1. An e-learning platform for Product Data Management
Dr.A.S.Deshpande,
Gogte Institute of Technology,
Belgaum, India

2. What’s Product Data ?
Product Data Management (PDM), use of software or other tools to track and control Product data.
Technical specs, Manufacture and development data, costs in creation and launch of the product.
e-Manufacturing…PDM importance growing.

3. PDM –
A central knowledge repository for process and product history.
Promotes integration and data exchange among all business users interacting with the product viz. project managers, engineers, sales people, buyers, QA teams etc.
Information on products/services-along entire Product Life.

4. PDM
Provides a unified perspective & helps integrate business processes
The need to manage, exchange & interpret product data has increased awareness of the role & benefit of PDM
The benefits of reduced costs & shorter times to market have also made PDM popular
There is a clear evolution from CAD data exchange to Product Data exchange

5. PDM & PLM
Product data management (PDM) is the business function often within Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) that is responsible for the creation, management and publication of product data.

6. PDM if used with World Wide Web (www) technology can enable a company to build an open system and make engineering information available throughout its operations.

7. Concept
Design
Plan/Mfr.
Sales
Service
Sequential Engineering
Concept/Design/Plan/Mfr./Sales/Service
PDM
Concurrent Engineering

8. The Learning process

9. ` C e-Learning Product PDM e-LEARNING Design Plan/Mfr. Proj.Mgrs
Sales/Service
Buyers
@ n Locations

10. Case Study – Airbus A380

11. Airbus 3XX, double deck,wide-body jet airliner
Worlds largest passenger airliner…Airports had to expand facilities.
Maiden flight, April 2005.
January 2012, 253 orders…only 69 delivered.

12. Need for Partnerships in Airbus 380 development
For the Airbus A380 programme the use of global partners was essential, one reason being to share the burden of the huge $10Bn development costs.
The use of suppliers as partners who would invest in the development phase was needed; these partners are known as risk sharing partners (RSP).

13. Airbus Teams in Europe

14. Data handled in Airbus development
CAD system used – CADD5 &
Majority of suppliers used – CATIA V4

15. 3 FUNCTIONAL INVOLVEMENT THROUGH PRODUCT LIFE
Human Resources, Engineering Resource Development
Out of
Service
Planning and Control
Research and Technology, Engineering Processes & Methods
Systems
Design / Structures
Support
in service
Future
Projects
Flight
Physics
Production
Manufacturing Engineering
Procurement / Supply Chain Management
Product Integrity
Project
Inception
First
Flight
Entry into
Service

16. Concurrent Teams- A380

17. DMU Why use a Digital Mock-Up?
A Digital Mock-Up is a simulation based on numerical and/or digital models that represents partially or globally a product or part of a product (airframe, systems, avionics, …).
Why use a Digital Mock-Up?
To support the analysis of the product during its different phases (project, feasibility, definition, post EIS).
DMU is used to ease design, understanding, validation, modification, information, selling, support & maintenance, ...
DMU is used to replace partially or totally the physical mock-up.

18. Obstacles to Data Transfer
Multiplicity of incompatible CAD/CAM/CAE tools
Proprietary (native) formats for data storage
Inconsistencies and incompleteness in data
Absence of neutral standards addressing above
Ever-changing software platforms
Unlimited boundaries…e-Domain

19. Thank You!
A.S.Deshpande
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