Mastering Change and
Configuration
Management for
Business Advantage
Agenda
• Understanding Change and Configuration Management (CCM)
• Mastering CCM Through Best Practices
• Recap and Next Steps
2
What is Change and Configuration Management?
product
data
process
INPUTS
Product Needs
• Opportunities
• Enhancements
• Problems
• Deviations and Waivers
Product Data
• Parts, Assemblies, Structures
• Product Configurations
• Product Documentation
• Design Data
• Product Requirements
• Manufacturing Process Plans
Work Instructions, Resources
OUTPUTS
Change &
Configuration
Management
New Approved Product Data
• Parts, Assemblies, Structures
• Product Configurations
• Product Documentation
• Design Data
• Product Requirements
• Manufacturing Process Plans
Work Instructions, Resources
Change History
• Audit & Traceability
• Verification
© 2010 PTC
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Multiple Trends Affect Change and Configuration
Management
PRESSURES
BUSINESS IMPACT
• Demand for more tailored products
More product configurations / options to manage,
more complicated change impact
• Fierce global competition
Shorter development cycles, need to accommodate
changes faster
• Growth in global outsourcing
Need to effectively coordinate more participants in
product development
• Increase in product complexity
Multiple authoring tools used, so data must be
managed across disparate information systems
• Increase in regulations
Need to adapt products for compliance
Takeaway: Take Control of Change to Stay Competitive
© 2010 PTC
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Vertical Market Needs Affect Change and Configuration Management Strategies
Aerospace/
Defense
Automotive
High Tech/
Electronics
Industrial
Equipment
Traceability
Flexibility
High velocity
changes
Flexibility
Configuration
control
Numerous
variants
Flexibility
Numerous
variants
Numerous
variants
Consumer
Products
Life Sciences
Traceability
High velocity
changes
Flexibility
Configuration
control
Numerous
variants
…Potential benefits are top line, not just cost savings
“An efficient change process can cut up to 33% off of the
typical product development cycle time.” (McKinsey & Company)
BUT
“54% of companies lack single repository to review, analyze,
approve and track changes across products” (Gartner Group)
© 2010 PTC
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Product Configuration Models Vary Across The Value Chain
• Companies May Use Several Models
Assemble-To-Stock
Common Verticals
Consumer Products
Automotive
Assemble-To-Order
Configure-To-Order
High Tech &
Electronics
Medical Devices
Industrial
Engineer-To-Order
Contract
Aerospace & Defense
Contract manufacturer
© 2010 PTC
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Common Change and Configuration Management
Challenges
Managing the Product’s Configuration
Working With Partners
How do I control and deploy the
product’s configuration
throughout its lifecycle?
How do I work quickly and
efficiently with partners while
maintaining data security?
Structuring a Reliable, Flexible
Process
Coordinating Changes Across
Engineering and Manufacturing
How do I create a reliable,
flexible change management
process for all users?
How can I synchronize
engineering and manufacturing
to be faster, more cost-effective ?
Managing Change Across Disciplines
How do I manage and control
change of my product data so
it can be leveraged by the
entire enterprise?
