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TOPICS:
Integrated Product Development process-Concieve-
specification, Concept Design,design-detailed
design,validation and analysis(simulation).

Integrated Product development process

Integrations - Export data for downstream systems such as ERP & Supply

Chain.

Using systems engineering principles, you can trace customer requirements all
the way through to a finished design. A functional model provides a common
language for mechanical, electrical and automation disciplines to work
together in parallel, helping you deliver designs faster and with fewer
integration issues late in your design process.

By integrating of the product conception, the technology processes and the

manufacturing in the computer integrated manufacturing have been achieved
a raise in the manufacturing flexibility, the reducing of the delivering times and
the improvement of the realized products' quality.The present paper also
presents the relevant items for building a multisite PLM platform for
collaborative integrated product development based on the common
researches developed in automotive industry.
Based on these arguments, it is necessary to build a collaborative multisite
platform. Who will integrate Teamcenter as the base software platform for
documents and technical data management that is joining together different
applications for collaborative product development methodology and the
multisite PLM platform architecture: Virtual Design (Catia, Creo), for
manufacturing and Virtual Prototyping (3D Via, Creo Mechanica, Creo
Simulate), etc. The model of building such collaborative design environment
was inspiredby different solutions delivered by companies with greatnames:
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Dassault, Siemens, PTC, but these solutions are expensive and heavy to be
implemented by small and medium companies.
Our mission is to analyze the advancement and implementationof PLM
platforms through research department in partnership with manufacturing
industry.

Integrated processes
Integrated into change and release process
Integrated into SAP Business Suite
Integrated viewing solution.

Principles of integration:
 UNDERSTAND CUSTOMER NEEDS AND MANAGE REQUIREMENTS
 PLAN AND MANAGE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
 USE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
 MANAGE COSTS FROM THE START
 INVOLVE SUPPLIERS AND SUBCONTRACTORS EARLY
 DEVELOP ROBUST DESIGNS.
 SIMULATE PRODUCT PERFORMANCE AND MANUFACTURING
PROCESSES ELECTRONICALLY.
 CREATE AN EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
 IMPROVE THE DESIGN PROCESS CONTINUOUSLY.

Oracle ERP Integration puts you in control of your data synchronization .

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The design of manufacturing and product support processes must be

integrated with the design of products in order to optimize the performance,
availability and life cycle cost of the product. Understand existing and planned
process capabilities and constraints. Develop and apply producibility and
supportability guidelines and utilize formal tools such as design for
manufacturability/assembly and maintainability analysis tools to improve
product designs. Integrate design and business rule checking into automated
design processes.

Integrated CAE/CAD tools working with a common digital product model

facilitate capture, analysis, and refinement of product and process design data
in a more timely manner. Integration of CAM tools facilitate process
design/definition with fewer errors, greater accuracy, and a reduction in
leadtime to production. CASE tools to support a standard development
methodology and software re-useability with object-oriented design bring a
similar level of productivity to software. A single repository of product data
minimizes data handling, redundancy and errors as product data is used by
various functions. Features-based solids modeling, electronic design
frameworks and ultimately standards such as STEP and EDIF facilitate the
downstream interpretation, analysis and use of this product data. These tools,
when intelligently and cost effectively applied, can lead to a streamlined
development process and project organization.
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PROCESS CONCIEVE -SPECIFICATIONS

Defining a PLM specification with detailed, business relevant, selective and
measurable requirements is critical to ensure the selection of the best PLM
solution for your business needs.

Our electronic PLM requirements specification is a key element in enabling you

to define a PLM solution that is tailored exactly to your company’s needs.
Depending on the situation, you can leverage this tool in a variety of ways:

 The definition of detailed, customized PLM requirements specification as

part of a request for information (RFI) or request for proposal (RFP)
 The electronic pre-selection of appropriate PLM solutions
 As a questionnaire for PLM software vendors
 For PLM gap analyses
 For PLM software validation, specifically in the medical device industry.
The General Principles of Software Validation; Final Guidance for
Industry and FDA staff; Section 4.1 states that “A documented software
requirements specification provides a baseline for both validation and
verification. The software validation process cannot be completed
without an established software requirements specification (Ref: 21
CFR 820.3(z) and (aa) and 820.30(f) and (g))”.

