Indexing CAx Data and SharePoint based SDM SLM Seminar What commercial PLM/SLM still do not do

Commercial PLM/SLM Overview SIEMENS Simulation Data Management CAD Data Management And Product Development Business Processes and ERP

The point of DATA MANAGMENT “STORE” the DATA “SEARCH AND FIND” the DATA by BROWSING or QUERING “Whatever is necessary to find the requested data back” FUNDAMENTALS Use a central repository (DATABASE) Querying: Describe the DATA with the minimal SET OF META-DATA that enable the queries (searches) that you to implement. Browsing: Organize the DATA with logical/hierarchical structure that enable to browse it and find the desiderate data. DATA MODEL

Data and Metadata and Indexing Process Metadata 1 Metadata 2 Metadata 3 Metadata N File Format

Data and Metadata and Indexing Process

Link with MDO and iFilter CAD CAE Application Readable Format XML CSV TXT Solve Application integration For building CAE Process For MultiDomain OPTIMIZATION Useful for data management iFilter for the search engine crawler We have a mean to access and index CAE specific information

MDO Model Introspection

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SharePoint SDM

Suggested Site Structure Each Simulation Domain has its own team site

Each Simulation Domain Team Site has: 1)Simulation Report List 2)Simulation Task List 3)Simulation Library List

1) Simulation Report It is a shared best practice (especially in R&D) to report the process used to obtain the results of a given simulation. If the report is well done is used as reference by less experienced analyst to perform the same kind of simulation. (valuable knowledge) For repetitive task usually the reporting can be automated (at least partially) with scripting and post processing tool.

1) Simulation Report Given the fact that a report contain valuable knowledge we want to be able to access its contents. As plain text file the knowledge is completely unstructured > we can create ‘zone’ of the document that can be exposed as metadata [e.g Target of the Simulation (text), Target achieved (yes/no) ] The reason of structuring the report is simply to provide meaningful search refiner filter > Easier to drill down the results and find a specific item.

1) Simulation Report Configuration of the SDM is essentially reduced to the creation of 1 to N Simulation Domain Specific Word Template Report. For each simulation domain there must be a “Team Responsible” in charge of the definition of the template and maintenance of the his/her team site. Open XML API > We have already methods to access programmatically the report and its content (zip). Most post processing tools already allow to automate some part of report. For FEA/CFD Report Template in the first page it would be nice to insert a VCollab file instead of static picture.

1) Site Columns Set of common site columns to all simulation reports Project (choice), Target Description (test), Target Achived (yes/no), Device Power (int), Drive Frame Size (choice) Simulation domain specific site columns Modeling Tools(choice) Simulation domain specific site columns Modeling Tools(choice)

Search Center

Ontolica Search Preview ADD-ON pages.htmlhttp:// pages.html ConceptSearching ADD-ON Automatically classify documents against Taxonomies This eliminates manual metadata tagging by end users and provides comprehensive and consistent tagging of documents.

ScalabilityPriceNote Microsoft Search Server Express 10 M document FREEBasically same functionality as SP Server. Associated with SP foundations > COST ZERO solution SharePoint Server Search 100 M document 4000€ (SP Server License + 80€/seat CAL) Can be extended to become as good as FAST with > Ontolica (?€) > Concept Classifier (?€) FAST for SharePoint infinite22K$ starting point for single license. The real plus is scalability. The price reported might exclude many other cost. Google Search Appliance infinite0.5M for 30K$ 2- 3 years lease of their server Looks expensive > However No hidden cost DS Exalead??? Hopefully it will be tuned to index CAD CAE specific file format (besides DS)

Sharepoint VS Commercial SDM Sharepoint FREE or 4K€ per seat Sharepoint FREE or 4K€ per seat Functionalities SDM K€ > 1M€ Development Required Specificity

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