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AGC GLASS EUROPE

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AMRC

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AUTOLIV

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CADMAKERS

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CENTERLINE

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IGS GEBOJAGEMA

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RENISHAW

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AGC GLASS EUROPE

“DELMIA® has given us traceability from sand to glass. We

know which batch of raw materials was used and who the
supplier is, what production lines were used. With information
readily available, we can increase the quality of our glass, which
improves our bottom line.”
— Alain Michel, automotive & manufacturing IT delivery center manager, AGC

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 Challenge:
To improve profitability in a highly
competitive market, AGC, the world’s largest
producer of flat glass, needed to support
continuous process improvement initiatives
that help ensure superior product quality.
Solution:
The company uses Dassault Systèmes’
DELMIA® manufacturing operations
management solutions to achieve traceability
and standardization throughout its European,
North African and South American plants.
Benefits:
With digital continuity in its glass
manufacturing processes, AGC has real-
time visibility by extracting manufacturing
intelligence information from the shop floor
to reduce waste and increase right-first-time
production.
AGC, FLAT GLASS WORLD LEADER
From the windshields of our cars to the windows, facades and
interiors of our buildings, flat glass is an essential component of
the world’s most commonly used products in most industries.
AGC Glass Europe, the European branch of world-leading
flat glass manufacturer AGC, provides flat and bended glass
solutions for the building, automotive, transport, solar power
and high-tech sectors. “AGC has more than 100 sites across
Europe and is supported by a worldwide distribution network,”
Alain Michel, automotive & manufacturing IT delivery center
manager at AGC, said. “We provide glass solutions in response
to a wide range of needs such as comfort and energy control
(insulation against cold and heat), safety (tempered, laminated
and fire-resistant glass), production of energy (solar mirrors,
building integrated photovoltaics glass), aesthetics (mirrors,
painted, patterned, screen-printed glass, etc.), infotainment
and communication (electroluminescent glass), as well as
connectivity (glass incorporating antennas).”
THE PRODUCTION OF FLAT GLASS: A FLOAT
PROCESS UNCHANGED OVER THE YEARS
The production of flat glass through the float process is now
used almost universally and has been relatively unchanged
over the years. In this technology molten glass floats out over
a bath of molten tin. The “float glass” produced in this way is
sold in large sheets for processing into secondary products. In
fact nearly all flat glass products are now made from float glass.
Glass physical properties for automotive, architectural or high-
tech applications depend both on the composition of glass and
on the different downstream processes it goes through such as
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coating, assembly into double/triple glazing or laminated glass,
thermal or chemical tempering, silvering and more.
This preparation process is critical and criteria such as batch
reference, temperature, humidity, quantity, oven used, level
of dust, sand quality, raw material expiration date, as well as
location of the glass in the production line must be cautiously
monitored to ensure the end-product meets requirements, or
else the glass batch is wasted, which impacts a manufacturer’s
bottom line.
Whether in construction (buildings), automotive (cars), or
transport (buses and trains), the window area is constantly
increasing. This is because apart from transparency, glass has
acquired many other properties that can be combined to make
a truly multifunctional material.
Modern buildings, for instance, comprise windows with
insulating coated glass that provide significant energy savings
to comply with sustainability requirements. New smart-tinting
glass can even switch from transparent to opaque on demand,
or automatically when needed. These innovations are what
will determine the future of the flat glass industry for decades
to come. “We are now launching a vacuum double glazing
which is as insulating as a triple glazing but which is 4 to
5 times thinner,” Michel said. “Our windshields can benefit
from a head-up display feature: a virtual image with useful
information (speed, consumption, etc.) displayed ahead of
the driver. The sunroof can also switch from clear to dark in
seconds. Moreover, with connectivity becoming paramount in
the years to come, we integrate antennas in our glazings with
a perfect finish to better communicate with the world around
us,” he said.
NEW REGULATIONS CALL FOR INCREASED QUALITY
AND INNOVATION
Drastic safety, quality and environmental regulations as well
as growing competition, which leave little room for error,
have increased glass manufacturers’ need for solutions that
continuously help ensure and contribute to improving the
already high quality standards of both products and the
production process itself. “Window sizes have increased (bigger
sunroofs, cars with larger windows) and have become more
complex in terms of shape or embedded technology. Windows,
“Windows [...] must last the
entire life of a car and be of
impeccable quality or else be rejected
by consumers...”
— Alain Michel, automotive & manufacturing IT delivery center
manager, AGC
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for example, must last the entire life of a car and be of
impeccable quality or else be rejected by consumers,” he said.
“It is essential to have traceability of all glass components and
process steps from sand to glass. So we needed software that
would help us improve this traceability and hence the quality
of our products,” he said.
A UNIQUE MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM
FOR AGC
AGC chose Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA’s Manufacturing
Operations Management solutions to digitally manage its glass
production. “So far, we have deployed DELMIA in our central,
western and eastern European, northern African and Brazilian
facilities as our manufacturing and logistics execution system,”
Michel said. “For example, DELMIA enables us to implement a
unique Manufacturing Execution System for all our flat glass
activities and a Manufacturing and Logistics Execution System
in some plants for our automotive sector, with automatic RFID
tracking capabilities. Our plan is to facilitate our transition to the
world of IoT and the digital factory in anticipation of our future
technological and business needs. DELMIA monitors production
flows and manages our stock. It integrates with our ERP system
SAP, and together with the historian application from OSIsoft PI,
tracks the data generated by our manufacturing equipment and
supplies it for further analysis by other tools.”

