Webinar: 'Toward Development Without Rework' – Quickly Grasping the Impact of Complex Design Changes

■ Increasingly Complex Design and Development, and the Expanding Scope of Change Impact
In recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen products become more sophisticated and multi-functional, development cycles shorten, and global division of labor advance, driven by diversifying market needs and higher customer demands. This has made design and development sites increasingly complex.

As a result, a single specification or design change is increasingly affecting not only parts configurations and drawings but also procurement, manufacturing, quality, and maintenance services.

To balance development speed, quality, and profitability, it is essential to correctly link design information, BOMs, and change histories, enabling rapid understanding of the scope of a change's impact and the rationale behind past decisions.

■ The Challenge of Disconnected Design Information, BOMs, and Change Histories Preventing the Use of Past Knowledge
However, in many workplaces, drawings, specifications, BOMs, change histories, and knowledge from past troubles are scattered across departments and individuals, and are not being fully utilized.

For example:
- Drawings, specifications, and parts information are managed individually or by department, making it time-consuming to find necessary information.
- BOMs are managed redundantly across CAD, Excel, and production management systems, requiring effort to ensure consistency.
- When a specification or design change occurs, the affected parts, drawings, and downstream processes cannot be quickly identified.
- Knowledge from past similar changes or defect responses is not accumulated or shared, leading to repeated checks.

In such situations, verification work and inter-departmental coordination take time, and decision-making tends to rely on experienced personnel. As a result, rework and quality risks increase, and a mindset of 'change = risk' becomes ingrained on the shop floor.

■ Improving Design and Development Processes by Centering on PLM, Expanding to Change Management and Knowledge Utilization
This seminar will address common issues in the manufacturing design and development domain, such as the dispersion of design information, redundant BOM management, difficulty in assessing the impact of specification/design changes, and insufficient sharing of past knowledge.

As a solution approach, the seminar will feature the PLM system 'Obbligato', widely used in manufacturing design and development, and the practical ECM solution 'ECOAS', rooted in on-site challenges. It will explain, through case studies, how to enhance product planning management, design change management, and knowledge utilization by linking drawings, specifications, BOMs, and change histories with PLM at the core.

The seminar aims to provide hints for moving toward design and development that does not assume rework, through information sharing, BOM management, change traceability, visualization of impact scope, and the conversion of past knowledge into organizational assets.

■ Recommended for:
- Those who spend time searching for necessary information due to dispersed design information and BOMs.
- Those who spend significant man-hours investigating the impact of design or specification changes.
- Those who want to move away from redundant BOM management or Excel-based management and centralize design information.
- Those who want to share knowledge from past troubles and similar changes and utilize it organizationally.
- Those who have already introduced or are considering introducing a PLM system and want to enhance its utilization.

■ Organizer
Alps System Integration Co., Ltd.
■ Cooperation
Majisemi Co., Ltd.

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