From data to information: Sikorsky, Joy Mining Machinery find tool that expands use of CAD models
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 12/20/2007 8:47:00 AM
Sikorsky Aircraft and Joy Mining Machinery are among the companies incorporating CAD data directly into business processes through the use of the Right Hemisphere Deep Server package.
Right Hemisphere Deep Server is a software application that takes information from CAD systems—including 3D models—and converts it into useful information for users of ERP and other business applications.
Both Sikorsky and Joy Mining are using Right Hemisphere 5 Deep Server, the latest version of the package, which contains a media asset management component that can merge and manage product information from disparate enterprise systems, including product data management (PDM}, ERP, and CRM to fully support a Model Based Definition (MBD) engineering communications strategy.
“Deep Server promises to accelerate our content creation process by automatically reusing existing CAD data,” says Dan Armour, manager of technical services at Joy Mining Machinery. “By making it faster and easier to increase the amount of 3D and interactive content in our maintenance training classes, we can also reasonably expect these documents to be much more effective at transferring knowledge to our service personnel and to our customers.
“We’re also very interested in Deep Server’s ability to publish product graphics and other data, such as product manufacturing information, into a secure 3D Adobe PDF file. Being a global company with offices and customers around the world, this is a particularly attractive option for communicating with our customers and suppliers without potentially compromising intellectual property by sharing actual CAD data.”
Right Hemisphere Deep Server 5 software is helping Sikorsky Aircraft increase its design velocity. According to Dave Cocuzzo, manager of the Engineering Process Transformation Group at Sikorsky, “We’re expecting the software to generate lightweight models and 2-D ‘drawing views’ on demand that can be scrutinized and interacted with down to the part level by our cross-functional teams. Ultimately, we’re looking to further enable the Model Based Definition (MBD) Process by facilitating the enterprise-wide consumption of digital engineering datasets.”
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