Fall 2014 PLM Meeting

2014 Fall Meeting

October 9th - 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Stewart Center, Room 206

Enabling the Digital Thread

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Event Abstracts:

Electronics Manufacturing with the Digital Thread

Kevin Fischer
Rockwell Collins

The model based enterprise is formulated on an integrated and collaborative environment using model-based definition from concept to disposal to enable rapid, seamless and affordable deployment of products.  This model-based definition must transform as we progress through the product lifecycle.  Throughout the cycle, technologies create threads of digital data for different purposes that can be reused or leveraged by others.  These threads can be woven together creating a digital tapestry that defines all aspects of a product throughout its lifecycle. This presentation will offer a look at some of the threads and how they weave together for one electronics manufacturing company.  The primary view will be from the manufacture or build perspective as we look for the value in connecting the digital thread both upstream and downstream in the lifecycle.  

Panel – How do we execute the digital thread through the product lifecycle?

In the advanced manufacturing environment of today and in the future, people are creating and consuming product information almost continuously. Additive manufacturing technologies will have given us the ability to produce nearly any product nearly anywhere. Production facilities may have minimal staff to maintain the machines making commodity products, but high-value products and technologies will likely have human engagement for quite a while longer. Supply chains and product sustainment networks reach across the globe. Today we use digital technologies to develop virtual representations of our products, we conduct virtual simulations of those products to predict their performance, and we attempt to model the supply and sustainment networks for those products to optimize operations and services for our customers. However, the tools, processes, and organizational structures necessary to execute the digital thread are often not flexible enough to allow for change. This panel session will begin to address these areas with the underlying question of how do we successfully execute the digital product thread through the lifecycle, both today and in the future? Representatives from leading companies will engage in a dialogue that will address such topics as how PLM tools impact the way we work, determining the organization benefits of PLM, balancing the needs of the users with the capabilities of the PLM tools, the evolution of PLM and digital manufacturing tools, and deciding the extent of the use of the digital thread through the product lifecycle, all in the context of enabling the digital manufacturing enterprise.

Panel – How do we develop the future Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise workforce?

In the advanced manufacturing environment of today and in the future, people are creating and consuming product information almost continuously. Additive manufacturing technologies will have given us the ability to produce nearly any product nearly anywhere. Production facilities may have minimal staff to maintain the machines making commodity products, but high-value products and technologies will likely have human engagement for quite a while longer. Today we use digital technologies to develop virtual representations of our products, we conduct virtual simulations of those products to predict their performance, and we attempt to model the supply and sustainment networks for those products to optimize operations and services for our customers. However, the skills necessary to work in an environment will be different than the skills needed for the past, or arguably those skills needed today. This panel session will begin to address these areas with the underlying question of how do we develop the future advanced manufacturing workforce? Representatives from industry, K-12 public education, community college, and university will engage in a dialogue that will address such topics as industry needs, curriculum content, education standards and frameworks, and the role of industry in education, all in the context of enabling the digital manufacturing enterprise.

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Speaker Biographies:

Christine Grundei

She has worked in the PLM business, in the Automotive (Ford Motor Company, General Motors 1998-2007) and Aerospace (2007-present) industries. She has been a PLM Super User, Trainer, Helpdesk Support, Subject Matter Expert, Software Test Manager, Operations Manager, and PLM Technical Authority. She has defined and documented training, test, and deployment processes, and have supported PLM Software Deployments since 2007 at Rolls-Royce from a testing perspective. She is a member of the PLM Integration Review Board and the IT Working Group at Rolls-Royce, and currently manage all monthly PLM configuration changes globally. She has been a member of and led local and global delivery teams, including vendors, customers, and stakeholders. I have received numerous Rolls-Royce Excellence awards, and have attended and spoken at industry conferences on topics around PLM delivery and challenges.

Dr. Michael Grieves

Dr. Michael Grieves splits his time between the business and academic worlds. He is the author of the seminal books on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): “Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking” (McGraw-Hill, 2006) and Virtually Perfect: Driving Innovative and Lean Products through Product Lifecycle Management” (SCP, 2010).

Dr. Grieves is an acknowledge world expert in PLM and lectures world-wide on engineering, manufacturing, and PLM in both industry and academia conferences. In addition to his books, Dr. Grieves has numerous publications and articles. Dr. Grieves consults with a number of leading international manufacturers and governmental organizations such as NASA.

Dr. Grieves has been a Co-Director of the Purdue PLM Center of Excellence, where he still participates, and served as a Visiting Professor at the Purdue University College of Technology. Dr. Grieves has also been affiliated with the Eller School of Business MIS Department at the University of Arizona, where he was designated Director – Industry Research for the MIS Department and Director, Information Technology Industry Research Center (ITIRC) at the University of Arizona. He served on the advisory board for the MIS department.

Dr. Grieves is Chairman Emeritus of Oakland University’s School of Business Board of Visitors. He has taught in the United States, China, and Europe at the university senior undergraduate, and graduate school levels and has authored and taught executive education courses. Dr Grieves is a Professor at CIMBA University, Asolo, Italy with an appointment at the University of Iowa. He also has an appointment as Research Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology.

Dr. Grieves is a founder and Chairman of Interactive Frontiers, Inc. the world leader in golf and sport instructional software, Dr. Grieves has over thirty years experience in the computer and data communications industry. He has been a senior executive at both Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial organizations during his career. He founded and took public a $100 million systems integration company and subsequently served as its audit and compensation committee chair. Dr. Grieves has substantial board experience, including serving on the board of public companies in both China and Japan.

Dr. Grieves has a BSCE from Michigan State University and an MBA from Oakland University. He received his doctorate from the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.

Elisa Bertino​

Professor Elisa Bertino joined Purdue in January 2004 as professor in Computer Science and research director at CERIAS. Her research interests cover many areas in the fields of information security and database systems. Her research combines both theoretical and practical aspects, addressing applications on a number of domains, such as medicine and humanities. Current research includes: access control systems, secure publishing techniques and secure broadcast for XML data; advanced RBAC models and foundations of access control models; trust negotiation languages and privacy; data mining and security; multi-strategy filtering systems for Web pages and sites; security for grid computing systems; integration of virtual reality techniques and databases; and geographical information systems and spatial databases.

Professor Bertino serves or has served on the editorial boards of several journals - many of which are related to security, such as the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. She is currently serving as program chair of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010). Professor Bertino is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of ACM. She received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award in 2002 for outstanding contributions to database systems and database security and advanced data management systems, and received the 2005 Tsutomu Kanai Award by the IEEE Computer Society for pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems.

 

Dan DeLaurentis 

Purdue Professor and Director of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Lab Director of Purdue Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace. See here for more details. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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