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Operationalizing Sustainability via the Digital Thread

Patrick Willemsen — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:11:00 GMT

Sustainability has moved from a topic of discussion to a business imperative. The Tech-Clarity survey on executive strategies reflects the impact of environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) on manufacturers. According to Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown in Executive Strategies for Long Term Business Success, the percentage of companies that see ESG as critical to success has grown by double digits.

However, acting on sustainability goals is a challenge for businesses today. The critical thing to remember is that these questions and goals must be data-driven and addressed systematically to make decision-making a complex combination of leveraging and extending data traceability via the digital thread to operationalize sustainability.

Take a systemic approach to sustainability goals

There are many ways in which manufacturers can improve their sustainability. For example, they could focus on:

Buildings, vehicles, and similar items directly attached to the business
Product contents and impact on the supply chain
Product functionality affecting sustainability positively (or negatively)
Consumables like energy, water, waste
Energy consumption of a plant during operation
Impact of users on a product and how it impacts their ESG goals

Companies can focus on anything from green products to the energy transition to supporting circularity with new business models. There are infinite ideas and opportunities. These are often complex, confusing, and sometimes contradictory ideas and demands from multiple angles.

Manufacturers must start by building a corporate culture and enable methodologies that support sustainability goals and benefits. At this stage, a systemic approach is essential to navigating the complexity, relationships, and tough decisions needed to ensure progress. It is essential to set requirements and goals so that you can take a holistic view toward understanding how actions will impact the target and the business. After taking in all the various demands of their internal stakeholders, companies should develop specific goals that can be monitored and tracked. This Tech-Clarity eBook shares five ways to improve ESG results with a systems engineering approach:

Develop sustainability requirements
Focus on product sustainability
Focus on manufacturing sustainability
Focus on service and operational sustainability
Tracing sustainability progress with analytics

Let's look at these five ways a systems engineering approach can improve ESG results in a bit more depth:

1. Develop sustainability requirements

The first step is to develop your requirements consistently using a systems-oriented approach to these challenges. Requirements should be based on tangible criteria, such as reducing energy consumption by X, extending a product's useful life by X, or reducing transportation requirements by X, etc.

A systems-oriented approach allows companies to map sustainability requirements to product, procurement, manufacturing, and service plans and creates the structure to develop reporting and other metrics. With the help of enterprise technology, companies can collaborate on shared digital thread data, which can be viewed at varying levels of detail and in different contexts. This facilitates greater traceability and supports informed decision-making.

2. Focus on product sustainability

When developing sustainable products, paying attention to product composition is crucial. For instance, engineers can refine designs by simulating design alternatives. This not only optimizes performance but also enhances sustainability. Engineers need to anticipate how choices in design, such as selecting specific materials, components or suppliers, will affect the overall product, considering more than just its sustainability aspect.

In focusing on design, it is essential to enable design for sustainability so that design decisions are made in the initial phase and not after the fact. The digital thread can be used to understand the implications of their design choice(s) on sustainability and to measure the impact on requirements. This implies that artifacts traceable via digital thread have sustainability-related properties that can be used in selection or comparison. While this information is not readily available today, many organizations are developing sustainability-related information services for various industries, such as Mindful Materials, which focuses on building designs.

Companies need to establish comprehensive digital threads. This will enable them to fully grasp the sustainability implications of their design decisions and accurately assess their impact on requirements. According to Jeff Stroh, senior director of Digital & Information Systems Management of McDermott International:

“We need to give engineers visibility to the impact of their decisions…Tools should provide feedback and suggest alternates, along with providing rules and guidance.”

3. Focus on manufacturing sustainability

Designers have to ensure that manufacturing processes focus on the sustainability of their products. Production can significantly affect a company's environmental footprint, including the energy, emissions, water, and supplies consumed and what was sourced into the BOM.

A systems-oriented approach enables companies to link their sustainability requirements to tangible products, procurement, manufacturing, and service plans. It creates a framework for developing reports and other metrics. Enterprise-wide technology allows companies to work on common digital thread data that can be viewed at different levels of detail and in various contexts, supporting traceability and decision-making. This level of transparency makes it an indispensable tool for companies striving to achieve their goals.

