PDM WORKBENCH CATIA V5 ARAS INNOVATOR INTEGRATION
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PDM WORKBENCH CATIA V5 ARAS INNOVATOR INTEGRATION Aras Innovator Migration Project @ F.X. MEILLER
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Agenda
F.X. MEILLER
Two years later …
The migration project
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F.X. MEILLER INNOVATION BORN FROM TRADITION FOR MORE THAN 160 YEARS
Founded
1850 in Munich, Germany
Locations
Germany (Munich)
Austria Turkey Poland Czech
Republic
Employees
1.500
Products
Dumpers Elevator
Doors
Markets & customers
Automotive Construction
industry
The company develops its products as a system solution in parallel to optimize the matching of vehicle chassis and body.
In order to meet customer demands and ensure long term success, MEILLER continually optimizes its product development and supply chain processes.
MEILLER works closely with all the major vehicle manufacturers, leveraging the latest techniques for transferring engineering and logistics data. This enables short response times and distinguishes MEILLER as a leading system supplier.
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F.X. MEILLER Business Case
VPM to Aras Innovator migration project:
CATIA PDM WORKBENCH FOR ARAS INNOVATOR F.X. MEILLER ARAS INNOVATOR MIGRATION PROJECT
Specific requirements CAD-centric engineering processes resulted in specific CAD integration enhancements.
For several years the company had been running a VPM-based large scale PLM system.
The UNIX-based system spanned 3 servers with 14 CPUs and 50 gigabytes of memory, making it challenging and expensive to maintain.
Although the system managed MEILLER’s extensive library of CATIA V5 CAD data, its high resource demands and operational complexity caused significant performance issues and the system offered little additional product or process automation capabilities for an increasingly global product development environment.
MEILLER wanted to improve performance, reduce costs and migrate away from the legacy UNIX-based PLM system onto a PLM platform with a modern web architecture on Microsoft.
MEILLER also wanted to add new functionality to further streamline and improve the global product development processes.
Applications Aras Innovator 9.3
replacing ENOVIA VPM
CATIA V5 R19
Development of specific customer requirements Improved usability and performance Reduced maintenance costs for the PDM system Phase out of legacy UNIX/VPM server platforms Initially 60 Users
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ENOVIA VPM Data Migration Package
CAD & Metadata
Data Quality
CATIA V4 CATIA V5
CAD Link Management
Migration
cONTENT
~ 2.5 Mio Records
~ 160,000 Structures
~ 1 TB of CAD Data
CAD Data migration (CATIA V4 V5)
Less than 9 months project duration
67 Users @ 3 different locations
F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT FACTS & FIGURES
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Original Infrastructure Target Infrastructure
F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT
ARCHITECTURE CHANGE
Client on Windows
3 Servers on UNIX (AIX)
Client on Windows
1 Server on Windows Server 2008
CATIA V5 R19
VPM Module VPM custom client
ENOVIA VPM
File Vault
DB
CATIA V5 R19
PWB V5 AddIn Aras Innovator web client
Connector Server Extension
File Vault
MS SQL DB
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System Configuration
Access rights & roles
Data model
Hardware & Software
Data Migration
Meta data export
CAD data export
V4V5 Migration
Data preparation
Standard part migration
Methodology
CAD Connector for Aras Innovator
Design
SAP Transfer
Naming conventions
Approval of tests
Support
System
Methodology
Back-end Processes
Execution
Definition
Test
F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT WORK PACKAGES
Meta data import CAD data import
Responsibility T-Systems F.X. MEILLER
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F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT MIGRATION WORKFLOW
CAD Data
Meta Data
Data quality check
Drawing Link check
Data migration to V5
Testing
CAD Import
Meta Data Export
Mapping Meta Data Import
.csv Files Batchloader
V4 Export
VPM2FS
Data Migration
Responsibility T-Systems F.X. MEILLER
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F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT SUMMARY 1/2
Project duration: 9 months. Set up of new PDM infrastructure at the customers site.
99,9% automated migration of existing CAD data structures to Aras Innovator. MEILLER is productive with both divisions in the new infrastructure since 08/2012.
Reduced Complexity of Infrastructure due to smaller setup.
ROI: very soon the savings in infrastructure compensated the project efforts.
30 % – 50 % performance improvement compared to the VPM environment.
With T-Systems assistance MEILLER conducted an extensive review of currently available PLM solutions and performed benchmark prototypes.
Aras was chosen because of the modern Web-based platform & superior performance during benchmark scalability testing.
Aras offered greater functionality with a much smaller footprint resulting in better cost efficiencies.
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F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT SUMMARY 2/2
Under the guidance of T-Systems, the company began an aggressive 9 month implementation, migration and integration PLM project.
Aras’s speed ranged from 41 % to 81 % faster, performing better on larger assemblies.
The most significant scenario focused on the loading procedure of a large assembly structure (with over 1000 CAD objects) into the design mode of the CAD System.
The file size of the CAD data varied between 50 and 450 MB – depending on the volume and complexity of the CAD structure. Each structure’s load time was measured at least twice – to avoid local memory effects on the client machines. All measurements were conducted with the same client and
CAD environment. Throughout the test the amount of data in the database was identical and had been completely migrated with all files and Meta information from the previous PLM system.
Six different real world assembly structures were identified, analyzed and used as reference cases.
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CATIA V5 Workstation PDM Infrastructure
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CATIA INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
Local Directory
Use of native Aras APIs
PDM Work- bench client
Aras Innovator Database
PWB Server
Aras Innovator Vault
Check In / Out (file transfer of CATIA file data)
WEB Communication (SOAP) PDM data (XML)
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F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT CAD INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS Part Number Generation based on custom attributes
Autonaming depending on custom attributes is handled for the files on the Aras server
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F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT CAD INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS Custom Attribute Management
Even identifying attributes can be changed if the part is not assembled.
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F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT CAD INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS Custom and Saved Search Support
Tool to create and edit saved searches without logging into the Aras client
Query and execute saved searches from within PWB
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Recently added features
F.X. MEILLER ARAS INNOVATOR USAGE TWO YEARS LATER
Single-sign-on with the CAD Connector-client
Configuration of CAD Connector-client is administrated for different user groups
External supplier integrated into rights & roles
Granular visibility and accessibility of items is supported
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