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AGENDA

• Business Case

• From a paper based approach… to digital catalogs

• What’s Next

• Lesson Learned

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GE Oil & Gas Part Catalogs Management

Business Case


The Oil & Gas context

Engineering-to-order... increasing complexity of Customer requirements

Product variations continuously growing

High variability of disciplines and design tools in a global environment

Continuous demand for shorter lead time and lower costs

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Customer Specs

Part CatalogsCAD/BOM of

std part

CAD/BOM/doc of derived part

Engineering & Manufacturing

BoM

PlanningBoM

High level Product Definition

Detailed Product Definition

ApplicationEngineer

Mechanical Engineer

SystemEngineer

InstrumentationEngineer

ControlEngineer

OtherDisciplines

Product Configurator

Cost Configurator

Customer

Supplier

DocumentCADBOM

PLM

ERP

Production & Delivery

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Problem Statement

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• Metadata and transactional data not available for part search/selection

• Manual and cumbersome process to Search/Create standard parts in PLM (BoM and CAD)

• Classification in PLM cannot manage complex rules to generate smart codes...

need to create upfront all potential instances

40% Standardized & commercial parts

CAD

Parts selection and creation time reduction and data reuse increase

Project Goal

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Based on smart codes


Project goal


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Full Text Search

Attribute Search

Geometrical Search

Teamcenter® Integration

• Add BOM item in existing BOM structure

• Add CAD Model in existing assembly

• BOM Code Creation

• Automatic Classification

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Custom design Part Selection

Custom design Part Creation


From a paper based approach… to digital catalogs


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Builds the code reading the standard document P

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Searches the BOM Code in Teamcenter® (and the corresponding CAD Model if needed)

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Uses the BOM code if present (and the CAD Model where applicable)

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If not present in Teamcenter creates a new BOM Code using Teamcenter® Classification

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Requests to admin to create a Part Family member in NX®

From a paper based approach…

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The Designer searches for a component starting from its attributes and, if never used before, creates BOM code and CAD Model in one click

…to Digital Catalogs

• All standardized & commercial codes

managed through a rule engine

• Functional Searches (based on Attributes)

• Geometrical Searches

• Geometric/Metadata Part Comparison

• BOM and CAD model Description dynamically created

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Demo Video

BOM code creation Functional search

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To-be process overview

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Searches the BOM starting from a code and/or Functional search in CADENAS® PartDataManager

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If never used before, creates a classified new BOM Code

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Benefits

Engineering productivity

to search and create

standard parts

Data consistency

for parts generated through a

rule engine

Automatic classification

(metadata and

geometric) enabling similarity searches

Enables future

scenarios of data

federation from external

databases

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What’s Next


The road to a Strategic Part Selection process

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AVEVA® Instrumentation Interface – to create Instrumentation datasheet starting from a Digital

Catalog

Rulestream® Interface – to configure complex systems starting from classified Standard

components

A new Part Selection Process based on information coming from different data sources (supporting

“informed decisions”)… data federation

Enable part selection process for “Derived Codes”, including creation and management of datasheets

from templates


Lesson Learned


Lesson Learned

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The transition between the old and the new process for Standard Components is critical (impossible to «turn the key»

or plan a massive data migration)

The selection of an Out Of The Box solution doesn’t mean it is painless... need to customize the software solution according

to business requirements / existing processes / interfaces

Rigor of rules and conventions is a critical aspect when we speak about catalogs and classification (in terms of data

meaning and classification structure)

It is difficult to accelerate the creation of part catalogues with a single partner with both IT skills and product knowledge


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