It's important to understand that there will be manufacturing process trade-offs to be made. Determining the effects and compromises of manufacturing on sustainability depends on data. Manufacturers must gather, analyze, and broaden sustainability-related data from their laboratories, facilities, and supply chains. This enables them to model different manufacturing scenarios to navigate through complex decisions. For instance, firms might shift towards additive manufacturing to facilitate lighter products, yet this shift can significantly alter the impact on materials, mechanical properties, and energy consumption.

4. Focus on service and operational sustainability

The environmental impact of a product extends far beyond its shipment or installation. Manufacturers must consider ongoing factors, including power consumption and emissions, during its operational life. An alternative strategy for boosting operational sustainability involves improving serviceability. This ensures eco-friendly service practices, extends the product's usable lifespan, and supports implementing circular economy principles. Improving service also provides strategic benefits by becoming a trusted partner with customers.

Manufacturers must understand their product and how it operates as a system to improve sustainability. This needs an enterprise-wide digital thread and digital twins of the manufactured product. These models help makers test and improve their products to be more sustainable and meet other needs. By connecting a digital copy of the product to the internet, they can track its real-life use. This helps them make better predictions and decisions.

5. Tracing sustainability progress with analytics

Manufacturers need to track their progress on sustainability to check if specific goals are met and to evaluate the outcomes of their decisions against standards across all areas. Reporting on these metrics is crucial to pinpointing and handling progress, challenges, and potential risks.

It is important to be able to report on requirement metrics to identify and manage progress, issues, and risks. Regulations and customer demand change. When changes are detected, engineers must be able to define sustainability requirement changes, assess their impact, and decide how to fulfill them optimally. Finally, reporting is critical to show compliance and document sustainability achievements for executives, investors, regulators, customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

Tracing sustainability via Digital Thread

Establishing digital thread capable of tracing sustainability is an exciting endeavor that requires a thoughtful and comprehensive approach. We can achieve this goal by exploring every possible avenue and gathering data from various sources, including our supply chain and our own experiments. By analyzing this data, we can gain insights into how each decision and design tweak can impact the bigger picture and create a repository of reliable data valuable for sustainability reports and product passports. Note that different industries may have different data requirements. These can be easily addressed via a robust digital thread and the modeling capabilities in Aras Innovator^®.Achieving this requires a collaborative effort that involves bringing everyone to the same page and automating documentation using cutting-edge technology. However, it is essential to remember that we don't need to rely only on the latest technology available. We can leverage the tools and systems we already have, whether ours or part of the supply chain or third-party sources. We can achieve a comprehensive and holistic view of the ecosystem by combining data from various sources, such as PLM systems, project management tools, and quality management solutions. Establishing this infrastructure and ecosystem is key to ensuring a sustainable future.

Read the Tech-Clarity eBook here for more details on operationalizing sustainability with the digital thread.

2023 PLM Trends

Patrick Willemsen — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:03:00 GMT

What trends will shape product lifecycle management (PLM) in 2023? We spoke to three PLM experts about this topic: Prof. Dr.-Ing., Martin Eigner (Eigner Engineering Consult), Ulrich Sendler (PLM trade journalist), and Jos Voskuil (PLM Green Global Alliance). They identify four key trends: networked systems are becoming more important, businesses follow a model-based approach, digital twins are becoming commonplace, and sustainability determines corporate strategy. This blog post looks at these four themes that will shape PLM in 2023.

System lifecycle management: networked systems are coming

"The German manufacturing industry is still very much driven by product thinking," says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Eigner. "But nowadays, products are increasingly transforming into interdisciplinary, networked systems with a high proportion of software and service." Such service-oriented business models are based on smart products. Companies receive information from sensors, which they use to enhance the product with services, such as status monitoring in the cloud or remote maintenance – unthinkable without software.

This is particularly evident in the automotive industry, where the share of new types of electronic components and software is already significantly higher than it was ten years ago. And this development is ongoing. Autonomous vehicles allow for new business models such as "robotaxis" or autonomous transportation. Once autonomy level four is realized in the near future, they will act as a system of hardware and software components, interacting with each other and with the environment.