Our newest electronic PLM Requirements Specification includes over 1,200

standard requirements in 27 major functional areas and 75 sub-categories,
which according to our experience typically cover over 90% of the PLM needs
of most companies. The remaining 10% can be defined based your unique
business needs and easily added to the specification

On the PLM Web User Interface (Web UI) for specification management, you
can create, change, and display the business object specification for the
substance, packaging and recipe properties specification categories.
Specifications are data objects that use value assignments for physical and
chemical data to define certain properties. For each specification structured
data is stored in property trees.

Specifications belonging to the category recipe properties are created in Recipe

Development, and they contain a property tree to store recipe properties.
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These property specifications are only available in combination with a recipe

version. For more information, see Property Specification.

 modified ingredient

Detailed technical and functional PLM requirements are defined for the
following major areas:

 Document/File Management
 Part/Component/Material Management
 BOM Management
 Configuration Management
 Classification Management
 Workflow Management
 Change Management
 Portfolio Management

The predefined PLM requirements are specifically well suited for companies in
the following industries:

 Automotive
 Aerospace & Defense
 Consumer & Consumer Packaged Goods
 High-Tech & Electronics
 Industrial Machinery & Plant Equipment
 Medical Device & Life Sciences

This combination of leveraging industry best practice and company specific

requirements distinguishes our PLM Requirements Specification and the
results you can achieve significantly from working with and using other, more
generic PLM RFP templates.
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Concept- Design, Validation, Simulation.

Design simulation helps manufacturers verify and validate the intended
function of a product under development, as well as the manufacturability of the
product. The word “simulation” is often used as generic term for computer-
aided engineering (CAE). Over the years, several design simulation approaches
have become standard components of product development in many industries,
and they continue to grow in importance as inexpensive, faster computers and
affordable, easy-to-use design simulation software allow users to address new
technologies and applications.

Simulation models

sets of mathematical equations representing the behavior of the system in a

physical domain of interest. The complexity of the mathematics depends on
availability of data and varies in function of the application and the design
stage.

In early development, typically more simple system representations use

analytical assumptions and verify the interaction between several physical
aspects on a concept-level. In late development stages, typically very complex,
application-specific models are used for validation and refinement. The
applications can cover aspects such as structural behavior, acoustics, system
dynamics, crashworthiness, thermal and flow analysis, stress analysis, fuel
economy, controls development and much more. Several technologies exist to
support these different design stages and applications, such as:

 1D CAE or systems simulation

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 Finite element (FE) modeling

 Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Operational conditions can be added in the form of boundary conditions, load

cases or constraints. Those can result from theoretical assumptions, measured
data or the outcome of earlier simulations.

Design Simulation for Virtual Testing and Validation

Design simulation can include a wide range of analyses that virtually test
behavior of a product under various operating and environmental conditions. As
opposed to trial-and-error, a smart simulation process allows targeted
implementation of design choices in various stages of the development cycle.
This drastically reduces the need for recurrent, time-consuming testing on
expensive physical prototypes, and subsequently shortens the total development
time. An effective design simulation process helps companies reduce
development costs and bring innovative products to the market faster than the
competition.

Design Simulation for Manufacturability

Simulation of manufacturing processes, or the predicting of the manufacturing

methods used to make the product, is commonly referred to as “process
simulation” or “virtual manufacturing.” It includes the simulation of forming,
stamping, machining and other processes to determine the manufacturability of
the design, as well as the effect of design changes upon the manufacturing
method. It is closer to manufacturing engineering than to the traditional stress
engineering described above, though the underlying technology (FE modeling)
is the same. Being able to view a simulation of the manufacturing process as
you design the product results optimized manufacturing processes, as well as
products that are optimized for performance, cost and quality.