AUTOMATIC RFID TRACKING FOR REAL-TIME

RESPONSE TIME
With respect to RFID tracking, AGC wanted a reading and
tracking solution that did not adversely impact production
cycle times. The company also wanted to prevent (via a digital
version of a Poka-Yoke*) the use of inadequate raw materials
that could impact quality, generate waste and require costly
and time-consuming reworks. It developed an application
communicating with the PLCs in the manufacturing execution
systems and RFID antennas that could easily be implemented
Window sizes have increased (bigger
across all its production sites.
sunroofs, cars with larger windows) and
“Since visual inspection and barcode reading were not sufficiently have become more complex in terms of
reliable, and to not slow down manufacturing cycles, we opted shape or embedded technology.
for an automatic RFID tag reading solution that checks, for
example, that the right components are on the production line
or are flagged when their period of validity has expired,” Michel
said. “DELMIA enabled us to create this solution ourselves. It
minimizes the complexity of the technical architecture by letting
us leverage the data existing in our standard DELMIA solution
used for manufacturing control (SKU records, components and
bill of materials). It easily communicates with the RFID antennas,
RFID printers, the PLCs on the automated lines and the visual
and audible flags and alarms,” he said.
DELMIA can process large volumes of data (AGC has more than
90 antennas in one plant reading all the labels several times
per second) and archives all relevant information in the system.
The RFID antenna is constantly active and provides continuous
monitoring throughout the manufacturing process.
* a mechanism that helps equipment operators avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka).

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OTHER BENEFITS OF THE RFID SOLUTION ARE:
• Total control of production flows
Focus on AGC Glass Europe
• Productivity gains because automatic RFID reading does not
European branch of AGC Inc., world leader in flat glass
slow down production lines
• Improved product quality thanks to automatic detection and Products: Windscreens, side windows, roofs, backlites,
handling of non-compliances in real time before using or super-insulating coated glass, coated solar protection glass,
processing components laminated safety glass
• Faster detection of defects or anomalies from a supplier
thanks to the application’s automatic RFID reading and Employees: 16,500 (AGC Europe)
precise sub-second tracking
Revenue: € 11.6 billon (AGC Group 2017)
• Multi-threading capabilities that supports near-instant
response time Headquarters: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (AGC Glass
• Central management of quality indicators Europe)

“The RFID solution has so far been successfully deployed in For more information
11 of our sites and will be up and running in Morocco by the www.agc-glass.eu/en
beginning of 2019 and in Brazil later on,” Michel said. “We, www.yourglass.com (construction industry)
thus, successfully transitioned from the bar-code system we www.agc-automotive.com (automotive industry)
used in the past to automatic tracking with RFID and in the
coming years we will combine or replace RFID with more
advantageous IOT trackers.”
Alain Michel looks to the future with serenity. “In addition to
the flat glass manufacturing division, plans to deploy DELMIA
are underway in the processed glass division and for logistics,”
he said. “With DELMIA we can fulfill our Factory of the Future
vision to implement completely automated factories with
standardized applications that send data from all our sites to
a unique database. And as DELMIA is natively multi-lingual,
barriers to global collaboration are mitigated, as best practices
are more easily shared, thereby further improving quality and
cycle times.”

