WHAT'S NEW IN DELMIA R2021x

An In-Depth Portal to Apriso Execution from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

• The interface gives managers up-to-date information right on their 3DEXPERIENCE dashboard
• No need to open reports or open and search another database
• Can be configured using standard Apriso RUN platform tools to display multiple dashboard widgets in a customer-defined tab layout

Program, simulate, and validate complex robot drilling and riveting systems in a 3D Virtual Factory context

• Simulate and validate complete drilling and riveting robotic systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
  Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Program, simulate, and validate Robotic assembly systems in a 3D Virtual Factory context

• Simulate and validate complete robot spot welding and drill and riveting systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming

Create and validate assembly and disassembly trajectories

• Enables creation and validation of assembly/disassembly trajectories
• Check assembly feasibility during product design
• Review detailed process planning  

Delivers the ability to easily develop collision-free part and assembly trajectories automatically using powerful algorithms

• Provides effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Define and validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by simulating various production scenarios to predict the production rate
• ​​Simulate and visualize material flow in an existing factory to identify bottlenecks
• Run "what if" simulations to optimize system performance and production rate with alternate routings, layouts and resource pooling strategies

Fast, easy, and efficient way to define your manufacturing assembly strategy and produce assembly drawings 

• Define manufacturing assembly strategy and produce assembly drawings based on your 3D Engineering Model data (resource/rule based definitions)
• Ensures the definition of Manufacturing Item Structure is mandatory for all downstream applications
• Helps to come up with a solid definition, making it easy to consume the defined items in drawings
• Bases the data of the work preparers (structure, piping, electrical) on the Manufacturing Item Definition

Define, validate and offline program body-in-white robot systems in the Virtual Factory 

• Keep robots in production, eliminate costly robot and tooling crashes, and accelerate start of production
• Simulate and validate complete robot spot welding and material handling systems to eliminate costly crashes
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Validate and optimize the body-in-white robotics processes with robotics simulation and validation in a Virtual Factory context

• Perform robot reachability studies to ensure planned fasteners are feasible
• Reduce engineering time and optimize the workload balance to increase the production rate
• Complete and validate the full robotics workcell before off line programming with extended capabilities
• Minimize the number of weldguns to reduce tooling cost with automated tool analysis

Create Cutting Tool Assembly Catalogs for NC Programmers

• Helps standardize on common practices for tool use across the machine shop or the entire enterprise
• Uses the ISO13399 standard for cutting tool data representation and exchange to create tool geometry and assign cutting attributes automatically to make them usable in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Define and validate tooling, machines, and layouts to build the virtual factory

• The virtual factory approach enables manufacturers to reduce capital expenditures, accelerate production ramp-up and ultimately increase productivity
• Enables collaboration to create the factory layout and export it for build
• Create and optimize all the mechanical devices used in manufacturing simulation with advanced tools
• Allow to import 3D Point Cloud and simulate inside realistic simulation behavior

Empower Manufacturing Engineers to make key decisions in order to design safe and efficient workplaces

• One-click probable manikin posturing with the Smart Posturing engine technology
• Create better visibility for opportunities to improve safety, productivity and efficiency
• Incorporate ergonomic assessments as part of any project
• Identify and mitigate potential injury risks
• Integrate ergonomics with overall planning with Ergo4all

Human-Centric Product and Workplace Design

• Fully utilize the Ergonomics data libraries faster and easier 
• Easily manipulate manikins
• Provides enhanced experience for posturing capabilities
• Switch manikin population
• Assess manikin vision
• Calculate the moments and forces with bio-mechanics analysis
• Provides push, pull and carry analysis
• Detect risks with rapid upper limb assessment
• Evaluate with clash analysis
• Manage manikin attribute data

Create Highly-Specific Lifelike Manikins

• Create a wide range of humans for any percentile
• Customize a range of motion for each joint
• Identify the safest or most comfortable postures for any given activity
• Capture and re-use ergonomic enterprise standards
• Utilize comfort and safety scoring for postures

Create, simulate, and validate complex NC drilling and riveting programs for aerospace industry

• Increase manufacturing production by detecting machine, robot and tooling problems early in the product development process
• Increase collaboration between Designers and NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Simulate programs in machine/robot environment to detect and prevent possible errors or collision

Define, validate and offline program robot welding and sealant deposition systems in the Virtual Factory

• Simulate and validate complete welding, sealant deposition and handling robotics systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming

