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BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE: OUR CLASSIFICATION JOURNEY
Brian Iwerks & Cassie Fuls Daktronics PLM Team
June 2016
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YOU’RE IN RIGHT PLACE IF…
Thinking Too Daunting Lack Resources
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DAKTRONICS
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WHO ARE WE?
Brian Iwerks Cassie Fuls
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• PTC Windchill 10.2 M030 CPS11
• PTC Creo 3 & AutoCAD 2016
• Cadence (PCB)
• Glovia (ERP) & SharePoint
• Consultant: Datafrond
• Launched PLM in 2015
OUR SYSTEMS
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POLL
Thinking Too Daunting Lack Resources
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Why Classify?
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OUTDATED METHODS
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• Hard to Search
• Cryptic Part Descriptions
• Death by Decoding
• Difficult Reporting
• Variation by Business Unit
• Changing Attributes
• Duplicate Parts
CHALLENGES BEFORE CLASSIFICATION
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CHALLENGE
Migrate and Classify 1,000,000 Parts
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NEED SMALLER ROCKS!!!
Load Parts Only Classify Buy Parts Classify Make Parts
Classify Products
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MINIMUM FUNCTIONALITY
Load Parts Only 1
• Migrated 220,000 Parts from ERP
• Set Part Attributes
• Provided Basic PLM Value
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Load Parts Only Classify Buy Parts Classify Make Parts
Classify Products
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CHALLENGE #1: NO INDUSTRY STANDARD
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DEVELOPED OUR OWN
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CONSENSUS BUILDING
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“THE BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE”
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“THE BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE”
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CHALLENGE #2: PARSE 2000 UNIQUE NAMING RULES
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MANUAL EFFORT
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• Manual Spreadsheet Work
• Tedious and Error Prone
• Opportunity to Cleanse
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CHALLENGE #3: FINDING A LOADER TOOL
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NO SILVER BULLET
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• Counterpart Discontinued
• Considered Custom Tools
• Selected Excel
• Struggled with Tags and Human Error
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CHALLENGE #4: MIGRATING ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS
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LAUNCHED IN WAVES
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STEP-BY-STEP
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Test Environment
Production Environment
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Classification Tree & Attributes Part Data, Classification & Attribute Values
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NO SMALL FEAT
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NO SMALL FEAT
• 13,000+ classified buy parts
• 402 total branches
• 33 average parts per branch
• 2.8 average branches deep
• 1,101 total attributes
• 2.7 avg. attributes per branch
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LESSONS LEARNED
• Start Small
• Lack of Standards
• Governance Is Important
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Where do we
go from here?
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Load Parts Only Classify Buy Parts Classify Make Parts
Classify Products
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The search screens greatly increase the ease of finding existing parts. They are as easy as some of the websites that designers use frequently.
— Darrin Sourcing Engineer
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I'm pretty excited about the new part
search. For parts I don't work with
often, it will be a huge time savings!
— Jason Design Engineer
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Using classifications and attributes greatly increases the efficiency of searching, organizing, rationalizing, and selecting the components.
— Dallas Sourcing Engineer
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