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AMRC

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING RESEARCH CENTRE

Project RAID (Reconfigurable Assembly Integrated Demonstrating the integration of
Demonstrator) is the name given to a demonstration project
under development within the Integrated Manufacturing off-the-shelf digital technologies
Group at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with a manufacturing execution
throughout 2017/2018, aiming to demonstrate the value and
accessibility to Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of digital system for Project RAID.
technologies. The project focused on integrating low-cost
technologies together to demonstrate that valuable data can
be gathered from processes and equipment without spending
large sums of money. The project aimed to help accelerate
the adoption of digital technologies within the 99% of UK
companies made up of SMEs [8] by demonstrating their READ THE WHITEPAPER TO LEARN MORE
accessibility and ease of use.

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AUTOLIV

Innovation and an intense focus on saving lives have been

the hallmarks of Autoliv from its inception half a century ago.
Now its products save 30,000 lives every year and prevent ten
times as many severe injuries.

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 Challenge:
Autoliv sought to better manage quality and
material flows, achieve greater traceability and
drive consistent, lean continuous improvement
across all of its manufacturing plants.
Solution:
The company is deploying Dassault Systèmes’
DELMIA® Apriso with an ERP rollout—a
solution internally known as “ACE”­­—to improve
and harmonize operational and commercial
business processes into one integrated system.
Benefits:
Better visibility into materials, workflows
and processes has been achieved, helping the
company to improve productivity, enhance
global traceability and standardize global
process improvement.
Delivering quality products is important in all industries, but
it is especially critical where consumer health and safety are
affected. Automotive is one of those industries.
That’s why Autoliv, a Fortune 500 Tier 1 supplier of airbags and
safety systems to all of the global automotive OEM’s, wanted
to better manage quality and material flows, achieve greater
traceability, and drive continuous improvement across its
manufacturing plants. “We needed to improve and harmonize
our operational and commercial business processes into one
integrated system,” explained Gilles Bridon, Senior AEU IT
Director, Autoliv.
To achieve this goal, Autoliv made a decision to deploy
their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing
Execution System (MES) together in a system the company
calls ACE, or Autoliv Consolidated ERP deployment. From
Autoliv’s perspective, MES is seen (and referred to) as a Lean
Execution System to implement and continuously improve
Lean manufacturing initiatives, which can then help Autoliv
standardize and share best practices across multiple plants.
The company chose SAP as their ERP solution, and DELMIA
Apriso as their manufacturing execution platform. Now Autoliv
has an enterprise solution to streamline production operations
from planning, to inventory and material flow management, to
traceability and continuous improvement.
“ACE is a business transformation program that will take us to
the next level of performance. It is a business driven program to
harmonize processes to bring everything into the same master
data and into one ERP and MES system,” said Jan-Henning
Krumme, ACE Program Director, Autoliv. “In short, one process,
one system, one data,” he said.
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LEAN MATERIAL MANAGEMENT
The ACE system provides lean materials handling across
Autoliv’s manufacturing operations, thanks to DELMIA Apriso’s
wide footprint that extends beyond the four walls of production,
including inbound material receiving and put-away, quality
control, maintenance, shipping, and outbound to their supply
chain. Logistics and production planning is prepared in the ERP
system, and then moves to DELMIA Apriso for execution. Daily
schedules are communicated to the suppliers to ensure timely
arrival that is synchronized against customer demand.
“We have chosen DELMIA Apriso as a proven automotive MES
solution to support Lean manufacturing principals and the
Autoliv production system to increase quality of our product,
product data and the safety of our products. We save lives. Zero
defects is a given in our market,” said Jan-Henning Krumme,
ACE Program Director, Autoliv.
ACE directs all material movements inside the plant, with
activities captured by scanner to ensure efficient and secure
material flow. Automated triggers notify warehouse operators
to replenish the line when materials are needed. During
production, sampling rules predefined in SAP are executed
through the DELMIA Apriso application, which alerts and guides
operators to perform and execute the proper quality steps.
Post production, ACE ensures accurate and timely delivery by
automatically creating advanced shipping notification.
“The quality advantage (with ACE) is
we have better access to traceability
data and batch tracing at the line. A big
advantage of this ACE project for the
plant is we have integrated, real-time
information flow. Reaction time has
been cut short very much. Data
transference is much better than we
had before.”
— Bernhard Herrmann, Plant Manager ASG, Autoliv
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PAPERLESS PROCESSES STREAMLINE OPERATIONS
The ACE system automates and standardizes financial and
control processes. Self-billing is now integrated into the system,
resulting in a paperless billing process that has streamlined Focus on Autoliv:
processes, improved accuracy and increased efficiency in their
Finance department. Products: Active and passive safety systems that save lives

