Different Product Structures with Windchill MPMLink

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Different Product Structures with Windchill MPMLink

Stephan Monsieur

EMEA Channel Program Manager

November 29^th2012

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Agenda

• Different Product Structures?

• Limitations of Basic PDMLink

• Additional functionality offered by MPMLink

• MPMLink can do even more

• Q&A

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Different Product Structures?

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One of the Product Lifecycle Challenges …

Managing the many different, but related product-related structures

Requirements Structure Requirements

Structure

Plan Concept Design Validate Production Support

System /Logical Structure System /Logical

Structure

Engineering Structure Engineering

Structure

Simulation/

Testing Structure Simulation/

Testing Structure

Manufacturing Structure Manufacturing

Structure

As-Supported Structure As-Supported

Structure

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Single Source of Truth for the Entire Product Lifecycle

Structure

Associative Structure

Structure

Structure Simulation/Testing Structure Simulation/Testing

Structure

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Single Source of Truth for the Entire Product Lifecycle

Structure

Associative Structure

Structure

Structure Simulation/Testing Structure Simulation/Testing

Structure

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Typical MPM Process

Concurrent Product and Manufacturing Process Design is Key to Drive Profitable Growth

Concept Development System Design

Detailed Design

Reduce Time To

Market

Limited opportunity for Manufacturing to influence design and reduce cost

Concurrent MPM Process

Full scale Production Production

Ramp-up Manufacturing Process

Management

Reduce Cost of Change Reduce

MFG Cost

“ [Manufacturing companies] identified that the need to reduce manufacturing costs was driving their need to improve their manufacturing planning process at practically the same rate as compressed

Number of Changes

Product Development Lifecycle

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Optimizing Product Development Processes is Critical

Design

Plan Concept Validate Production Support

Organization

Requirements Definition and Management Application Engineering

Tooling Design and Manufacture Regulatory Compliance

Program and Portfolio Management

Quality & Reliability Management Change and Configuration Management Project Management

Concept Development

System Architecture Design

Detailed Development Verification and Validation

Design and Manufacturing Outsourcing

Variant Design & Generation

Component and Supplier Management Product Cost Management

Product Support Analysis & Planning

Technical Information Creation & Management

Equipment Lifecycle Management Environmental Performance Management

P R O D U C T L I F E C Y C L E

Hardware &

Software Engineering Management

Supply Chain

&

Manufacturing

Sales & Service

Product Support Information Delivery & Field Knowledge Management Manufacturing Process Management

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Optimizing Product Development Processes is Critical

Design

Plan Concept Validate Production Support

Organization

Requirements Definition and Management Application Engineering

Tooling Design and Manufacture Regulatory Compliance

Program and Portfolio Management

Quality & Reliability Management Change and Configuration Management Project Management

Concept Development

System Architecture Design

Detailed Development Verification and Validation

Design and Manufacturing Outsourcing

Variant Design & Generation

Component and Supplier Management Product Cost Management

Product Support Analysis & Planning

Technical Information Creation & Management

Equipment Lifecycle Management Environmental Performance Management

P R O D U C T L I F E C Y C L E

Hardware &

Software Engineering Management

Supply Chain

&

Manufacturing

Sales & Service

Product Support Information Delivery & Field Knowledge Management Manufacturing Process Management

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Limitations of Basic PDMLink

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How one typically works …

CAD Structure

EBOM (WT Parts)

MBOM (WT Parts)

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PDMLink Basic concept – eBOM and mBOM contexts

Historically, Windchill proposes to use the “view” concept in order to manage mBOM Parts as it provides the following advantages:

• Allow to manage different BOM’s for the same Part (eBOM versus mBOM)

• Allow to manage different values for the same attribute of the same Part

• Allow separate configuration and

approval between eBOM and mBOM for the same Part

• Allow concurrent work on eBOM and mBOM for the same Part

• Allow the re-use of eBOM parts into mBOM parts based on view network.