"This development also changes classic product lifecycle management," says Martin Eigner. "It reflects the system aspect much more strongly and becomes system lifecycle management." Businesses need to catch up with this development, even if they have had great success with other concepts in the past. Work in companies today is often still siloed. Each technological discipline does its own thing. However, new, interdisciplinary business models are the future.

Model-based work: PLM from start to finish

The development of product lifecycle management is ongoing. Classic bills of materials are still important, but the model-based approach is becoming dominant. In most companies, PLM has focused only on individual product lifecycle stages. This is due to the document-based way of working, which corresponds to the usual linear product cycles.

"Model-based work is the key," emphasizes PLM expert Ulrich Sendler. Models give businesses a formal description that is used throughout the lifecycle. As Sendler put it, "The model is created at the initial idea for a new system and then transferred through design, manufacturing, and aftersales service to every stage of the entire lifecycle." PLM software supports the model-based approach but is still underdeveloped in German industry.

One major gap is software development which is only sparsely integrated into product lifecycle management solutions. Although there are specialized applications for software lifecycle management, they often lack an interface to industrial PLM systems. In addition, the overarching aspect is also not realized: the software is often developed as a black box independent of the actual product lifecycle.

Digital Twin: PLM goes real-time

Model-based PLM leads directly to the use of digital twins. Digital twins are the digital representation of a system, that is, the end product of the digitalization of the engineering process. They are based on digital models, for example, architecture, process, and simulation models.

This digital twin – the model of a system – is linked to the original system by a two-way data link. The data comes from integrated sensors and control systems. In this way, the twin reflects the current status of the linked object in real-time and can control it if necessary. In the manufacturing industry, this is often used to control individual machines or entire production plants.

"Managing digital twins with a PLM solution changes the entire character of product lifecycle management," says PLM specialist Jos Voskuil. "It now uses real-time information and is not just a database." The data visible in a PLM solution provides information not only about normative aspects ("This is how the design should look") but also about the reality of product use ("This is how the customer is currently using the product").

Sustainability: the circular economy with PLM

The current trends in PLM, such as systems thinking, model orientation, and digital twins, point to the megatrend of sustainability. "Modern PLM systems make it easier for companies to enter the circular economy," emphasizes Jos Voskuil. "In doing so, the systems cover the entire product lifecycle, including the time after sale until disposal or take-back." Find the full interview with the co-founder of the PLM Green Global Alliance here:

https://youtu.be/XPFETHpa_Dk

New PLM systems capabilities allow companies to incorporate features such as the ability to repair or recycle into their products much more easily. In addition, PLM helps reduce the carbon footprint of the entire company. In this context, sustainability starts with the initial preliminary design considerations for products by selecting sustainable and environmentally friendly materials and components. The fact is that 80% of an ecological footprint is determined in the design phase.

"Sustainability also involves a new mindset," says PLM expert Ulrich Sendler. "Companies need to adapt to the fact that sustainability and the circular economy require continuous data collection throughout the lifecycle." Once again, this necessitates real-time data collection. Detailed PLM data on sustainability can be used to improve a product and make it even more environmentally friendly.

Conclusion: PLM is becoming more complex – and more useful

Systems, models, digital twins, and the move into the circular economy - product lifecycle management has become more than just managing bills of materials in a database. PLM accesses many data sources and, in the future, also includes external information integrated via data sharing but not stored within the company. From this, a PLM system generates a dynamic representation of the product, either as a real-time representation or as a view into the product and design history. These possibilities will become indispensable for a company's sustainability and economic success.

2023 PLM Trends

Patrick Willemsen — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:47:00 GMT

System lifecycle management: networked systems are coming

Model-based work: PLM from start to finish

Digital Twin: PLM goes real-time

Sustainability: the circular economy with PLM

https://youtu.be/XPFETHpa_Dk

Conclusion: PLM is becoming more complex – and more useful

Sustainable Product Design and the Circular Economy

Patrick Willemsen — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:35:00 GMT

Today’s blog is the second in a series on the circular economy. This post picks up where our first blog ends. You can read the first blog here: The Circular Economy as a Model for the Future.