ACE has also brought paperless operations to many other Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
activities that were previously manual. For example, physical
Kanban cards have been replaced with production sequences Revenues: € 3,84 billion in 2017
displayed directly on the monitor of each production line, with
production order labels printed automatically. Supervisors use Employees: 60,000
the graphically-driven DELMIA Apriso Dispatching Board to
enable efficient planning and execution of daily production and www.autoliv.com
sequence of orders.
The Dispatching Board provides real-time visibility and control
of plant floor activities. Supervisors and plant managers use it
to monitor production progress status, planned maintenance
activities and unplanned events at a single glance. This
allows Autoliv to quickly address issues as they arise, such as
rearranging production orders to meet customer demands and
plant efficiency targets.

GLOBAL TRACEABILITY
With physical flows managed by DELMIA Apriso throughout
the plant, from receiving to shipping, Autoliv can achieve a
far more comprehensive set of traceability intelligence, which
is then readily available as future needs arise. DELMIA Apriso
supports batch and end-to-end flow of product and process
traceability, and can help quickly identify, isolate and contain
suspect materials or errant processes should a potential issue
be detected.
Just as importantly, the standardized execution platform means
that when problems are traced to process or material issues,
corrective actions can be readily implemented and rapidly
deployed to all plants, thanks to the ACE system.

GLOBAL DEPLOYMENT
Based on the initial success of pilot deployments, Autoliv is
now rolling out their ACE solution to 30 manufacturing plants
across Romania, Hungary, Turkey, France, Sweden, Spain, UK,
Germany, and Russia. DELMIA Apriso can help ensure the
company centrally monitors quality and production processes
while gaining insight and visibility into operations as Autoliv
focuses on taking their business performance to the next level
of success.
For more information contact DELMIA.EMEA@3ds.com

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CADMAKERS

CadMakers is a technology company, developing distinctive

products and services in the construction and manufacturing
value chain. With Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE®
platform on the cloud, it created a 3D structural model and
manufacturing simulations for Tallwood House that
supported pioneering innovations in building materials, design
collaboration and construction processes.

