**IMS PROGRAM**

**Outline Proposal**

**Submitted by: Rockwell Collins**

**Date: June 6, 2005**

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  **1. Ref.      OP05005              **2. Acronym**   MBE
  Number**                                             

  **3. Full      Model Based                           
  Title**        Enterprise for the                    
                 Electro-Mechanical                    
                 Industry                              

  **4. Theme**   Life cycle costs                      
                 borne by the                          
                 customer, and                         
                 individual company                    
                 operational costs,                    
                 are all driven by                     
                 decisions made                        
                 during the                            
                 development of                        
                 products and                          
                 processes. A lack of                  
                 processes and tools                   
                 to support a model                    
                 based approach to                     
                 development,                          
                 manufacture, and                      
                 product support,                      
                 significantly                         
                 impacts these costs.                  
                 To reduce these                       
                 costs to both the                     
                 OEM and the                           
                 customer, a more                      
                 robust Model Based                    
                 Enterprise (MBE) is                   
                 required. The                         
                 implementation of an                  
                 MBE supports an up                    
                 front process that                    
                 is designed to make                   
                 life cycle impacting                  
                 decisions while                       
                 designs are still                     
                 fluid. This proposal                  
                 concentrates on                       
                 information                           
                 architecture and                      
                 tools to support the                  
                 decisions for cost                    
                 effective                             
                 manufacturing.                        

  **5.           Process, product                      
  Keywords**     development,                          
                 lifecycle.                            
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| **6.        | The basic notion of the MBE is not simply the          |
| De          | application of concurrent product development, which   |
| scription** | is already well chronicled, but rather a focus on the  |
|             | tools, and the interoperability of such tools and      |
|             | methods which optimize design, effective manufacture   |
|             | and supportability. Optimization at the iterative      |
|             | steps in the developmental life cycle provides better  |
|             | coverage of the most important requirements (MIR's),   |
|             | or key characteristics, at each step. The initial step |
|             | in this project is to evaluate the gaps in achieving   |
|             | an MBE built on integrated standards and integrated    |
|             | decision making tools to support manufacturing         |
|             | decisions The project definition would focus on        |
|             | companies, and possibly universities, involved in      |
|             | electro-mechanical systems and products for the        |
|             | aerospace and commercial sectors, including:           |
|             |                                                        |
|             | -   Boeing - General Motors                            |
|             |                                                        |
|             | -   Lockheed Martin - John Deere                       |
|             |                                                        |
|             | -   BAE Systems - Sandia National Labs                 |
|             |                                                        |
|             | -   Honeywell - Ford                                   |
|             |                                                        |
|             | -   Rockwell Collins - Raytheon Missile Systems        |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Industry focus groups have already been launched to    |
|             | validate the need for an improved process to deal with |
|             | decisions impacting cost effective manufacturing.      |
|             |                                                        |
|             | ## MBE Definition:                                     |
|             |                                                        |
|             | The Model Based Enterprise is defined as the linkage   |
|             | of Model Based Engineering, Model Based Manufacturing  |
|             | and Model Based Sustainability through a common        |
|             | information-based environment. The vision of the MBE   |
|             | is: Future designers and customers will interact in an |
|             | immersive environment to explore and evaluate solution |
|             | options, based on modeling, simulation, optimization   |
|             | and visualization techniques.                          |
|             |                                                        |
|             | The chart that follows characterizes the MBE into      |
|             | three process areas. The thrust of this proposal deals |
|             | with the intersection of the Model Based Engineering   |
|             | and Model Based Manufacturing processes, in what could |
|             | be termed Design for X (DFx).                          |
|             |                                                        |
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|             |                                                        |
|             | In DFx, "x" could be replaced with manufacturability,  |
|             | testability, robustness, cost or reliability. The DFx  |
|             | design rules could be used to trade-off decisions      |
|             | against design requirements, or what is commonly       |
|             | defined as Most Important Requirements (MIR's).        |
|             |                                                        |
|             | ## IMS Program FIT                                     |
|             |                                                        |
|             | Given the collaborative nature of the IMS program      |
|             | projects, development in the in the area of MBE could  |
|             | fit well as a set of multi-region project tasks and    |
|             | work packages. With the pre-competitive level that can |
|             | be defined for this activity, leveraging work from     |
|             | other regions in developing integrated databases,      |
|             | linking COTS decision support tools, and developing    |
|             | tools not currently available would be the essence of  |
|             | the work to be shared under the IMS program.           |
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| **7. Contact details of the proposing party**                         |
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| Jack Harris                                                           |
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| Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technology                           |
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| Rockwell Collins                                                      |
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| <jrharris@rockwellcollins.com>                                        |
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| 319.295.4025                                                          |
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