Automotive Design and Production

FEB 2014

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Cloud-based applications have the attraction of being immediately available, usable, and easily adopted by customers. Asks Charles rhetorically, "How long does it take to install a PLM backbone in a company today? Maybe six months to a year? By the time you install the server, the local network, customize, and hire administrators, timing can make a big diference." Namely, a company could lose its window-of-opportunity in the market. Cloud-based V6R2014 is already in use. Tesla Motors (teslamotors.com) has been using Dassault products for years now: Enovia for PLM in 2010; V6R2010 for design, engineering, and simulation, among other disciplines; and currently V6R2013. Tesla is "a technology company working in the automotive space," explains Jack Brown, Tesla's senior manager, applications supportPLM. It is a car manufacturer. It is also a battery technology company. q Here's a personalized dashboard in Dassault's V6R2014 integrated design, engineering, manufacturing, PLM suite that can run entirely on public and private clouds. Dassault is calling this whole gamut of software "the 3DExperience platform." Tesla took advantage of Dassault's Lighthouse program, which gave the company early access to the cloud version of V6R2014. Tesla, says Brown, "wanted to gain insight into V6R2014x functionality beyond `slideware'"—with minimal infrastructure investment. (what-if analysis) show the efect of proposed tasks on schedules and proposed changes to task durations. V62014's support of supplier design collaboration lets Tesla connect suppliers to its database for real-time design collaboration. Supplier updates are instantly available Tesla is pleased. The personalized dashboards across V6R2014 give people quick and easy access to information. Drag-and-drop dashboard widgets provide task notifcations. Tesla can quickly and simply create and manage a virtualized collaborative space for its engineers and partners to work in. Tesla can monitor in real time the engineering status of various vehicle projects, both at the vehicle and the subproject (nested) levels. The company can even model task dependencies between various projects. This makes planning and managing resource assignments and understanding the efect of proposed changes on a project schedule a breeze. Simulations for validation by Tesla. And vice versa: Tesla updates are instantly available to suppliers. Exchanging Catia V6 design data using 3DXML ensures secure access for suppliers while eliminating informal FTP/email exchanges. This secure access includes tracking uploads/downloads and an interactive tool for selective export/write access to design fles. Incidentally, the cloud-based system also supports exchanging design fles to Tesla suppliers still on Catia V5. At the very least, says Brown, Tesla's experience with V6R2014x was a "rapid kick of with no infrastructure burden enabled by cloud-based environment." 35

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