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 Challenge:
Vancouver-based CadMakers sought to
accelerate the building of Brock Commons –
Tallwood House, the world’s largest mass-
timber building.
Solution:
CadMakers used Dassault Systèmes’
3DEXPERIENCE® platform on the cloud,
including CATIA and DELMIA® applications,
to virtually model and simulate construction.
Benefits:
The 18-story residence hall was built in 9.5
weeks—approximately 70% faster than
traditional concrete buildings of the same
size —through pioneering advances in
construction processes.
BRINGING MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCIES
TO PIONEER A MASS-TIMBER PROJECT
When students arrive on campus at Vancouver’s University of
British Columbia (UBC), they’ll be attending a university that
ranks among the 40 best in the world. Now, more than 400 of
these students will live in a new residence hall that not only is
a beautiful and functionally advanced living space – it redefines
what’s possible in the creation of built environments.
Brock Commons – Tallwood House is an 18-story building
that features the first North American use of mass-timber
products in a residential high-rise. Its appearance on UBC’s
forested peninsula represents a milestone in environmental
sustainability. Compared to more traditional structural
materials, Tallwood House’s sustainably harvested Canadian
wood cuts CO2 emissions the equivalent of taking 511 cars
off the road for a year. What’s more, these environmental
benefits come alongside cost and construction advantages. The
project’s innovative use of virtual design and construction (VDC)
modeling, and onsite assembly of manufactured parts, helped
complete Tallwood House approximately 70% faster than
traditional concrete buildings of the same size.
“When we first started our company, we asked ourselves
how we could find a really differentiated way to impact the
construction industry,” said Javier Glatt, co-founder and CEO
of CadMakers, an integrated construction and manufacturing
technology company. “By manufacturing a building as opposed
to stick-building it, you can control tolerances much better, you
can control risk much better, you can plan much better, and
you can deliver more with less resources.”
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Applying tools and techniques that have transformed the
manufacturing world but remain relatively new to the
construction industry, CadMakers streamlines projects
like Tallwood House, through real-time process and cost
visualization, efficient construction using prefabricated
components, just-in-time delivery of materials and information,
cash flow improvement, and efficient collaboration among
stakeholders.
UNIFYING THE PROJECT VIEW ACROSS THE
SUPPLY CHAIN
Like any big construction project, Tallwood House involved a
large team of consultants and building-trades specialists. The
great challenge of coordinating such a vast supply chain – in
which different companies use their own data – opens the door
to conflict, waste and delay. CadMakers averted this problem
by using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform on the
cloud to create a 3D structural model of Tallwood House that
integrated all the data from the multiple project participants
into a unified view.
“This project was a real positive case for what it means to truly
collaborate and spend more time in the process of planning and
designing not just the building, but also the process to build the
building,” said Glatt.
The integrated and cloud-based CATIA model, accurate to a
tenth of a millimeter, helped place and size building penetrations
to accommodate pipes, shafts and cabling, while ensuring
that clearance and spatial requirements were met. Everyone
involved could review project specifications in granular detail
as an immersive visual experience available anytime, anywhere
via the cloud.
“If you can connect the design and construction in a fully
integrated 3D model at an extreme level of definition early on,
it brings everyone on the same page in terms of visualizing
the project; you reduce the risk of coordination challenges and
miscommunication,” Glatt said. “As a result, everyone worked
together on Tallwood House. There’s much more value in
collaboration than in the adversarial way that often happens in
construction projects.”
“We’re bringing the scientific
disciplines of modern
manufacturing to the construction
process.”
— Justin Khabra, Project Modeling Designer, CadMakers
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ENABLING PRODUCTION SIMULATION FOR
LEAN EFFICIENCY
While CATIA enabled building modeling, CadMakers used
DELMIA on the cloud – leveraging CATIA data – to simulate and
analyze assembly processes. DELMIA connects the virtual and
real worlds by enabling production-environment simulations to
discover issues such as sequencing bottlenecks that would be
more time- and cost-intensive to resolve onsite.
“We built everything in CATIA to help coordinate the design of
the building, and once we had the model we did the DELMIA
simulation to coordinate the project and eliminate waste
onsite,” said Alin Ursu, vice president of project delivery for
CadMakers. “You can test different assembly processes, or
maneuvering of equipment and materials, on the computer
and pick the one that works best before you get to the
construction site.”
Using DELMIA, CadMakers performed 4D clash detection
to learn of any conflicts in building geometry or workflow
dependencies. Simulation revealed, for example, that at one
point in the project’s aggressive timeline, crews would lack
access to a platform in case of medical emergency; adjustments
were made before a worker was ever put at risk.
“The great thing about these simulations is the underlying
physics,” said Justin Khabra, a project modeling designer with
CadMakers. “We can show how machinery will move through
space, where things will be located in reference to one another,
how fast a crane can move or the load capacity of trucks. I
know the limits of my equipment or resources in real life before
I go out on the job. You can stop a simulation at any time and
figure out clearances, take measurements and verify what’s
possible. We’re bringing the scientific disciplines of modern
manufacturing to the construction process.”
Top image: Working with DELMIA
OPTIMIZING CONSTRUCTION WORKFLOWS on-cloud solutions, project leaders were
THROUGH COLLABORATION able to discover and resolve issues virtually
The ability to visualize workflows unfolding over time with that would have cost more time and
DELMIA enabled collaboration among disparate project teams. money onsite.
Nowhere was this more critical than in coordinating the work
of wood installers with the other building trades. Because the Bottom image: Cloud-based DELMIA
wood panels were prefabricated and would arrive at the building Digital Manufacturing was used to
site precision-cut, assembly would go quickly. The question virtually model and simulate construction
was how to make the other building trades match that pace. for the 18-story Brock Commons –
CadMakers sat down with a wood installer bringing 30 years Tallwood House.
of hands-on experience, asked him to describe his process
steps, and digitalized the knowledge into a workflow scenario
that then could be refined iteratively to incorporate equipment
specifications and feedback from other project participants.
“They couldn’t leave the wood exposed, so the biggest challenge
was how to make the other trades as efficient as the wood
installers,” Ursu said. “We used DELMIA and tried different
scenarios to do that, and played a simulation onscreen at every
coordination meeting. We encouraged everybody to share their
opinions and to give us a solution about how to improve the
next iteration of that simulation.”