© 2010 PTC
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Agenda
• Understanding Change and Configuration Management (CCM)
• Mastering CCM Through Best Practices
• Recap and Next Steps
8
Today’s Game Plan
Challenge
Approach
Best
Practices
• For each challenge, identify potential action
• For each action, share ideas on Best Practices*
• Illustrate benefits you can realize with case study examples
*Practice = proven Process
Improvement using PLM technology
© 2010 PTC
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Mastering CCM Challenges
Challenge
Approach
Best Practices
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
Structuring a
Reliable, Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible, automated
process that always delivers
accurate, actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing Change
Across Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link integral
product data and configurations
so change is synchronized quickly
and accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with product
configurations and changes
throughout product development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of engineering
data to plan, execute closed loop
changes quickly
1
2
Modular Product Architecture Definition
Generic Product Platform Design
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
Adopt
PLM Technology for Data
Replication
© 2010 PTC 10
Mastering CCM Challenges
Challenge
Approach
Best Practices
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
Structuring a
Reliable, Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible, automated
process that always delivers
accurate, actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing Change
Across Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link integral
product data and configurations
so change is synchronized quickly
and accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with product
configurations and changes
throughout product development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of engineering
data to plan, execute closed loop
changes quickly
1
2
Modular Product Architecture Definition
Generic Product Platform Design
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
Adopt
PLM Technology for Data
Replication
© 2010 PTC 11
Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Approach
Provide a single system to accurately create,
understand and track product configurations and
their change history over time
Consumer demand drives need for
flexible product options
Benefits
• Quickly retrieve, share accurate information at any
time in the product’s history
• Meet diverse configuration requirements across
enterprise teams
• Improve design speed and reuse by supporting
modular product architectures
• Manage product complexity and simplify variant and
option design
• Synchronize fast, accurate change to use-related
technical publications
© 2010 PTC 12
Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Best Practice: Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
As products evolve and mature, PTC’s single system
provides robust, flexible support for simple or complex
levels of configuration management
Easily create product variants for
complex configurations
• Core capabilities (Assemble-to-Stock, Contract Products)
– Versatile BOM creation: in Windchill, from CAD data or
Excel
– Easily define, navigate products by Baselines, Release
Level, Effectivity
…
• Configure-to-Order/Engineer-to-Order Products
– Fast, rules-driven variant creation maximizes data reuse
• Assemble-to-Order Products
– Easily create, manage and share option sets for each
product
– Integrated navigation, design and visualization of option
combinations
F1.300.200.G
F3.300.211.B
F3.300.238.F
© 2010 PTC 13
Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Best Practice: Modular Product Architecture
PTC can provide a proven methodology
for defining a modular product
architecture
• Capture architecture requirements and
variant needs
• Translate requirements into key functions
Product X
Product X
Module1
Comp. 1
Comp. 2
Module 2a
SubComp.2
Module 2
Module 3
• Develop module clusters to share work
• Assess & select best modular architecture
• Determine key interfaces
Complex and uncontrolled
dependencies across
the assembly
Defined interfaces and
dependencies
between modules
© 2010 PTC 14
Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Best Practice: Generic Product Platform Design
PTC can provide an infrastructure that
efficiently captures and manages the details
of a product platform design
Interface
Management
• Capture and manage high level platform
architecture
• Define module interfaces and control
changes
• Manage coordinated development of
detailed product structure with CAD
designs
Engine
Module 1
Cylinder Head
Valve Train
Cover
Block Module 2
Optional
Pistons Modules
Piston X
Piston Y
Crankshaft
Oil System Module 3
Cooling
System
Module
…
Exhaust System
High Level Platform
Product Structure
Detailed Platform
CAD Structure
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Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Case Study: Streamlining The Design Process at Maserati Racing
Maserati Racing is a branch of
Maserati S.p.A (luxury sports car
manufacturer) which has designed
and produced the new Maserati MC12.
Business Initiative
• Increase design reuse, rationalize internal
change process and consolidate engineering
data for better collaboration
Solution
• Deployed Windchill PDMLink as single data
repository in conjunction with Pro/Engineer
“PTC Global Services’ deployment of
Windchill PDMLink has improved our internal
change process, allowed us to monitor the
lifecycles of single serialized objects, and
manage various configurations of our racing
car.”
Results
• Increased commercial part reuse and design
reuse
• Improved early discovery of design conflicts
• Streamlined internal change process
• Distributed technical information to the shop
floor
– Giorgio Ascanelli, Technical Director
Maserati Racing
© 2010 PTC 16
Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Case Study: A Single Repository Simplifies Change and Configurations at SANY
Leading manufacturer of construction
engineering machinery, including
excavators, concrete mixers, concrete
pumps and motor graders, sold
worldwide.
Business Initiatives
• Centralize product data management
• Improve collaboration across subsidiaries
• Improve change management process to
ensure BOM consistency and improve
configuration management
Solution
• Centralized repository of product information
for change/configuration and BOM
management
“Our Windchill solution gives us a better way
to manage product data and to improve
collaborative design capabilities. It is also a
better bridge across CAD, CAPP and ERP
systems.”
– Liang Bin, Assistant CIO
SANY Heavy Industry Ltd. Co.
