Journey towards a
Model-Based Enterprise
RE-defining the Industry’s vision &
progress towards true digital
transformation
BY:
19030241060- ASISH KUMAR BEHERA
19030241072- PRIYANKA MUMBARKAR
19030241077- NARENDER REDDY
19030241079- ANTARJYAMI PANDA
19030241091- ASHWINI SHRIRAME
DIGITAL THREAD – WEAVING A
CONNECTED SPHERE: EMBRACING
MODEL BASED ENTERPRISE
Abstract
Related goods and services now offer a way to disrupt the business strategies and
functions for manufacturing operations. This disruption is facilitated through a digital
thread along with technologies such as big data and the internet of things. These
techniques enable producers leverage the amount of data that is produced, consumed and
referenced in their organisations during the product life cycle.
Despite the advantages of the digital thread, full-scale implementation needs very early
investment. While companies can choose to incorporate instead of the digital thread, this
method only links historically siloed business processes and does not always produce the
desired rewards.
The creation of an effective digital thread and the realisation of expected benefits is
problematic because of complex product environments, inflexibility of technology
piloting, standardized processes and organisational complexities. It is therefore important
for manufacturers to recognize what their organisations mean by the digital thread.
The vision for a Model Based Enterprise & why is it critical now
The market is rapidly evolving, and the • Streamline production partners'
pioneers are making the most progress. architecture, supply chain processes and
There are four main Cs of radical change: data
connectivity, cooperation, compression and • Reap the benefits both in implementation
complexity. In the sense of the increased and in the product itself of emerging
numerical thread, extensive set-up technologies
management, enhanced use of applied • Design for the full life cycle of the product
analytics and AI, and the rapid appearance through retirement, including
of an industrial Internet of Things, for transformation to a new type of
instance, we are discovering different levels availability and revenue the
and requests for connectivity. In order for aftermarket/sustainable process
more players to interact and collaborate • Stay competitive, not fall back – even lead
than before, the need to have real time, • Target an advanced workforce, where
multidisciplinary and daily collaboration has new, younger workers lacking social
become more essential. Much of A&D face media or smartphones do not know a
extreme multi-axis contraction with whole new world, expect a digital
tightening budgeting, forcing all to do more workplace and process.
with less time, less money and few bugs.
Finally, the increasing complexity of the These challenges and opportunities
product tends to challenge the entire value stimulate a new outlook, namely that of the
chain, including the emergence of cross model business.
products, the requirement for prolonged
product life and highly complicated
regulatory environments.
This provides an opportunity for an evolving,
technologically competent workforce to
have the resources and information they
need to develop smarter designs, goods or
models of service that best satisfy consumer
demand, and quicker, with the most
innovative features, higher quality, lower
cost and greater benefit. This also has an
imperative: turn or be in trouble as
consumers switch to rivals, suffer market
share, and refuse involvement by incoming
staff. Today, Companies must:
• Manufacture more, higher quality and
lower-cost goods
• More easily meet consumer requirements
and rising demands that are not an
option but a necessity.
• Adjust the method to engineering to
create more complex ideas, but make
them consumable through production
systems
The Rise of the MBE (Model Based Enterprise)
The MBE is a computer-based company with The MBE extends the whole value chain to
the following applications: computer these activities.
modelling and simulation, algorithm and
optimisation capability in all areas of the View the model-based organisation as
value chain: e.g. final capacity planning, perhaps the most obvious focus of wider
demand and delivery optimisation for market developments: digital transformation
service parts, diagnostics, prescribing, across the entire company. This will cover
forecasting, autonomy, etc. They are used to data usage and product integration,
design, engineer, produce and service including costs, commodity markets,
resources and goods in a fashion that links production, finances, inventory, production
and interoperables models and information scheduling, management, employees and
in the entire organisation. A dream that the weather. It's about using data in the
eliminates waste, increases lean production, entire organisation to know the real facts, to
hits Six Sigma and enhances customer get it correct, to analyse and evaluate it and
loyalty is a smooth end-to-end process. Its use the information to take optimal
goal is to build more tight design cycles, to decisions and behave with great consistency,
reducing time to the market, and to precision and accuracy, sometimes in the
encourage more beneficial productive deliberate 'sense and response' decision-
relationships. making cycle.
The MBE's core concept originated with
model based designs and the practise that
all of their relevant information elements
e.g. Digital and Digital Thread environment)
were used with all their related data
elements (e.g.. The state-of-the-art
computerised 3D models manage the range
of materials / Environmental/Physical
models, etc.).
A View of the MBE (Model Based Enterprise)
The following illustrates an elevated level
view of the MBE and its associated practises.
The understanding of the scale of MBEs and
the context of digital transformation can be
difficult, as they cover a wide array of
functions with various mixtures of
competences and capabilities. We categorise
design (or engineering), manufacture and
sustainability for simplification
Digital but the Digital
whole process goes pretty deep.