What is “sustainable product design?” This blog will discuss how product lifecycle management (PLM) and its associated digital thread help manage sustainability in product design and development.

Sustainable product design

Sustainable product design means that products are designed with sustainability in mind and that the product's end of life is considered during the design phase.

These are additional considerations to those required for a circular economy. For a circular economy to actually emerge, products must meet many requirements, including:

Raw material is in compliance with environmental and social criteria
In the supply chain, all parties involved take care to keep distances short and organize only essential transport
Products are designed for maximum service life
Design guarantees easy repair, refurbishing, and reusability
Designs are expandable by replacing components such as smartphone processors

Sustainable product design is a group effort

For sustainable design to be successful, involving stakeholders across the value chain is crucial. Suppliers will need to use sustainable or cradle to cradle materials. Customers will need to follow the product’s recommended use criteria. This might include returning the product to the manufacturer during the end of use phase. This means manufacturers need to create a return system for customers. Sustainable product design includes accounting for the return of the product early in the process, becoming part of the product’s digital thread.

Process tracking and the digital thread

A synergy between sustainable product design and the circular economy results from all the players being networked with one another starting at the earliest phases of product design. This requires that information exists on the product lifecycle from cradle to grave, including measurable characteristics of a sustainable product. As the digital thread is created, it tracks changes in product configuration, operating, and performance data, including IoT technologies. Data is collected as early as the extraction of raw materials and ends when the product lifecycle is complete, including information on how it will be recycled, reprocessed, or disposed of.

The role of the digital twin and digital thread in sustainable product design

The abundance of data provided in designing, manufacturing, and disposing of sustainable products cannot be managed with conventional systems. To take advantage of the sustainable product design and the circular economy, companies need to use two important tools: the digital twin and digital thread. A digital twin is an exact representation of a product after it is manufactured, updated as it changes and connected to relevant data via a digital thread.

The Aras Platform supports sustainable product design and the circular economy by:

Making sure that data is linked together to reflect the product’s end-to-end information, including data collected from materials databases and CAD software.
Connecting the digital twin to relevant product data from its design and manufacturing stages. The digital twin configuration is the foundation for monitoring its status throughout its product lifecycle.
Using the individual digital twin configuration as a simulation within a virtual environment to test and analyze.

For example, a large automobile manufacturer might use a digital twin configuration of its internal logistics to record stock levels and incoming and outgoing stock. A digital twin can help to understand the impact of alternative materials and components.

The digital twin configuration can capture and subsequently serve as a source of information on the product’s sustainability using predictive maintenance to increase the useful life of the product. It allows you to calculate the remaining life and/or wear of components in order to replace them in time.

To learn why Marcellus Menges, Head of CU RD Digital Tool Chain at SICK says, “PLM is an important basic building block for achieving our sustainability goals,” read our white paper, The Circular Economy as a Model for the Future.

Sustainable Product Design and the Circular Economy

Patrick Willemsen — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:35:00 GMT

Today’s blog is the second in a series on the circular economy. This post picks up where our first blog ends. You can read the first blog here: The Circular Economy as a Model for the Future.

What is “sustainable product design?” This blog will discuss how product lifecycle management (PLM) and its associated digital thread help manage sustainability in product design and development.

Sustainable product design

Sustainable product design means that products are designed with sustainability in mind and that the product's end of life is considered during the design phase.

These are additional considerations to those required for a circular economy. For a circular economy to actually emerge, products must meet many requirements, including:

Raw material is in compliance with environmental and social criteria
In the supply chain, all parties involved take care to keep distances short and organize only essential transport
Products are designed for maximum service life
Design guarantees easy repair, refurbishing, and reusability
Designs are expandable by replacing components such as smartphone processors

Sustainable product design is a group effort

Process tracking and the digital thread

The role of the digital twin and digital thread in sustainable product design

The Aras Platform supports sustainable product design and the circular economy by:

Making sure that data is linked together to reflect the product’s end-to-end information, including data collected from materials databases and CAD software.
Connecting the digital twin to relevant product data from its design and manufacturing stages. The digital twin configuration is the foundation for monitoring its status throughout its product lifecycle.
Using the individual digital twin configuration as a simulation within a virtual environment to test and analyze.

