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News Release from: Delmia
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 July 2002
Software set to speed satellite
deployment
Systems from Delmia Corp will form part of space manufacturer Astrium's digital product realisation strategy.
Systems from Delmia Corp will form part of space manufacturer Astrium's digital product realisation strategy Tightly integrated with its sister product Catia, Delmia is to be deployed on the company's new and ongoing programmes
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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With help from leading universities, the Delmia toolset was evaluated as part of an overall digital design for manufacture initiative.
This benchmarking and best practice study focused not only on the various products and their associated process capabilities within the virtual factory or zone, but also on how best to implement the different tools so they could directly improve profitability in the context of product life cycle management.
This is known within Astrium as a "design anywhere, build anywhere" strategy.
Elfed Roberts, Systems Manager at Astrium says, "We knew right from the beginning that we did not want to implement Delmia's various virtual assembly tools as just a 'point solution'.
Though our thoughts on how both Envision and Ergo could be made to work for us altered over the course of the study, as the systems continued to develop, we knew that they could be used to both capture and manage a 'knowledge-based' approach as well as affect unambiguous communication.
This approach also has the effect of being able to drive standardization and common processes at multiple sites and in multiple countries".
"Telecomms spacecraft tend to be large one off complex structures with limited opportunities for standardisation.
With Delmia, we will be applying kinematics and logistic-type simulations at the highest level, stretching these systems to their limits", says Roberts.
"Using universities active in this field has helped us to evolve novel design-for-manufacture solutions.
Only by understanding the philosophy that underpins Delmia and Catia could we begin to harness their capabilities to maximize the added value potential to Astrium.
Everyone has been talking about the benefits of product life cycle management for some time.
I am confident that Delmia will enable us to achieve far higher levels of design maturity much earlier in our programmes and hence, mitigate risk more effectively than was previously thought possible".
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