Transcript PLCS Template : April 2002 - ECCMA

Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
The Information Backbone to transform the Logistics Enterprise
PLCS – Applying AIDC
Howard Mason
Corporate IT Office
BAE Systems
Chair, ISO TC184 SC4 Industrial Data
Co-chair, OASIS PLCS TC
Chair, eBusiness MoU Management Group
The PLCS Initiative
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The Business Context
 The key problem
Overview of PLCS
 Vision
 Approach
 Capabilities
Role of unique identifiers
Opportunities for AIDC
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Setting the Business Context
Business Drivers
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Reduced Cost of Ownership
 Users of products are seeking improved
availability, reliability, maintainability and
lower cost of ownership
Sustainable Business Growth
 Companies are seeking to make money
through the life cycle support of their
products to improve profits, improve
quality and be more competitive
Protect investment in product data
 Users of information systems want to
ensure long term usability for product
information as IT and processes change
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Setting the Business Context
Imagine the opportunities if …
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Configuration management information
was always accurate, up to date and
immediately accessible
Maintenance information was precisely
tailored to the work to be done
Spares and inventory costs were
minimized through vendor involvement
in an integrated supply chain
In-service feedback was accurate,
meaningful and readily available to
product designers and support
managers
Change was easy to manage
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Setting the Business Context
The Key Business Problem
How to keep the information needed to operate and maintain a
product aligned with the changing product over its life cycle?
Product
in Focus
Product Definition
Information
Transportation
Consumables
Maintenance
Schedules
Feedback
Tools
Software
Spares
Test
Equipment
Support
Facilities
Training
Storage
Requirements
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
The stakeholders
Finnish
Defence
Forces
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
The Initiative
A joint industry and government
initiative to accelerate development of
new standards for product support
information
An international project to produce an
approved ISO standard within 4 years;
ran from November 1999 – September
2003
PLCS ensures support information is
aligned to the evolving product
definition over the entire life cycle
PLCS extends ISO 10303 STEP - the
STandard for Exchange of Product
model data
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Available capabilities - ISO STEP
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STEP is an established international standard for the
exchange, integration and sharing of product data
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Geometry
Product structure
Manufacturing interfaces
Drawings
Finite Element Analysis
Printed Circuit Assemblies
Wiring looms
Mechanical Design
Construction industry
Supports wide range of IT – ASCII, databases, XML, XMI,…..
Process modelling independent of information in EXPRESS
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
STEP in service
Product Data Management exchange for Eurofighter
Supplier interface for Lockheed Martin
Configuration Management and Digital Pre-Assembly
exchange at Boeing - RR, GE and P&W
Interface between A380 and its engines
IBM's global e-procurement design data exchange
Solid model exchange for Electric Boat
US and UK Navy RAMP programmes
Japanese SCADEC programme for the construction industry
Ford CAD/PDM data integration
NASA Engineering information
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
The Vision
Change
Directives
Standard
Commercial
Transactions
Scope of STEP Today
Product Structure
Product Representations
Product Performance
Life
Shared
Cycle
Data
Data
Support Performance
Quer
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Maintain/Dispose
Use
Support Environment
Failure Analysis
Derived Disposable
Data
Maintenance Analysis
Task Resource Data
Support and
Operational
Feedback
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Extended Enterprise enabled by Internet technology
Customers Tier 1
Tier 2
Partners Suppliers Suppliers
Extended Enterprise of
OEM’s, Customer, Partners
and Suppliers
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Enterprise Integration
through dedicated networks
Enterprise
Dept
Extended Enterprise Integration
Internet-based architecture and federated data models make possible
implementations involving thousands of users across many sites
PLCS
Domain
Domain specific
information systems
(e.g. CAD, MRPII, Planning)
Define and implement the support solution, maintain the product configuration
Concept
Assessment
Demonstration Feedback
Manufacture
Operational
Product Life Cycle
In-Service
Disposal
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Extended Enterprise – Importance of PLCS
Customers Tier 1
Tier 2
Partners Suppliers Suppliers
Enterprise
5 – 10 years
Typically 25 – 50 years Operational Life
PLCS Domain
Design for
Supportability
In Service Support and
Operational Feedback
Dept
Extended Enterprise Integration
When set against a timeline – the picture looks more like this!
