Configuration management in addition to your PLM system

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Garrett Clark and Jennifer Evans

The Complexity Challenge

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Misalignment between engineering, sales, manufacturing, and service results in products not delivered as quoted, both commercially and technically.

Disconnected Systems and Teams

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Configurations changes are difficult to manage and require long lead time before release to production

No Single Source of truth

Invalid configurations are inevitable due to lack of collaboration and result in erroneous orders

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The Laufenburg Bridge

CLM Connects Systems

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Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) is the management of all product configuration definitions and configurations

across all involved business processes applied throughout the lifecycle of a product.

Product Model Defines The Product Variants

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— A Model consists of features and rules

Modeling

BOM / Parts

Selection Cond / Usage Statements

Technical Product Specification

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Product Model

if Market=US thenKeyFreq=466MHZ

if EnvFriendly thennot 4WD and Hybrid

Feature Strings

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Feature string is key in linking between the model and other models and systems, e.g., CAD, electrical design, etc.

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ABB136,000 employees

100 countries

$34B revenue

70,000 control systems connecting 70

million devices

Product Development And Release

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Current Situation In EP DivisionEngineering to Sales Configuration. Evolving Product Manufacturing and Sales

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Feeder Factories DistribuCon Centres Sales Organizations Customers

• Global manufacturing and sales footprint, with internal trade• Complex system landscape: >50 ERP systems (normally consolidated per country)

• High volume business: > 1.5 million products delivered per day

• Redundant, error prone and costly maintenance of product data and configuration rules• Sub-optimal transactional process or errors in such processes due to inconsistency between configurators

Sales Configurators

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Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) Approach

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Come see us at the Configit table in the PLM Collaboration cafe if you’d like to talk more.

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