Simulation Models versus Physical Prototypes

Simulation models offer more flexibility in the product development process

compared to physical prototypes. Creating design alternatives often only
requires a few button-clicks, and testing them does not call for a complicated
setup. Moreover, design simulation can provide more types of analysis results
that might be impossible to obtain through physical testing due to practical
reasons.

Because there is no risk of the tested object (product) getting damaged,

simulating an extra operational condition is just a matter of applying a different
boundary condition. Whereas physical testing will always remain an essential
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step in product development, the use of simulation models brings manufacturers

closer to their ultimate dream of building one prototype only: the final product.

With Mechatronics Concept Designer, you can capture all mechatronics data
for all disciplines in a single file. This data includes 3D geometry and graphics,
physical data like kinematics and dynamics, sensors and actuators and their
interfaces, cams, functions and operations

Mechanical design Because Mechatronics Concept Designer is based on the NX

CAD platform, it provides all of the mechanical design features needed for
sophisticated CAD design. Mechatronics Concept Design also exports model
data to many other CAD tools, including Catia, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, and
the CAD-neutral JT format.
Electrical design With Mechatronics Concept Designer you develop a list of
sensors and actuators which can be output in HTML or Excel spreadsheet
format. Electrical engineers can use this to select sensors and actuators.

Automation design Mechatronics Concept designer supports more efficient

software development by supplying cams and sequences of operations. The
Gantt chart sequence of operations can be exported in the PLCopen XML
standard format for behavior and sequence descriptions, widely used in
automation engineering tools for development of programmable logic
controller (PLC) code. The standard is published by the AutomationML
organization.

Benefits of Design Simulation

The benefits of design simulation include reducing product development costs

and time by avoiding recurrent physical prototype testing, and improving
quality.
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 You can make design decisions that take into account their impact on
functional performance as well as manufacturing
 Different functional aspects can be balanced during concept development
 Design alternatives can be efficiently evaluated, without trial-and-error
testing on expensive physical prototypes, helping to promote design
innovation
 Simulation can help optimize the design, removing unneeded material
and hence weight, reducing cost and increasing design efficiency
 Design simulation can provide performance and manufacturability
insights earlier in the development process, when design changes are less
expensive to make
 Detailed, attribute-specific models can be used for validation and product
refinement
 Simulation models can provide results which are hard or even impossible
to measure on physical prototypes
 Simulation models can be virtually tested under extreme operational
conditions

Design Simulation Software

Here are examples of design simulation software applications:

NX CAE is a modern simulation environment that enables engineering teams to

reduce modeling time, shorten design-analysis iterations and improve
productivity for FEA. NX CAE provides solutions for pre-and postprocessing,
structural, thermal, flow, motion and multiphysics analyses, optimization,
simulation data management and simulation-driven design.

NX Nastran is a finite element solver that analyzes stress, vibration, structural

failure/durability, heat transfer, noise/acoustics and flutter/aeroelasticity.

LMS Virtual.Lab is an integrated suite of finite element, boundary element and

multi-body modeling software that simulates real-life performance of
mechatronic systems. It allows you to quickly build complex models and
accurately study structural integrity, noise, sound, vibration, correlation to test
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results, system dynamics and durability performance, optimizing designs long

before prototyping.

Solid Edge Simulation is a built-in FEA tool for design engineers to validate
part and assembly designs digitally within the Solid Edge environment. Based
on proven Femap finite element modeling technology, Solid Edge Simulation
significantly reduces the need for physical prototypes, thereby reducing material
and testing costs, while saving design time.

Seat Design Environment (SDE) is software that's fully integrated into

commercial 3D CAD systems, for designing and manufacturing innovative
transportation seat systems and interior components. It captures a complete
digital product definition, eliminating extensive physical prototyping, and
provides CAD-embedded manufacturing process simulation

Parasolid is 3D geometric modeling component software, enabling users of

Parasolid-based products to model complex parts and assemblies. It is used as
the geometry engine in hundreds of different CAD, CAM and CAE
applications.

REFER: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/plm/1d-cae.shtml
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