Results
• Improved change management; integrated
process management
• Enabled faster BOM configuration and
automated release of BOMs to ERP system
• Enabled distributed collaboration
© 2010 PTC 17
Managing the Product’s Configuration
1
Case Study: Schneider Electric Make Its World Smaller in One System
One of the world’s largest
manufacturers of equipment for
electrical power distribution,
industrial control and
automation
Business Initiative
• Consolidate 7 disjointed engineering systems
into one
• Eliminate disconnected methods of information
sharing and collaboration
• Ensure secure control and management of
design data
Solution
• Migrated customized legacy system to a single
PLM solution, ensuring seamless change
management and synchronized Production
Information Management (PIM)
“Windchill helps us support our customer
growth while providing overwhelming
performance improvement.”
– Lionel Aubert
Product Data Security Officer
Schneider Electric
Results
• Reduced engineer-to-order (ETO) process time
by weeks
• System supports 6,000 users to enhance
global collaboration
• Multi-million annual savings
© 2010 PTC
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Mastering CCM Challenges
Challenge
Approach
Best Practices
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
Structuring a
Reliable, Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible, automated
process that always delivers
accurate, actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing Change
Across Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link integral
product data and configurations
so change is synchronized quickly
and accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with product
configurations and changes
throughout product development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of engineering
data to plan, execute closed loop
changes quickly
1
2
Modular Product Architecture Definition
Generic Product Platform Design
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
Adopt
PLM Technology for Data
Replication
© 2010 PTC 19
Structuring a Reliable, Flexible Process
2
Approach
Implement a standardized, automated process
to support rapid and accurate communication
of changes and prevent undetected, costly
late stage errors and project delays
Change process must comprehensively cover
upstream and downstream activities
Requirements
Engineering
BOM
Manufacturing
BOM
Benefits
• Accurate, controlled changes in single system
connected to product data
Revision
Revision
• Optimal flexibility to cover full range of changes
• Increased engineering productivity
• Reduced change cycle times, less rework and
scrap
• Real time visibility to status across enterprise
accelerates change process
• Fully traceable change history
Link changes to product definition
© 2010 PTC 20
Structuring a Reliable, Flexible Process
2
Best Practice: Standardized, Automated Change Process
PTC provides a flexible, automated, closed
loop change process that instantly connects
key stakeholders to secure, accurate,
actionable information
PTC’s Change and Configuration
Management process flow
1.
2.
Verify & Validate
Process
Need
Approval ?
3.
• Provide problem reporting, deviation/waiver
requests and change requests, notices, activities
Plan Major Change
Plan Minor Change
Re-Work
Approve
4.
Change
Implementation
Verify & Validate
Review / Audit
Change
• Automate change routing and task notifications
Re-Work
• Flexible support for simple and complex changes
• Provide enterprise visibility to pending changes
throughout the system
Investigate Need
Clarify
• Synchronize change with product configuration
data in single, integral system
• Apply predefined and configurable change
process workflows, activities and process roles
Product
Configuration
Identify Need
Approve
5.
Release Change
System Design
Concept Design
Detail Design
Verify & Validate
System Design
Concept Design
Detail Design
Supplier Management
Design Outsourcing
Mfg Outsourcing
Product Configuration
Change History
Physical
Implementation
Review / Audit
Change
Re-Work
Approve
Product Configuration
Change History
© 2010 PTC 21
Structuring a Reliable, Flexible Process
2
Case Study: Windchill PDMLink Automates Change Process at Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd (KOEL)
KOEL is India’s leading manufacturer
of diesel engines, engine bearings and
generating sets for a broad range of
industrial applications.
Business Initiative
• Replace manual change process with online
tracking of engineering changes
• Reduce change cycle time
Solution
• Change Management process automation
through Windchill PDMLink
• Separate change management process for
Prototype and Production components
“Windchill PDMLink helped us to automate
and smoothen our engineering change
process. It helped us to reduce cycle time by
40%. It’s comprehensive reports are helping
us as knowledge bank to improve our
designs.”