Validate and optimize the robot arc welding or sealant deposition simulation and validation

• Simulate and validate complete robotic arc welding, gluing and sealant deposition systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Factory Simulation Engineer provides a Process Engineer an easy to-use environment to study the dynamical behavior

• Study the dynamical behavior of scenarios and save money thanks to make the right decisions
• Validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by performing what if scenarios and monitoring KPIs
• Early detection of trouble spots/bottle necks to optimize system performance & production rate with alternate routings

Create, validate and optimize the fastener process plan in a Virtual Factory context

• Reduces engineering time and optimize the workload balance to increase the production rate
• Enables collaboration
• Optimize resource utilization with the fastener line balancing and tool analysis
• Automated tool analysis helps minimize the number of tools to reduce tooling cost

Efficient rule-driven creation of deliverables for manufacturing of fluid systems

• Makes it possible for you to almost fully automate creation of production drawings and other data required for the production like tube bending machines
• Improve delivery times thanks to rule driven automation of work preparation deliverables
• Effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Reduce scrap and procurement cost
• Reduce labor hours and cost

Animate Team Meetings and Ease Communication

• Capture and socialize corporate know-how
• Promote team ownership and responsibility
• Author and manage the team's daily meetings
• Easily and efficiently organize production plan and communicate it
• Assign tasks and issue to a team member
• Easily annotate, assign, and track allowing team members to propose and react

Guide Team Engagement and Improve Performance with DELMIA 3DLean

• Engage teams despite physical or organizational barriers
• Structure meetings to guide problem solving and manage actions
• Visualize 3D content and data
• Empower teams to work autonomously
• Make ‘Lean thinking’ a standard part of business, teams and culture

Easy, fast and efficient creation of any type of mechanical device along with its kinematics

• Create all the mechanical devices used in a manufacturing setting, from simple clamps to NC machine tools and 3D Printers
• Allows programmers to define, optimize, and validate their programs
• Validate and optimize mechanical equipment designs to mitigate costly errors and accelerate start of production

Easily Define the Manufactured Item Structure

• New "Change Impact Management" command provides the user with a list of all impacted items and suggested actions
• Provides a new automatic update which allows the user to update the whole manufacturing BOM for all impacted Manufacturing Items
• Easily create the Manufactured Items Structure
• View the status of the items assigned in the MBOM
• Provides quick and efficient updates of the MBOM
• Leverage the MBOM across the Manufacturing and Production domains

Define and validate the fabrication process in a 3D virtual environment and consume and track all specifications inputs 

• Accelerate start of production and improve first time quality and deliver all necessary information for shop floor execution
• Increase manufacturing agility and reduce time-to-market by defining and validating the assembly process in the virtual world before start of production
• Leverage the power of model based planning to improve the speed and accuracy of incorporating engineering and manufacturing change to the assembly lines

Efficient creation of manufacturing BOM and process plans directly from engineering design data

• Allows you to optimize production activities before execution starts with 3D virtual build-up and assembly simulation of process plans
• Ensures optimal and efficient production due to authoring and delivery of visual work instructions
• Reduce manufacturing costs thanks to full digital continuity between design and manufacturing
• Decrease number of problems found during manufacturing phase as a result of precise virtual validation (4D Planning)
• Reduce scrap and procurement cost, reduce labor hours and cost through authoring and publication of accurate and detailed 3D Work Instructions

Manufacturing Process and Resource Project Administration

• New "Replace by Proposal Command" provides the user with suggested replacement candidates when replacing Manufacturing Items
• New "Manage Inconsistent Manufactured Item-Product Scope" command provides update actions proposals based on customizable behavior
• New partial loading command speeds up the loading process
• Manage stations and workplaces that have different cycle times within the same process plan
• Provides a simple interface to define and manage all PPR structures
• Offers immediate 3D feedback from any selected element when defining the process plan
• Leverage PPR objects from the 3DEXPERIENCE catalog to establish standards and leverage know-how
• Provides MBOM business process support

Manage product driven change process

• Provides highly efficient browsing
• Enables authoring of Manufactured Product structures (as planned) 

Review and assess your Manufacturing BOM, Process Plans and Work Instructions.