The Circular Economy as a Model for the Future

Patrick Willemsen — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:10:00 GMT

Reduce resource management with product lifecycle management

Understanding the importance of sustainability in product design is essential to creating the circular economy. According to a study by management consultants Ernst and Young (EY), seven out of ten consumers are specifically buying products from suppliers who produce their products in an environmentally friendly way, operate sustainably, recycle, and use natural ingredients.

What exactly is the circular economy?

According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE): “The circular economy is a new and inclusive economic paradigm that aims to minimize pollution and waste, extend product lifecycles, and enable broad sharing of physical and natural assets. It strives for a competitive economy that creates green and decent jobs and keeps resource use within planetary boundaries. Following Member States’ decisions at the 69th Commission session on ‘Circular economy and the sustainable use of natural resources,’ UNECE is pooling efforts to help harness the power of trade and economic cooperation for the circular transition.”

Why are manufacturers so interested in the circular economy now?

The strong interest in the circular economy represents a shift in social awareness that puts pressure on businesses. The Paris Agreement among the EU nations and the United States has sped up the world’s focus on climate and sustainability, particularly in Europe. In addition, strict regulations like the European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Directive will make sustainability reporting mandatory in 2023 for companies with 250 or more employees, 40 million euros in earning, or 20 million euros in total assets. This will affect approximately 15,000 companies in Germany alone.

The German Supply Chain Act will also come into force in 2023. The regulation will initially apply to companies with at least 3,000 employees in Germany; starting in 2024 it will also apply to companies with at least 1,000 employees. Companies should take the new rules seriously, as there are severe penalties for violations.

Globally, many institutional investors have already taken sustainability into account in their due diligence and have publicly demanded compliance at various corporate annual meetings. Eventually, companies that resist becoming more sustainable will find investors hesitant to provide funds.

Recently, Aras ran a study, “From Sustainability to Digitalization: Challenges 2022” which shows that seven out of ten companies have already identified sustainability as a top issue. It is clear that they will have to take action in many areas, and soon. The most important opportunities are in the avoidance of rejects, the selection of environmentally friendly or recycled materials, and product design based on sustainable criteria.

How do products become more sustainable?

The term “circular economy,” originated in Germany’s forestry industry. There are many family run businesses in Germany that consider themselves “sustainable” because they have been structured to be financially sustainable over the long term. They intend to provide benefits to society, create jobs, and show their commitment to their employees.

The current, ecologically based understanding of sustainability goes further. The concept of a sustainable organization includes social responsibility, decarbonization, and environmental protection. These criteria are summarized by the acronym ESG (environmental, social, governance). You can get a sense of the broad nature of sustainability initiatives and their potential impact in the following diagram provided by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and shared by the US EPA.

Circular Economy Systems Diagram (2019)—Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Source: www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

We look forward to sharing more information on the circular economy, in particular how product lifecycle management, and the digital thread in particular, can help to address sustainability in product design and development throughout the product’s life and help companies make real progress on their way to satisfying the many new requirements generated by The Paris Agreement and other initiatives around the globe.

Stay tuned for our next post and let us know your thoughts on the circular economy and how Aras can continue to provide tools and systems that allow our customers to move forward with confidence.

Interested in knowing more? Read our white paper: The Circular Economy as a Model for the Future.

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Zusammenarbeit mit externen Partnern anhand von Dokumenten und Zeichnungen

Patrick Willemsen — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:24:00 GMT

In Vorbereitung auf mein nächstes Webinar mit dem Titel «Einbindung externer Partner im PLM - Visual Collaboration & On-/Offboarding» wurde mir nochmal bewusst, dass ich damit nicht, wie meistens, einen bestimmte Innovator Service oder Applikation präsentieren werde, sondern eine Kombination aus Applikation, mehreren Services und Modellierung. Warum ist das so spannend? Na ja, es ist genau das, wofür Innovator geschaffen wurde: die freie und flexible Kombination von Standardelementen, Services, Konfiguration und Customization für bestimmte Anwendungsfälle.