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In-Service
Product Life Cycle
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Typically complex systems environment – point to point integration
Operational
Objectives
CM Data
CM Data
CM Data
CM Data
Functional Requirements
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Requirements
Management
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Depot Maint
Mgmt
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Product
Data
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& Failure
Reporting
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Maintenance
Management
Defects
and
Failures
CM Data
Maintenance
Mgt Data
Support
Data
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Support
Data
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FMECA
LSA Data
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Stock
Mgmt
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Distribution,
Transportation
Design
Data
FMECA
Results
Support Data
Distribution
Data
LSA Data
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LSAR
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CAD
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Parts
Supplier
Database
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Maintainers
Viewing
Tool
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IETM
Part Data
LSA Data
Tech Pubs Data
Support Data
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
PLCS will enable cost effective information exchanges
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Support
Data
Support data
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Maintainers
Viewing
Tool
Maintenance
Mgmt Data
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Stock
Mgmt
Part data
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Maintenance
Management
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Requirements
Management
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LSAR
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FMECA
Maintenance
Mgmt Data
Functional Req.
LSA Data
FMECA
Results
PLCS compliant information exchanges
Design Data
Design data
Tech
Pub Data
Parts Data
Maintenance
Mgt Data
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CAD
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Product
Data
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IETM
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Parts
Supplier
Database
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Depot Maint
Mgmt
Distribution
Data
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Distribution,
Transportation
Defects
& Failures
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& Failure
Reporting
In future, support system integration will be easier to implement
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PLCS - Life Cycle PDM Capability (1)
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STEP PDM Schema already supports automated exchange
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Part id and properties
Associated documents and files (incl. CAx)
Product structure
Product (and document) approval status
This is already in production use by
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US Aerospace and Defence prime contractors (via AP203)
German/Swedish/French Automotive sector (via AP214 cc6)
Eurofighter Typhoon PDM partners
.. A powerful and proven capability for Configuration
Management of a complex product design
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PLCS - Life Cycle PDM Capability (2)
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AP239 has added:
 Classification, supported by reference data libraries
 Product_as_individual (planned and realized) - UID
 Product breakdowns (system, physical, functional, zonal and
hybrid)
 Text based requirements (from AP233)
 Extended property capability
 Interfaces
 Attachment_slot
 Message, Envelope (similar to ENGDAT)
 Information Rights
… A powerful capability for Life Cycle Configuration Management
of Assured Product and Support Information
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Capabilities enabled by PLCS
Product Description
Capability to define product requirements and
configuration, including relationships between
parts and assemblies in multiple product
structures (as-designed, as-built, as-maintained)
Work Management
AP 239
Capabilities
Capability to request, define, justify, approve,
schedule and capture feedback on work
(activities) and related resources.
Property, State and Behaviour
Capability that describes and captures feedback
on product properties, operating states,
behaviour and usage
Support Solution and Environment
Capability to define the necessary support for a
given set of products in a specified environment
and to define support opportunity, facilities,
personnel and organizations
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Role of UID
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PLCS requires unique identification of
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DoD IUID built on existing item identifications
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Individual items
Locations
People
Organisation
Serial number
Original part number
Virtual UID
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Can derive data from existing marks
Other MoDs will use this approach
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Opportunities for RFID
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RFID provides unique identification
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Pallets
Packages
Parts
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Simple cheap tags
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High capacity tags allow application data to be added
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Selective download of different sets of data
Minimises bandwidth on air interface
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Example RFID Application Standards
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Support for the components of the UID - Manufacturer code, serial
number and part number
Item of supply (NSN)
Characteristics of item of supply eg ISO 22745
External reference class definitions and properties
Material properties
Tagging of location, for matching reconciliation with candidate
components
Maintenance records - which may be updated locally
Functional definitions
Tracking applications
Manufacturing management
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
Dynamic data updating for sensors
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
RFID Application Standards
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Key business questions:
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Is the content of the tag the master or a copy?
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Should the data be kept on the tag, or on a database indexed by simple
ID?
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
Developing RFID Application Standards
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JTC1 SC31 on Automated Data Capture develops the base standards
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TC184 SC4 on Industrial Data will seek to develop application standards
based on STEP, PLCS and its other standards
Seamless integration of information
across the supply chain
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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)
The Information Backbone to transform the Logistics Enterprise
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