AML (Aoyama Media Laboratory) II Project selects DELMIA/ENVISION® and DELMIA/QUEST®

11/05/2001

Collaboration between Industry, Government and the Academic World led by Aoyama Gakuin University to Realize “Cyber Concurrent Engineering”

 

Yokohama (Japan), November 5, 2001 -  DELMIA Corp., a Dassault Systemes company (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) announced today that DELMIA /ENVISION® and DELMIA/QUEST® were 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.  <br/>

 

 

Deploying the latest technologies and business practices within a new level of collaboration between industry, government and the academic world, AML II has begun to develop advanced business strategies along with the IT models to realize these strategies.  Through these new collaboration practices, AML II aims at bringing Japanese academic institutes and industries to new levels in our global market.  AML II project is well in progress with collaboration from various domestic and /overseas academic institutes, public institutes, and Japanese companies, including ISUZU Motors Limited.<br/>

 

 

While conventional collaboration projects between industry and 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 with challenges companies face in the real world as a basis for its project, AML II established an integrated business model encompassing design, production planning, manufacturing and office systems.  These models are then simulated in the virtual world so that projects can be tested and validated in the early stage of the projects. Companies benefit by utilizing this simulated project results to shorten project cycle time, improve quality and reduce potentially costly problems in production startup.  Universities on the other hand, can develop more practical educational materials using real business cases, which in turn helps business.  DELMIA’s ENVISION and QUEST are used as core solutions to establish “digital manufacturing environment” for full scale concurrent engineering and management. <br/>

 

 

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 solution because of its flexible integration between the solutions, and the advanced engineering/training support from DELMIA Japan.  The first phase of a joint project with ISUZU has completed successfully, which gave us the confidence to further strengthen our collaboration with industry leaders.  We are sure that experiencing real business cases in the virtual environment will foster new type of business leaders who understand the business process and IT technologies.” <br/>

 

 

 

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 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 as tools used by experts only.  But this project has proven that we could expand DELMIA’s usage to wider range of users within ISUZU Group, which accelerate ISUZU’s digital manufacturing projects.”

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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 this AML II joint project. These partnerships really allow DELMIA as a technology provider to demonstrate state-of-art capability to solve today’s real world problems.    We are proud to be part of the project which fosters ‘real business leaders of 21st century’ capable to understand industry process and establish optimal business models with comprehensive IT knowledge.”

About About AML

AML Project is established within Research Institute of Aoyama Gakuin University, founded in 1949, comprehensive university with six departments. AML develops efficient learning materials and software content for e-Learning and studies the e-Learning information systems as their original theme.

 

In order to support their result, the working group that consists of specialist of each field is prepared in AML. Realization and the plan of a regular lesson are steadily promoted through validity verification of the educational method, and through the actual proof experiment lesson not to make those results finish only with a research level. Such an example can seldom be seen at other universities in Japan.

 

As one of the latest examples of which has actually realized not only in a research level but also in a practical study, AML is beginning to attract attention from universities and the industrial world. AML proposes “collaborative cyber business working groups” as a practical e-Learning method accepted by especially the industrial world to bring up the business leaders and engineers who can play an active part internationally in the future. In the working group, students can study an operating process and technologies practically through virtual experiences. Furthermore, by studying and developing original "a business simulator (software for education)", the lesson style, which can study an operating process and technology practically through virtual reality has been realized.
( - http://www.agub.aoyama.ac.jp/aml2/ )

About About Delmia Corp.

DELMIA provides a comprehensive software solution and expertise for customers to virtually create, monitor and control agile, distributed manufacturing processes geared towards Build-to-Order and Lean Production practices. The DELMIA software suite is containing an alphanumeric and 3D-driven process planning, standard time measurement applications, human being simulations, robot and machine tool simulation as well as solutions for layout generation and material flow simulation. Such software allows development, screen-based simulation and optimization of manufacturing processes for single device, work cell, production line, and factory material flow up to Extended Enterprise production flow. Applications range from concept development phase to shop floor implementation and production management. The DELMIA range of simulation software packages integrates behavior models to be used in simulation, analysis, programming and control applications. DELMIA offers state-of-the-art technology to design factories on-screen, before actually building them. DELMIA serves industry segments where continuous transformation and optimization of the manufacturing processes are critical such as Automotive, Aerospace, Fabrication and Assembly, Electrical and Electronics, Consumer Goods, Plant and Shipbuilding. DELMIA constitutes the core offering for Digital Manufacturing and Production, serving the product life cycle. DELMIA solutions are interoperable with major CAD, PDM and ERP systems.

 

Information about DELMIA is available at - http://www.delmia.com

About About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmartTeam, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows. Spatial, also part of Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.

 

Information about Dassault Systemes is available at - http://www.3ds.com

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