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78th SAWE International Conference: Product Overview

Rocco Cappiello • VP Business Development Engineering Analytics • May 22nd 2019

ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICS

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ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICS

Reliability

Complexity

Communication

Weight Analytics

empowers the

Engineers and

Executives to make

better decisions faster

by managing the entire

Weight and Balance

process in one openly

architected and highly

configurable tool to

visualize, analyze and

predict Weight &Balance

at any point in time

during the entire Product

Life Cycle, and

streamline time

consuming repetitive

tasks associated with

data consolidation


WHY: TYPICAL BUSINESS CHALLENGES

1. Complexity – Huge amount of data

o Trouble to check and monitor product development status

o Lack of prediction capability and poor risk management

o Struggle to perform what-if analysis

2. Reliability – Consistent data at any given time

o Inconsistency of information across distributed repositories

o Difficulty of enforcing secure circulation of data and information

(no roles and rights management)

o Lack of standardization and reliability of reporting

3. Timely Communication

o Slow data consolidation

o Slow calculations and reporting

o Loose control over/communication with suppliers


WHAT: ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICS SOLUTION

Altair Weight Analytics is a web-based enterprise application,designed to capture Weight & Balance data from varioussources (CAD, CAE, PLM, PDM), and to cluster them in afunctional and/or physical Bill of Material, in order to permit:

• Weight and Center of Gravity Time-Tracking and

Monitoring

• Bill of Materials Comparison, BoM Roll-ups, What-If

Analysis

• Risks and Opportunities Forecast

• Flexible Reporting and Dashoboarding

• Data Traceability from Concept to Production


ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICSOVERVIEW


HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW

Monitor and analyze KPI based on Mass, Center of Gravity and

Inertia through single Web-based interface retrieving information

from various company systems.

• Supports Weight and Balance Engineering all over the Phases of

product life cycle (PLC)

• Accommodates the forecast of weight bandwidths for parts and

sub-assemblies, Risk and Opportunities, and analyze what-if

scenarios throughout the entire product life cycle

• Provides access to powerful Business Analytics features through

Altair BI tool integration

• Automates the data integration and management of multiple data

sources, with secure access management

• Reduce the time to

consolidate data sources by

up to 80%

• Improve process to make

informed decisions by up to

50%


PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Web-based Application for Creating/Navigating Product Structures

Access to KPIs like W, CoG, MoI during the whole PLC

Navigation of the product structures along multiple dimensions (Time, Functional Views, Maturity, etc.)

BI embedded (Envision)

Upstream Integration (PLM/PDM)

Up to 25 concurrent users

BoM size up to 500K parts

Open Architecture (limited set of APIs)


KPI History (Weight, CoG, MoI) 1

Multidimensional Bill of Materials Views 2

BoMs Comparison3

Risks and Opportunities Forecasts4

Mass Distribution 5

Real time reporting and Dashboard (BI)7

User’s rights and role management8

Data Security and Segregation 9

Concept Management6

Upstream Integration (CAD/CAE/PLM/ERP)10

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TOP FUNCTIONALITIES


TYPICAL WA USAGE SCENARIOS

Concept Assessment Development In ServiceManufacture

1. Develop your Product in

the Concept Phase

2. Tracking mass

properties and Bill of

Material along the PLC

3. Charts and Dashboarding


ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICS BENEFITS

❖ Faster and more accurate decision-making

❖ Consistency of information

❖ Reducing time for data consolidation


1. FASTER AND MORE ACCURATE DECISION-MAKING

• Access to KPIs such as Weight, Center of Gravity, Moments of Inertia at any point in time

during Product Life Cycle

• Risks & Opportunities Management throughout the entire PLC in order to meet weight targets

• Build up various product configurations and explore alternatives – what-if analysis

• Access to Standard Reports and Dashboarding (Business Intelligence)

• Bill of Material Comparison

Improve process to make faster decisions by up to 50%

Value from Airbus Helicopters

➢ Perform what-if and R&O analysis starting from baseline

configuration (CSV)

➢ Build up quickly favorite configurations (VIP, oil&gas, etc.) and

derive from them customer configurations

➢ Evaluation and availability of MoI and Mission Simulation in

advance at MG2 for each configuration. In the past only after MG5/6

(4weeeks → 1 day)

➢ Simulate fuel consumption law impact on balance during the

mission early in the development

1. Faster and more accurate decision-making

Kai Thraene – Head of Weight & Balance

"At every point during development, we can provide moment of

inertia calculation as input for load computation. This previously

took us 4 weeks preparation using Excel, now it takes us just 1 day."


