Within previous concepts products are often defined by one bill of material (BOM). This BOM is handed over from development to production. These concepts are clearly defined and easy to manage over the release-process. This proceeding doesn’t fulfil the requirements of global aligned companies anymore. 1. Product portfolio are segmented for local markets (Design anywhere) 2. Products are dynamically produced in several production sites (Produce everywhere) Therefore the following questions must be discussed: - How to control products for remote production sites? - What is the influence of local production technologies ore local suppliers on my product structure? - How to deal with global master and local transaction data? - How to handle localised products and global spare part management? - How to control product configuration? - How to setup an adequate variant-management Within a globalised environment clearly defined product structures are the backbone for global development and production.

1. INTELLIACT AG
PLM OPEN HOURS
Product structures: The key for the “Design anywhere - Produce
everywhere” approach
Uwe Leonhardt, 08.04.2013, http://www.plmopenhours.net/
Intelliact AG
Siewerdtstrasse 8
CH-8050 Zürich
Tel. +41 (44) 315 67 40
Mail mail@intelliact.ch
Web http://www.intelliact.ch

2. INTRODUCTION
Position of the subject «Design anywhere - produce everywhere»
 Dislocation of manufacturing sites due to low salary costs
 Tasks of product development are concerned more and more
 Know-how increases in countries with low salary costs
 Tasks of development for local markets take wisely place there too
 Examples of the position of the subject
 Dislocations of locations for fabrication
– Sourcing: Local Suppliers
– Local materials
– Local engineer standards
– Local methods for fabrication
 distributed tasks of development
– Realization of common structures
– Authorization
– Access of data with sufficient performance
 Generally: controlling of change management
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3. ASPECTS IN THE COMPANY
Integration depth of product structure
Common Common parts in one central location(norm parts, standard
1 component
parts etc.)
Common Common generic structure of products with common
2 platform
technical interfaces
Central structure of company platform, location or specific
Localized
3 products
structure for each country
Specific Central structure of concern, specific structures for factory
4 adaptation for
manufacturing
Common «Design anywhere, produce everywhere» Common central
5 products
product with distributed development and production
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4. ASPECTS IN THE COMPANY
Depth of process integration
Externally External services in construction. Change Management at
1 developed parts external partner site.
Externally External services in construction for partial solution e. g. versions or
2 developed solutions moduls. Exchange of informations on structure level. Change
management has to be under control of lead site.
Integrated external Common development of external partner and provider in
3 developments one system
Manufacturing Display of documents for the specific production for each
4 technology different plant, e. g. execution
depending on location
Products specific in Specific structures for each location in one product
5 location
Integrated Central processes and structures, the whole company works
6 processes –virtual in a central part- and process-model
enterprise
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5. ASPECTS IN A COMPANY
System architectures
 Distribution of objects between systems
PDM centered management of documents management of documents ERP centered management of
seperated for master and transaction documents
data
CAD CAD CAD
PDM ERP PDM ERP PDM ERP
DMS DMS DMS DMS
 Distributed systems
distributed PDM-systems Distributed ERP-systems Distributed PDM- and ERP-systems
PDM ERP PDM ERP PDM ERP
PDM ERP PDM ERP
Portal
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