Presentation of required interoperability in a Dynamic Manufacturing Network, and how it has been adressed by a set of research projects

1. Interoperability: Toward Dynamic
Manufacturing Network and Manufacturing
Standards test bed
Workshop “Interoperability and PLM” 18th of February 2014
Dr Nicolas Figay, Airbus Group Innovations

2. Business Context - Current trends
Aerospace & Defense domain
• Single Product/multiple partners context
• System Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management,
Concurrent Engineering, Virtual Enterprise, Integration
Enterprise Factory
• Focus on the Virtual Digital Product and Design Phase
• Product & Process data exchange and sharing based on
open eBusiness Standards  strategic importance of
these standards
• Emerging PLM hubs based on proprietary solutions
Industrial sharing of an Aircraft

3. Problematic addressed at Airbus Innovations
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Globalization and Virtualization of enterprises
●
Computer used everywhere
• Digital artifacts, information and communication
• Computer aided activities with automated services
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Secured eBusiness collaboration
●
Collaborative tools and environments
Interoperability between (technical) enterprise
applications
within networked organizations

4. PLM interoperability based on standards
How to achieve at an acceptable price “pragmatic” and continuous
interoperability between enterprise applications in order to support
digital collaboration within networked organizations in an evolving
global environment?
How to take advantage of existing and relevant interoperability
tools, emerging technologies and paradigms, and to combine them?
How to define an overall framework allowing to achieve targeted
interoperability for an eBusiness ecosystem, building a collaborative
infrastructure and mature composite community?

5. State of the Art, Practices and Capabilities
Standards, Frameworks
Commodities on the Web
Software product families
Methodologies
Digital ecosystems
System Engineering, PLM
RISESTEP (1998) SAVE (2001)
IDEAS (2005) ATHENA (2009)
Open Dev Factory (2009)
SEINE (2009)
CRESCENDO (2013)
Capabilities Experimentation
Proofs of Concept
Communities
Researchers
Research Projects
Research
Airbus Group eBusiness
Phenix (2009-2014)
BoostAerospace (2009-2014)
Internal Projects
Technical Data Package
recommended practices
Practices
AFNOR/ISO SC4
TC184
ASD SSG, EADS SSC
Governance
Iterative
Context: Globalization, Digital artifacts, eBusiness, Collaboration
Standards
PLM
AP203
AP214
PDM Enablers
PLM Services
AP239
DEXLIB
PLCSLIB
AP209/CGNS
SCOR
ISO15288
ISA 95
AP242
AP210

6. The successive drivers
• Sharing DMU Units in heterogeneous environments
• Sharing PDM data in the Virtual Enterprise
• Interoperability of enterprise technical information
• Networked Collaborative Product Development
• Governance of standards for preparing
interoperability
• Improve interoperability maturity of a community
• Model Driven Architecture for constructing
interoperability
• Dynamic Manufacturing network
• Test bed for PLM Standards – Standards
Interoperability PLM
ATHENA Interoperability
Framework & thesis
« Interoperability of
Technical Enterprise
Applications »
ASD Strategic
Standardization Group with
Standard Radar Chart

7. IMAGINE – Dynamic PLM MANUCTURING
NETWORK for collaborative product
development
• Dynamic Network Methodology
• Aeronautic Living Lab – experimental platform
for creating and assessing set of protocols for
such network
• ArchiMagine
• SharKine & JaWine
• Interoperability Checker
• Autonomic and Secured service Bus

8. Dynamic Manufacturing Network methodology
The end to end cross organizational processes for networked Aircraft development
DMN = network of interconnected participants to the end to end cross organizations processes,
being applications or organizations
Change request
Cross organizational and private end to end processes
TDP exchange Change investigation
Aircraft model
Engine NacelleCabin
Nacelle
provider
(e.g. Aircelle)
Motorist
(e.g. SNECMA)
Integrator
(e.g. Airbus)
Airline Company
(e.g. KLM)
Dynamic Manufacturing
Network
Aircraft = system of interest
Internal CCM and
EM
Internal CCM and
EM
Internal CCM and
EM
PDM Link
Catia
Team Centre
ProEngineer
Aras PLM
FreeCad
TDP Exchange
PLM Hub
Requirements
Issuing
Change
Ordering
Change
Reviewing
Change
Specifications
Models
(Product &
Process)
End to end
cross
organization
process
Mediation
Orchestration
Local Proscess
(with tools chain)
Integrator (e.g. Airbus) Motorist (e.g. Snecma) Nacellist (e.g. Aircelle)
Security
Interoperability
Agility/Flexibility
Dynamicity
DMNmethodology
Organizational system

9. Dynamic Manufacturing Network Living Lab
DMN = network of interconnected participants to the end to end cross organizations processes,
being applications or organizations

10. Already available and coming soon…
• Public web site of the project
• First version of enacted LL
• Set of trainings and cookbooks
• Numerous research paper
• Specification of the cPlatform V2
• Open experimentation of the Living Lab and
training planned Q3 2014

11. Standard Interoperability PLM (SIP) PLM
standards Test bed for an open community
• Testing methodology and capabilities
• Support activities of implementor forums
• Testing and assessing standards and the
processes implementing them before testing
software product solutions
• Creation of an open community with
interoperability maturity

12. SIP: Manufacturing Standards Test Bed for Interoperability
Objectives and principles
SIP = new testing methodology and associated capabilities (derived from IMAGINE Living Lab) for
developing, assessing, combining the PLM standards and process implementations before to test
commercial solutions

13. SIP Manufacturing Standards Test Bed for - Interoperability
The partners and the ecosystem
7 ETP
Project being
launched
Extensible
consortium
Industrial Partners Academic Partners
SIP = creating a place where Industry (OEM and SMEs), researchers and PLM standards experts can
meet and built jointly the expected interoperability maturity

14. Already available and coming soon…
• “Toward Dynamic Manufacturing Network
and Manufacturing Standards test bed” at
I’ESA 2014” – paper that will be presented at
I’ESA 2014 conference
• Demonstration during Future at System X the
6th of March 2014 at Saclay
• First day of the academic circle – Mid 2014
• And many more – let’s follow us

15. Conclusion
• Set of research projects and results for establishing required
continuous operational interoperability at an acceptable price,
in order supporting Networked Collaborative Product
Development
• The road is long, let’s build and implement the roadmap
together – French industry and researchers
• Mixing Software engineering and Industrial engineering is a
pre-requisite
• Impact of new technologies: HTML5, RESTful
(Representational state transfer) architecture, Big data and
NoSQL, etc.
• Emerging « Internet of things » will probably accelerate the
things

16. Contacts Airbus Group Innovations :
Dr Nicolas Figay – Nicolas Figay@eads.net 33 1 46 97 36 60
Thank you for your attention!
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