful forms editor enables users to rapidly define forms for evaluations and reports. The PPR Navigator integrates seamlessly with other DELMIA process planning and simulation products. Additionally, task automation can be defined programmatically with easy-to-use Visual Basic and Java Scripting that is supported on Windows platforms. DELMIA PPR Navigator offers the following functions: Allows users to access the entire planning content and all logical relationships in a common planning environment Delivers an easy-to-use interface for tailoring PPR Hub content to project- or company-specific requirements Allows the user to adapt the interface to project- specific or company-specific requirements Supports project- or company-specific reporting systems Allows users to administer access rights to the PPR Hub DELMIA PPR Navigator comprises the following products: DELMIA Plantype Editor (PTE) DELMIA Report Designer (RPD) DELMIA Object Customization (OCU) DELMIA 3D Layout planning (L3P) DELMIA PPR Navigator & Editor (PRN) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Client (EMH) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Server (EMS) DELMIA Process & Resource Planner (5671-ERC) DELMIA Process & Resource Planner enables the creation, management and comparison of planning alternatives and variants in all phases of the planning process. It allows users to access and administer the PPR Hub, allowing them to create, manipulate, and navigate any item of information that is of significance within the context of integrated process engineering. It also permits users to efficiently and reliably determine the time required to perform a specific job sequence based on commonly used time measurement methods or company-proprietary time standards. Its intuitive user interface allows multiple users to work efficiently after only a brief familiarization period. Process & Resource Planner supports the step-by-step detailing and systematic preliminary planning of a manufacturing process based on the process graph and the manufacturing concept graph. With a capacity and cost analysis that can be activated at any time, the planner has an effective instrument for quickly and accurately determining the optimal manufacturing process for a new product from both a technical and economic standpoint, with no detours or guessing games. The schematically displayed manufacturing concept describes and links all of the cost-effective processes and resources of the future manufacturing process. It therefore forms the basis for: Capacity and cost calculations associated with planning A comparison of alternative manufacturing concepts The subsequent detailed planning and automatic balancing (with DELMIA Workload Balancing) Generating the model for material flow simulation DELMIA Process & Resource Planner includes the following capabilities: IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 9

10 Supports the methodical planning process through step-by-step detailing based on the process graph and the schematic manufacturing concept Is open for the company-specific adaptation of process and resource views (object types, attributes, and graphic symbols that can be freely configured) Supports overall planning by taking into account all of the technical demands that play an important role in designing the manufacturing process Integrates and links all planning information in the DELMIA PPR Hub and by using the results of geometry-oriented process planning with DPM Enables the planner to continuously monitor controllable manufacturing costs Supports the cost comparison of alternative manufacturing concepts and the analysis of the manufacturing run-up (step-by-step expansion of the manufacturing process) Prepares the information contained in the manufacturing concept for automatic layout generation and dynamic simulation DELMIA Process & Resource Planner comprises the following products: DELMIA Process & Resource Planning (5671-EPR) DELMIA Standard Time Management (5671-STM) DELMIA 2D Layout Planning (5671-L2P) DELMIA 3D Layout planning (L3P) DELMIA Plantype Editor (PTE) DELMIA Report Designer (RPD) DELMIA Object Customization (OCU) DELMIA PPR Navigator & Editor (PRN) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Client (EMH) DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Server (EMS) Process Planning products (all new in this release): Products with a 5671 prefix are orderable (shareable) products. Those with no 5671 prefix are included-only products. They are described here to provide insight into the capabilities of the configurations in which they are included. There are no AOPs. DELMIA Automatic Line Balancing (5671-ALB) DELMIA Automatic Line Balancing enables users to balance processes in automotive final assembly applications by taking into account several restrictions and by creating geometrical assembly stations. It is a powerful digital technology-based tool that delivers a rich array of functions to assist the planner in balancing processes for automotive assembly lines. It offers data in a visually-intuitive, graphically-intensive, and easy-to-use manner so that the right information is available. Automatic Line Balancing features: Automatic balancing based on a process graph and other restrictions Material planning Manual re-balancing with warnings based on the restrictions 2D view of stations, workplaces, processes, and containers Several other views The balancing algorithm takes into account the following restrictions: Production rate Assembly process precedence Space required for material supply IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 10

