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Economic and competitive pressures are causing companies to rapidly transition to a “Design Anywhere, Build Anywhere” (DABA) business model. As technology evolves, products are becoming more complex and encompass more electronic and software content to differentiate them. Companies need to eliminate the significant process and data communication barriers that exist between mechanical, electronics, and software engineering disciplines within the enterprise and the product supply chain.
ENOVIA Engineering Central creates a competitive advantage by addressing key DABA business challenges including:
- Improved communication and collaboration with global development teams comprised of internal and external resources
- Bill-of-material management capabilities to provide a single enterprise-wide definition of software, electronic and mechanical product information
- Global product development and change processes that provide the right information to the right users at the right time
Description :
ENOVIA Engineering Central provides a “single version of the truth” by consolidating and managing all the engineering data and processes in one enterprise solution. Key features and capabilities include:
Improved Development Team Communication and Collaboration
Global teams comprised of internal and external resources need to share ideas and participate in development business processes globally. ENOVIA Engineering Central is built upon the ENOVIA platform, which provides collaboration capabilities including supplier security, formal and ad hoc process support, file sharing and distribution.
Part and Bill of Material Management
ENOVIA Engineering Central provides global development teams with a single, persistent definition of product Engineering Bills of Material (EBOMs). This reduces data errors and time delays. By defining the EBOM with parts of specific types, users can capture specific business behavior and attributes. Parts can have development and production lifecycles for added process flexibility.
Users can structure EBOMS for even the most complex products with thousands of parts organized across many levels of hierarchy. The EBOM assembly structure automatically updates when new component revisions are released. An integrated structure browser allows users to navigate and edit multiple levels easily. Comprehensive EBOM editing capabilities include the ability to copy parts to and from existing assemblies, and replace, add, remove, and re-sequence parts in the BOM. Mass change operations automate complex EBOM changes that affect many parent assemblies. Differences between EBOMs can be listed in a detailed text format or an intuitive highlighted side-by-side format.
ENOVIA Engineering Central also supports preparing an EBOM for manufacturing. Users can define the EBOM with location specific preferred suppliers and component parts and provide a list of engineering approved "alternate" or “substitute” parts that can be used by manufacturing instead of the primary engineering part. Purchasing can obtain a roll up of parts from a multi-level EBOM and execution systems can be automatically populated with EBOM data using optional ENOVIA integrations to most leading ERP systems.
Technical Document Management
ENOVIA Engineering Central can manage any kind of documentation used to define parts and bills-of-material. In addition, ENOVIA Engineering Central works seamlessly with ENOVIA Designer Central in order to make CAD models available in the context of the bill-of-material. This provides consolidated document and bill-of-material views independent of the authoring tools used.
Product Development Change Processes
ENOVIA Engineering Central is delivered with engineering “best practices” from the experience of some of the world’s largest manufacturing companies. These best practices enable standard and repeatable global engineering processes including an Engineering Change Request (ECR) process which is used to qualify, analyze, review and approve change requests for released parts, assemblies and technical documentation. The ECR process insures that a common process is followed and the right level of analysis and oversight is employed so that only “approved” changes are implemented thus reducing the quantity and time associated with implementing engineering changes. ENOVIA Engineering Central provides flexibility to split one or many ECRs over one or many Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) for implementation. The ECO process includes the ability to configure ECO approval and notification templates. When used with optional ERP integrations, the ECO release process automatically updates the associated ERP system(s) to keep engineering and operations in synch. This automatic synchronization process eliminates redundant, error prone data entry operations which would otherwise be required to manually synchronize this information.
ENOVIA Engineering Central also supports parallel change processes. Multiple engineering changes that have common affected parts can be evaluated in parallel and implemented in any order. This capability addresses a business problem known as “ECO stacking”. A traditional ECO process forces customers to implement pending changes to a common affected item in the order in which the changes are raised. Often times there is a business need for the ECO implementation order to be different than the raised order. The ability to handle parallel change processes addresses this significant business issue.
Customer benefits :
With ENOVIA Engineering Central you can:
- Consolidate part design content from multiple Engineering systems and tools by providing a single definition of the Engineering Bill-of-Material.
- Leverage the skills and knowledge of the enterprise and supply chain through the institutionalization of cross-functional product development and engineering change processes.
- Decrease product costs by enabling component engineers to qualify and manage purchased parts from multiple suppliers on a local or global basis.
- Make improved product development decisions with analysis reports that quickly identify component usage, highlight differences between assemblies, and summarize design changes over time.
- Improve communication and reduce data errors internally and with Electronic Contract Manufacturers by defining the EBOM with location specific preferred suppliers and component.
- Reduce manufacturing downtime and quality issues by creating a list of engineering approved "alternate" or “substitute” parts for use by manufacturing instead of the primary engineering part.
- Decrease purchasing delays and errors by providing a quantity roll up of parts from a multi-level EBOM.