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News Release from: Delmia | Subject: Delmia/Envision and Delmia/Quest
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 11 December 2001

Japan digital manufacturing environment
under way

Delmia/Envision and Delmia/Quest have been selected to be core products for AML (Aoyama Media Laboratory) II "Cyber Concurrent Management Project".

Delmia/Envision and Delmia/Quest have been selected to be core products for AML (Aoyama Media Laboratory) II "Cyber Concurrent Management Project" AML II is a special collaborative project, which is under the direction of Research Institute of Aoyama Gakuin University

Deploying the latest technologies and business practices in a new level of collaboration between industry, government and the academic world, AML II has begun to develop advanced business strategies along with IT models to realize its goals.

Through these new collaborative practices, AML II aims to bring Japanese academic institutions and industries to new levels of co-operation in today's global market.

AML II project is well under way, with collaboration from various domestic and overseas academic institutions, public institutions, and Japanese companies, including Isuzu Motors.

While conventional collaborative projects between industry and the academic world tend to focus on basic research, the ultimate goal of AML II project is "to establish comprehensive business models which integrate strategic and technical aspects of the industries".

Using real cases, featuring the challenges companies face in the real world as a basis for the project, AML II established an integrated business model encompassing design, production planning, manufacturing and office systems.

These models were then simulated in the virtual world so that the projects could be tested and validated in the early stages.

The companies benefit by utilizing these simulated project results to shorten project cycle times, improve quality and reduce potentially costly problems in production start-up.

Universities benefit by being able to develop more practical educational materials using real business cases, which in turn helps business.

Delmia's Envision and Quest are being used as core solutions to establish the "digital manufacturing environment" for full scale concurrent engineering and management.

Kinya Tamaki, Professor at School of Business Administration, Aoyama Gakuin University, and AML II project leader said, "It is critically important to integrate strategic business models and various IT tools in business project research.

We chose Delmia solutions because of the flexible integration between the solutions, coupled with the advanced engineering/training support we receive from Delmia in Japan.

The first phase of a joint project with ISUZU has been completed successfully, which gave us the confidence to further strengthen our collaboration with industry leaders.

We are sure that the experiencing real business cases in a virtual environment will foster a new type of business leader who understands the business process and IT technologies." Takehito Nakagawa, manager of engineering administration commented, "We worked together with AML II to validate ISUZU's digital manufacturing project.

I was not really sure in the beginning if the students can could submit the expected level of results using advanced simulation tools like Delmia.

However, the quality of their validation report was more than what we expected.

We had considered Delmia to be tools for use by experts only.

This project has proved that we could expand Delmia's usage to wider range of users within ISUZU Group, which in turn accelerates ISUZU's digital manufacturing projects." Rob Barlow, president of Delmia Japan, Ltd.

commented, "Delmia continues to enjoy a wide range of customers in many industry segments.

The automotive segment is one where Delmia is especially strong, and Delmia Solutions have provided significant benefits.

We are very pleased with the partnership that has been created between industry and the academic world with the AML II joint project such as AML II.

These partnerships really allow Delmia to act as a technology provider, demonstrating a state-of-arthigh capability to solve today's real world problems.

and potential implementation of DELMIA solutions.We are proud to be part of the project which fosters 'real business leaders of 21st century' capable of understanding the industry process and establishing optimal business models with comprehensive IT knowledge.".

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