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PDM WORKBENCH CATIA V5 ARAS INNOVATOR INTEGRATION Aras Innovator Migration Project @ F.X. MEILLER

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Agenda

F.X. MEILLER

Two years later …

The migration project

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F.X. MEILLER INNOVATION BORN FROM TRADITION FOR MORE THAN 160 YEARS

Founded

1850 in Munich, Germany

Locations

Germany (Munich)

Austria Turkey Poland Czech

Republic

Employees

1.500

Products

Dumpers Elevator

Doors

Markets & customers

Automotive Construction

industry

The company develops its products as a system solution in parallel to optimize the matching of vehicle chassis and body.

In order to meet customer demands and ensure long term success, MEILLER continually optimizes its product development and supply chain processes.

MEILLER works closely with all the major vehicle manufacturers, leveraging the latest techniques for transferring engineering and logistics data. This enables short response times and distinguishes MEILLER as a leading system supplier.


F.X. MEILLER Business Case

VPM to Aras Innovator migration project:

CATIA PDM WORKBENCH FOR ARAS INNOVATOR F.X. MEILLER ARAS INNOVATOR MIGRATION PROJECT

Specific requirements CAD-centric engineering processes resulted in specific CAD integration enhancements.

For several years the company had been running a VPM-based large scale PLM system.

The UNIX-based system spanned 3 servers with 14 CPUs and 50 gigabytes of memory, making it challenging and expensive to maintain.

Although the system managed MEILLER’s extensive library of CATIA V5 CAD data, its high resource demands and operational complexity caused significant performance issues and the system offered little additional product or process automation capabilities for an increasingly global product development environment.

MEILLER wanted to improve performance, reduce costs and migrate away from the legacy UNIX-based PLM system onto a PLM platform with a modern web architecture on Microsoft.

MEILLER also wanted to add new functionality to further streamline and improve the global product development processes.

Applications Aras Innovator 9.3

replacing ENOVIA VPM

CATIA V5 R19

Development of specific customer requirements Improved usability and performance Reduced maintenance costs for the PDM system Phase out of legacy UNIX/VPM server platforms Initially 60 Users


ENOVIA VPM Data Migration Package

CAD & Metadata

Data Quality

CATIA V4 CATIA V5

CAD Link Management

Migration

cONTENT

~ 2.5 Mio Records

~ 160,000 Structures

~ 1 TB of CAD Data

CAD Data migration (CATIA V4 V5)

Less than 9 months project duration

67 Users @ 3 different locations

F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT FACTS & FIGURES


Original Infrastructure Target Infrastructure

F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT

ARCHITECTURE CHANGE

Client on Windows

3 Servers on UNIX (AIX)

Client on Windows

1 Server on Windows Server 2008

CATIA V5 R19

VPM Module VPM custom client

ENOVIA VPM

File Vault

DB

CATIA V5 R19

PWB V5 AddIn Aras Innovator web client

Connector Server Extension

File Vault

MS SQL DB


System Configuration

Access rights & roles

Data model

Hardware & Software

Data Migration

Meta data export

CAD data export

V4V5 Migration

Data preparation

Standard part migration

Methodology

CAD Connector for Aras Innovator

Design

SAP Transfer

Naming conventions

Approval of tests

Support

System

Methodology

Back-end Processes

Execution

Definition

Test

F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT WORK PACKAGES

Meta data import CAD data import

Responsibility T-Systems F.X. MEILLER


F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT MIGRATION WORKFLOW

CAD Data

Meta Data

Data quality check

Drawing Link check

Data migration to V5

Testing

CAD Import

Meta Data Export

Mapping Meta Data Import

.csv Files Batchloader

V4 Export

VPM2FS

Data Migration

Responsibility T-Systems F.X. MEILLER


F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT SUMMARY 1/2

Project duration: 9 months. Set up of new PDM infrastructure at the customers site.

99,9% automated migration of existing CAD data structures to Aras Innovator. MEILLER is productive with both divisions in the new infrastructure since 08/2012.

Reduced Complexity of Infrastructure due to smaller setup.

ROI: very soon the savings in infrastructure compensated the project efforts.

30 % – 50 % performance improvement compared to the VPM environment.

With T-Systems assistance MEILLER conducted an extensive review of currently available PLM solutions and performed benchmark prototypes.

Aras was chosen because of the modern Web-based platform & superior performance during benchmark scalability testing.

Aras offered greater functionality with a much smaller footprint resulting in better cost efficiencies.


F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT SUMMARY 2/2

Under the guidance of T-Systems, the company began an aggressive 9 month implementation, migration and integration PLM project.

Aras’s speed ranged from 41 % to 81 % faster, performing better on larger assemblies.

The most significant scenario focused on the loading procedure of a large assembly structure (with over 1000 CAD objects) into the design mode of the CAD System.

The file size of the CAD data varied between 50 and 450 MB – depending on the volume and complexity of the CAD structure. Each structure’s load time was measured at least twice – to avoid local memory effects on the client machines. All measurements were conducted with the same client and

CAD environment. Throughout the test the amount of data in the database was identical and had been completely migrated with all files and Meta information from the previous PLM system.

Six different real world assembly structures were identified, analyzed and used as reference cases.


CATIA V5 Workstation PDM Infrastructure

F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT

CATIA INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

Local Directory

Use of native Aras APIs

PDM Work- bench client

Aras Innovator Database

PWB Server

Aras Innovator Vault

Check In / Out (file transfer of CATIA file data)

WEB Communication (SOAP) PDM data (XML)


F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT CAD INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS Part Number Generation based on custom attributes

Autonaming depending on custom attributes is handled for the files on the Aras server


F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT CAD INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS Custom Attribute Management

Even identifying attributes can be changed if the part is not assembled.


F.X. MEILLER MIGRATION PROJECT CAD INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS Custom and Saved Search Support

Tool to create and edit saved searches without logging into the Aras client

Query and execute saved searches from within PWB


Recently added features

F.X. MEILLER ARAS INNOVATOR USAGE TWO YEARS LATER

Single-sign-on with the CAD Connector-client

Configuration of CAD Connector-client is administrated for different user groups

External supplier integrated into rights & roles

Granular visibility and accessibility of items is supported


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www.meiller.com CONTACT

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