UGS Teamcenter: В работе над самолетом 21 века F-35 участвуют более 1000 компаний со всего мира

The F-35 Program is designed to provide the United States' Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force with an affordable and stealthy tactical aircraft for the 21st century. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Lockheed Martin), which won the contract to produce the F-35, is developing an aircraft fleet that satisfies the diverse program requirements of the highest-profile program in the aerospace and defense industry's history. Lockheed Martin's strategy is to create a common design with affordable variants that meet the individual requirements of the different services.

Lockheed Martin is partnering with U.S. and international aerospace leaders, including Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. These three primary partners are supported by up to 1,000 suppliers. In all, the parties involved in the production of the F-35 reside in more than 30 countries, spanning 17 time zones. Coordinating their efforts and fostering collaboration across the extended enterprise of companies with dissimilar development environments is a critical challenge for Lockheed Martin. Similarly, managing all of the multiple formats of design data involved in this project is equally crucial. The program is expected to produce as many as 5,000 aircraft which will have life spans of up to 30 years. All design and manufacturing data for each aircraft configuration must be managed as well as the data required to support the planes during their lifetimes. This means that every design change needs to be validated against all possible configurations. There is an additional challenge here as well: A key program goal is achieving unprecedented cycle time reductions in both design and manufacturing.

21st-century PLM solution for a 21st-century aircraft

The Lockheed Martin-led F-35 team turned to 21st-century product lifecycle management (PLM) technology to meet the challenges of delivering the next generation of military aircraft. Lockheed Martin has adopted Teamcenter® as the foundation for a global collaboration network supporting the F-35 Program. Based on military and emerging industry standards, Teamcenter supports the special requirements of aerospace and defense companies by providing proven, industry-specific PLM capabilities. The tailored industry solution is built on Teamcenter's open PLM foundation, which connects people and processes; creating, capturing and sharing product knowledge to power innovation and productivity. In order to connect the thousands of F-35 Program users, it was essential to have the scalability and robustness of Teamcenter.

The first phase of the F-35 Collaboration Network deployment linked 5,000 users at facilities owned by the three primary partners and Stork Fokker of the Netherlands. These users are connected to the system with appropriate security safeguards to ensure compliance with USA International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. Teamcenter rules ensure compliance with ITAR and proprietary control procedures. To date, more than 1,500 users across the extensive supplier network have also been brought online, totaling more than 130 sites worldwide (spanning seven countries and nine time zones). Most importantly, real time online collaboration is a reality for both engineering in-process and released designs, across five major partners and 35 design suppliers. Lockheed Martin sees this as a critical achievement on the program.

Complete tracking of every single part

With a storage area network (SAN) now containing more than five terabytes of product information, the Teamcenter implementation for the F-35 Program supports all users involved in design-related endeavors, including their workflow and design processes. The F-35's worldwide design operations require the robustness of Teamcenter's data replication capability. Program participants store data locally for improved response time - currently 70,000 data items are replicated across 15,000 locations daily with Teamcenter. With replication taking place on this massive scale, the F-35 Program is the largest user of Teamcenter's replication capability in the world.

Lockheed Martin is currently managing the "As Designed," "Manufacturing" or "As Planned," and "As Built" bills of material inside of Teamcenter. It plans to manage "As Maintained" bills of material in Teamcenter as well. Ultimately Teamcenter will also track the maintenance and operation history of each aircraft, managing the entire configuration of the F-35 Program by each aircraft's tail number. Service technicians will be able to pull the configuration, down to a specific part, of any aircraft in the air. With this kind of control as the aircraft is maintained, it will be possible to keep track of parts that are changed out and any design flaws will be brought back to engineering in real time.

In addition to managing F-35 program information, Teamcenter also manages a number of processes related to the aircraft's development. For example, Teamcenter's workflow capabilities are used by Lockheed Martin to control development and release processes. Teamcenter also manages product options and variants with its robust configuration management engine. Teamcenter's visualization capabilities enable program participants to view digital mockups and perform interference checks throughout the entire design cycle.

Real-world results

With 6,500 Teamcenter users in production, Lockheed Martin is achieving significant design and manufacturing cycle time reductions. The company has cited a 35 percent cycle time reduction in the F-35 design cycle, which represents savings of billions of dollars to the program. Lockheed Martin anticipates manufacturing time to be reduced by up to 66 percent, with a huge reduction in tooling. Spare parts needed are expected to be dramatically less that what they are for other fleets.

With order-of-magnitude improvements in overall program efficiency, the F-35 Program not only promises to produce a new fleet of 21st-century fighter jets, but also one of the world's most successful PLM initiatives - reaching across oceans, time zones and companies to develop, build and sustain products to last more than three decades.

Issues:

• Three primary industrial partners, plus up to 1,000 suppliers in 30 countries
• As many as 5,000 aircraft with at least three design variants
• Goals include unprecedented design/build cycle reductions, lowest cost of sustainment for 30-year life of fleet

Approach

• Create robust, scalable and secure digital collaboration solution that links partners and suppliers
• Improve knowledge use/re-use among global OEMs, operators, logisticians and maintainers
• Adopt open, web-centric solution as foundation for integrated digital environment
• Use visualization capabilities to create digital mockups
• Manage and automate development processes with workflow capabilities

Results

• Real-time online collaboration across 5 major partners and 35 design suppliers
• Cycle time reduction of 35 percent, representing billions of dollars in savings
• Total users now 6,500
• Product knowledge and development processes managed across all lifecycle domains

Industry:

• Aerospace & Defense

Clients Primary Business

Client's primary business Lockheed Martin Aeronautics builds the finest military aircraft in the world including the F/A-22, the F-16, the C-130J, the F-117 and the next-generation fighter, the F-35.

www.lmaeronautics.com

Solutions/Services

Tecnomatix

Teamcenter

Client location

Ft. Worth, Texas

United States