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Global Leaders in PLM Consulting

Experiences with Knowledge Aware and Auros

Craig Brown, GM PLM Leader (Retired)Executive Consultant – CIMdata


CIMdata’s Mission...Strategic management consulting for competitive advantage in global markets

CIMdata is the leading independent global strategic management consulting and research authority

focused exclusively on PLM and the digital transformation it enables.

We are dedicated to maximizing our clients' ability to design, deliver, and support innovative products

and services through the application of PLM.


PollingWho are you and what do you know about knowledge?

• Role in your company?

• Designer

• IT application Builder (e.g. KBE)

• Process Leader

• Engineer

• PLM Lear or Chief Engineer, including PLM Leader

• What part of your day is using Knowledge

• >90%

• 70-90%

• 50-70%

• 20-50%• <20%

• Years using Auros?

• <1

• 1-5

• >6


Agenda…..

• The Evolving Landscape of PLM• PLM Vision

• PLM Themes

• Applying Knowledge• Orchestration of Product Development

• Making Knowledge Active

• Organic Growth • History at GM

• Why?

• Conclusions

PLM

Better Decision Making and

Risk Management 5

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Organizational ComplexityProduct Complexity

Electrical, Controls, and Software only – total users

could exceed 50,000 globally

Process Complexity

Integrated PLM Tools

Integrated Change Process

Consistent Product Data

Requirements

Constraints

Early Product

DefinitionSell &

ServiceManufacturing

Engineering/CAE

Knowledge Gained

Design Refinement

Tuning & Validation

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Connect People by always

Visualizing It and

Apply Knowledge

to speed product delivery

The vision to enable strategy execution

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CONNECT PEOPLE VISUALIZE IT APPLY KNOWLEDGE

Architecture

Development

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DevelopmentProgram Execution

Concept Freeze Assembly and

Test StartValidation Start 1st Vehicle Start of Regular

Production

Concept Design PrototypeTest / Build

ValidateLaunch Production

Service

Just the right information,

to just the right people,

at just the right time ……


Agenda…..


• PLM Themes




• Why?

• Conclusions


Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management is the framework structure of relationships, roles, processes, technologies and governance that an organization puts in place that allows knowledge to be treated as a common asset, and which allows relevant know-how, insight and experience from others to be accessed and applied to business problems.


Key TakeawaysThe Creation and Evolution of Emergent Systems

Applying Knowledge – Process Orchestration

© Stages by Method Park

Applying Knowledge – Best Practice and Checklists

Design Checklists

THE LIFE OF A RELEASE ENGINEER IS HECTIC

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Design

Reviews

DFMEA

Interface

Agreements

Change

Requests

Part

Release

Requirements

Best Practices

PFMEA

Sourcing

Issues

Management

Deadlines /

Due Dates

Manufacturing

Requirements

Credits to Wendy Lange, General Motors

SO MANY THINGS TO KEEP TRACK OF

How can we make it easy for the release engineer to know what is due when and what the status of all requirements and guidelines are?

1 5

Method KPACs

and

Team Boards!!Credits to Wendy Lange, General Motors

Applying Knowledge – Peer Reviews

Peer Review Checklists

See Chris Pizzo’s Presentation Later Today

Applying Knowledge – Read Across Products

Read Across – Chiefs and Product Management

Integrated Change Process

Consistent Product Data

Requirements

Constraints

Early Product

DefinitionSell &

ServiceManufacturing

Engineering/CAE

Design Refinement

Tuning & Validation

18

Applying Knowledge – Lessons Learned

Knowledge Gained


Agenda…..


• PLM Themes




• Why?

• Conclusions

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Why This Organic Growth?Active Knowledge Management Works

• Manageable Chunks of Knowledge

• Authoring and Provisioning Ease

• Administration by Engineering Process Leaders

• Design Automation Demonstrated for Common Packaging Problems

• Orchestration of a Product Development

• Peer Reviews, a Read Across, provides Executive Chief Insights to lower Risks

• Systems View of Applying Knowledge – just starting


Agenda…..


• PLM Themes




• Why?

• Conclusions


ConclusionActive Knowledge Management Works

• Compelling PLM Vision : • Integrated engineering systems allowing dynamic configuration of

“anything” by “anyone” at “anytime”, the journey has just started

• Process Re-engineering : • Streamlined processes and information flow across

global product development lifecycles

• User Ease : • Key to Organic Growth

PLM Themes drive constancy of purpose, Apply Knowledge

Craig A. Brown, PLM Elder / CIMdata Executive Consultant

T: 586-615-8293 mobile

Email: [email protected]

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