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The Exhausted Engineer
Steve Green, Strategic Procurement Manager, Thales
Dave McDermaid, Business Consulting Director, aPriori
August 26, 2020
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Steve Green – Strategic Procurement ManagerApprenticeship – 1979
Drawing Office – Design
Production Engineering
Project Manager – Naval & Land
Installation – Test & Sea Trials
Manufacturing Manager – Naval Products
Supply Chain Manager/Materials Manager
Procurement Manager – Commodity Biased
Focused on providing Thales customers with the best
possible product that exceeds their expectations at
the right price to satisfy my business stakeholders.
"It does what it says on the tin.”
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• 70% of product cost designed in at PRR level 7
− Prototype manufacture
• No real data to negotiate with− Limited and broader experiences
− Product knowledge confidence
The Challenge for Strategic Procurement
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• Engineers have limited product knowledge and experience
• They can get upset when you ‘call their baby ugly’
• Contract Engineers used to fill resource gaps
− Not Thales focused
• Limited design to cost experience
• Value engineered products
• Greater customer time pressures
The Challenge for Engineering
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• Hire more Engineers
• Hire more experienced Engineers
• Beat up the supply chain
• Bid at risk
• Lots of late stage change
What are our options?
• Compromised innovation
• Lost margin
• Lost contracts
• More internal stress
• Disappointed customers
Leading to
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Dave McDermaid, Business Consulting DirectorApprenticeship – 1986
Drawing Office – Design
Production Engineering
Design Engineer – Hard Disk Drives
CAD Consultant
PLM Consultant
Consulting Manager
Business Consultant (aPriori)
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Driving Need for Automated Early Warning of Cost & Manufacturability Issues
Product Development Challenges
Challenges Implications
• Pressure to reduce time to market & lower product costs
• Lack of engineering bandwidth
• Insufficient capacity in Cost Engineering
• Demand, workflow & supply chain disruption due to COVID-19
• ECOs causing late stage design churn
• Late product launches
• Failure to meet target costs & profit margins
• Go / No go decisions on projects?
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Should we cast, fabricate, 3D Print or make from Composite?
What volumes?
Where do I buy?
Which process?
Which machine?
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Is this the most cost efficient design?
Is this a good supplier quotation?
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Design changes as a result of
cost or manufacturability issues
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Design changes as a result of
cost or manufacturability issues
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Do more
with the
same people
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Model
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roduction
Use the
‘Digital Twin’
To simulate
Manufacture
And cost within
‘Digital
Factories’
around the
world
SALES
Win more bids
at the right
margin
DESIGN
Design below
target cost and
reduce DFX
delays
MFG
Optimise
manufacturing
R&D
Identify cost
effective solutions
SOURCING
Reduce
outsourcing
costs
VAVE
Continuously
improve costs
VAVE
Manufacturability and Cost focus across the lifecycle
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Cost Insight Generate
WHAT IF YOU
COULD…?
Identify the parts that have the most DTC and DFM issues.
Highlight the important cost drivers on these parts and provide guidance for remediation.
Get the right information to the right people at the right time.
Automatically analyze parts for cost & manufacturability when they are checked into PLM or a defined trigger.
Relevant cost content
(cost, DTC score,
report) stored/attached
in PLM system
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Designs models in
CAD system, checks
them into PLM system
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PLM
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Manufacturing Simulation
Automated costing
of checked-in
models
DE clicks on link(s) in
email to see model(s)
in CI Design using
DFMC viewer
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Cost Insight Design
DE notified via email:
manufacturability score
and cost status
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Design Engineer
CAD Design
Cost Insight Generate
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What would it mean to you?
WHAT IF YOU
COULD…?
Identify the parts that have the most DTC and DFM issues.
Highlight the important cost drivers on these parts and provide guidance for remediation.
Get the right information to the right people at the right time.
Automatically analyze parts for cost & manufacturability when they are checked into PLM or a defined trigger.
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Q&A
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Thank you for attending
Dave McDermaid, aPriori
Steve Green, Thales