11 Body assignment of process Locking of technical stations Given worker density Work process height Based on input data, Automatic Line Balancing creates an optimized balancing approach. The user interface shows a 2D display of the assembly line, with its stations and material supply zones along the line. Using drag and drop, the planner can change the balancing result. Throughout the planning process, the system checks the restrictions and gives its recommendations to the planner. Balancing also takes into account the space required for material support at each station. The PPR data model is visible in the linked products and containers at each process. The planner can display the assigned parts with their containers using a simple mouse click. For material planning, the containers display information on the number of parts, container size, and the frequency of material supply. DELMIA Configuration & Effectivity (5671-CEF) DELMIA Configuration & Effectivity allows users to define and apply filter criteria to large manufacturing projects to view only the desired data. There are several types of filters. For example, the user can define criteria such as labels in a project library. After the labels are defined, they can be applied to the manufacturing object using change management or manually when authoring the manufacturing object. When working on a project, the user can specify the filter criteria for the project based on the previously defined labels. When the effectivities are applied, whether through change management or manually, the filter is applied to the manufacturing objects, and only the filtered objects become visible. This allows the user to view only the required data for a project. Configuration & Effectivity delivers the following functions: A configuration library Option codes Option effectivities Configuration handler Production programs Labels Lint numbers Effectivity domains Filter criteria Different PPR criteria Effectivity Explicitly applied Implicit behavior (link and sibling activated) Filtering algorithms Code rule frequency Absolute effectivity DELMIA ENOVIA VPM Connection (5671-E4M) DELMIA ENOVIA VPM Connection transfers engineering design data from ENOVIA VPM V4 to the ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub. It closely integrates product design departments (using ENOVIA VPM V4 and CATIA V4 or V5) with product manufacturing departments (using ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub and DELMIA V5). ENOVIA VPM Connection transfers the following information: Product metadata Product structure IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 11

12 Product attributes Model and document data Configuration and effectivity data Product geometry CATIA Graphic Representations (PGRs) The data transfer can be performed either interactively or via a batch program. Further, the Manufacturing Hub can be updated in two ways: Full transfer mode Always transfer the complete product structure. Partial transfer mode Do not transfer the complete product structure, but selected sub-assemblies only. This mode supports the transfer of a very large product structure by "assembling" it from smaller pieces. The supported objects in ENOVIA VPM V4 are: Product-related objects Reference parts Part instance information Link information (product structure) Transformation matrices Documents and models CGR filename CGR geometry Effectivity-related objects Effectivity on links between parts Category, option, and specification Further capabilities include: Type mapping Attribute mapping Update management and protocol Filtering DELMIA ENOVIA VPM V5 Connection (5671-E5M) DELMIA ENOVIA VPM V5 Connection transfers engineering design data from ENOVIA VPM V5 to the ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub. It closely integrates product design departments (using ENOVIA VPM V5 and CATIA V5) with product manufacturing departments (using ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub and DELMIA V5). ENOVIA VPM V5 Connection transfers the following information: Product metadata Product structure Product attributes Document data Configuration and effectivity data Product geometry CGRs Direct ENOVIA vault geometry access in V5 applications The data transfer can be performed either interactively or via a batch program. Further, the IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 12

13 Manufacturing Hub can be updated in three ways: Full transfer mode Always transfer the complete product structure. Partial transfer mode Do not transfer the complete product structure, but selected sub-assemblies only. This mode supports the transfer of a large product structure by "assembling" it from smaller pieces. Incremental transfer mode Transfer only those changes since a given date. The supported objects in ENOVIA VPM V5 are: Product-related objects Product root class (PRC) Part master, part version, item instance Assembly relations, such as product structure Product class (PC) Substitute parts Transformation matrices Bounding boxes Document master, document revision, document iteration CGR filename CGR geometry CGR file creation through DMU Utilities Document name Document ID Allows vault access for DELMIA