In today's business world, manufacturers face tremendous pressure to retain business and win market share. They must innovate and speed time-to-market, while at the same time becoming more flexible, improving quality, reducing costs, and controlling investments.
In the past, manufacturing organizations have overlooked the potential of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to address these shared business challenges—PLM solutions are often seen as too complex and time consuming to deploy. DELMIA PLM Express overcomes these misconceptions.
Designed specifically for small and medium sized businesses, DELMIA PLM Express is mapped to industry and job-related needs enabling companies to easily take the first steps toward achieving business transformation. Take your first steps and select the solution that matches your business needs and immediately reduce deployment time and improve return on investment—critical efficiencies for all businesses, regardless of industry.
Organized into five common job-related roles, DELMIA PLM Express addresses specific business needs and organizational definitions.
Resource Planning:
Provides a complete solution for the resource planner with capabilities to model in 3D and validate the tooling and complete manufacturing workcells in the virtual world. Leverage features for geometric modeling, kinematics modeling, and perform reachability studies for flexible manufacturing resources. Companies will significantly cut costs by eliminating production stoppage for set-up validation on the shop floor and by eliminating rework costs.
Robotics:
Delivers comprehensive robotic simulation and offline programming capabilities that includes dedicated functionality for arc and spot welding applications. By validating all robotic movements and programming in the virtual world, companies save time and money through elimination of production stoppage on plant floor equipment. This solution also enables faster development of new processes, as existing data can be stored for re-use.
Ergonomics:
Delivers the capability to build kinematic human models and teach various human tasks, simulate processes and to optimize the human work space. In addition, users can perform risk factor analysis to maximize human comfort, safety, and performance through a wide range of advanced tools analyze human postures, vision, reachability and biomechanics for compliance with standards such as NIOSH and RULA algorithms. This solution allows companies to comprehensively evaluate all important elements of a human’s interactions with a workcell for improved worker efficiency and lower health related costs.
Process Planning:
Designed for the planner or design engineer, it delivers assembly process planning, validation and simulation tools, plus assembly animation and dynamic authoring capabilities for assembly shop floor work instructions. Planning earlier in the design stages with the ability to capture and reuse data for shop floor implementation saves companies valuable ramp-up time and avoids costly delays in production.
Controls:
Offers Smart Device Builder capabilities for the engineer to create the mechanical, kinematical and logical behavior of devices that can then be used to validate a PLC program in a virtual environment. In addition, Virtual Commissioning solutions allow control engineers to debug PLC code weeks before the integration of the physical equipment occurs on the shop floor, significantly reducing the ramp-up time of manufacturing systems and costs for maintenance operations. By identifying PLC programming errors through simulation, control engineers also reduce the risk of damage to physical factory equipment.
