Globemen Global Engineering and Manufacturing in Enterprise Networks Matti Hannus, VTT

1. GlobemenGlobal Engineering and Manufacturing in Enterprise NetworksMatti Hannus, VTT GlobemenGlobal Engineering and Manufacturing in Enterprise NetworksMatti Hannus, VTT Intelligent Manufacturing Systems IMS 99004 Information Networking in Construction, VERA Information Society Technology IST-1999-60002 GlobemenGlobal Engineering and Manufacturing in Enterprise NetworksMatti Hannus, VTT IMS: • Global industrial research program Au + Ca + Ch + EU + Jp + US IST: • EU 5th framework research program • Key Action II: New ways of Working and Electronic Commerce VERA eBusiness seminar Espoo, Finland, 6.9.2000 OK

2. Globemen in a nutshell • Duration : 2000-2003 • Budget : ~10MUSD ~70MFIM • Effort : 1000 pmEU : 432 pm (43%)FI : 169 pm (17%) • Global partners: 23Active persons: ~65 • EU partners: 8 (DK + GR + FIN + NL + NO) • 5 IMS regions (AU + CH + EU + JP + US) • ICT vendor domains: ERP, CAD, STEP • Industrial domains: construction, process plant, shipbuilding, food processing, aerospace, … EU co-ordinator &global co-ordinator during 2nd half: Jarmo Laitinen, YIT Finnish IMS participation started in early 90’s before EU membership • VTT role in project preparation: • Developing project idea • Forming EU consortium • Preparing project proposal • Collaboration with YIT • Joint effort of: VTT Building Tech VTT Automation OK

3. e-Business e-Commercee-Europe e-Markete-Work e-Xprerience

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5. Target for development:Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise “Research” result: • Generic reference model for VME Referencearchitecturefor VME ICT support for core business processes in global one-of-a-kind manufacturing “Industrial” results: • Requirements • Specifications • Guidelines • Demonstrations • Prototypes Distributedengineering Inter-enterprise planning Sales &services OK

6. Key technologies • Enterprise modeling & engineering • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) • Knowledge management (KM) • Document management (DMS) • Product model management (STEP, IFC) • Object oriented systems (ODBMS) • Distributed systems • Internet-techniques (XML, Java, VRML, WML) OK

7. Globemen consortium  EUROPEAN UNION & NORWAY  Baan (NL)  EPM Technology (NO) DTU (DK)  Fortum Engineering (FI)  Intracom (GR)  Odense Steel Shipbuilding (DK)  VTT (FI)  YIT (FI) SWITZERLAND  Bühler ETH JAPAN  Hosei Univ.  IBM Japan  Japan Society for Promotion of Machine Industry  Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding  OMRON Toyo Engineering   • Hawker de Haviland • Project coordinator during 1st half • YIT • EU coordinator • Project coordinator during 2nd half USA  Newport News Shipbuilding  Intergraph AUSTRALIA  CSIRO  CRC-IMST  Farley Cutting Machines  Griffith Univ.  Hawker de Haviland OK

8. WP1 Sales & services Product/plant idea, performance, cost, time etc. • Distanttraining • Operationsupport • Remotecontrol • Decision support &Knowledge management • Simulation • Client & supplierinvolvement • Market & capabilityinformation Feedback • VTT role: • Global WP leader • Help Fortum with requirement spex • Publish papers Inception Engineering Production Operation I n f o r m a t i o n f o r l if e c y c l e s u p p o r t OK

9. WP2 Inter-enterpriseprocess management A D E Interface Interface B F Intra-company supportsystems: ERP, MRP, ... Focus of GLOBEMEN:inter-enterprise coordination Enterprise C Enterprise C Enterprise C Other enterprises VE interface • VTT role: • No planned resources • Help some partners OK

10. WP3 Distributed engineeringSystem architecture for Virtual Enterprise Package of data with metadata Company X InternalEDM/PDM ifc doc VE interface XML Internet Distributed Engineering Environment Access control Transaction logging Productdata Documentdata Processdata OK