• Browse manufacturing items and process structures in a web user interface to assess completion and accuracy
• Review work instructions to ensure clarity and accuracy before releasing to the shop floor  
• Review 3D annotated issues raised by other stakeholders to quickly resolve potential problems  

Prepare and compute the manufacturing process for Material Deposition & Material Extrusion in AM

• Ensure print success by re-using company know-how for process definition
• Optimize print time & material usage by validating your process before to print it on machine or robot
• Reduce production cost by using a solution for additive manufacturing that work seamlessly across design, manufacturing and simulation

Full NC program validation based on NC Code (ISO Code/ G-Code) Machine Simulation for Milling, Turning & Riveting

• Complete Milling solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Leverage the power of the digital continuity between Designers, Process planners & NC Programmers
• Share the same data in a single environment

Enable efficient creation and validation machining processes to program NC lathe and mill-turn machines

• Provides a complete Milling and Turning solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors

Dedicated solution to machine complex parts on a multi-axis milling machine or robots with advanced operations

• Provides complete milling solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Leverage the power of the digital continuity between Designers, Process Planners and NC Programmers sharing the same data in a single environment

Enable efficient creation and validation machining processes to program NC lathe and mill-turn machines

• Reduce programming time and errors to make machined part creation lean and efficient
• Complete 2.5 and 3 axis Milling solution for Molds, Dies & Stampings, including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors

Enable creation of machining processes to program and simulate a lathe or mill-turn machine including prismatic milling operations

• Complete Milling and Turning solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors

Create machining processes with part-to-machine, stock, cutters and tool assemblies

• Program and simulate a milling machine with 2.5 axis technology
• Enable creation of machining processes with part to machine, stock, cutters and tool assemblies

Program 2.5 Axis Milling Machines

• New application allows users to validate and program wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) processes
• Utilize new superior feature recognition to automate the machining of complex features
• Easily re-use an existing program and apply it to a symmetrical part of the opposite hand
• Enables quick 3D setup and creation of NC tool path
• Manage CNC machines, accessories, tools, and tool assemblies
• Automatically recognizes the prismatic machining features of the product design
• Create and optimize 2.5-axis milling, drilling and probing operations
• Provides powerful simulation capabilities for tool path validation
• Define machining processes as dedicated templates and store in a catalog for re-use
• Offers seamless generation of APT source and NC Code ISO format

Enable CNC Machinist to create a NC Program dedicated to 3 axis machine & Wire EDM

• Create & validate 2.5 & 3 axis NC programs
• Create Wire EDM operations
• Keep strong associativity with design ensuring concurrent engineering
• Store your company know-how to create quickly new programs based on proven sequence of operations
• Validate NC programs with machine simulation to quickly detect accessibility and collision issues

Define Plant Layouts

• Use pre-defined resource types to categorize and organize resources
• Import and extract 2D drawings enabling resources to be snapped into defined positions
• Select and edit ready-to-use parametric resources from a catalog
• Choose ready-to-use non-parametric resources from a catalog
• Position a resource easily and accurately in the immersive 3D environment

Prepare and compute the manufacturing process for Powder Bed 3D Printer to reduce print time and wasted material

• Ensure print success by re-using company know-how for process definition
• Optimize print time and material usage by validating your process before to print it on 3D Printer
• Reduce production cost by using a solution for additive manufacturing that work seamlessly across design, manufacturing and simulation

Prepare, compute & simulate the manufacturing process for Powder Bed 3D Printer to reduce print time and wasted material

• Ensure print success by re-using company know-how for process definition
• Optimize print time and material usage by simulating your process before to print it on 3D Printer
• Reduce production cost by using a solution for additive manufacturing that work seamlessly across design, manufacturing and simulation

Defines process plans along with allocation of resources and equipment

• Allocate resources and equipment fast and efficiently
• Define process plans easily
• Discover real world problems so risks are mitigated before your production starts
• Improve quality by reusing standard process templates
• Optimize cross-discipline process plan and production job orders
• Reduce time-to-market through efficient management of change
• Decrease number of problems found during manufacturing phase as a result of precise virtual validation (4D Planning)

Easy, fast and efficient definition of manufacturing assembly strategy and process plans 

• Enables easy, fast and efficient definition of your manufacturing assembly strategy, process plans
• Provides allocation of resources and equipment
• Ensures real-world problems will be discovered and risks being mitigated before construction starts with 3D virtual build-up relative to your time
• Offers reliable 4D (3D + Time) based MBOM, Process Planning and Process Simulation of at least the critical work packages and operations ensures to finish projects on time and budget

