The Role of a PLM Platform in Digitalization of Engineering
Ever increasing product complexity forces organizations to reimagine their approach to design—including new methodologies, design tools, and configuration management for every step of the lifecycle. This also must include the pivotal role of a PLM platform plays in enabling the system-centric view of a product: traceability of requirements, management of systems models, simulation, and cross-discipline collaboration.
Prof. Dr.-Ing Martin Eigner (GF), CEO and Senior Consultant at EIGNER Engineering Consult, and Mark Reisig, VP Product Marketing at Aras, discuss the role a PLM platform plays in Digitalization of Engineering.
Traditionally PLM systems were focused on management of mechanical designs. However, increasing complexity of products is changing that. Today engineering covers all the phases of product life cycle (from requirements through behavior, connectivity, architecture, individual design domains, service, operating, reuse, and recycling) and therefore we need to think of a design as a holistic system via a holistic approach to engineering. In fact, we need to think of a product as a system within systems—a system of systems. This is an evolution driven by the increasing product complexity towards what I call Systems Lifecycle Management, or SysLM, in contrast to Product Lifecycle Management, or PLM.
Systems Thinking and Design of Complex Products
This 30 minute demonstration applies Systems Thinking to making systems models a central part of the digital thread. It demonstrates a practical approach to establishing a custom digital thread that can expand and morph with the complexities of the products and systems that it represents, across all the above initiatives. The digital thread provides access to, and connects, data authored in best-of-class tools, and automatically exposes functionality appropriate to the task at hand—while maintaining traceability and the history of changes across the entire lifecycle.
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Requirements Engineering
Adopt a transformational technology to manage requirements in context with total product configuration.
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Create tool-agnostic system architecture models from structures authored in external system tools and make them part of Digital Thread that links to requirements, simulation and detailed design data.
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Connect simulation inputs, processes, and results while ensuring accuracy, repeatability, and access to teams across the product lifecycle.
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Supports parts, multi-level bill of materials, CMII standard configuration management and change management, approved vendor and manufacturer lists, and documents.
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Manage evolving product configurations developed my multiple groups inside the organization and within the supply chain.
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Capture your complete, evolving product definition and allow teams across the enterprise to follow a product’s digital history and all of its related digital assets.
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