Results
• Single, automated change management
process for multiple locations
• Easy tracking and monitoring of changes
• Reduced change cycle time
– Mr. R L Harolikar, Sr. GM
(CRE)
© 2010 PTC 22
Structuring a Reliable, Flexible Process
2
Case Study: Windchill PDMLink Automates Change Process at Pelco
California- based Pelco
manufactures advanced
closed circuit television
equipment, camera enclosures, domes, mounts,
pan/tilts, multiplexers, and video matrix systems.
Business Initiative
• Pelco needed to improve its customer service
and product quality through paperless
automation
Solution
• Implemented Windchill PDMLink to support
change management
Results
• Automated its change management process
• Moved from a paper-intensive environment to
paperless automation
“Before our PTC solution, getting a status or
an idea about what was holding up a process
was virtually impossible. Windchill PDMLink
has automated the change management
process.”
• Improved the impact assessment of proposed
changes
– Pelco
© 2010 PTC 23
Structuring a Reliable, Flexible Process
2
Case Study: Improving Global Change Management at Stryker Navigation
Stryker Navigation is
a worldwide leading
innovator of medical
products. Stryker focus on orthopedics,
instruments, implants, physiotherapy,
traumatology, and biotechnology.
Business Initiative
• Implement a global product lifecycle platform
with global change management processes to
conform with FDA regulations
Solution
• Implemented Windchill PDMLink
Results
• Access all product related data electronically in
one platform
“With our Windchill PDMLink processsolution, we will meet our expectations to
optimize the product lifecycle process by
leveraging our product quality.”
• 20% reduction in time taken for change and
release process of documents and document
search
• Reduce product change process time by 15%
– Klaus Welte, VP R&D
Stryker Navigation
© 2010 PTC 24
Mastering CCM Challenges
Challenge
Approach
Best Practices
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
Structuring a
Reliable, Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible, automated
process that always delivers
accurate, actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing Change
Across Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link integral
product data and configurations
so change is synchronized quickly
and accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with product
configurations and changes
throughout product development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of engineering
data to plan, execute closed loop
changes quickly
1
2
Modular Product Architecture Definition
Generic Product Platform Design
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
Adopt
PLM Technology for Data
Replication
© 2010 PTC 25
Managing Change Across Disciplines
3
Approach
Enable the whole enterprise to work with and
view integral product data and configurations
so changes can be synchronized quickly and
accurately across disciplines.
Benefits
Marketing
Mechanical
Manufacturing
Planning
• Reduced errors, rework by leveraging a single
source repository for key functions
• More accurate product alignment across
disciplines via seamless access to product
information
Electrical
Sourcing
• Improved knowledge of changes to product
structure, MCAD/ECAD, software, requirements
and documents as product matures
Software
Service
Quality
© 2010 PTC 26
Managing Change Across Disciplines
3
Best Practice: Integrated, Cross-Discipline Change Management
PTC can implement fast, accurate change
across disciplines with a single, integrated
process to update the complete product
definition
Product
Housing
Requirements
Viewables
Battery
CAD Model
Purchased Assy
• A Single Source for Product Data
– Single global BOM which integrates product
data
Data Sheets
AML / AVL
Analysis
PCA
Discloses &
Declarations
Schematic
Pending Change
• Heterogeneous MCAD, ECAD, Software
PCB
• Documents
Std Parts
Approved Suppliers
Classified Component
Attributes
• Requirements
AML / AVL
• Visualization
ASICs
Firmware Assy
– Robust configuration traceability
Component
• Product data integrally connected to change info
through a powerful, flexible toolset
Software
Mechanical Parts
– Global, enterprise visibility
– Formal change impact and root cause
analysis
AVL
Software
Manual
© 2010 PTC 27
Managing Change Across Disciplines
3
Case Study: Cochlear Standardizes Internal Change Process
Cochlear is the global leader in
innovative, implantable hearing
solutions
Business Initiatives
• Improve globally visibility of Bill of Information
(BOI) for all product development teams
• Improve speed of product design and formal
product change
“We needed a data management system that
could help our global develop teams
accelerate time-to-market by managing our
detailed product data better. Windchill stood
out as the best solution to provide our
engineers online traceability and visibility to
product data; not only increasing our ability
to collaborate, but also helping us drive
quality of product changes through the
implementation of clear workflows.”
