Closing the Gap on Digital Manufacturing
The concurrent engineering required for new product designs between design
engineering and manufacturing engineering has always been a critical
focal point for manufacturers to shorten time-to-market, accelerate time-tovolume,
and minimize cost of production. Today, collaboration between
product design (CAD) and manufacturing processes
(CAM) is a robust process due to tight
integration between CAD and CAM and the emergence
of extended PDM and PLM systems.
However, there has not been a corresponding
level of tight integration between CAD/CAM and
production management. But the benefits of exchanging
information between the product
definition domain and production management are becoming clear as
manufacturers move to a collaborative environment. Two leading PLM
suppliers, EDS and IBM/Dassault, have recently launched new programs
to integrate these disparate domains.
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Closing the Gap on Digital Manufacturing
1. THOUGHT LEADERS FOR MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY CHAIN
ARC INSIGHTS
By John Moore
A critical and often broken link in
manufacturing today is the link between
design and manufacturing processes. The
lack of a tight link hinders responsiveness
to market needs. IBM/Dassault and EDS,
two of the leading PLM suppliers, seek to
address this issue through partners.
INSIGHT# 2003-17E
APRIL 23, 2003
Closing the Gap on Digital Manufacturing
Keywords
PLM, CAD/CAM, CPM, IBM, EDS
Summary
The concurrent engineering required for new product designs between de-
sign engineering and manufacturing engineering has always been a critical
focal point for manufacturers to shorten time-to-market, accelerate time-to-
volume, and minimize cost of production. Today, collaboration between
product design (CAD) and manufacturing proc-
esses (CAM) is a robust process due to tight
integration between CAD and CAM and the emer-
gence of extended PDM and PLM systems.
However, there has not been a corresponding
level of tight integration between CAD/CAM and
production management. But the benefits of ex-
changing information between the product
definition domain and production management are becoming clear as
manufacturers move to a collaborative environment. Two leading PLM
suppliers, EDS and IBM/Dassault, have recently launched new programs
to integrate these disparate domains.
Analysis
Manufacturers are under pressure to accelerate the design, production, and
marketing of new products to retain customers and gain new ones. Subse-
quently, manufacturers have made enormous technology investments in
enterprise software and factory automation. As a result, virtually all indus-
tries have seen impressive productivity gains, but companies must
continually seek new ways to improve their numerous business processes
to gain that critical competitive advantage.
Toward that end, leading companies like Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, and GM
are pursuing a vision of digital manufacturing, encompassing everything
from initial design through production and service. This will be addressed
through a digital information pipeline that will automate numerous proc-