ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications V5.9: New Levels of Functionality and Collaboration for the ENOVIA Family of Products
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Software Announcement June 11, 2002 ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications V5.9: New Levels of Functionality and Collaboration for the ENOVIA Family of Products Overview • Infrastructure, with enhanced vaulting, including use of DB2 At a Glance ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications datalink technology and (LCA) V5.9 extends and supplements significant performance and ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications the best practices of the ENOVIA resource usage improvements. (LCA) V5.9 — Integrated best Virtual Product Manager practices for early and detailed (ENOVIAVPM) and ENOVIA Product Built upon the industry-renowned product definition: Dassault-Systemes V5 enterprise Manager (ENOVIAPM) product • families that are proven in architecture, ENOVIA LCA role-based Industry-renowned V5 open production use with ENOVIA solutions integrate the vast architecture customers in manufacturing experience acquired in building • CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIAVPM, and Out-of-the-box business process industries worldwide. V5.9 includes support enhancements in several key areas: ENOVIAPM solutions. • New ENOVIA — Workflow ENOVIA LCA V5.9 brings a new level • New ENOVIA — Workflow Designer product Designer product helps enterprise of functionality and collaboration to business administrators define the ENOVIA family of products. • Richer support for advanced optimized, standards-based relational design Workflow Management Coalition Key Prerequisites • Manage Pro/Engineer data (WfMC)-compliant business ENOVIA LCA V5.9 runs on selected within LCA using the process templates that integrate Multi-CAx P Plug-In all capabilities of ENOVIA LCA system levels of: including Actions for task • Incremental enhancements • For server platforms: management and life cycle rules throughout − AIX and conditions. − Hewlett Packard HP-UX • Significant performance • Richer support for advanced − Silicon Graphics (SGI) IRIX improvements relational design. − Sun Solaris • For client platforms: For ordering, contact: • Enhanced interoperability with − Microsoft Windows 98, Your IBM representative, an IBM Business ENOVIAVPM, ENOVIA Digital Windows NT , Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at Mock-Up (DMU), and CATIA V5. Windows 2000, and 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 • Incremental enhancements Windows XP − throughout with improved support AIX for business process control − HP-UX (group assignment, workflow − SGI IRIX reporting capabilities, − Sun Solaris Action-controlled part creation), A properly sized database is clash management (complete required, using either the DB2 or the clash reconstruction), and Oracle database manager. document management (primary/supplementary Planned Availability Date documents). • New support for Pro/ENGINEER August 23, 2002 data: The Multi-CAx P Plug-In, a CATIA/ENOVIA common product enables the storage of Pro/ENGINEER assemblies and associated document files in the LCA vault. The complete set of files can be extracted from the vault on demand. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 202-146 ENOVIA — Document Management has the following new Description capabilities: • Customization of MyDocs — The user may now set the ENOVIA LCA V5 criteria that governs which documents are included inside the MyDocs folder. For example, the criteria • Provides a set of applications that extend and should be defined to include all documents from a supplement the best practices available in given project team, as opposed to only the documents ENOVIAVPM and ENOVIAPM product families. Built of the logged-in user. upon the V5 enterprise architecture, it includes the enterprise Product Process Resource (PPR) Hub, taking • The concept of Primary and Supplementary Documents advantage of experience acquired building CATIA, introduces the capability to establish a document′s DELMIA, ENOVIAVPM, and ENOVIAPM. role in relationship to its parent part. This feature, which is in full compliance with STEP AP214, allows the • Delivers five role-based standard configurations and user to specify whether the document has a primary eleven shareable products to address the needs of the role in defining the part (for instance, it specifies enterprise in the areas of program management, geometry) or it has a supplementary role of providing content management, engineering, and manufacturing supporting information (such as standard engineering and supply chain support. specifications or simulation results). When a part′s associated documents are displayed in the Document What′s New in V5.9 panel, the documents are organized under their respective role. New Products • Ergonomic and Performance Enhancements ENOVIA Workflow Designer (5691-WFD) — Enables the ENOVIA — Product Interference Management is updated definition of enterprise business processes. Business with the following new capabilities: process managers use this application to graphically design business process templates and process rules that • Send clash results directly from query panel to CATIA are WfMC-compliant. Activities that can be performed V5 session; focus immediately on the offending parts during build time include generating process, activities in the digital mock up linking (including splits and joins, looping and nested workflows), attaching resources entities, defining rules • Mark interferences using the new clash type associated with transitions, integrating external “SOLVED”, once the interference has been resolved. application or commands. Validated workflow templates This helps the manager to identify all the finished are checked into the database and subsequently available works, as well as to dispose of the interferences to create active workflows. objects that are no longer needed during database clean up. New support for Pro/ENGINEER data — The Multi-CAx P Plug-In, a CATIA/ENOVIA common product is now ENOVIA — Workflow Management can now assign an available for ENOVIA LCA V5.9, enabling users to store activity to Roles (for example, Designer, Reviewer, Pro/ENGINEER assemblies and associated document files Approver) in addition to Person and Organization. in the LCA vault. Role-based resource assignment enables workflow templates to be reusable across the enterprise because • New parts are created within the vault (when the templates no longer contain specific person or necessary). organization names. Any department in the enterprise can activate a role-based assigned workflow template and • Graphical representation files that can participate in a associate a “resource context” that applies only to that digital mock-up are automatically created. department. A resource context contains a list of • The complete set of files can be extracted from the individuals (names) mapped to each Role. A resource vault on demand. context can be defined at the departmental level as well as the corporate level. For activities assigned to roles, Functional Enhancements in V5.9 a workflow manager can easily reassign the activity from one person to another defined in the same Role. This is — ENOVIA Application Desktop has been enhanced with useful when the activity is blocked due to resource the following new capabilities: problems. • Search for locked objects ENOVIA — Inter/Intra Enterprise Data Exchange has the • Editable Property Sheet for structure penetration following enhancements: objects, which allows the users to perform sort, • Multiple object import supported by the Master Import copy/paste, and use pop-up calendar Engine. This allows the user to import multiple objects ENOVIA — Business Object Hub now has the capability to at one time (provided all the objects come from a generate reports for ENOVIA Workflow Management. common root class). • ′ CATIA Hub: — Can now store a CATIA V5 assembly as a New administrator s function enhancements, including “black box,” avoiding the need to “explode” the assembly the ability to hide or replace the object owner during structure and constraints into the ENOVIA LCA database. export/import. For example, it might not be necessary ′ All information in the CATProduct is stored in the black to expose the name of the OEM s part designer to a box including applicative, tolerancing and other data. supplier, and vice versa. Assemblies that do not need to be exposed in the PPR can • Enhanced Import Reconciliation. Now permits the user make use of this function to simplify assembly to enable or avoid overwriting a current object′s management and ensure persistence of all assembly simple attributes. For example, for attribute “price” data. This is also useful for assemblies in which no the user always wants to overwrite the current value configuration effectivities are required and versioning is with the new one coming from the supplier, but for used to manage multiple evolutions. attribute “owner” the user wants to always keep the current value (name of the OEM designer). 202-146 -2- • A new Administrator Data Exchange Criteria GUI makes the process of creating the XML data exchange Product Positioning files much easier. Product Differentiators • Support for multiple XML data exchange files to be defined thereby allowing the administrator the ability ENOVIA LCA V5 is based on Dassault Systemes to predefine a separate XML data exchange file for industry-renowned V5 architecture and a new product, each data exchange partner. process, resource (PPR) hub that ensures coordinated