– Brent Barnes, Manager Documentation Systems
Cochlear Limited
Solution
• Implemented Windchill PDMLink to control,
audit the complete BOI; increase speed and
efficiency of document reviews and change
control using electronic signatures
Results
• All product data managed in a single data vault
• Executed design changes centrally and visibly
across teams to reduce errors, enforce version
control
• Accurate tracking of product configurations
across departments
© 2010 PTC 28
Mastering CCM Challenges
Challenge
Approach
Best Practices
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
Structuring a
Reliable, Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible, automated
process that always delivers
accurate, actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing Change
Across Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link integral
product data and configurations
so change is synchronized quickly
and accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with product
configurations and changes
throughout product development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of engineering
data to plan, execute closed loop
changes quickly
1
2
Modular Product Architecture Definition
Generic Product Platform Design
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
Adopt
PLM Technology for Data
Replication
© 2010 PTC 29
Working with Partners
4
Approach
Enable suppliers, partners and customers to
seamlessly interact with product configurations
and changes throughout the product
development process.
Benefits
• Improve quality, reduce waste by ensuring partners
have access to up-to-date, accurate information
OEM
Tier 1 Design Partner
Tier 2 Design Partner
Component Supplier
Manufacturing Partner
• Secure, collaborative environment allows partners
to rapidly and directly apply changes, instead of
“over-the-wall”
• Eliminate confusion and costly delays by providing
traceability as to what partners receive
© 2010 PTC 30
Working with Partners
4
Best Practice: Partner Change Integration
PTC can provide a tailored change
process integration method
appropriate to partner relationship
• Share change and product data
information in efficient, controlled
manner (multiple approaches)
• Integrate partners into change review,
approval and implementation activities
• Exchange design and change
information offline
• Use rich visualization to enhance
collaboration, design reviews
• Trace history of what was sent and
when
Requirements
Data Sheet
CAD Model
Software
C++
Code
Viewable
Test Plan
Traceable Data Flow for All
Change Sharing Scenarios
Analysis
“Strategic”
Integral
access
Collaborative
workspace
Strategic
Supplier
Example – Submit problem reports,
change impact analysis
Manufacturing
Partner
Example – Request variances
“Arm’s length”
Package
delivery
Supplier
Collaboration
Example – change impact analysis
© 2010 PTC 31
Working with Partners
4
Successful Change Management Customers On a Global Scale
Designs, develops, and
manufactures on-site electric
power generation systems
utilizing Proton Exchange
Membrane fuel cells for
stationary applications
• ECN cycle time was cut
by 62%
• Variability in the time to
complete an ECN was
reduced by 76%
HP Imaging and Printing
division spans 23,000 products
and tens of thousands of
suppliers across 160 countries
World's premier supplier of
pumps, systems and
services to move and control
water and other fluids
• Achieved an 80%
improvement in design and
process reuse
• Part counts fell 2% to 18%
• Implemented global
engineering change
process with 1 year
payback
• Time-to-market, product
cost, and warranty cost
reduced
• Time to implement
engineering changes
reduced by 50%
• Productivity rose between
20% and 30%
• Significant cost reduction
for scrap and rework
costs
© 2010 PTC
32
Mastering CCM Challenges
Challenge
Approach
Best Practices
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
2
Structuring a
Reliable, Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible, automated
process that always delivers
accurate, actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing Change
Across Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link integral
product data and configurations
so change is synchronized quickly
and accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with product
configurations and changes
throughout product development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of engineering
data to plan, execute closed loop
changes quickly
1
Modular Product Architecture Definition
Generic Product Platform Design
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
Adopt
PLM Technology for Data
Replication
© 2010 PTC 33
Coordinating Change Across Engineering, Manufacturing
5
Approach
Tightly align manufacturing process
planning to engineering design changes
by integrating both groups in the same
automated change management
process.