Thread Thread
Model Based Model Based Model Based
Designing Manufacturing Sustainment
Unlocking Business Value with Digital Thread
Digital threads can be used For any company to achieve • Set up the transition case
on another level and model digital twin, efficient digital • Sprint for schedule.
while maintaining the main thread deployment using
components preserved. the model-based approach Business value through a
However the digital thread is is crucial. Digital twins digital thread often depends
not necessary in the early closely emulate the conduct on the maturity of an
phases, as it entails a huge of the actual product and enterprise. This can be
early capital expenditure, for give businesses the measured in conjunction
the whole value chain. With probability to adapt new with imagined business case
a value chain approach products and services and roadmap by describing
manufacturers can effectively. the existing and objective
formulate the competitive The GO-TO Mantra: status of digital thread in
policy to optimally disrupt • Knowledge of patterns terms of scale and model.
and to maximise their value and jobs Key elements and essential
creation with digital thread. • Meet a competitive elements for the effective
progress benchmark transformation of an
For example companies may • Strategy formulation organisation including
use digital Threads to bring • Build a strategy and a people, method, advanced
about corporate change and goal analytics are also crucial.
to maintain products
throughout their enterprises A digitally advanced
by using PLM as an company has the potential
integrated platform for to create an ecosystem with
application cycle its partners that generates
management (ALM), product exponential value for its end
data management (PDM) consumers while producing
and corporate resource high commercial value for
planning. To illustrate, airline itself.
companies can use PLM as
an innovation platform to
implement a digital thread
that can bidirectional
platform to fabricating
operations management
with all key designing and
engineering applications.
This platform enables
continuity of part
information from technology
to seamless production for
all potential situations,
including product structure
synchronisation,
concomitant manufacturing
process design,
manufacturing processes
linked with visual mock ups
and more. Industrial
production companies
integrate their PLMs with IoT
Industry Vision & Design
for data management andin progress
the as-installed bases con
resource.
In the A&D sector, businesses are progressing towards the
transformation of model-based engineering processes and
The digital thread also
thereby providing
strengthens innovative efficiencies, improving coordination
organisations
and enhancing
especially duringtheir
andtechnical
after teams.
disruptions like COVID-19.
COMPANY REPORTS
Weaving a Digital Thread
from Engineering to Skywise offers detailed data Airbus shall provide any
Manufacturing: Raytheon is collection from the open airline that submits its own
also developing a digital line data platform of Airbus for free access to anonymised
for manufacturing forecasting repair work and operational data. Involved
innovation. The organisation improving maintenance airlines thus benefit from a
has invested extensively in preparation and task valuable optimization tool,
various disciplines to efficiency, to reduce aircraft while Airbus is given the
support its model-based downtime. It incorporates knowledge it requires to
business skills. It promotes engineering data, improve its paid service
development through transactional processes and product. Maintenance data
traditional product data supplier information for can be archived, preserved
processing, mechanical CAD, advanced analytical and returned to the
reinvention of processes and applications into a setting. premises of the
production systems. manufacturer. The platform
MBSE offers a more exact The Skywise platform, for has historic information and
and reliable digital Thread example, handles a large the organisation aims to
Production through number of details from review the data so that
Raytheon's device design aircraft operated by Airbus. aircraft models can be
process and delivers The platform integrates changed and production
operable information over airline, supplier and OEM defects can be resolved.
the product life cycle data and performs
through up- and comprehensive data analysis
downstream effect analytics. to create applications to
And its digital hardware predict and optimise
thread is the basis for maintenance and to improve
model-based development fleet efficiency and
and digital twin operations.
construction.
Rebooting the MRO Sector
& creating a digital thread
from in-service aircraft to
aircraft- design: Airbus has
seen an opportunities to
support MRO providers use
the digital technologies to
fulfil demands for quick
maintenance and enhanced
operating efficiency for
airline customers with rising
fleets of aircraft in
Singapore, a big MRO
(maintenance, repair and
revision) market. In 2016,
Airbus unveiled its "Hangar
of the Future" to explore in-
service aviation digitalisation
and servicing automation.