Create balanced process plans and optimize the workload balancing

• Optimize the workload balancing
• Ensures balanced process plans

Simulation-based Markup and Collaboration

• Intuitive interface makes playing a simulation as easy as watching a video
• Perform system verification with step-through visualization 
• Users can activate or deactivate analysis probes, including static and dynamic clash detection, measure, 2D or 3D section, motion traces and data readouts. They can also review the persisted results of the various simulation probes. 
• Provides review tools to create slides, add 2D/3D text and annotations, measure items or distances and section the geometry, for accurate analysis and information sharing
• Enables instant collaboration for participants to share any review information in real time

Efficient creation of manufacturing BOM, process plans and 3D work instructions

• 3D virtual build-up of your products
• Ensures real-world problems will be discovered before production starts
• Reduces cost by avoiding physical prototypes and shortens time to market
• Allows efficient creation of manufacturing BOM, process plans and 3D work instructions based on seamlessly connected engineering design data
• Increase manufacturing agility and reduce time-to-market by defining and documenting the manufacturing process in the virtual world before start of production
• Leverage the power of model based planning to improve the speed and accuracy of incorporating engineering and manufacturing change to the production lines

Design and validate robot handling systems in the Virtual Factory to keep robots in production

• Eliminate costly robot tooling crashes and accelerate start of production
• Allows you to design tooling and equipment of the robotics workcell
• Validate a complete robot handling systems to secure and accelerate production
• Ensure feasibility by designing and validating complete robotic handling systems before procuring expensive equipment
• Avoid costly collisions and minimize cycle time by simulating and optimizing robot programs
• Simulate to validate the handling of new products before introducing them into your production system

Define and Visualize Your Service and Maintenance Processes and Resources

• Address the Service Engineering domain in terms of workflow and model
• Manage the service Bill of Materials with up-to-date data
• Leverage up-to-date engineering data to build maintenance task activities
• Plan and manage service resources
• Capitalize and re-use maintenance practices across the enterprise

Efficient automatic rule-driven preparation of deliverables for manufacturing of marine engineering structures such as panels and profiles

• Model-based approach provides capabilities for adjusting preparations for features such as margin, openings, end cuts, shrinkage, and bending curves
• Improve delivery times by generating rule-driven work preparation deliverables
• Accelerate time-to-market with efficient management of engineering changes

Define, validate and offline program robotic painting systems in the Virtual Factory

• Keep robots in production improve the quality of the painting process and accelerate start of production
• Simulate and validate complete robot painting or shot-peening robot systems to eliminate costly crashes
• Offline program robots to keep the real robots in production longer and improve surface finishing process quality
• Enables simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production due to offline robot programming

Optimization of existing and (re-) design of new workplaces based on proven scientific standards to precisely predict operation durations

• Precisely predict operation durations for all processes in which human workers are involved
• Save money and help to reduce ergonomics risks on the workforce
• Calculate operation times based on numerous supported time standards like MTM, MOST, MODAPTS, etc.
• Rebalance the workload for each worker to improve the workload balance, anticipate and reduce fatigue on the human workforce, and maximize the production rate
• Optionally implement and calculate operation times based on your proprietary corporate time measurement methodologies

Define visual Work Instructions for any process, from simple assembly prototyping to complex manufacturing by leveraging 3D product models

• Improve work instruction quality by using up-to-date 3D engineering and manufacturing data for authoring
• Smart functions provide easy dress up and formatting to provide self-sufficient visual work instructions
• Manage standard work instructions in catalog to accelerate authoring
• Easily maintain work instructions by managing the impact of changes to the product design or manufacturing process

View Online Touch-enable Work Instructions

• Uses published work instructions for job familiarization and training
• Supports thousands of concurrent users for an ideal medium for training workers in production processes
• Provides 2D and 3D views of each operation with review capability
• Provides a web-based widget technology with simple menu navigation for fast, easy deployment
• Customizable to to your manufacturing environment
• Touch compliant for tablet use, enabling work instructions to be viewed anywhere

Early Validation with Virtual Workers for a Safer Workplace

• Add choreography events to the simulation and play them back
• Create, apply and delete data library elements
• Save costs with early integration of human factors in product or workplace design
• Build common actions and activities
• Capture and reuse basic skills or complex tasks
• Provides associativity for automatic layout updates
• Manipulate manikins easier and define the way manikins reach and grasp
• Provides push, pull and carry analysis
• Detect risks with rapid upper limb assessment
• Customize field of vision with manikin vision assessment