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News Release from: Delmia | Subject: Delmia Version 5 Release 13 lean manufacturing
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 March 2004
Distributed process planning software
introduced
"PLM Workspace for Manufacturing Engineering" enables distributed process planning between manufacturers and suppliers for improved collaboration across the extended enterprise.
Delmia Corp., a Dassault Syst?mes company has announced release of Delmia Version 5 Release 13 (V5R13) Delmia, for the engineering of lean manufacturing processes, is part of Dassault Syst?mes' product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio, also comprised of CATIA, for collaborative product development, and ENOVIA and SMARTEAM, for product data and life cycle management, collaboration, and decision support
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Collaboration throughout the extended enterprise is a necessity for all manufacturing industries where connectivity between OEMs and suppliers are critical for competitiveness, said Philippe Charl?s, CEO, Delmia Corp.
"Delmia V5R13 is a major step forward toward enabling innovation in manufacturing engineering." V5R13 further supports the production use of Delmia's solution for manufacturing process planning, detailing, optimization and validation in the automotive and aerospace domains.
Delmia's V5 Process Planning Solutions provide breakthrough technologies that dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to update large product structures between the Engineering Hub and the Manufacturing Hub.
Enhancements for incremental updates and partial product transfer reduce this update time by as much as 90%, as compared to previous releases.
V5R13 now enables the process planner to reuse a single product model within the process plan (e.g, passenger seats in an airplane) while storing instance-specific attribute data.
This new capability streamlines the synchronization between the Engineering and Manufacturing Hubs saving time, money and effort.
The Delmia V5R13 product portfolio brings business value to manufacturers in the following areas: Collaboration between the OEM and suppliers - Delmia V5R13 allows an OEM to export its product, process, and resource (PPR) data from the Manufacturing Hub for detailing by the Supplier.
Users can then reconcile process plans detailed by the Supplier with the OEM master plan stored in the Manufacturing Hub.
Reduced manufacturing engineering time - Delmia V5R13 introduces Batch and Incremental Updates and Partial Product transfer to reduce the amount of time it takes manufacturing engineers to update large product structures between the Engineering Hub and the Manufacturing Hub Evaluate the impact of change - New automatic line balancing features in Delmia V5R13 enable process engineers to evaluate the impact of multiple model mixes on the production system so that the optimal process plan and layout of the manufacturing line can be achieved.
Leverage generative tooling designs created with CATIA - Delmia V5R13 enables tooling designers to take advantage of resources and tooling created in CATIA with Product Knowledge Template features.
Designers can create tooling models that will automatically adapt to changes in the product model, minimizing the amount of time the process planner spends replacing tooling models when product designs change.
For example, the clamps of a fixture can automatically be positioned based on feature positions, such as location holes, on a given product.
Provide "As Manufactured" detail to the shop floor - Delmia V5R13 extends its openness to include XML interfaces that facilitate bi-directional communication with various Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
With this capability, shop floor technicians can pass critical as-built, labor, and change order data to the MES system with simple-to-use, touch screen compatible interfaces.
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