Innovative technology such
as robots, drones, scanners,
cameras as well as non-
destructive sensors is
included in this largest MRO
hanger. The automatic
inspection and collection of
data when planes reach the
hanger is allowed. The
ORGANIZATION WIDE ADOPTION OF DIGITAL THREAD -
ROADMAP
Beginners Laggards Late Adopters Early Leaders
Adopters
• Information capability • Continuity of data and • Significant capacity for • Broad capabilities of
not leveraged across flexibility deployed information deployed information implemented
functions Coherence of data for •Numerous functions • Substantially controlled • Controlled digital threads
• Functions managed in one or two information linked by a digital thread digital thread through in the value chain
silos capabilities handled features
Value Chain
• Integration of data
managed between at
least two functions
• A loosely related • Stretched to other • Model-based • System Engineering • Full device engineering
system-to-component tasks, model-based innovation Model-based model-based-RFLP
level practice • Engineering a device • Description of the modeling
• Hardware, • Definition of • The model-based RFL device level (hardware, • Complex system-level
Model Based technology, and Machine Engineering model that has not yet electrical, software), definition system that is
Practice electrical equipment in Adapted been implemented specified and controlled controlled and planned
silos through MBSE
• No established • No established • Strategy of enterprise • Cloud integration at • Multi-tier, cloud-based
enterprise architecture enterprise architecture architecture described certain stage design phase (major)
strategies approach • Framework aligns with • Integration platform to • Framework for handling
• No norms of • Integration integrations of legacy manage significant part all flows of knowledge
Integration incorporation standards/strategy, • Standards/strategy of of information seeps across enterprise structures
Architecture • No standard established and placed integration described for between numerous
Platformization integration for to use by the the business enterprise systems
platform/strategy community
• In silos, applications • In certain • Organization linked • Linked company • Linked company through
• Manually controlled systems/enterprises, inside functions (engine (engineering- features
reviews, data incorporation eering, output, manufacturing, (engineering,
consistency • manufacturing, manufacturing-service) manufacturing, operation,
Connected Synchronize/triggerbas Service service, etc.) inside functions etc.)
Enterprise ed transfer of • Compatible Runtime for • Allows bi-directional • Activate a reverse and
knowledge Data Exchanges loop feedback forward loop through the
value chain
• Smart visualization • Embraced analytics • Extension of analytics to • Predictive analytics and • Prescriptive analytics and
and market in a system with synopsis diagnosis perceptions all over feature perspectives,
by reporting • Some pattern of • Ingesting data in a functions business
Data Analytics consumption of data massive pool, limited to a • Data Lake for digital • Data Lake for digital
few features thread handling thread handling
• Concept of data exists • Proposals on data • Installation of master • Incorporated master • Key information,
• Not Streamlined Data quality practiced data for core data model data for vital master data structured data model
• Accuracy of • Embraced data • Reforms for data • For most roles, data across functions and the
information is description and standardization and data standardization/governan value chain
Data Management compromised management governance ce • Completely effective
governance of data
• Current, but not • Deployed Central • Key business system • Platform-interoperable • All key business systems
completely capable, Business Framework with expanded resources central business with new-age capabilities
core business systems • Established method available framework are deployed
• There is no for managing purpose • Description of process • Maturity and • Best-in-class process for
harmonization of initiated to exploit the harmonization of Process the implementation of
Enterprise & processes digital thread Description linked company capabilities
System Process
Purpose of the Study:
Defining model based Providing qualitative
activities in the supply Deploying an insightful insights into business via
chain: The manner in which related innovation platform: analytics: As the digital
information is collected and Companies typically have thread links functions and
shared through various roles many tools and applications allows knowledge to be
in a manufacturing for the management of their translated throughout the
organisation would be product operational and value chain, the genuine
ultimately modified by data information through advantage is analysis from
digital thread. Most the value chain. So creating information that is collected
organisations still use papers a digital thread from scratch in different processes. For
as a way of sharing technology is not easy. In example, the design
information. This helps it to order to keep data engineer may gain
reuse their information or consistency across the value meaningful insights from
data and track them. chain and improve data assurance data received by
Transforming your data into integration, the Business services.
a model-based organisation Architecture should be built
allows to gain information using the heterogenous
from your own data. A environments of the
system engineering model- enterprise which can be
based practise is important incorporated into the
for traceability through the platform. For example, PLM
dynamic multidisciplinary may serve as an innovation
environment. and integration framework
for the use of digital threads
Developed connection and that run on many devices
closed loop reviews: Digital and technologies.
thread does not function
unless it is designed in the
required business use cases,
based on end-to-end
communication system,
forward connection and
closed loop feedback.
Forward link allows
traceability to the left to the
right, from idea to design,
planning and development
and servicing, by linking
processes and data. In the
phases of development,
warranty and service life, for
example, design may have a
long-term effect. A closed
loop feedback system offers
a link
Industry right &
Vision to Design
left which can in Manufacturing:
progress
provide input from
horizontal value chains to an
Digital technology
upstream advances
value also generate downstream
chain. For
benefits that bring
example, in themanufacturing
new teams more together
development
and more efficient. cycle, input
from a are
Companies product
usinginmodel-based
the capabilities to
market can be filtered back
industrialise technology in scale
to help companies to evolve while making
improvements
and enhance in their
theirproduction
items / strategies more agile
and scalable.
solutions.