Lower costs, shorter cycles if concurrent engineering and
manufacturing processes are integrated early in design
process
Concept
Development
System
Design
Benefits
– faster time to market
– reduced tooling costs
– higher product quality
– reduced inventory
– superior change documentation
• Reduce overall change cycle time with tight
coupling of engineering and manufacturing
deliverables
Number of changes
• Earlier involvement of manufacturing
results in:
Detailed
Design
Manufacturing
Process
Management
Concurrent:
less costly
changes made
earlier
Production
Accelerate
Production ramp up
Sequential : later, more costly
changes delay launch
Typical engineering change distribution throughout
production development
© 2010 PTC 34
Coordinating Change Across Engineering, Manufacturing
5
Best Practice: Integral Engineering to Manufacturing Change Management
PTC can involve manufacturing
stakeholders earlier by enabling
concurrent development of eBOM and
mBOM
Changes identified early in design process “ripple”
through to improve manufacturing planning
Engineering
BOM
Manufacturing
Process Plan
BOM
• Common change process for engineering
and manufacturing teams
– Associate manufacturing process data with
change records
• Easily synchronize eBOM/mBOM product
structure changes
• Manage variance decision
Revision
Resources
Revision
– Incorporate deviations and waivers using
same change process for Eng and Mfg
• Provide fully traceable change history
© 2010 PTC 35
Coordinating Change Across Engineering, Manufacturing
5
Case Study: Grand River Unifies Engineering and Manufacturing Change Processes
Grand River Group (GRG) is
China’s largest motorcycle
manufacturer with a production
capacity of 3 million engines and 3 million
motorcycles per year. GRG is also the largest
partner of Suzuki Motor Corp. in China.
Business Initiative
• Shorten time to market by accelerating the
engineering to manufacturing change process
• Improve reliability of manufacturing data,
process plans and work instructions
Solution
• Implemented Windchill PDMLink and MPMLink
to streamline and standardize manufacturing
engineering deliverables and implement a
closed loop change process
Results
• Increased production and manufacturing
engineering efficiency
“Our PTC Windchill MPMLink solution is just
the thing we need to help us improve our
entire manufacturing process.”
– Chen Hai Lan
Grand River Group
• Improved product quality and consistency of
manufacturing data
• Dramatically reduced the time to propagate a
new product derivative to manufacturing
© 2010 PTC 36
Agenda
• Understanding Change and Configuration Management (CCM)
• Mastering CCM Through Best Practices
• Recap and Next Steps
37
Key Change and Configuration Management Takeaways
Challenge
1. Take control of configurations
1
2. Automate change in single system
Product Configuration Lifecycle Management
Modular Product Architecture Definition
2
Structuring a
Reliable,
Flexible
Process
Implement a flexible,
automated process that
always delivers accurate,
actionable information
Standardized, Automated Change Processes
3
Managing
Change Across
Disciplines
Enable enterprise to link
integral product data and
configurations so change is
synchronized quickly and
accurately across disciplines
Integrated Cross-Discipline Change Management
4
Working with
Partners
Enable external parties to
seamlessly interact with
product configurations and
changes throughout product
development
Partner Change Integration
5
Coordinating
Change Across
Engineering
and
Manufacturing
Provide manufacturing with
associative views of
engineering data to plan,
execute closed loop changes
quickly
Integral Engineering-Manufacturing Change
Management
4. Enable secure change collaboration with
partners
6. PTC has proven experience enabling
best practices with PLM technology
Enable enterprise to create,
understand and track product
configurations
Best Practices
Generic Product Platform Design
3. Unify change across enterprise
5. Synchronize changes between
Engineering and Manufacturing
Managing the
Product’s
Configuration
Approach
7. PTC can help you plan and execute a
strategy for optimal success
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Next Steps: Explore the Path to Value
Informed by 25 years of experience supporting thousands of customers PTC offers:
• A comprehensive Roadmap containing a structured collection of intellectual property
• A guide to linking Corporate Strategy initiatives to critical business processes and needed technologies
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Next Steps: Three Step Approach
Introduce
Value
Framework
PTC Value
Roadmap
Session
Introductory
discussion of PTC’s
Value-based
approach to product
development
Collaborative
30-minute session to
uncover your business’
unique value drivers
PDS Vision
Assessment
~10 member *
1-2 hours each,
consultative session, to
quantify/rate/prioritize your
unique path to value
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