Dassault Systèmes Invests in Intercim
Dassault Systèmes recently acquired a minority stake in Intercim LLC, strengthening the currently available, joint DS-Intercim V5 solution around 3D process planning and execution. Through this strategic alliance, Intercim and DS are poised to revolutionize collaboration between manufacturing and engineering.
Intercim has been a DS partner since 2004, and is a recognized global leader in manufacturing and production operations management software solutions. This alliance tightly connects the physical world of Manufacturing Execution Systemes (MES) with the virtual world of PLM. The partners will provide a dynamic, real-time ability to execute production orders exactly as planned by manufacturing engineers and close the loop between engineering and the shop floor.
The joint marketing strategy that Intercim and DS has developed initially focuses on the Aerospace & Defense industry, with plans to expand into other mutually agreed upon sectors such as Energy and Pharmaceutical. For example, the integration of 3D process planning and manufacturing execution is already in production in aerospace and defense and available on the market today.
Expanding the reach of PLM 2.0
The future of production communities requires the power of PLM 2.0’s lifelike experience, incorporating shop floor “as-built” information, product and quality analytics, and manufacturing best practices. DS and Intercim’s joint vision makes such an expanded PLM 2.0 strategy possible, which includes the shop floor and supply network’s real-time production state.
Manufacturing and engineering can now work together throughout the entire supply network. It is essential to reach out beyond the walls of a single plant and focus on the engineering and manufacturing needs of the extended enterprise. Communication and coordination of all activities between different sites has become critical. This is especially true in highly regulated industries that carry a high cost of failure.
Reducing costs and accelerating time to market
Intercim enables users on the shop floor and across the supply network to collaborate on manufacturing execution and quality management to reduce manufacturing costs, improve cycle times, and accelerate time to market. Intercim proposes a solution that enforces the manufacturing process on the shop floor and provides the technology to detect non-conformance with the defined process at any time during production execution.
Extending the as-designed and as-planned data to production offers manufacturers several important and measurable benefits. Firstly, the ability to enforce as-planned execution results in fewer mistakes. In addition, integrating engineering data when creating the as-built record facilitates faster decision making. Finally, communicating manufacturing data to engineering and other systems, including ERP, reduces data entry and hastens problem resolution.
Solutions for V6
DS and Intercim will jointly develop a new V6 production experience that combines the values of MES and PLM. This will revolutionize the sharing of intellectual property between engineering, manufacturing planning, and production communities. It will be illustrated by real-time collaboration on product and production lifecycle data in a single online referential between the different communities in the manufacturing supply network, including design engineering, manufacturing engineering, shop floor, and quality management.
V6 developments will also: enforce engineering-driven production execution on the shop floor, as designed and as planned; increase visibility and traceability for all manufacturing stakeholders of shop floor execution with real-time 3D access to the “as-built” product, process and resource information; enable immediate impact analysis and validation of corrective actions in the virtual model before committing to cost-intensive implementations; and validate production best practices with engineering for improved product manufacturability, reduced warranty costs, and collapsed certification processing time and regulatory compliance.
Extending PLM to the shop floor
Contact Mag spoke with John Todd, Intercim president and CEO, about the new level of cooperation between Dassault Systèmes and Intercim and the advantages this brings to manufacturing companies.
What will this new alliance bring to manufacturing companies?
The trends we are witnessing in the Aerospace & Defense industry, such as global sourcing, physical separation of design and manufacturing activities, and engineering specialization, require that the exchange of information and the collaboration between engineering, manufacturing and the supply network be handled in real-time. The combination of Intercim’s proven execution and manufacturing intelligence capabilities with the virtual experience provided by Dassault Systèmes solutions allows this type of collaboration and knowledge-sharing for the first time.
What is the benefit of extending PLM to the shop floor?
Extending 3D information to production saves companies time and money. There is a pressing need to manage manufacturing operations in a more comprehensive fashion. Leading manufacturers are learning that they can make major improvements in manufacturing processes by more tightly linking product design and the supply chain. Through better collaboration on process planning, execution, and quality, manufacturers can reduce costs, shorten cycle times, and deliver their products to market faster. Today, the full power of 3D simulation can be realized on the shop floor thanks to recent advancements in lightweight delivery applications that allow 3D simulation to be pushed directly to operators working in production. Linking 3D data to production history produces a useful and interactive tool for making quick and more accurate decisions in the manufacturing process and maintenance processes throughout a product’s lifecycle.
For more information: http://www.intercim.com/
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