Day 3: Morning Update from the Tecnomatix Track at PLM Connection 2012
May 9th, 2012 by Tim Egloff
We kicked the morning off with three, well attended sessions. The customer speakers of course were the main draw, talking about Manufacturing Change Management at GE and Visual Work Instructions from Cortona3D.
Vodela Venkata, Product Manager for Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP), started with a deeper dive into the latest capabilities of planning production in Teamcenter. Highlighting the configurable UI we call Dynamic Framework, Vodela showed us how users can gain efficiencies by configuring their desktop to show just the information they need for the task at hand. Diving further into enterprise bill of process, which Alan Baumgartner from Ford spoke about yesterday, showed the power of MPP to handle the complexity of global production planning. Then we got a glimpse into the new area of Shop Floor Planning. Our direction here is to synchronize central office manufacturing engineering more tightly with shop floor operations. Stay tuned.
Next, Kevin Thompson of General Electric walked the audience through how GE’s Engineering Tools Center of Excellence has leveraged the power of their Teamcenter infrastructure to develop standards-based engineering and manufacturing change management. He spoke of the challenges GE was having with multiple plants managing their own workflows for change and the inability to connect manufacturing issues to engineering changes. Leveraging workflow and change management, they’ve developed a standard process to capture issues and problem reports when and where they happen, package the information needed to address the change and route it to the responsible organization. From engineering changes to manufacturing documentation, the process is virtually automated and fully in control.
Finally, Connell Gallagher, President of Cortona3D, closed out the AM track with a comprehensive view of the Cortona3D integration with Teamcenter. The rich information environment of Teamcenter, including bills of material, bills of process, tooling and of course product, combined with the inherent data management capabilities such as effectivity, drives considerable efficiencies, according to Connell. The Cortona3D Rapid Author application can read all this information through PLM XML to quickly author textual and visual work instructions. The flexibility is there to filter content to make sure your only sharing the information needed making it easy to control who gets what information. This is especially valuable for outsourced components and things like ITAR compliance.
I’ve had discussions with several people yesterday and today and one theme in common is coming out; once the manufacturing people start getting access to the Tecnomatix tools, they quickly realize the value and start to demand more!
More to come.
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Tecnomatix Track Day 2 @ PLM Connection Americas 2012
May 9th, 2012 by Tim Egloff
Recap of Day 2:
Uli Rossgoderer, Director, Product Management kicked off Day 2’s Tecnomatix session with a comprehensive overview of the Assembly Planning solutions. He made it clear that the manufacturing engineering solutions are tightly integrated to product engineering through four key functions: Plan, Validate, Document and Execute.
Keying off some of Chuck Grindstaff’s core messages from Day 1: intelligently integrated information, value added applications, the user experience and system performance, Uli described some of the latest features in the latest release of Tecnomatix, as well as some of the upcoming features destined for future releases.
While attendees at PLM Connection come to hear from the executive team, product managers and technical resources of Siemens PLM Software, the overwhelming value of this conference comes from the customers who take time away from their responsibilities to speak about their use of our digital manufacturing technology. So to all customers who are here supporting the event, hat’s-off and thank you for making every PLM Connection a huge success.
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Tags: digital factory, digital manufacturing, PLM Connection, Tecnomatix
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Kinecting Microsoft and Siemens PLM Technology
May 8th, 2012 by Susan Cinadr
IMHO, one of the most inspirational keynotes yesterday came from Simon Floyd, Director, Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management Solutions at Microsoft. Simon, @floydinnovation, began with this video.
How many embedded technologies have you encountered? I counted 25 out of 45 that I have personally worked with and I didn’t even count the Siemens mention 
I caught up with Simon in the Microsoft booth later in the afternoon yesterday. We had a fabulous conversation about what Microsoft is doing (in partnership with Siemens PLM) to add value for users. He was kind enough to provide this video.
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Tecnomatix Update: Smarter Decisions, Better Products.
May 8th, 2012 by Tim Egloff
Tecnomatix Release Update
With the continuing volatility of global economic conditions, manufacturers must strive to get the most out of their manufacturing investments. Today’s manufacturing leaders are constantly assessing capability to become more flexible, more sustainable and competitive to meet opportunity when and where it arises. This requires the determination to continually assess production capability in the most efficient means possible.
With the latest release of Tecnomatix 10.1, we’re taking on the complexity of planning global production strategies, improving the ability to assure worker productivity and safety, and driving higher value solutions for optimizing production and improving quality.
This release brings to market the latest in digital manufacturing solutions, which work together to power your manufacturing productivity in a changing world.
The latest enhancements deliver comprehensive insight through five key capabilities:
PLM for Manufacturing
A brand new product built on our Teamcenter-based process authoring tool, Manufacturing Process Planner, further improves collaboration for planning product build strategies whether over multiple plants or within a single plant. View a video on Enterprise Bill-of-Process here.
Efficient Planning
Advanced Assembly Planning also includes a new line balancing application which allows our customers to balance their production lines using simplified drag and drop capabilities and validate manufacturing constraints and precedence. This is a new capability for manufacturing process authoring on Teamcenter. View a video on Line Balancing here.
Optimized Systems
With the latest addition to our Plant Simulation solution, VSM Library, you have the power to create value stream maps of your production systems from a new library of components which are tied to the discrete-event analysis engine. This is a brand new weapon for our customer’s lean toolkit!