Aras hat hierfür nicht alles out-of-the-box, und wird es auch nie haben. Bei der Einführung können und müssen wir selber dafür sorgen, dass wir die Plattform optimal nutzen. Dabei sind uns kaum Grenzen gesetzt. Aber zurück zum Thema.

In meinem Blog «Externe Zusammenarbeit» habe ich schon über die Notwendigkeit von einem flexiblen und robusten Berechtigungsmanagement geschrieben, besonders wenn externe Firmen, Partner und Mitarbeiter Zugriff auf vertauliche Daten haben sollen. Klar, ich möchte nicht ungewollt geheime Produktinformationen an Dritt-Personen weitergeben.

Anderseits möchte ich das von den Teams, bestehend aus internen und externen Mitarbeitern, direkt anhand von Dokumenten und Zeichnungen über die Entwicklung diskutiert und 3D Modelle angeschaut und gemessen werden können. Die Plattform soll dies alles ohne spezielle Software oder sogar CAD/Viewer-Lizenzen dem User anzeigen, ohne dass das Unternehmen zusätzliche Lizenzen kaufen muss. Nur durch die Möglichkeit der Zusammenarbeit auf Augenhöhe des gesamten Teams und in der gleichen Umgebung wird diese effizient, hunderte von Mails und Telefonate ohne jegliche Traceability werden vermieden.

Auf die Wichtigkeit von strukturierten On- & Offboarding Prozessen bin ich bereits in meinem letzten Blog eingegangen. Nochmals zusammengefasst: ich möchte prüfen ob die externen Partner bzw. die Mitarbeiter vom Partner meine Vorgaben erfüllen und ich möchte am Schluss automatisch die Berechtigungen wegnehmen und abschliessen.

Die Einbindung externer Partner auf der Plattform mit Visual Collaboration sowie On- und Offboarding Prozessen gibt es nicht OOTB. Ich habe mir beides unter Verwendung der Standardapplikationen PE und PM, den Services DAC und MAC, Visual Collaboration und der Modellierungs-Engine konfiguriert. Mein letztes Webinar drehte sich rund um Effectivity. Ich glaube ich sollte die Effectivity Services auch noch in meine Lösung einbauen. Darüber schlafe ich aber noch mal ein Nächtjen.

Ich freue mich darauf Sie im Webinar am 18. September begrüßen zu dürfen.

Externe Zusammenarbeit – Onboarding & Offboarding

Patrick Willemsen — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:03:00 GMT

Bei Flug- oder Schiffsreisen wird immer ein Onboarding durchgeführt. Die Passagiere brauchen Betreuung, um einzuchecken, das richtige Gate oder Pier zu finden, und sich auch besser im Flugzeug oder an Bord des Schiffes zurecht zu finden. Passagiere sollen sich sicher und wohlfühlen.

In meinem letzten Blog habe ich über die externe Zusammenarbeit geschrieben:

Produktentwicklungsteams – auch wenn Teammitglieder nicht im selben Unternehmen arbeiten – sollten in der Lage sein, auf einer Kollaborationsplattform zusammenzuarbeiten. Damit sich die „Passagiere“ wohlfühlen, sich an gewisse Standards halten und produktiver sind, ist auch hier ein Onboarding der externen Mitarbeiter notwendig.

Das Onboarding im Entwicklungsteam kann selbstverständlich über ein entsprechendes Training in der Konzernzentrale stattfinden, aber mit den oft verteilten Teams wird dies immer schwieriger. Eine interessante Alternative ist, die verfügbaren Online Trainings, Arbeitsanweisungen, Videos und weitere Unterlagen für die Zusammenarbeit in der Collaboration Plattform integriert anzubieten. Beim ersten Login stehen dem externen Mitarbeiter all diese Informationen zur Verfügung. Ein Zugriff auf Projektdaten erhält der Mitarbeiter erst, wenn das Onboarding stattgefunden hat.