• Allow a traceability on the revision level between eBOM and mBOM using the revision label

Part101 A.1 (Design)

Part301 A.1 (Design) Part302 A.1 (Design)

Part101 A.A.1 (Manufacturing)

Part203 A.1 (Manufacturing)

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PDMLink Basic concept – View Hierarchy

• Windchill organizes views as a hierarchy

– A “New View Version” creates a downstream part version

• Design  Manufacturing

• Manufacturing  Plant 1

• Design  Plant 2

– Parts can be initially created in any view – New View Version can only go downstream

• By default the hierarchy has two views, Design and Manufacturing (EBOM and MBOM)

Design

Manufacturing

Plant 1 Plant 2

Upstream

Downstream

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Applied to our assembly …

Part203 A.1 (Manufacturing) Design

Manufacturing

Plant 1 Plant 2

Upstream

Downstream

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View Limitation – Assembly Splitting

– When an assembly is split, new Part Numbers are created in mBOM

– View mechanism cannot anymore ensure traceability/change process (Based on Part Number)

Brake System

Front Brake

Front Brake Assy

Rear Brake Assy

Rear Brake Rear Brake Front Brake eBOM

mBOM

Front Brake Front Brake

Rear Brake Rear Brake Where is the

Brake System Assy in the

mBOM?

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View Limitation – Renumbering

– Some customer are re-numbering Parts when creating their mBOM

• e.g. document based eBOM

– View mechanism cannot anymore ensure traceability/change process (Based on Part Number)

123456.asm

12.prt

34.prt

eBOM

mBOM

WHEEL_ASSY

WHEEL

WHEEL_SHAFT_ASSY

WHEEL SHAFT

?

What is what?

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View Limitation – Revision Schema

– The “View” mechanism relates Parts through revision scheme – The revision schema can be

rapidly obsolete

eBOM

mBOM

Which way to go?

?

Revision schema

becomes irrelevant

Previous work WHEEL (Design) A.2

WHEEL (Design) B.1 WHEEL (Design) A.1

WHEEL (Mfg) A.A.1

WHEEL (Mfg) A.B.1 WHEEL (Mfg) A.A.2

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Additional functionality

offered by MPMLink

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• Practice:

– Create mBOMs directly from the eBOM

– Start the creation of the mBOM before design release

• Capabilities:

– Leverage 3D data

• Create mBOM from engineering 3D mockup

• Dynamically generate mBOM 3D mockup

– Flexibility

• Mfg equivalent parts

• Plant specific BOMs

– Traceability

• Bidirectional associativity

– Control and manage

• Analyze and resolve BOM discrepancies

• Change and Configuration Management

Associative mBOMs from eBOM

Assy 1500 Assy 1500

Part 100 Part 200 Assy 1300 Assy 1100

Assy 1200

Part 300

Part 700

Engineering eBOM

(As Designed)

Part 400 Part 500

Part 100

Part 300 equivalent

equivalent

Part 400 Part 500 Assy 1600

Part 800

PLANT 2

Manufacturing mBOM

(As Planned)

mBOM eBOM

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MPMLink Key Concept – Equivalent link: Definition

– To over come the view mechanism

limitations, MPMLink has introduced the Equivalent Link concept

– Definition: It relates an iteration of an upstream Part (eBOM) to its equivalent downstream (mBOM) iteration.

123 A.1 (Design) Equivalent Link WHEEL A.4 (Mfg)

eBOM

Upstream mBOM

Downstream

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MPMLink Key Concept – Equivalent link: Purpose (1/3)

– Purpose: the Equivalent Link

provides “associativity” between an upstream Part and its equivalent downstream one, for supporting:

• Traceability and Conformity

• Change Processes

• Concurrent Product and Process

Brake System

Front Brake

Front Brake Assy

Rear Brake Assy

Rear Brake Rear Brake Front Brake eBOM

mBOM

Front Brake Front Brake

Rear Brake Rear Brake

Equivalent Link

Where is the Brake System

Assy in the mBOM?

It has been split!!

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MPMLink Key Concept – Equivalent link: Purpose (2/3)

– Purpose: the Equivalent Link

provides “associativity” between an upstream Part and its equivalent downstream one, for supporting:

123456.asm

12.prt

34.prt

eBOM

mBOM

WHEEL_ASSY

WHEEL

WHEEL_SHAFT_ASSY

WHEEL SHAFT

?

