CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 March 2005
Implementation Investments
Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation Optimizes Flexibility and Reactivity with PLM Solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes
IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced that Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation (ABSC) has chosen their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to bridge to its SAP® ERP system and optimize collaborative processes between engineering and manufacturing. ABSC will describe its current PLM benefits with SMARTEAM , as well as its ERP integration project, at the Annual COE conference in Phoenix this week
Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation will extend SMARTEAM, an IBM PLM solution developed by Dassault Systèmes, and, using it with CATIA V5, will facilitate engineering collaboration and knowledge management in its programs, such as a regional jet project for a Chinese airline. SMARTEAM will help support mission-critical concurrent engineering processes across ABSC's design team, including management of FEA associativity and analysis models, and of the multiple CATIA V5 files generated by these processes. ABSC undertook a year-long study to find the optimal system for integrating its PLM and ERP applications.
Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation, formerly part of Goodyear Corporation, is one of the world's three leaders in the manufacture and supply of aircraft wheels, brakes, and anti-skid systems to aerospace OEMs (including Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Dassault, Gulfstream, and Bombardier), and to military entities and parts distributors. It is a highly engineering-focused company facing demanding aerospace industry regulatory and safety-compliance needs.
"SMARTEAM will be bridged to our SAP system, not just for engineering configuration management, but for optimized collaborative processes between engineering and manufacturing," said Mark Gilbert, Manager, Design/Modeling/Configuration Control, Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation. "We like SMARTEAM's flexibility, customization, and seamless integration to CATIA, which together let us optimally manage our Finite Element Analysis (FEA) data. One item that clinched our decision was SMARTEAM's intelligent approach to handling the actual record, such as revisioning within the same profile card, and high usability that makes interaction easy even for those outside engineering."
"We are pleased that Aircraft Braking Systems Corporation has chosen to expand its SMARTEAM solution to achieve further enterprise integration and collaboration," said Avichay Nissenbaum, executive vice president, Sales and Marketing, SMARTEAM. "Core to our strategy is the full integration of business and product data, and the support of complex, mission-critical processes that streamline OEM-supplier collaboration."
ABSC is organizing a strategy team to define a clear division of labor between SMARTEAM PLM and their ERP system. They will soon be extending SMARTEAM to manufacturing teams that, according to Gilbert, "already have CATIA, and just need the SMARTEAM models to facilitate the making of tool paths," further increasing efficiency, reducing costs and speeding product development.
ABSC, a wholly owned subsidiary of K&F Industries, is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of braking equipment for commercial, general aviation, and military aircraft. The company manufactures a wide range of braking equipment including antiskid, auto-brake, brake-by-wire systems, and brake temperature monitoring systems as well as main and nose wheels, carbon and steel brakes, and ancillary equipment. Its products are installed on over 25,000 aircraft worldwide, more than those of any supplier.
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