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Pervasive Simulation in a PLM Platform – The key to effective management of ever‐increasing product complexity
Author(s) -
Chądzyński Paweł Z.,
Panthaki Malcolm,
Nicolich Matteo,
Asuri Rama
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2020.00737.x
Subject(s) - original equipment manufacturer , software deployment , process (computing) , key (lock) , computer science , product lifecycle , product (mathematics) , systems engineering , new product development , field (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , process management , cloud computing , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , software engineering , business , programming language , geometry , computer security , mathematics , marketing , pure mathematics , operating system
Companies invest in new approaches to manage the ever‐increasing complexities of products and systems being designed today, and more importantly, those that will be designed tomorrow. These involve methodologies, tools, and the underlying platforms that support enterprise‐wide integration of these methodologies, tools, data models, and design flows. Simulation is a critical part of this investment. Unfortunately, simulation remains stubbornly stand‐alone and isolated. For the most part, simulation solution users and tool vendors have focused on automating the simulation process for the individual design phases but not for the entirety of the product's lifecycle that starts with gathering of requirements and ends with deployment of the assets in the field. This paper demonstrates how an appropriate vision for providing simulation as a pervasive tool, available on‐demand within a comprehensive PLM platform (Product Lifecycle Management), allows users to resolve these limitations. This is particularly critical today as PLM platforms are beginning to shift to the cloud. The goal of this paper is not to lay out a scientific theory, but to provide a practical example of a challenge solved through a best practice. The authors have worked and communicated with many OEMs that are all facing a similar set of challenges. These challenges are quite well‐known and hence the authors do not think it is necessary to take up room documenting them in this paper – we think it is more important to document/present a vision for a real‐world, working solution.