What is what?

There you are!

Equivalent Link

Equivalent Link Equivalent Link

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MPMLink Key Concept – Equivalent link: Purpose (3/3)

– Purpose: the Equivalent Link provides

“associativity” between an upstream Part and its equivalent downstream one, for supporting:

eBOM

mBOM

WHEEL (Design) A.2

WHEEL (Design) A.1

WHEEL (Design) B.1

Which way to go?

?

WHEEL (Mfg) A.B.1

Revision schema becomes irrelevant

Previous work

Equivalent Link

Equivalent Link relates Parts

instead of Revision scheme

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MPMLink Key Concept – Equivalent link: Context

– For the Equivalent Link, the context is a pair of Views e.g. upstream

context = design view and

downstream context = manufacturing view. (Upstream context can be the same as the downstream context or be empty)

– The same Part can have different equivalent Parts depending where it’s used in mBOM

eBOM

WHEEL ASSY (Design)

eBOM

mBOM (Plant1)

WHEEL ASSY (Plant 1)

WHEEL (MFG)

mBOM (Plant2)

WHEEL ASSY (Plant 2)

450 (MFG)

Equivalent Link Equivalent Link

(Design)

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Equivalent link: Features

– The Equivalent Link has a direction and it’s owned by the downstream iteration

– The Equivalent Link is a 1-N or N-1 relationship meaning one upstream iteration can have multiple downstream equivalent Parts and vice versa

– Upstream versus downstream contexts should (strongly

recommend) follow the network view so that it is possible to reuse upstream Parts is into

downstream BOM’s

Design Manufacturing

PLANT 1

eBOM mBOM

Brake System A.1 (Design)

Front Brake Assy A.1 (Mfg)

Rear Brake Assy A.1 (Mfg) eBOM

mBOM

Equivalent Links

View Network

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Equivalent link: Features

– When a new iteration of a linked downstream Part is created, the Equivalent Link is duplicated – When a new iteration of a linked

upstream Part is created, no Equivalent Link is duplicated (Out-of-date)

Upstream

Downstream

Part100 A.1

Part 222 A.1

Part100 A.2

Part 222 A.2 Equivalent Links

Upstream iteration without a downstream

equivalent

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Equivalent link: Features

– When an Equivalent Link is updated for a downstream Part:

• the system proposes to display differences between latest version and the currently linked iteration

• a new Equivalent Link is created to the latest upstream iteration

– In future, the Equivalent Link could be used to propagate modifications from Upstream to Downstream

Upstream

Downstream

Part100 A.1

Part 222 A.1 Part 222 A.2

Equivalent Links Update

Equivalent Link

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Report differences between associated BOMs

• Quickly identify quantity discrepancies between associated BOMs

– Compare two or more structures and supports multi-level comparisons

– Part quantity comparison analysis using the associativity links – Highlight parts in Creo View or in the Process Plan Explorer

– Displays quantity comparison results in a color coded table, which can be easily navigated by discrepancy type (equal to, greater than, less than)

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Status Indicator for Equivalent Link (1/3)

– Indicators in Product Structure tree are used in order to asses the status of the Equivalent Links.

– Equivalent Links Status:

• No Equivalent Link exist

Part 222 A.0

Upstream Downstream

Part100 A.1

Part 222 A.1 Part100 A.2

Part 222 A.2 Part100 A.3

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Status Indicator for Equivalent Link (2/3)

• Equivalent Link exist and points the latest iteration in the system

Part 222 A.0 Upstream

Downstream

Part100 A.1 Part 222 A.1

Part100 A.2 Part 222 A.2

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Status Indicator for Equivalent Link (3/3)

• Equivalent Link exist and points the latest iteration in the system

• Equivalent link exist but not on the latest iteration

Part 222 A.0 Upstream

Downstream

Part100 A.1 Part 222 A.1

Part100 A.2 Part 222 A.2

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MPMLink Key Concept – Equivalent Occurrence Link

– Definition: The Equivalent Occurrence Link relates an occurrence of Part in an upstream context to its equivalent occurrence in an downstream context. (Path to Path Link)

– Purpose: To allow monitoring discrepancies on the occurrence level between a downstream BOM and its upstream equivalent one.

