DELMIA Targets Costs and Ramp-Up Time

By DE Editors

DELMIA Dassault Systèmes (Auburn Hills, MI, and Paris, France) says that the V5R17 release of its DELMIA Body-in-White solution features several enhancements that provide users increased flexibility and communication when creating and managing manufacturing lines. Improvements to the DELMIA Manufacturing Hub, Manufacturing Change Management, and Lifecycle Management products are said to help manufacturing planners update plans with the latest part revision via an automatically generated modification table that identifies manufacturing assemblies containing parts affected by a design change.

DELMIA Body-in-White is a scalable 3D environment for creating, modifying, and validating automotive body-in-white planning for lines and stations prior to production. Its functionality spans tool setup, fixtures, stations, and lines as well as the respective processes. The user defines the overall process; identifies the fastening points and fixtures; and validates the throughput and capacity to identify potential bottlenecks and modify the line as needed.

DELMIA Body-in-White generates reports containing such data as time allocations, capacities, and budgets at every step in the line design. Engineering and manufacturing changes are stored in the common data set, which allows users to develop best practice procedures by creating standard modules from, say, proven resources, proven processes, capacity data, and cost information from previous projects.

The V5R17 release also has a new Resource Centric view that allows process planners to assign parts directly from an eBOM (engineering Bill of Materials) to the desired station in the factory. Through use of an automatic assignment assistant, parts and fasteners are assigned and relocated to and from different operations. This is said to accelerate the manufacturing planning process and reduce project ramp up time.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.