Solutions For Your Industry

DELMIA’s comprehensive product portfolio provides a myriad of solutions for a host of industries including automotive, aerospace and defense, fabrication and assembly, electrical and electronic, consumer goods, and shipbuilding. We deliver methodologies, software solutions and services to simulate, optimize, control and monitor all production means. Our software solutions accelerate all activities of manufacturing engineering, including:

• Concept development and manufacturing pre-planning phases
• Manufacturing processes simulation and monitoring
• Resource optimizing, i.e. manufacturing plants, assembly lines, work cells, humans and robots
• Capacity planning, task implementation, task monitoring and electronic shop floor instructions.

Aerospace solutions:

DELMIA Aerospace solutions can uniquely provide immense savings to an enterprise in the following ways:

• Manufacturing plans are pre-validated in a 3D environment to avoid unexpected problems on the shop floor
• The enterprise is able to capture and reuse manufacturing best practices
• Quality targets are met sooner due to reduction (or elimination) of rework and engineering change orders driven from the shop floor
• Concurrent engineering design and manufacturing planning and process validation before committing to physical prototypes and tooling
• Redundant business systems, personal reference files and individual Excel spread sheets are eliminated, providing a common shared database with major reductions in recurring costs and overhead
• 3D is now leveraged not only for design, but also for manufacturing planning, simulation-based validation, work instruction authoring and delivery to the shop-floor workforce

Shipbuilding Solutions:

Advanced production planners face new challenges in building today’s ships. Not only are onboard systems far more complex and interdependent than before, but economics dictates that many will be built by suppliers at off-yard sites. The risk of miscommunication of requirements or design changes is high. With corporate consolidations, portions of a ship may be fabricated in multiple locations and then brought together to be integrated.

This “build anywhere” philosophy introduces challenges to taking advantage of the capabilities of each yard and defining the optimal state of the section to be delivered by each supplier. Many of the ship’s systems must be installed so that they can be easily swapped out at some future date for updated technology. Coordinating suppliers with internal production requires far greater precision than ever before. When several ships are being built at the same time, there is competition for key equipment and yard area as well.

DELMIA Shipbuilding Solution is ready to meet these challenges to bring innovated applications to allow manufacturing engineers and process planners to define, validate, manage and deliver to the shop floor the content needed to manufacture today’s complex vessels. DELMIA Shipbuilding Solutions provide concurrent engineering and manufacturing, with the concept, product engineering and process engineering phases all occurring simultaneously.

With the enhanced connectivity of the Manufacturing Hub, engineers can create a collaborative environment to share and store up-to-date engineering and manufacturing data, allowing everyone in the extended enterprise to interact with the latest information. This greatly increases productivity and ensures a higher-quality end product.

With additional applications and the Manufacturing Hub, electronic work instructions can be delivered directly to the mechanics on the shop floor. As a result, the cost of maintaining the work instructions current is minimized. Since the instructions are validated in the manufacturing engineering world and can be 3D-based, the result is higher quality work instructions for the mechanics. This, in turn, provides increased first-time production quality.

DELMIA Shipbuilding Solutions can uniquely provide immense savings to an enterprise in the following ways:

• Manufacturing plans are pre-validated in a 3D environment to avoid unexpected problems on the shop floor
• The enterprise is able to capture and reuse manufacturing best practices
• Quality targets are met sooner due to reduction (or elimination) of rework and engineering change orders driven from the shop floor
• Concurrent engineering design and manufacturing planning and process validation before committing to physical prototypes and tooling
• Redundant business systems, personal reference files and individual Excel spread sheets are eliminated, providing a common shared database with major reductions in recurring costs and overhead
• 3D is now leveraged not only for design, but also for manufacturing planning, simulation-based validation, work instruction authoring and delivery to the shop-floor workforce

PLM for Manufacturing

The DELMIA PLM suite of computer-aided process planning and engineering solutions is designed to enable companies to achieve lean manufacturing and build-to-order by providing an enabling environment for concurrent engineering. Coverage extends from the conceptual phase of product and process design, through simulation and monitoring of manufacturing processes, to shop floor operations such as capacity planning, implementation and monitoring.

Process Planning

The DELMIA Process Planning solution suite provides a comprehensive process and resource planning support environment. The resulting process diagrams can provide a clear overview of the sequences and links between processes and resources early in product design conception.

Perform planning tasks such as:

• Layout Planning
• Time Measurement
• Process & Resource Planning
• Product Evaluation
• Cost Analysis
• Line Balancing
  
  

Process Detailing & Validation

The DELMIA Process Detailing & Validation solution suite employs the structure and diagrams of the Process Planning solutions into the application specific disciplines of manufacturing. Verify process methodologies with actual product geometry and define processes to a greater level of detail within a 3D environment. Include DELMIA Human solutions to validate work- force performance and interactivity within defined processes.

Validate processes in 3D for:

• Manufacturing and Maintenance
• Weld Point Allocations
• Assembly Sequences
• Factory/Cell Layouts
• Machining Operations

Resource Modelling & Simulation

The DELMIA Resource Modeling & Simulation solution suite provides the tools to develop, create and implement resources, application routines and mechanical programming that are integral with the Process Planning and Process Detailing & Validation solutions. Within this set of solutions, resources such as robots, tooling, fixtures, machinery, automation and ergonomics are defined and infused into a complete scenario of manufacturing.

Complete advanced simulations such as :

• Factory Flow simulations
• Robotic workcell setup and OLP
• NC Machining
• Inspection
• Ergonomics

Execution

DELMIA offers a powerful and scalable digital technology-based tool that provides a rich array of functionality to assist with production activity. Engineers can now make product and process information created during the planning and design stages available to the shop floor worker and offers this data in a visually intuitive, graphically intensive, easy-to-use manner. This means the right kinds of data are available at the right time using the least number of button clicks.

DELMIA Execution solutions offer the following:

• View 3D based process data, product data and simulations using a optional Touch Screen graphical user interface
• Consolidates all information and engineering data in an easy to use 3D Viewer
• View work instructions utilizing the DPM Work add-on for DPM Assembly simulations
• View referenced data through hyperlinks in standard browsers
• Can be integrated with third party tools such as MES systems

Add-Ons

DELMIA offers powerful enhancements for your digital tools to get to provide a rich array of functionality to assist with you production activity.

Automation

DELMIA V5 Automation offers a powerful solution for control engineering and automation lifecycle management. Current offerings enable programming of various Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and validation of this logic against a virtual machine, a cell, or an entire line and the performance analysis of these systems. With time and cost considerations putting pressure on new product introductions, PLC programming can no longer be seen as an isolated, independent function of moving a product forward on to the shop floor. DELMIA V5 Automation allows control departments to work in parallel and share information with mechanical and electrical departments earlier in the development process allowing optimization of engineering processes.

During the ramp-up of production lines, as well as in machine building, time to ramp-up and risk of error have become crucial factors in determining productivity and profitability. DELMIA V5 Automation helps cut ramp-up time significantly by catching logic errors well before the ramp-up, by evaluating PLC program changes on the virtual equipment instead of taking risks on real equipment, and allowing pre-commissioning with the real PLC.