MATERIALS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

– FOR ENGINEERING, COST, AND SUSTAINABILITY –

FOR PTC CREO AND PTC WINDCHILL

Dr Arthur H Fairfull, Granta Design

Product Director, Materials Strategy & PLM Integration
Tuesday, June 7

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AGENDA

- Brief introduction to Granta Design

- Typical materials challenges
- Materials applications for Creo and Windchill
- Summary

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GRANTA DESIGN—INNOVATING SINCE 1994

Materials
information
management

Materials
reference
Software + information
Materials
Information decision
support tools
…related to engineering Materials
materials and their support for
CAD, CAE,
properties PLM
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OUR PARTNERS AND COLLABORATIONS

Owners

Data

Computation

Collaborations Education

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PARTNERSHIP WITH PTC

• Gold member of PTC's Partner Advantage Program since 2007

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OUR CUSTOMERS: MANUFACTURERS WORLDWIDE

Consortia Honeywell    Parker Aerospace

 Material Data Management Consortium Huntsman Perkins Engines

 EMIT Consortium Hutchinson Pratt & Whitney 

 AutoMatIC IHI PSA Peugeot Citroën 

Jaguar Land Rover  Raytheon 
KSPG  Rheinmetall (KSPG Auto)
Lab 126 (Kindle) Rhodia

Airbus DePuy LL Products Rolls-Royce  

Airbus Helicopters   Donaldson Lockheed Martin  RUAG Space

Airbus Defence & Space  Doosan Babcock  MASCO Suzlon

AWE  Embraer  MBDA Group Sulzer 

ASCO Industries Emerson Electric  MTU Thales 

Baker Hughes  ESA NASA  Thyssen Krupp Steels

Boeing   Ethicon Surgical Care Northrop Grumman  TRW Automotive

Bombardier Aerospace GE  Novo Nordisk United Technologies Corp  

Bosch General Motors  NPL  Vestas

Constellium GKN Aerospace  Philips Technologie

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THE TYPICAL MATERIALS KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT

• Data scattered in spreadsheets, databases, hard copy, file systems…

• Islands of information
• No systematic access control, security, versioning
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 EH&S/ We need to derive design
Material portfolio risk analysis Compliance
Compliance
data from large datasets
Plan
Generate and make sure it's traceable Failure
Materials Determine gaps Design data investigation
characterisation
Authority in material data Define approved Material
test program
material lists substitution
We want to feed back
Materials Material
characterisation our lessons
Material batchlearnt
testing into
Sample analysis
/ testing
AND TYPICAL
MATERIALS
Testing/QA testing
We want to make reliable, our design process

CHALLENGES
Determine gaps Acquire new
consistent material choices We need a reliable way to
R&D in capability/ capability/
technology technology
get materials data into our
We need to avoid restricted
Define and CAD/PLM tools
Concept agree
We're trying to address Conceptual Concept
substances when designing
Design requirements Design Refinement
environmentalwith customer
objectives (e.g., due to REACH)
in product design
Design Design
Detailed Design
Definition Refinement We get problems because we
We need to generate simulation used incorrect, inconsistent,
Develop/
data and make sure it's validate Design support/ Design analysis/ or obsolete data Failure
Simulation simulation analysis validation/lifing investigation
consistent and traceable material cards

Manufacturing Design support Manufacture Manufacture

Engineering We waste a lot of time (DfM) prototypes final product
finding and processing
materials data Source raw
Procurement materials and Order raw materials and supplied parts
supplied parts

We often need to find a

Customer
Support cheaper material/process Support/Service
We want to limit proliferation Issues
to do the same job
of material choices
Requirement Conceptual Capability Detailed Validation / In-Service
Production
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MATERIALS INFORMATION AUTHORING IN PLM CONTEXT

Information authoring Assign and manage information Production

in product configuration and execution
lifecycle context

Geometry

ERP

Simulations

MES

Materials

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CATEGORIES OF VALUE

1. Derivation of approved, traceable, materials

information subset published for enterprise-
wide use
2. Assignment of relevant materials from that
subset to the design or product structure,
building out the engineering bills of
materials (EBoMs)
3. Analytics and reporting on these
assignments, enabling design optimization Materials
and risk avoidance re cost, weight, authoring
legislation, … implications

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GRANTA MI:MATERIALS GATEWAY FOR CREO

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OPTIONS FOR EACH MATERIAL

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ASSIGNING MATERIAL TO A PART

All in-house design

engineers and suppliers
have access to a single,
consistent list of company
material specifications and
selection rules, to select
and assign in CAD

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RESULTING PROPERTIES IN CREO MODEL

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TRACEABILITY – ―PEDIGREE‖ ATTRIBUTES

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DASHBOARD HIGHLIGHTING ECO IMPLICATIONS

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DASHBOARD HIGHLIGHTING REACH IMPLICATIONS

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BEYOND SINGLE ASSEMBLIES – GATEWAY FOR WINDCHILL

• Analogous functionality to Creo Gateway, in formal managed,

product-revisioned Windchill environment
• ‗Low footprint‘ materials assignment in product structure,
always with ‗live link‘ back to in-depth materials knowledge
• Insight from analytics tools early in
product design
• Where used? Risk assessment
across multiple products
– Just what is the extent of that materials
problem?

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GRANTA MI:MATERIALS GATEWAY FOR WINDCHILL

Material assignments made to parts

either earlier in CAD Gateway, or
directly here in PLM Gateway

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MATERIAL DATA LINKS FROM REVISIONED OBJECTS

PLM user (a manager?)

has over-ridden with
preferred material

CAD link provides access to Most recent material

geometry information, enabling assigned in CAD
Gateway analytics…

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GATEWAY DASHBOARD DRIVEN FROM PLM

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SUMMARY
• Enable enterprise access to materials knowledge, from Creo and
Windchill
• Deploy
– Approved corporate materials knowledge and Granta‘s authoritative
reference data
– Rapid access for users
– Control, consistency, and traceability of data

• Embed
– Product analytics, risk assessment, and materials guidance tools
– Early in product design process

• Support wider corporate strategies of material standardization,

supply risk reduction, lightweighting, …
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