Tecnomatix Automotive Digital Manufacturing Brochure
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Answers for industry. Tecnomatix digital manufacturing Digital manufacturing solutions for the automotive industry. siemens.com/plm Automotive digital manufacturing An essential part of a complete PLM strategy Global competition in the automotive industry presents unique challenges in today’s marketplace. Automakers require collaboration across the entire global enterprise to capitalize on emerging markets and to take market share. Do you have the information you need to clearly see new ways to higher productivity, speed and quality? Siemens PLM Software, the world leader in product lifecycle management (PLM), offers Tecnomatix® software, a suite of digital manufacturing solutions that helps you capitalize on these dynamics – before your competition does. Tecnomatix provides manufacturers with a flexible set of applications interconnected through an open data architec- ture that manages all the information generated during the automotive product lifecycle. By operating within the same data management environ- ment as product engineering, Tecnomatix enables associa- tivity between all your critical manufacturing data, including product, process, resources and plant informa- tion. Just as importantly, the Tecnomatix solution uses Teamcenter® manufacturing process management software to enable you to manage data from multiple CAD sources, integrate legacy systems and adapt to new technological developments. Tecnomatix builds a solid knowledge-driven manufacturing foundation for you to increase market share in this global economy. Automotive OEMs throughout the world are leveraging Tecnomatix to improve their Lean Manufactur- ing and Six Sigma initiatives, reduce operational costs, increase quality and transform their process of innovation to capture the value of PLM. 2 Transforming the entire vehicle development process • Accelerate launch of innovative body systems • Leverage BOMs to improve build performance • Increase profitability with optimal quality • Improve buffering and sequencing efficiency • Design more effective factories faster • Collaborate for ensured security and performance • Synchronize controls and improve visibility The Tecnomatix automotive solution is why we’ve tailored our Tecnomatix solu- designed to align with and improve your tions to ensure that you achieve maximum entire vehicle development process across benefits at every phase of your vehicle all business domains. From powertrain to development process. With complete body-in-white, paint to final assembly and process solutions for part and assembly plant layout to supplier and systems process planning, resource management, management, Tecnomatix delivers dies, plant design and optimization, human quantifiable benefits in program planning, performance improvement, product quality product engineering, manufacturing planning and shop floor communication, engineering and plant floor operations. Tecnomatix helps make your business decisions smarter, faster and leaner. With thousands of cumulative man-years of expertise in the automotive industry, Siemens understands the challenges OEMs face in improving their operations. That’s 3 Body – accelerate launch of innovative body systems For vehicle program managers, trying to Leverage information on product features, Leverage “manufacturing smart” product models and balance the tradeoffs between styling, cost tolerances and weld points embedded in best-practice archetypes to and quality, knowledge of manufacturing product definitions. This helps you quickly eliminate prototype builds and capability and product serviceability is criti- analyze new designs for formability and lower engineering and pro- cal. Through the use of Tecnomatix best- ensure that they conform to lean manufac- duction costs. practice templates and knowledge-driven turing processes. With manufacturing archetypes, product designers can rapidly intelligence embedded in product models, analyze new program styling and structural you can plan processes, tooling and fixtures requirements for manufacturability. that more accurately reflect design intent and reduce waste. Capture best practices: Product structures and planned variants can be evaluated In every phase of the body-in-white process, against proven strategies for metal fabrica- realize significant benefits from fewer tion and assembly through knowledge- concept and pilot builds to lower production driven archetypes to give automakers ramp-up costs and more. greater flexibility to build products anywhere within their global operations. Streamline decision-making on carry-over and sourcing strategies, accelerating your body program while ensuring die manufacturing is a less costly and time-consuming process. 4 Final assembly – leverage BOMs to improve build performance Being able to quickly configure and produce archetypes, can be aligned with product Improve management of vehicles with option and variant flexibility is variant and effectivity information to help configurable options and crucial to meeting the demands of the auto- managers estimate cost and process capa- streamline processes to create motive market. The more you can compress bility more accurately. This leads to more flexible product content and order-to-delivery cycles on hot selling vehi- efficient program execution – and compress order-to-delivery cycles. cles, the greater program profitability and profitability. market share you’ll achieve. Tecnomatix not only manages workflow and One key to a successful vehicle program lies assembly sequences but also factors in valu- in the efficient management of customer able features such as product and process configuration options. Program managers variants and work time standards. This need assurance that their assembly capabil- information helps process engineers to ity has the flexibility to adapt to option con- quickly meet throughput, cycle time and tent scenarios, and final assembly planning cost requirements. Finally, with so much has to accommodate a wide variety of sup- component content added to the vehicle plier base contributions. during final assembly, line-side supply is critical. Tecnomatix layout and material flow Tecnomatix breaks down the barriers to effi- applications work seamlessly with ergo- cient analysis of long cycle operations nomic and discrete event simulation tools to in final assembly by managing the key data ensure that your final assembly processes enablers for configurable option content. are tuned for optimal performance. Proven production processes, captured as 5 Powertrain – increase profitability with optimal quality Manage variation to improve Driven by research and development, pow- From casting and fabrication to machining quality and reduce warranty ertrain lifecycles span several vehicle pro- and finishing, hundreds of critical parts costs. grams which must be run as efficiently as must come together in powertrain assembly possible. Years of development, testing and to function flawlessly in an extreme envi- analysis must culminate in split-second pro- ronment. Tecnomatix manages each piece cess cycles with little variation due to the of data in a proven architecture providing tight tolerance requirements of parts and access to critical information such as geom- assemblies. Production sequencing, etry, tolerances, features and datums. With machine capability and assembly planning Tecnomatix real-time data collection loop, are keys to holding tolerance in the manu- your next powertrain program has greater facturing environment. Variation in pow- assurance of success in holding tolerance. ertrain products causes quality issues and New technologies, flexible machinery, drives warranty costs higher. materials and customer requirements can be analyzed in the context of your produc- With Tecnomatix, R&D can evaluate variants tion environment while avoiding any impact in product structures against production to production. sequencing and machine capability specifi- cations to discern the viability of new tech- nology. They can also evaluate dimensional requirements and improve decision-making on tradeoffs between quality demands and resource capabilities. 6 Paint – Improve buffering and sequencing efficiency Improve sequencing Paint operations have a unique influence on Tecnomatix provides tools to analyze paint efficiency and optimize the overall throughput of your assembly flow velocity, overspray and product cover- plant design to reduce paint operations. Due to high cycle times and age in your paint booth operations, thereby operations costs. change-over processes, manufacturing has optimizing paint consumption. to plan effective batching and sequencing of product flow. Precious floor space is con- sumed in buffer planning and banking of vehicles into and out of the paint operations area. Add to this the machinery, systems and labor required to maintain environmen- tal controls and recovery systems and paint operations can quickly consume cost in your manufacturing budget. Tecnomatix provides robust applications that enable industrial engineers to analyze product flow in sequencing and buffering for optimal solutions in scheduling and paint shop layout design. Additionally, 7 Plant layout – design more effective factories faster Design more efficient factories Plant layout influences the performance Beyond the advantages of visualization, faster to improve productivity of all aspects of the vehicle assembly pro- Tecnomatix plant layout solutions enable and reduce time-to-volume. cess. From body and paint to power-train you to optimize