Product Life Cycle Support PLCS

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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)

• ISO/TC184/SC4
• Fukuoka, Japan
• October 2001

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Agenda

• What is PLCS?
• Who will benefit?
• What is the development process?
• What has been achieved to date
• Activity Models
• Express Models
• Demonstrators
• Forward Plan for PLCS

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Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS)Background

• A joint industry and government initiative to
  accelerate development of new standards for
  product support information
• An international project to produce draft ISO
  standards within 3 years.
• PLCS will ensure support information is aligned
  to the evolving product definition over the
  entire life cycle
• PLCS utilizes ISO 10303 STEP - the STandard for
  Exchange of Product model data

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Setting the Business ContextBusiness Problem

• How to keep the data needed to operate and
  maintain a product in line with the changing
  product over its in-service life?

Feedback
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Market Segmentation

• Shaded area represents main industry focus
• What is common?
• Complex high value products with long life cycles
  and demanding support requirements

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The PLCS development process
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PLCS helps facilitate business improvement
As-Is/To-Be process
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Current Position

• Business modeling and requirement capture are
  complete
• Data Modelling is progressing well (45)
• Benefit case remains strong
• Publication policy now agreed
• First Model delivered and demonstrated

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PLCS, Inc. will publish two major products

• PLCS Life Cycle Core AP
• Extends PDM Modules to address requirements for
  Life Cycle Management
• Will present a high quality CD by June 02,
  already tested with industrial data
• Technical Spec(s) for Support Data
• Requirements in English single level Express
  Model
• Will use Life Cycle Core AP as normative
  reference
• Will re-use Integrated and Common Resources where
  suitable
• May have a second edition
• Could be developed into a full AP if sufficient
  sponsors wish to fund this
• Plus significant informative material to
  encourage early consistent use reference data,
  data exchange sets, usage scenarios,test reports,
  presentation material etc.

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PLCS Model Development 5 Capability Sets

• PLCS Inc. is developing a comprehensive
  capability for the exchange of product support
  information

• Capability will be delivered in five phases,
  which build to provide a complete product support
  solution

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PLCS Technology Demonstration Capability Set 1
PLCS Core

• Enabling Feature
• Provides a framework(s) (product structure)
  against which product support information can be
  referenced, stored, managed, searched and
  retrieved.
• Data Exchanges Supported
• Assured Product Support Information (APSI) as
  documents and drawings
• Selected properties linked to product element or
  structure
• Product requirements linked to product element or
  structure
• Feedback on the current configuration of the
  Product in Focus (PIF)
• Feedback on failures
• Feedback on product usage linked to product
  instance

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PLCS Technology Demonstration Capability Set 1
PLCS Core

• Aim of Demonstrators
• To provide evidence of progress and commitment to
  use the merging PLCS Data Models
• To demonstrate that the initial PLCS data models
  could accommodate real industrial data
• Participants
• RB 199 Demonstrator
• Rolls Royce engine data provider
• UK MoD In service data provider
• LSC In-Service Asset Management System
• Boeing Helicopter Demo
• Boeing - data providers
• US DoD - data clearance
• PTC (PDM implementer)
• AeroSystems International (Maintenance System
  Implementer)
• Eurostep (tool support)
• Timescale
• Start planning end May
• Model Available July 20
• Demo required Sept 12

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RB 199 Engine Demonstrator

• Switch to video

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Future Development ActivitiesDevelopment
Timescales

• Year 1 - Nov 99 to October 2000
• Develop and document process models and
  associated process definitions, for the top level
  support processes
• Develop scenarios to test process models
• Year 2 - Nov 2000 to October 2001
• Develop data exchange modules
• Develop pilot implementation scenarios
• Technology demonstrations of capability sets
• Year 3 - Nov 2001 to October 2002
• Trial data exchanges using draft ISO standard
• Industry testing
• Progress standard through stages of ISO approval

On time and within budget
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Summary of BenefitsPLCS Value Proposition

• PLCS has the potential to offer a wide range of
  benefits
• Improved product availability
• Improved quality and access to support
  information, throughout the product life cycle
  and across the supply chain
• Reduced cost of acquiring, maintaining and
  delivering Product Support information
• Product change and configuration management
  easier to manage
• System and process Independence, Integration,
  Interoperability through
• Integrated suite of data models
• Utilization of ISO STEP
• Reference data libraries
• Consistent communication across COTS software
• Flexibility in accommodating information
  management technology changes over the life cycle
  of the product
• Protects investment in Life Cycle Product Support
  Data

Customers, Contractors and Software Vendors
working together to develop a neutral standard
for Product Life Cycle Support
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