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“The most benefit we received from creating the simulations was
being able to communicate them to a mass group of installers
and people from other companies coming from different
backgrounds,” added Ryan Yee, an R&D and automation Focus on CadMakers:
engineer at CadMakers. “You might have the foreman of a
general contractor who has the whole plan inside his head. CadMakers is an integrated construction and
You distill it, visually communicate to the rest of the team in a manufacturing technology company that focuses on
way that’s trackable and that lets the people downstream give solving problems and optimizing processes along the
input. With digital continuity throughout the project lifecycle, construction and manufacturing value chains.
you embed the solutions to these difficult problems inside the
product or the process, and all of those aspects are captured Revenue: Privately held
inside the model instead of trying to deal with them onsite. It’s
not only faster, it’s safer for the people onsite.” Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

“One of the best things about the DELMIA on the cloud is For more information: cadmakers.com
that you can have multiple users working on the same project
simultaneously from different computers, different cities, even
different countries – and pass work back and forth to get things
done on time,” said Designer Khabra.

CONSTRUCTING A BETTER FUTURE

Time in the construction industry, as elsewhere, is money. Just
maintaining a construction site costs approximately $140,000
a month, not counting the interest on construction financing,
Glatt said. Having everyone wait around for a dependency-
related problem to be solved can throw off schedules and
budgets. Simulating ahead of time on a computer, and sharing
via the cloud, is far more efficient; instead of stopping work
onsite, you optimize the virtual scenarios beforehand.
Through the use of VDC modeling, prefabricated materials,
collaborative processes and advance problem-solving, Tallwood
House met an ambitious 9.5-week construction schedule of
approximately two floors per week, and was completed roughly
three months ahead of schedule. Since it was the first building
of its kind, Glatt believes the time and cost savings will magnify
in subsequent projects as the industry gains experience with
this new way of doing things.
The implications are far-reaching: less waste, faster completion
and greater environmental sustainability.
“A building owner wants a project delivered with a high level
of quality, on time and on budget,” Glatt said. “If we want
to erect buildings at scale to meet global demand, we need
to industrialize construction through digital manufacturing
technologies and processes.”

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CENTERLINE

Canadian industrial automation process and technology

company CenterLine (Windsor) Limited aimed to optimize
robotic work cell designs through digital simulation prior to
deployment of physical equipment on factory floors. CenterLine
implemented Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform
including DELMIA® to virtually simulate products, processes
and factory operations for optimized robot movements, plant
layout, material flow and ergonomics.
“We can design, build, and manufacture
something up front in a digital world and
simulate the robots virtually. It’s a multi-
iteration process between design and simulation
to get the perfect product for our customers.”

Luciano Mancini, B.Sc, C.E.T, Robotics Simulation Leader

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IGS GEBOJAGEMA

IGS GeboJagema is a leading provider of high-precision molds

that are used in critical manufacturing applications such as the
healthcare, optics, and packaging industries. DELMIA Production
Scheduler and Resource Planner gave the company the ability
to see and manage schedules and resources dynamically and
realistically based on their constraints.