2. CONSISTENCY OF INFORMATION

• High Data Consistency and Transparency across your enterprise

• Standardization and Automation of workflows and reports across different process owners

• Roles and Rights management

• Data Security and Segregation (security at parts level)


3. REDUCING TIME FOR DATA CONSOLIDATION

• Integrated with your legacy systems:

o Indirect Connection

o Direct Connection

• Streamline time consuming repetitive tasks associated

with data consolidation and DB alignment

Reduce Time for Data Consolidation by up to 80%


ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICS: DEMO


ALTAIR WEIGHT ANALYTICS INTEGRATION


WA ALTAIR SOLUTION

Users and Security

Programs Management

FunctionalViews

BoMManagement

Common Modules

Weight &

Balance

Products and

Parts

Catalogue

Process’ Modules

Reporting &

Analytics

COMPANY

LEGACY

WA

DATABASE


INTEGRATION MATTERS: FLEXIBILITY

CAD

/CAE

PLM

ERP

Open, adaptable to your environment…

• The Product Weight Analytics,

the related reporting and

analytics functionalities, through

the adoption of an engineering

analytics tool, need to be

connected to the main legacies.

• Altair Engineering has a deep

experience on developing a lot of

connectors to the main legacy

systems, in order to share (back

and forward) data and

information.

• This expertise to connect legacy

data is a key differentiation factor

to give value to the Weight

Analytics solution.

DATA

SOURCE

CAD

CAE

PLM

ERP

Excel

Other

Databases

Weight Analytics


CAD INTERFACES

• 3D CAD geometry files contain data about centerof gravity position for any part of an assembly.

• Export functionality is available in the main CADsystems to extract those data in .txt or .xml format.Center of gravity positons can be referred to bothlocal assembly axes or global product axes.

• Weight Analytics is able to import these massproperties data end then manage rollup calculationfor the overall center of gravity.

• Main CAD systems are managed in this way,including CATIA V5, CREO, NX, SMART 3D.

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CAD/CAE

PLM

ERP

Databases

XLS/Others

DATA

SOURCE

CAD

CAE

PLM

ERP

Excel

Other

Databases


CAD INTERFACES

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CAD/CAE

PLM

ERP

Databases

XLS/Others

• Mass Properties:

• Product Structure

• Quantity

• Center of Gravity

• Transformation Matrix

• Material

• Density

• Volume

• Mass

• Moment of Inertia

• Self Moment of Inertia

• Self Product of Inertia

• Principal Moment of Inertia

DATA

SOURCE

CAD

CAE

PLM

ERP

Excel

Other

Databases


CAE INTERFACES

• HyperMesh

• Import geometry and massproperties from CAEmodels

• communication of massproperties data in order todefine load conditions forCAE calculations

• lumped mass pointsmanagement.

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CAD/CAE

PLM

ERP

Databases

XLS/Others

DATA

SOURCE

CAD

CAE

PLM

ERP

Excel

Other

Databases


PLM INTERFACES

• We actually integrate WA with the major PLMs.This includes Enovia, Windchill, and Teamcenter.We handle the connection to the PLM in differentways, depending on the customer and theirdesires, by taking different approaches:

• an “indirect" connection using flat and/orstructured files (.txt, .csv, .xml)

• a "direct" connection to Windchill/Teamcenterusing the Collaboration Tools (HWCT)connect platform. This connection allowsusers to share mass properties data with thePLM database.

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CAD/CAE

PLM

ERP

Databases

XLS/Others

DATA

SOURCE

CAD

CAE

PLM

ERP

Excel

Other

Databases

PLM


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