Strategic Automotive product data Standards Industry Group

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StrategicAutomotive product dataStandards
Industry Group
SASIG Working Group XMTD (eXchange and
Management of Technical Data)
Nils Johansson Volvo Cars IT Product
Development May 2004
JAMA
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ENGineeringDATa Message
ENGDAT version 3
A globally defined Message for Exchange of
Technical Data Packages
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SASIG XMTD

• Mission
• History
• Organization
• Technical Data
• Current status
• ENGDAT - Message

• ENGDAT Process
• PDM data exchange
• Project-Plan
• Status of Work
• Benefits
• Target

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Mission

• International Standard for
• Global Exchange
• of
• Technical Data Packages
• between
• OEMs and Suppliers
• as well as
• between Tier 1 to Tier n Suppliers

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History

• First Workshop Detroit, September, 2000
• Second Workshop Paris, February,
  2001 Committee named itself
• Nine Workshops held worldwide
• Early agreement reached on common definition of
  Technical Data Exchange Process

eXchange and Management of Technical Data XMTD -
Workgroup
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Organization

• Permanent Members of the XMTD work group
• AIAG Mike Strub (Co-Chair)
• Carol Tierney
• Anna Wasmer (PDTec)
• Akram Yunas (Secretary)
• GALIA Frédéric Chambolle (Co-Chair)
• Philippe du Rivault
• JAMA Hiroyuki Inagaki
• Toru Kato (Co-Chair)
• Odette Sweden Nils Johansson (Co-Chair)
• Peter Nilsson
• Sten Lindgren
• VDA Andreas Exner

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Technical Data
Data created during an engineering development
process

• CAD / CAM / CAE files
• PDM / TDM information
• BOMs, Requirements, Reports, Spreadsheets, Lists,
  etc.
• Many formats

Information stored in TDM/PDM Systems Informatio
n stored in all associated files
General remark At the technical data package
level, file encoding and format is
irrelevant.
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Current Status of Data Exchange

• Many different methods for exchange
• Mail-Boxes
• OFTP Systems
• E-Mail
• Offline / Physical Media / Printouts
• OEMproprietary solutions
• Complex workflow
• Increasing cost, time to market pressures

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Why Global Standard?
Local Standard
Global Standard
OEM A-O
Tier1 a-o
Tiern a-o
Tier3 a-o
Tier2 a-o
Global Automotive supplier chain using any type
of XMTD mechanism
Global Automotive supplier chain using ENGDAT V3
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The ENGDAT Message

• Contains all information necessary to transmit
• packages of files
• from a sender to a final destination on the
  receiver's side (Person, System, Process)
• Serves as a "Delivery Note"
• Contains basic Information about
• each file in the package - and the overall
  package itself
• the sender
• the receiver
• Provides the information in an automatically
  processable format
• starting with XML

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Data exchange process steps

Notification



Delivery / Routing
Transfer Order
ENGDAT Abstract
Protocol Quality
CAD File
STEP AP214
CAD File
ENGDAT Package
ENGPART
Process steps
Notification of final Receiver
Receiving
Quality Check
Conversion
Import in PDM System
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The ENGDAT Process

• Main Steps
• Request for Data by Company A
• Preparation and Transmission of Data (Company B)
• Collect Data
• Convert Data if necessary
• Build the ENGDAT-Package
• Send the Package
• Receipt and Acknowledgement by Company A

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The ENGDAT Process
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Exchange of PDM Information
Current Status

• Automatic export and import of PDM-information is
  currently not applied or only in few cases
• PDM-information is maintained manually at least
  on the receiver's side (if PDM-information is
  exchanged at all)
• Manual recreation is error prone and very time
  and cost intensive (in case of complex
  assembly-structures)

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Exchange of PDM Information
Open for company specific extensions/guidelines
Support of-PDM/CAx-EDI Tool-Smart PDM Tool
Setup for AssemblyData Exchange
Data sets/Data directoriesSubsets of
STEPAP214 CC6 (ARM)
Clear reference to StandardsAP214 CC6, ENGDAT
(XMTD)
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Exchange PDM-Information
Business benefits
Assembly structure to be built manually
Currently
1 week40 h
Bag of models
...
Model 1
Model 2
up to 90savings!
Using STEP ENGDAT
½ day4 h
Assembly structure imported automatically
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Exchange of PDM Information

• Benefits
• Automatic import of PDM Information
• saves time
• avoids errors in manual activities (recreation
  of the assembly structure)
• Savings increase with complexity of exchanged
  assemblies
• Prerequisites
• Use of STEP AP 214 CC6
• Clear defined mapping between the TDM/PDM systems
  involved

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XMTD Project Plan
Published first version Feb 2004
1. Recommendation XMTD process flow
(guidelines)
Global Guidelines Document
2. Defining ENGDAT V3 - Technical content
- Documentation
Editing
Pilot input Final Reviews
ENGDAT V3 Document
3. Defining XML structure ENGDAT V3
XML ENGDAT V3
4. Pilot ENGDAT V3 - Validating
specifications - Developing use cases -
Documentation
Pilot / Documentation
ENGDAT V3 - STEP
5. Use of STEP in ENGDAT V3
6. Deployment - In national organizations -
Conferences - Standard presentation (added
value, ..) - Educate software vendors
Education Marketing Deployment
Check point 1.Jan. 2003
Check point 1.Juli 2002
Check point 1.Jul. 2003
Check point 19. Dec. 2003
Milestone 4 Mar 04
04/2002 10/2002
04/2003 10/2003 12/2003 03/2004
Project is complete through Milestone 4 !
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Status of current Work

• Global Guideline Document (for internal use)
  complete
• XML Schema complete, available
• Official ENGDAT V3 Document published Feb 04
• Communication Pilots
• Scenarios defined
• Sponsors VDA, JAMA and Odette Sweden
• Completion by September
• Results will be presented at Gothenburg (Sep 04)
  meeting

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Highlights / Benefits

• One Standard for Exchange of Technical Data
• Internationally valid Interface
• Reliable and secure method for exchange
• All associated information in one package
• Unified, well defined process flow
• Usable by all participating companies
• Independence of internal process structures
• Data are held only inside the participating
  companies
• Exchange from person or process to
  person or process
• Exchange of PDM-Information is defined as well

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Savings

• Deployment of this Standard worldwide facilitates
  global co-operation and collaboration
• The International Standard supports a global,
  uniform understanding of the data exchange
  process
• Both OEMs and Suppliers save time and money
  exchanging data via standard methods.

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Targets

• Project Plan ENGDAT V3
• Conferences May 2004
• Educate software vendors Sep 2004
• Global Roll-out Apr 2005

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ENGDAT V3 empowers automatization for losely
coupled partners over https Secure Internet
ISDN ENGDAT
Estimated Transfer Capacity
https Secure Internet
Physical Media