Modularisierung und Wiederverwendung
Complex products with highly unique content can create manufacturing inefficiencies. For example, without easy access to information on existing tooling and fixtures, engineers waste time by duplicating these assets. It is especially difficult to optimize inventory and manage costs. PLM provides sophisticated search capabilities that promote product and process re-use. Information can be managed in specific contexts that reflect the ways in which different groups use that information to do their jobs. The ability to search for information within a given context enables users to quickly locate existing parts, processes or tests based on functional specifications, geometric attributes, shape and other criteria.
Key Features
By implementing a common PLM environment on an enterprise basis, companies gain visibility into product and process information across disciplines and across work sites, making it possible to better support modularization and re-use. PLM solutions aggregate process and product data and make it universally available in uniform formats to users within the company and across the value chain. Key features supporting modularization and re-use:
- Part-classification solutions as a first step in supporting re-use
- Shape searching. Enables product development teams quickly locate parts from large heterogeneous data sources on the basis of geometric similarity
- A common digital environment that supports a systems-engineering approach to product development
- The PLM archetype is like a recipe containing the knowledge that guides the process of creating the end product or process specification
Additional Resources
- Commonization and Re-use- A strategy to reduce cost and improve responsiveness
- Enabling Global Innovation Through Commonization and Re-use
- Geolus Search Brochure
- Establishing Global Innovation Networks White Paper
- Making Machinery and Industrial Products
- Modularization and Re-use White Paper
- Modularization and Re-Use for Machinery and Industrial Products
- Transforming the Process of Innovation in Machinery and Industrial Products
- Teamcenter's Classification and Re-Use