Webinar #8 Datamodel And Flexibility For Plm

1. WEBINAR – Datamodel and flexibility for PLM

2. Webinar presentation
• Content
– The datamodel
– How to provide flexibility? What are the criteria?
– Visualize your Aras innovator datamodel
– Live flexibility in Aras Innovator
– Questions
• Organisation
– Duration
– To ask questions

3. datamodel

4. Exemple – DFMEA – Simplistic Datamodel
Product
DFMEA Function Engineering
Item Characteristic
Product Failure mode
Engineering
Effects Causes
Detection
Action

5. Des objets - ItemTypes
Metadata properties Rights/Permissions
• name
• versionning
• Classification
views Workflows
• …
Relationships Lifecycle Business Rules

6. Relationships
Relationship
• Manage relationship behavior
ItemType • Manage cardinality
• Manage views
• Change behavior based on context
ItemType

7. PLM elements
• lifecycles • Files
• Workflows • Forms
• List of values • Sequences (codification)
• Identities • …
• users
• Permissions
• Methods

8. Simple datamodel
Manufacturer
Part Manufacturer Part
Order
Document
File

9. How do we move toward flexible PLM Solutions ?

10. Technology
• Web Technologies
• Deployments and Updates made easier. No setups actions on desktops
• Most UI enhancements are nowadays coming from the web
• Framework
• Make it easier to reuse content, interfaces. Split the taskforce.
• Helps spliting the risk in software developments by limiting responsability to specific pieces
of software
• Standards
• Make easier the integratiion with other softwares
• Make it easier to import data
• Even for UI we can benefit from standards (one click/two clicks)

11. Flexibility risk you’ll hear from not flexible editors?
• Too flexible means difficulty to maintain?
• It’s a usual criticism that we get from companies working with older technologies. « see how
fast it goes to change this, it can’t be serious ». The control of the instance has nothing to be
related with flexibility. It is based on processes to manage an IT instance.
• Less business features provided ?
• PLM has still difficulties to spread best practices that are approved by most companies. Lost
of specific business process which need to be covered by PLM are driven by the specificity of
the product.

12. Aras Innovator

13. Presentation in Aras Innovator
• Quick UI overview
• Itemtypes
• DataModel Export
• Quick form change
• Quick Lifecycle change

14. Your turn…
• Aras Innovator can be downloaded at no cost: www.aras.com
• Demo databases are available on the community projects
page: http://www.aras.com/projects/
• For more information about us : www.minerva-plm.com
• email: contact@minerva-plm.com