Events

Aerospace and Defense Think Tank: Digital Thread from Design to Manufacturing

Aug 18, 2020 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CDT
Online
Included with membership

This ses­sion will dis­cuss what is a dig­i­tal thread and how it is being imple­ment­ed with dif­fer­ent indus­tries. It will fol­low an exam­ple thread through the dig­i­tal enterprise. 

The for­mat for Tues­day, Aug. 18 at 9 a.m. CT will include: 

  • Brief wel­come and kick­off from ASUG 

  • Rapid case study led by ASUG mem­ber Car­ol Kirk­patrick from Bell 

  • The dis­cus­sion will focus on: 

  • How a dig­i­tal thread can pro­vide a frame­work to mon­i­tor the man­u­fac­tur­ing process 

  • How the qual­i­ty process can be used inside of the dig­i­tal thread 

  • Shar­ing of recent wins or suc­cess­es, along with resources utilized 

Gain vis­i­bil­i­ty into the chal­lenges and suc­cess­es oth­er SAP cus­tomers are expe­ri­enc­ing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the sur­vey here. 

Think Tank Insights:

  • Michael Ede­len: Industry4.now is an SAP resource for you to bet­ter under­stand the Dig­i­tal Thread process. We can now cre­ate and cap­ture a dig­i­tal thread of these prod­ucts and assets through­out their entire life cycle. Intel­li­gent prod­ucts and assets can now pro­vide real-time insights back into the busi­ness process­es, from design to operate. 

  • Dig­i­tal Thread Use Cases 

  • Dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing prod­ucts with increased flex­i­bil­i­ty and improved quality. 

  • Main­tain seam­less dig­i­tal con­ti­nu­ity or prod­uct-ori­ent­ed infor­ma­tion across the val­ue chain. 

  • Syn­chro­nize real-time prod­uct life­cy­cle infor­ma­tion across pro­ce­dures such as inform­ing check­lists in qual­i­ty assur­ance (QA) process­es or updat­ing assem­bly instruc­tions on the plant floor. 

  • Daniel Doo­ley: What does it look prac­ti­cal­ly look like, is it behind the scenes or some­thing else? 

  • Car­ol Kirk­patrick: If I am look­ing at it design to man­u­fac­tur­ing. It is ful­ly hands off ini­tial­ly, when they are man­u­fac­tur­ing this allows them to pull data from IoT imme­di­ate­ly, and this allows for the pre­dic­tive mod­els to be cre­at­ed. We want the humans to be hands off in the process, but we want our peo­ple to be able to see the reports and let the data to be able to be tak­en and turned into infor­ma­tion that then tran­si­tions into infor­ma­tion or noti­fi­ca­tions for peo­ple to either fix some­thing, add some­thing, etc. This is a total hands-off process. The infor­ma­tion is run­ning in the back­ground, the machine area is not being lit­er­al­ly oper­at­ed by peo­ple, it is not being con­trolled by peo­ple but mon­i­tored to under­stand what the sta­tus is of some­thing. The noti­fi­ca­tions are help­ful in alert­ing on impor­tant infor­ma­tion, sim­i­lar to a pager back in the day. 

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