clients Effectivity-related objects Effectivity on assembly relations Product specifications Category, option, specification Multiple effectivity domains Further capabilities include: Type mapping Attribute mapping Update management and protocol Filtering DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Client (EMH) The ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub is a customizable database that supports the DELMIA PPR data model. It is the repository for all data and relationship definitions for the products, processes, and resources used in manufacturing planning. The architecture employs a single database instance that can be used concurrently by several client types, although only one modification is allowed at a time. The maximum number of active clients for a Manufacturing Hub is configurable. Manufacturing Hub libraries contain all global data, such as plantype sets with related template projects, work system components, global scripts, planning states, raw materials, as well as standard data types and V5 catalogs. The data model primarily uses inheritance as a modeling mechanism in its hierarchical structure. The Manufacturing Hub introduces an object-oriented data model to store data in the database. Project-specific containers store all the data objects that belong to the plans related to a project. The data model supports three main types of components: Products IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 13

14 Processes Resources Customization features allow the data model to be extended for both user-defined types and attributes and to store this information. Customization introduces its own data model containing entities describing types, attributes, and parent-child relationships. These entities model how components are structured within projects. They also provide the facilities necessary to extend the data model. The customization facility's data model is referred to as the metadata model. The metadata model holds display information for clients. DELMIA ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub Server (EMS) The ENOVIA Manufacturing Hub is a customizable database that supports the DELMIA PPR data model. It is the repository for all data and relationship definitions for products, processes, and resources used in manufacturing planning. The architecture employs a single database instance that can be used concurrently by several client types, although only one modification is allowed at a time. The maximum number of active clients for a Manufacturing Hub is configurable. Manufacturing Hub libraries contain all global data, such as plantype sets with related template projects, work system components, global scripts, planning states, raw materials, as well as standard data types and V5 catalogs. The data model primarily uses inheritance as a modeling mechanism in its hierarchical structure. The Manufacturing Hub introduces an object-oriented data model to store data in the database. Project-specific containers store all the data objects that belong to the plans related to a project. The data model supports three main types of components: Products Processes Resources Customization features allow the data model to be extended for both user-defined types and attributes and to store this information. Customization introduces its own data model containing entities describing types, attributes, and parent-child relationships. These entities model how components are structured within projects. They also provide the facilities necessary to extend the data model. The customization facility's data model is referred to as the metadata model. The metadata model holds display information for clients. DELMIA Process & Resource Planning (5671-EPR) DELMIA Product and Resource Planning supports the complex task of manufacturing process planning in two methodically structured steps: Determination of the process concept, which, based on the process graph, describes the processes as well as the process sequence and properties required for manufacturing the product. The outline and optimization of the manufacturing concept, which also describes in graphic form (symbol layout) the resources required for manufacturing the product, both qualitatively and quantitatively, and links them with the processes. Within the process graph, the planner first determines the necessary (value-added) manufacturing or installation steps and their required sequence for manufacturing the product. The processes are displayed as rectangles, and their sequence by directional connecting arrows. A series of processes can also be defined as a fixed, unalterable priority relation, which results for example from the geometry-oriented installation follow-up inspection and simulation with DPM for Assembly. The DELMIA PPR Hub is the integrating basis for all DELMIA products that specify or use the process (priority) graph. The processes are linked to the elements of the product structure using the drag and drop function, which is displayed in the DELMIA PPR Navigator. In this way, a variant code that may be available is transferred from the product node to the process. The linking of product and process is inherited in the subsequent actualization stages of planning (resources in the manufacturing concept or manufacturing layout). Technical and classifying attributes are available for describing the process properties and can be completed and adapted in any way within the framework of the configuration. Execution times can be stored both as an estimated value and as an analyzed value of the processes. Here IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 14