11. WP3 Distributed engineeringA problem Productmodel System A System B Standards (STEP, IFC) support one-time transfer of complete product model from one system to another. Sharing live product model between several collaborators is not supported by standards. (Must be solved using non-standard ways). Solutions to be demonstrated in Globemen: (1) Enhancements to standards (2) Use of XML technology OK

12. WP3 Distributed engineeringTrends Company X InternalEDM/PDM Current situation: Companies do not yet have internal EDM/PDM systems Future situation: Companies will have internal EDM/PDM systems Company X VE interface Internet Business opportunities: 1) Project servers & services 2) Internal systems to companies Projectserver Industry requirement: standard interface between internal and external systems OK

13. WP3 Distributed engineeringMain functions Files + metadata Query Objects (XML) Uploadingfiles Mergingproductmodels + = Extracting(partial)models

14. WP3 Distributed engineeringImplementation (VTT) Document mgt module: BentleyProjectWise Product model mgt module: EXPRESSData Manager Projectinformation navigation &visualisation Use objectsin legacyapplications Uploading documents& objects In-house working environment of a company Internet VEserver Project document& objectrepository Groupware tools Javaservlets ASPs

15. WP3Distributed engineeringXML Demonstration example: Visual Basic program retrieves all columns in a floor of a building from IFC object database on the web and generates a list into Excel. Ilkka Heinonen, VTT

16. WP4 Integration Sales & servicessupport system Inter-enterprise mgt system DistributedEngineeringsupport system Generic ICT requirements for Virtual Enterprisesupport (=research result) VME support system Dissemination Top-down: Require-ments Bottom-up: Genera-lisation VTT role: • Global & EU WP leader • Methodology for the whole project • Guidance to all partners • State of the art • Publishing papers • Collaborate with: GU, DTU, Hosei • Generalisation of results Specification Implementation Partner specific prototype systems (=industrial results) OK

17. WP5 Dissemination RESTRICTED • Internal web site • Web based document management system • Internal Newsletter • Exploitation planning EUONLY • Web site for reviewers • Industry reference group • Industry workshops • Cluster activities? PUBLIC • Web site • Newsletter • Presentations • Brochure • Conference presentations • Articles • Open days VTT role: • Web site management • Conference presentations: (2000: ECPPM, eWORK, DIISM, OR42) • Articles OK

18. WP6 AssessmentAssuring achievement and exploitation of results Implementation actions Dissemination actions End userspartners SW vendorpartners Researchpartners Externalorganisations R&D work in the project Results 1 Technological quality and usability of results by industry 5 Compliance to DoW,deliverables, effectiveness, ICT infrastructure 4 Impl.plans & actions 4 New SW features 1 New R&D & curricula 2,3,4 -Dissem. plans & actions, awareness, standardisation, ... VTT role: • EU WP leader • Guidance to all partners • Project performance monitoring Notations: Flow of results towards goals Performance indicators (EC evaluation criteria 1-5) 2,3,4 New use of inter-enterprise ICT 4 Marketdemand & technologytransfer 2,3,4 - New SW products Targeted benefits & impacts (to be realised after the project) 1-5 Estimatedimpacts OK

19. WP7 Project management International IMS Steering Committee(Inter-regional secretariat, IRC) Steering Committee (SC) Regional IMSsecretariats Au=2, EU=2, Jp=2, Ch=1, US=1 Inter-regional co-ordinator Secretary Deputy IRC Communications support person WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 Sales & Service in Dynamic Networks Inter-enterprise Resource Mgt DistributedEngineering Integration Dissemination Assessment and evaluation VTT role: • Support to YIT (EU Coordinator,Deputy & future global coordinator) • EU Technical coordinator • Member of SC • Secretary of SC &Communications support person • WP1 leader • WP4 leader OK

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