Part222 A.1 (Mfg)

Part333 A.1 (Mfg)

Part300 A.1 (Mfg) Part300 A.1 (Manufacturing)

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Paste with Associative BOM Links (1/2)

– Allow to transform eBOM into mBOM by picking eBOM Parts and pasting them into mBOM.

– Copy of eBOM Parts can be done from any eBOM Tree (Selection or another Explorer) or from 3D but the paste with associative BOM Links is only possible in the tree

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Paste with Associative BOM Links (2/2)

– When pasting an eBOM part into an mBOM assembly

– If an equivalent part exists for the downstream context, the system will reuse that equivalent Part.

– If no equivalent link exist, then the system displays a panel for the user to specify:

• If a new view version is needed (“New View”)

• If a completely different Part is needed (“Duplicate”)

• If the Part should be used as is (“Same”)

– If an assembly has been pasted as-is (“Same”) in mBOM, associative BOM links are created only on pasted assembly, not on the children.

Equivalent iteration in downstream found and

will be re-used

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Creo View for Windchill MPMLink

– “Creo View for Windchill MPMLink”

can read information from

Manufacturing Product Structure Explorer:

• Structure: Leaf .ol positioned with values from the occurrence

• Upstream Equivalent Part

• Downstream Equivalent Occurrence

• Upstream Equivalent Occurrence

• Common Parent

• Representation

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Associative eBOM – mBOM Practice

► Storyboard Overview

Manufacturing Engineer

Analyze eBOM Restructure into

mBOM

Update and Maintain mBOM

START

Ensure BOM conformity

• Visualize multi-level eBOM

• Visualize 3D mockup

Release to production systems

• Integral change and configuration management

• Stay informed through change process and update mBOM accordingly

• Visual indicators based on traceability BOM links

• Automatic propagation of part attributes and CAD viewables

• Multi level BOM compare

• Ensure all eBOM parts are accounted for

• Standard integration with leading ERPs

• Flexible integration framework

• Derive multiple mBOMs from eBOM

• Automatically generated mBOM 3D mockup

• Restructure eBOM into mBOMs, with maximum flexibility and detailed traceability

links

Part 1 Part 2

Rear Frame Vehicle mBOM

Part 9

mBOM

Part 1 Part 2 Rear Frame Vehicle eBOM

Frame Assy

Part 8

Sub-Assy

eBOM

• Release to production systems Use PLM system and directly access

evolving engineering design

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MPMLink can do even more

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Digitally define and manage process plan in Windchill MPMLink:

– Define plant-specific process plans with multiple sequences of operations (supporting sub-operations, parallel and alternates)

– Define different process plan types (machining, assembly, quality, maintenance, repair,…)

– View the in-process state of assembly at any operation using embedded Creo View 3D visualization

– Define process plan operations by allocating parts, manufacturing resources, skills, documents, operator instructions and time/cost breakdowns

– Reuse the same process plan to manufacture multiple parts (example for variant parts or left/right hand parts) – Define alternate process plans for the same part – Reuse standard process plans from a standards

library

Digital Process Plans

Op 025

Op 035 Op 025 Op 020 Op

010

Main Sequence

Sequence 2 (Alternate) Sequence 1 (Parallel)

Op 030

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Define and manage manufacturing resources and skills with Windchill MPMLink:

– Define and manage resource libraries including plants, work centers, tooling, skills and process materials

– Reference resources within process plans to build parts

– Define technical compatibilities between resources and standard manufacturing capabilities

– Link CAD files to resources for reuse in process plan and work instruction 3D representations

Manufacturing Resource Management

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Dynamically Generated Visual Work Instructions

Op 025

Op 035 Op 025 Op 020 Op

010

Op 030 Sequence Main

Op 025

Op 035 Op 025 Op 020 Op

010

Op 030 Sequence Main

Work instructions are dynamically generated

documents

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Integral Change Management

– Change management of process plans, sequences and operations

– Manufacturing change as integral part of engineering change management

– Easily update as-planned BOMs and associated plans upon engineering change

– Reduce overall cost and eliminates miscommunication issues

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