Es ist für Unternehmen wichtig zu verstehen und zu garantieren, dass deren Partner und Zulieferer über die richtigen Qualifikationen verfügen. Somit geht Onboarding in gewissen Fällen über Training und Einweisung der Mitarbeiter hinaus. Speziell neue Partner und Zulieferer müssen in der Regel zunächst einen Evaluierungsprozess durchlaufen. In diesem Rahmen können z.B. offizielle Dokumente als Nachweis von eingehaltenen Standards gefordert sein. Auch diese werden idealerweise direkt in der Collaboration Plattform hinterlegt. Die Einhaltung dieser Standards, ggf. notwendige regelmäßige Erneuerungen der Zertifizierung etc. können direkt mit dem Access Management verknüpft werden.

Während der Onboarding Prozess bei vielen Firmen schon recht gut dokumentiert ist, ist ein Offboarding beim Projektende häufig eine Feuerwehraktion. Welche Zugriffe müssen gesperrt werden? Für welche Datenobjekte muss die Entwicklungshoheit ggf. wieder nach „intern“ umgestellt werden. Zumindest die kritischen Prozesse sollten automatisch ablaufen, was nur gelingen kann, wenn bereits beim Onboarding daran gedacht wurde

All diese Dokumente, Informationen, Compliance-Nachweise, Online-Training Zertifikate für die Teammitglieder usw. sollten meines Erachtens Teil vom Projektsetup sein. Für bestimmte Projekttypen braucht es ein bestimmtes Onboarding-Verfahren mit ausgewählten Online-Trainings und Dokumenten.

Obwohl wir vieles OOTB haben, eine Onboarding/Offboarding Lösung gibt es als Standardapplikation nicht. Es wird oft als Randthema betrachtet, obwohl hier ein sehr großes Potential zur Effizienzsteigerung vorliegt. Oft haben unsere Kunden aber auch unterschiedliche Anforderungen in diesem Bereich. Dank der flexiblen Plattform konnten wir auch dieses Thema problemlos umsetzen.

Externe Zusammenarbeit

Patrick Willemsen — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:47:00 GMT

Es ist schon eine Weile her seit meinem letzten Blogbeitrag. Meine jüngsten Projekte in Skandinavien machten mich darauf aufmerksam, dass viele Unternehmen mit Problemen kämpfen, die oft in Aras Innovator simpel gelöst werden können und dadurch das Leben wesentlich einfacherer machen.

In diesem Fall geht es um die externe Zusammenarbeit: Viele Unternehmen haben keine Lösung für die Zusammenarbeit mit Partnern und/oder Zulieferfirmen. Dabei werden Informationen und Dateien aller Art über FTP, Dropbox-ähnliche Lösungen und - noch schlimmer - E-Mail-Nachrichten ausgetauscht. Und meist beschränkt sich dieser Datenaustausch auf CAD Daten, der Kontext von Requirements oder Funktionen fehlt völlig. Es ist schwierig diesen Informationsfluss zu kontrollieren, den Inhalt zu prüfen und zu verwalten. Es kommt immer wieder vor, dass Personen die falsche Version eines Dokuments verwenden. Das ist oft nicht nur nervig, sondern führt auch zu Verzögerungen im gesamten Prozess und zu unnötigen Kosten. Aber es gibt aber auch die Extreme, in denen IP geteilt wird, die nicht offengelegt werden sollten.

Produktentwicklungsteams - auch wenn Teammitglieder nicht im selben Unternehmen arbeiten - sollten in der Lage sein, auf einer Kollaborationsplattform zusammenzuarbeiten. Alle involvierten Mitarbeiter sollten den Digital Thread, Versionen und Dokumente erstellen können und mit Hilfe von visueller Darstellung von Baugruppen und Komponenten zusammenarbeiten. Dabei ist der Zugriff auf die aktuellsten Daten und der Datenhistorie notwendig. Wichtig dabei ist aber eine starke Zugangskontrolle.

Wie kann das nun in Aras Innovator abgebildet werden?

Aras Innovator verfügt über eine Kombination von Funktionen, die eine äußerst präzise und wiederholbare Zugriffskontrolle ermöglichen. Der sogenannte Domain Access Control (DAC) gibt Benutzern eine vordefinierte Berechtigungsstufe für eine (Produkt-) Struktur.

