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News Release from: Delmia | Subject: Delmia V5R7
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2001
Digital Manufacturing built around open
PPR model
Delmia V5R7 is the first software release to enable complete integration between all Delmia software applications, ensuring integration between Catia, Enovia and Delmia
Delmia V5R7 is the first software release to enable complete integration between all Delmia software applications This unique Product, Process and Resource (PPR) model, shared across Dassault's 3D Product Lifecycle Management applications (3D PLM), ensures the integration between CATIA, ENOVIA and Delmia, dramatically improving the efficiency of process planning and process verification within the product development cycle
This makes collaborative engineering of products, processes and resources a reality across companies and their subsidiaries, including the world-wide supply chains.
Delmia's Digital Manufacturing Solutions are now built around an open PPR model, forming a hub which connects the different repositories and applications within the whole manufacturing process.
Extending well beyond traditional product data management, PPR enables continuous, dynamic simulation of product performance and manages the effects of change on the product, its processes and resources.
Furthermore, it allows anyone involved, from product engineers to manufacturing process planners and production engineers, to have the full, current view of all links and dependencies between PPR.
Delmia users can access the Product data (product structure, 3D part definition, etc.), and use it to define, simulate and optimise the associated Processes and Resources.
In this way, engineering changes can be exchanged easily between the design and the manufacturing disciplines.
This establishes a closed loop in the workflow and contributes to the acceleration of the overall development process.
Utilising the structuring capabilities of PPR through Delmia Process Engineer, the users can generate a Manufacturing Bill of Materials consistent with the product definition.
The Delmia solution for Automotive Final Assembly takes advantage of the PPR integration to provide, for the first time, a true end-to-end solution.
This solution combines Delmia Process Engineer for process planning with Delmia V5 DPM Assembly and V5 Human Modelling for 3D process detailing, simulation and validation.
Adopting the same approach, the Delmia solution for Automotive Body-in-White (BiW) is also end-to-end.
This solution combines Delmia Process Engineer for process planning, the newly introduced Delmia V5 DPM Body in White for process detailing and sequencing of weld operations and Delmia robotics solutions for simulation with off-line programming.
It covers the specifics of the BiW processes: weld processes, weld allocation and weld gun definitions, which are all created in different applications and shared through the PPR Hub.
To support the needs of Airframe Assembly in the Aerospace industry, the Delmia V5 DPM Assembly solution has delivered a number of key enhancements such as the full use of tolerance information in the process planning and improved use of the Pert and Gantt charts.
In addition, Delmia Process Engineer delivers new and enhanced capabilities for process version handling, scenario planning, and costing.
With the new costing capabilities, specific customer calculations can be implemented to assess investments, material costs or labour costs and to compare all of these against targets.
Philippe Charles, chief executive officer, Delmia Corp., said: "Integrity of the PPR data, optimisation of the entire manufacturing process and a seamless integration with the design are the main benefits of this new Delmia solution.
The PPR model and associated solutions provide the environment to foster manufacturing creativity and innovation, while dramatically reducing development cycles thus accelerating time-to-market.
The ongoing customer implementations of Delmia solutions are progressing extremely well and clearly demonstrate the value of the integrated 3D PLM.''.
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