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 Challenge:
A leading maker of high-precision molds for
manufacturers in healthcare, optics, and high-
end packaging, IGS GeboJagema needed a
way to meet the growing demand for its
products. With every product essentially a
custom order involving dozens of steps and
multiple suppliers, the company’s endless-
capacity scheduling software was no longer
up to the job.
Solution:
IGS GeboJagema chose DELMIA® Production
Scheduler and Resource Planner, giving the
company the ability to see and manage
schedules and resources dynamically and
realistically based on their constraints,
resulting in fewer missed deadlines, less
waste, and happier customers.
Benefits:
• 15% reduction in late deliveries
• Improved planning accuracy & production
efficiency
• More agility
• Better decision-making on a day-to-day,
hour-by-hour basis
SCALING FOR SUCCESS
IGS GeboJagema is a leading provider of high-precisions molds
that are used in critical manufacturing applications such as
the healthcare, optics, and packaging industries. Examples
include everything from contact lenses and solar lenses, to
LED components, aerosol and insulin products. Based in
the Netherlands, the company delivers custom solutions to
manufacturers around the world.
Precision for Perfection
“Each mold is basically a custom order,” said Rob Van den
Brand, Chief Technology Officer for the company. This makes
resource planning and production scheduling especially
challenging because there is no standard or predictable
process with known supplies. Rather, every order requires
unique processes and materials.
In addition, molds for seemingly simple products can be
surprisingly complex. For example, hand-carried devices such
as dry powder inhalers can have up to 15 or more different
plastic components. Finally, many of the products that are
manufactured using the molds must go through regulatory
validation. While this is the responsibility of the customer, IGS
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GeboJagema works closely with these contract manufacturers,
providing the necessary documentation and support needed
for approvals.
In recent years, the company’s rapid growth made it difficult to
keep up with the complex demands of resource planning and
scheduling. The outdated “infinite capacity” software they had
been using was no longer able to keep their schedules on track.
MODERNIZING PLANNING AND PRODUCTION
In 2015, IGS GeboJagema decided to modernize their software,
by adopting DELMIA Resource Planner and Production
Scheduler solutions from Dassault Systèmes. Resource
Planner is a graphical and interactive planning tool that
enables service companies to optimize their use of resources.
Production Scheduler provides visual scheduling and a powerful
optimization engine, giving a clear view of bottlenecks and
enabling quick decision-making.
From engineering...
The company’s project managers use Resource Planner for
planning the engineering phases of projects. This includes
calculating costs, estimating labor requirements, and planning
all job activities such as manufacturing design, purchasing, and
validation processes that will be needed over the course of the
project, which may last up to a year.
...to production
Once a project enters production, it is managed by Production
Scheduler to create production orders, parts and supplies, and
align all production activities with the company’s operations.
As a result, the company has a clear overview of all schedules
at any time, so they can clearly see which projects are lagging
and may need action.
“We could not manage
without it. I can not
imagine doing what we do
with the old system
anymore. We’re a much more agile
company now. ”
— Rob Van den Brand, Chief Technology Officer
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The solution also integrates tightly with the company’s ERP
system, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, so cash reports and business
data are linked with DELMIA’s planning and production data,
giving management a truly comprehensive overview. Focus on IGS GeboJagema
Leading maker of high-precision molds for manufacturers in
MOVING TO A PAPERLESS SHOP FLOOR healthcare, optics and high-end packaging.
When IGS GeboJagema adopted DELMIA, the company took
the opportunity to go paperless as well, removing all paper Mission:
from the shop floor and installing digital screens at worker IGS GeboJagema’s work can be found in products where
stations. Previously, the company had needed people to carry extreme precision is vital. The company constantly pushes
around boxes and instructions for what to do and in what order. the envelope to deliver work of the highest possible
This has had a positive impact in several ways. quality, helping to make people all over the world healthier
and happier.
“Now we’re fully digital,” said Robin Brokmann, Production
Planner. “I can just push a button to distribute a new schedule. Products:
I can make changes easily for high-priority orders, put it in From glasses and contact lenses to asthma inhalers, insulin
planning, and insert it right into the production line. And, I can pens and blood diagnostic devices.
see the impact this will have on everything else.”
Furthermore, the tight integration of ERP and DELMIA is Employees:
helping IGS drive innovation and automation in the plant. The 100
company recently installed a new 5-axis robotized high speed
milling machine, capable of taking instructions directly from Years in Business:
the ERP, based on plans developed in DELMIA. In the past, 70+
the company managed robotics manually, with the operator
loading instructions and processes as an offline step. Now, the Global Profile:
processes can move from DELMIA to Navision and out to the 90% of business in exports
shop floor in a seamless flow.
Headquarters:
GROWING AGILITY FOR A GROWING COMPANY Eindhoven, The Netherlands
DELMIA has become an integral part of the company’s ability
to do business. Robin Brokmann says he utilizes DELMIA’s More information:
optimization/scheduling engine three or more times a day, www.igsgebojagema.nl
which enables him to stay constantly ahead of changing
developments. “I start each day by updating our plans and
schedules, and also at the end of the day before I turn off the
lights. In between, I use it whenever a new production order
comes in.”

Better on-time delivery performance

Van den Brand said the solution has improved on-time
delivery by 15%, but he stressed that the value of the
solution can’t be measured in numbers only. As a
leading innovator in its industry, IGS GeboJagema invests
in technology to stay at the forefront. This approach has
paid off, as the company has grown almost 300% since
2011. DELMIA helps drive this innovation and makes other
technologies—such as robotics and ERP—even more valuable.
In the end, the point of innovation is to compete more
effectively, and Van den Brand said DELMIA is definitely
helping to make that happen. “We’re a more agile company
now. We can respond much more effectively to events and
customer needs.”

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