15 users can gain access to the standardized analysis procedures used worldwide and to the time components which they define (company-specific process standards) using the integrated DELMIA Standard Time Measurement. Proven processes and procedural results can also be saved as reusable templates so that they will be available from the library for use in all planning procedures as a modifiable template or fixed standard. Whereas the process concept remains "solution-neutral" with respect to the actual manufacturing design, the manufacturing concept answers the question as to which resources machinery, tools, logistic aids and the human work force are used to realize the processes in the factory. Non-value-add activities are also typically recorded here as part of the planning (such as transport and testing procedures), which are unavoidable for the successful execution and perpetuation of production and which incur costs. The manufacturing concept graph can be automatically derived from the process graph as an initial outline. This results in a 1:1 allocation of processes and resources (work stations), which can be quickly and easily changed using a variety of convenient editing functions. This method could be used, for example, to plan new product-specific manufacturing plants scheduled for construction. The resources of an existing manufacturing concept graph can also be linked individually to any of the various processes available in the PPR structure. This can be done directly using drag and drop function. This approach would be applied to planning for the manufacture of new products using existing plants (typically workshop manufacturing). Resources are represented in the manufacturing concept graph by type-specific symbols that can be freely configured according to type, quantity and shape. Different colored connecting lines or directional arrows represent links (such as worker to machine) and material flow. All of the important information, such as process and performance times, information for media use and all directly calculable preparation and operating costs can be stored in the resources. The analysis functions assigned to the manufacturing concept show the current level of utilization of resources at all times according to the planning state, the amount of human labor, and the total costs being incurred for the preparation and operation of the future manufacturing process. In this way, the planner can continuously monitor the costs of product manufacturing over which he or she has some control. Based on this analysis, the planner can compare alternative manufacturing concepts with respect to economic indicators. The analysis is based on a number of so-called premises. These consist of boundaries and standards, which include time-related planned quantities for product and manufacturing, target costs, working time or shift model, and technical requirements of the manufacturing location. If the DELMIA 3D Layout Planning product is available, a three-dimensional preliminary layout outline can be generated from the manufacturing concept graph, which can later be further edited interactively. When generating the layout, specific components from the system elements library or form-describing macros should already have been assigned to the resource symbols in the manufacturing concept graph. Each resource symbol can even be linked to a 3D macro from the very start. (Feasible within the scope of the system configuration.) Both process and manufacturing concepts can be structured for better manageability. This can be accomplished either by sub-dividing the graphs into groups or by creating a hierarchical structure of subordinate graphs. Process and Resource Planning stores all data in the DELMIA PPR Hub. In this way, the created information is also visible and can be queried in the PPR Navigator under the specific process or resource node. Conversely, the processes and resources created in the Navigator are also displayed in the process graph or in the manufacturing concept graph and can be inserted into the process at that point. DELMIA 2D Layout Planning (5671-L2P) DELMIA 2D Layout Planning supports the simultaneous engineering of production facilities. The schematic layout of the manufacturing concept is turned into a 2D layout and assists in basic and detail planning of manual and semi-automated workplaces and entire work systems (resource planning). Both general and detailed planning can be performed during each stage of the planning phase. A bill of resources of layout components is created automatically as components are added to the layout, and investment roll-ups are calculated. 3D graphic components can be used with the limitation that they can only be visualized in the 2D top view. To allow the user to quickly create cost-effective designs and to optimize layouts, whether for stations, lines, or complete work systems, 2D Layout Planning comes with a library of commonly used manufacturing equipment. Users can also easily create their own system elements or use CAD data, such as CGR files, JT files, or VRML1 files, in the layout. System elements are stored IBM United States Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 15