Anstatt also die Berechtigung für alle Datenknoten einzeln festzulegen, definiert ein flexibler Pfad durch die Datenstruktur die Zugriffsrechte. Zusammen mit dem regelbasierten Mandatory Access Control (MAC), mit dessen Hilfe Datenknoten auf der Grundlage von Regeln gefiltert werden, kann ich verhindern, dass Daten gesehen werden , die vertraulich sind. Auch dann nicht, wenn es Teil einer Datenstruktur ist. Dies ist einzigartig!

Was ist also der große Vorteil von DAC und MAC? Es muss kein Berechtigungsmanagement hingebogen werden, das nicht für die Zusammenarbeit über mehrere Firmen gedacht war. Mit Hilfe von DAC und MAC kann diese vergleichsweise einfach in Aras Innovator dargestellt werden.

Das hier beschriebene Konzept stelle ich am 20. März 2019 in einer Live Demo vor. Ich freue mich auf Sie!

Tot ziens,

Patrick

Externe Zusammenarbeit

Patrick Willemsen — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:47:00 GMT

Wie kann das nun in Aras Innovator abgebildet werden?

Das hier beschriebene Konzept stelle ich am 20. März 2019 in einer Live Demo vor. Ich freue mich auf Sie!

Tot ziens,

Patrick

Date Problem

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:24:37 GMT

hii i have one item type QDM having field which datatype is date and pattern is shortdate i select 4/28/2017 date where 4 is month , 28 is day and save item then i open sql server and open data for QDM , the date selected is stored as 4/27/2017 (one day less than i selected) it is only problem with short date if i change pattern to short datetime then date stored in sql is correctly please help me

Agile Implementierung: Mut zur Lücke

Patrick Willemsen — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:06:17 GMT

Mittlerweile habe ich schon einige Jahre Agile/SCRUM und agile Implementierung auf dem Buckel. Irgendwie tappen viele Kunden immer wieder in dieselbe Falle: die Verzögerung des Initial Release.

Das Initial Release ist am Schwierigsten

Klar, der allererste Rollout des Systems ist am Schwierigsten. Die Infrastruktur muss vorhanden sein, das Training organisiert, die Online-Hilfe geschrieben, die Altdaten geladen, alle Tests müssen zufriedenstellen, und sowieso muss alles perfekt sein - die Entwickler müssen ihr Baby schliesslich zum ersten Mal „der Welt präsentieren". Die Arbeitsbelastung ist hoch und die psychologische Hürde ist sehr gross.

Dabei geht jedoch leicht ein wichtiger agiler Grundsatz verloren: Unsere höchste Priorität ist es, den Anwendern durch frühe und kontinuierliche Auslieferung wertvoller Software zufrieden zu stellen.

Erkenntnisse aus dem Live-Betrieb nutzen

Während der Projektlaufzeit ergeben sich eine Vielzahl neuer Erkenntnisse, Erfahrungen und Bedürfnisse. Diese Erkenntnisse sind jedoch noch wertvoller, wenn das PLM-System aktiv von den Anwendern benutzt wird. Nur bei tatsächlicher Nutzung haben wir die „Theorie“ verlassen und bewegen uns im echten Leben.

Keine Frage, wenn der Product Owner in das Initial Product Backlog sieht ist es schwierig zu definieren, was als Minimallösung gebraucht wird um ein nützliches Release zu liefern. Das sogenannte Minimum Viable Product (MVP) zu finden ist kein Zuckerschlecken, aber absolute Pflicht für den Product Owner oder das Product Owner Team. Aras Innovator ist prädestiniert diese Entscheidung mit schnellem, visuellem Prototyping zu unterstützen.

Und … habt Mut zur Lücke!

Patrick

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Wie kann das nun in Aras Innovator abgebildet werden?

Externe Zusammenarbeit

Wie kann das nun in Aras Innovator abgebildet werden?

Date Problem

Agile Implementierung: Mut zur Lücke

Das Initial Release ist am Schwierigsten

Erkenntnisse aus dem Live-Betrieb nutzen

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