Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools
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The document presents alternative tools for visualizing complex product structures and dependencies within ERP/PLM contexts at GEA Farm Technologies. It discusses the necessity of effective communication between various roles during product design and management, and highlights the use of GraphML and Cytoscape for enhanced visualization and network analysis of product structures. Additionally, customized transfer modes and stylesheets enable the integration and analysis of data across different frameworks.
Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools
- 1. GEA Farm Technologies Visualize complex dependencies in ERP/PLM context Matthias Ahrens - Technical Solutions Manager 100164 BU Dairy & Farm Equipment – BU Support 2015-05-26 Product Structure Analysis – Alternative Tools
- 2. GEA Farm Technologies2 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • Present alternative tools and a pathway, which can be used for the visualization of complex product structures and dependencies in reference to variant analysis and management tasks. Intention Variant A Variant B Variant C Variant D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
- 3. GEA Farm Technologies3 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • For product structures design / redesign tasks of entire product families, the dependencies between the different modules, configuration criteria, commercial figures, etc. have to be discussed and communicated between the involved roles like engineers, product managers, system architects, etc. • In addition to spreadsheet reports a network illustration of various module / product assembly scenarios (e.g. GOZINTO Graph) can help on visualizing the complexity of impacts and dependencies. Requirement Source: http://www.wu.ac.at/erp/webtrainer/erm-webtrainer/theory/
- 4. GEA Farm Technologies4 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • The available PLM / SAP tools offer various tools to support the analysis of complex relationships. (e.g. Teamcenter: Relation Browser & Impact Analysis / SAP: Product Structure Browser) • If data from both frameworks and/or additional sources have to be visualized in combination, those tools cannot be used. Situation Source: http://plmconnections.com/print_article.php?cpfeatureid=66060Source: http://www.cideon-software.com/
- 5. GEA Farm Technologies5 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • Export required data to offline tools, which are developed to analyze and visualize large networks and dependencies Proposal SAP Teamcenter ERP State Real product PLM State Virtual product Network / Ontology Visualization Tool e.g. CS_BOM_EXPL_MAT_V2() Function Module Product structure and data export e.g. PLMXML / XSLT e.g. Cytoscape Protégé Gephi
- 6. GEA Farm Technologies6 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • A customized Transfermode with customized closure rules and properties sets was configured in Teamcenter 8.3 • A customized XSLT stylesheet was developed and attached to the Transfermode to convert the Teamcenter PLMXML format into a GraphML format, which can be imported into Cytoscape (http://www.cytoscape.org) e.g. Teamcenter to Cytoscape via PLMXML / XSLT
- 7. GEA Farm Technologies7 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • The GraphML format can be used to define <node> elements and connection elements <edge> between this nodes. • <data> elements can be added to nodes and edges to transmit additional properties and information. • With these elements hierarchical BOM structures can be represented. GraphML as vehicle Source: http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/
- 8. GEA Farm Technologies8 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • The GraphML format allows to map any kind of data to nodes / edges • Cytoscape can import multiple structure in one session and can merge them into a single network graph. Cytoscape
- 9. GEA Farm Technologies9 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • The Vizmapper application (Style tab) inside Cytoscape provides a fast way to modify the appearance of product structure nodes / edges by various attributes (e.g. Status, Ownership, etc.), Cytoscape
- 10. GEA Farm Technologies10 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • Multiple structural dependencies for modules and components can be visualized in an overlay based on the exported BOM structure data. Cytoscape
- 11. GEA Farm Technologies11 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • Various network analysis, selection and filter methods are provided to rate, cluster, analyze structural dependencies. Cytoscape
- 12. GEA Farm Technologies12 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • The edit and data import function provides the capability to enhance the visual illustration for other numerical data (e.g. Cost from ERP Database). Cytoscape
- 13. GEA Farm Technologies13 2015-05-26 / Product Structure Analysis - Alternative Tools / M. Ahrens • With the Tool Panel you can arrange selected nodes to align, distribute and stack them to create an accurate visual representation of complex dependencies. Cytoscape
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