Enhancements to the 3D environment for Sankey diagrams improves configurations for visualizing multiple products, curves and transport quantities while performing discrete-event analysis
Proven Validation
With the latest enhancements of our Process Simulate solution, we deliver functional improvements through a new Calibration application, Virtual Commissioning performance improvements and better integration with Siemens SIMIT software. Also, we’re improving ease of use with an enhanced robot jog dialog and better control and visibility of continuous manufacturing features.
Lifecycle Quality
Fully integrated to Teamcenter, the latest release of our lifecycle quality solutions increases the fidelity of dimensional analysis in design while streamlining your ability to manage global production quality. Now you can visualize feature variation through an FEA analysis mesh and manage global production quality in an easily configured web interface.
There are many more enhancements in this latest release including a new Fatigue Analysis feature for Jack Human Simulation.
Want to know more? Follow any of the Tecnomatix 10.1 links on this page and while you’re at it, check out our cool Tecnomatix 10 release video.
See some of the new features on Flickr or learn more about the market-leading digital manufacturing solution from Tecnomatix.
Tags: "bill of process", digital factory, digital manufacturing, DPV, human simulation, Jack, line balancing, process planning, simulation, Tecnomatix
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PLM Connection Americas 2012: Manufacturing Direction and Strategy
May 8th, 2012 by Tim Egloff
Zvi Feuer, VP – Manufacturing Engineering Solutions kicked-off the Tecnomatix Connection on Day 1 with a presentation on Manufacturing Direction and Strategy. Zvi’s passion for manufacturing innovation comes through loud and clear as he talks about the transformation that’s taking place in manufacturing today.
Zvi started right away with a short, live demonstration of a Microsoft Kinect running the Jack human simulation application. According to Zvi, it’s these types of innovative technologies and forward looking solutions that will define the factories of the future.
For those of you who we unable to attend, here’s a conversation I had with Zvi after his presentation talking about some of the latest projects for the Manufacturing Engineering organization and how digital manufacturing is enabling this transformation with innovative technology from Siemens.
Big Data, Openness & Using PLM To Turn Your Business Around
May 7th, 2012 by Susan Cinadr
We’ve wrapped up the morning keynote sessions at #PLMCONX. We heard from Chuck Grindstaff, IBM, oil and gas company Baker Hughes, Microsoft, Boeing, Mercury Marine & HP. I caught up with Jim Brown from Tech-Clarity during the coffee break to get his thoughts on what he heard.
I captured a few of the Tweets from the press & analysts from Twitter.
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Welcome to the fabulous Las Vegas and #PLMCONX
May 7th, 2012 by Susan Cinadr
This week, the Siemens PLM Blog is dedicated to covering the 2012 PLM Connection event in Las Vegas, our annual user event for the Americas. It’s fitting the last post was our Chat with Chuck series and we start today with a welcome message from Chuck.
For all those on Twitter, you can follow the event hashtag #PLMCONX
Tags: 2012 Siemens PLM Connection, Chuck Grindst, PLM Connection, PLM World, plmconx
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From the Desk of Chuck Grindstaff
May 4th, 2012 by Chuck
I wanted to share a podcast Dora and I just recorded. We cover a number of topics on this one, including what led me into a STEM career, what’s happening in emerging markets like Russia and China, what to make of the Codex of Openness initiative and what’s happening with our industrialization efforts. Let me know if you have any questions about these topics. I look forward to talking with many of you next week at PLM Connection Americas. Continue reading “From the Desk of Chuck Grindstaff” »
Tags: Academic, Codex of Openness, industries, PLM Connection, STEM
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The Topic of Lean Manufacturing: Part 2
May 4th, 2012 by Tim Egloff
In the first post of this series I posed three questions to ask yourself of your lean manufacturing strategy. I responded to the first question of whether you were implementing waste in production; i.e. are you planning, designing and installing production systems that are not as lean as they could be?
My argument was that, yes you are if you’re not using technology which can help you plan, simulate, validate and optimize those systems before you implement them. “The challenge starts,” according to Andy Jacobs, General Manager at Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), “in the design of production systems.” He goes on to explain; “There [are] a multitude of factors to consider when designing automated systems and the complexity of options available today make process design a critical stage in building lean systems.”
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Medicine for your IT Migraine – Teamcenter now on IBM PureSystems
May 2nd, 2012 by guest_blogger
Guest blog post by Dave Mitchell
CTO, Teamcenter product development
IBM’s infographic above notes on average more than 70 percent of IT budgets are maintenance focused. This is something I frequently hear from customers. It can make innovation tough.
It’s why we work with partners like IBM. Maybe you saw IBM’s recent announcement on its new product family called PureSystems. They provide what the industry is now calling “expert integrated systems.” They integrate general-purpose system flexibility and cloud elasticity with appliance simplicity tuned to workload. It’s a pretty compelling combination.
Teamcenter now runs on IBM PureSystems – specifically IBM PureFlex – which provides a private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) foundation that can be deployed outside or inside a company’s firewall.
This can help our customers accelerate private IT deployments, optimize IT utilization, streamline administration and ensure mission-critical reliability. IBM PureSystems capabilities provide an elastic environment that enables organizations to more easily expand or contract their Teamcenter deployments.
We’re also working on introducing support for the IBM PureApplication component of IBM PureSystems. We’ll let you know when it’s ready.
You can check out more on PureSystems on the IBM PureSystems web site. We think it will dramatically reduce IT headaches. Take two and call us in the morning . Seriously, let me know if I can answer any questions about Teamcenter on IBM’s latest technology.
Tags: IBM, IBMPuresystems, infographic, PureFlex, Teamcenter
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