1. Overview of Basic 3D Experience (Enovia V6) Concepts
Marc Young
xLM Solutions

2. Agenda Architecture Type and Policy Routes State Workspaces GCO
E-Bom Sync
Security
Conclusion

3. Modules Designer Central (CAD Integrations)
VPLM
Engineering Central (BOM, ECR/ECO)
Project Central
Library Central
Accelerators…. …

4. Architecture 3 Tier Web based client
Operating systems: Windows, Unix, Linux
Supported Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2
No database replication
Supported Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebSpere, WebLogic
Supports only Store* replication
Customizations – Java Based
In Enovia V6 terminology a ‘Store’ is equivalent to a Vault in other PLM systems
Vault in Enovia V6 terminology is equivalent to a database

5. Schema vs Business Objects
Schema are the Administrative Objects that control the look, feel, behavior of the system
Types, Relationships, Commands, Tables, WebForms, …
Business Objects are the actual data that is created in Enovia.
EC Part, Catia Drawing, Relationship between Part and Drawing
Business Objects can have a “Type” which will drive the behavior of the object
Type, Name and Revision are the unique identifiers

6. Type and Policy Type Policy Fields (Attributes) Card Design Triggers
Sub Types (inheritance)
Maybe related to more than one policy
Policy
Security
Revision
Lifecycle States
Branching
Store

7. Routes, States, Change Request, Change Order, Change Action
Routes can be based on a template or be ad-hoc
Create your own flowchart
States can be customized but usually based on out of the box templates
Change Request, Change Order, Change Action are Types that represent the Engineering Change
V6 has built in functionality and security around these objects

8. States States can be configurable
Not recommended to change out of the box states
Driven by the object’s Policy
Objects will traverse through it states
Moving forward is called move forward or backwards “Promoting”
Moving backward is called “Demoting”
Security is set by state
Triggers
can be place on promote to demote to make various check have happened before a promote or demote

9. Routes Routes can be created Ad-hoc / Route Template
Routes can be used to define dynamic workflows
Route Tasks are actionable items in V6 – which can be configured for escalations past due date
Routes are used to have multiple people review and ‘sign off’ on the data with route completion as one of the following
Promote object to next state
Notify route owner
Route Tasks can be
Parallel or Series
Mandatory or Optional
Review or Approval
Groups, Roles or Users can be associated to the task in the route

10. Engineering Change Change Request (CR) Change Order (CO)
Ability for user to request a change to an object in the system
Change Order (CO)
Process that defines, evaluates, and implements a change
Change order has a lifecycle for evaluation and implementation phases
When a change order is created, a change action is automatically generated and connected to the change order.
Change Action (CA)
Change actions cannot be created manually
Change action (CA) generation occurs from the change order's affected items.
Technical Assignee (i.e. Design Engineer) is assigned to the Change Action to make the change

11. Workspaces Way to group data in V6
Can have sub workspaces and sub folders
Security can be applied to any level in the Workspace structure
Mostly used with CAD Integration / managing documents

12. GCO GCO performs the same operations but more
Multiple GCO can exist and are tied to a users role
Derived file formats
Check out and locking behaviors
LCO object available to set user specific integration behaviors

13. E-Bom Sync
E-BOM Sync used to take Document Structure to Item Structure
Items set as specification link (can be model and or drawing)
Configurable via the GCO and JPO
Collapse links / quantity
4 wheels on a car
Default Part Type
EC or Dev Part
Part Name / Number Driver
CAD Model Name, auto number, …
Floating Links

14. Security Security Context State, Type, Group or Role Routes Workspace
Organization, Collaborative Space and Role
State, Type, Group or Role
Filter based i.e if an Attribute = certain value
Routes
Workspace
Folders
Owner

15. User Interface Schema There are 6 main types of UI Schema:
Commands – User triggered action
Menus – Collection of Commands
Webforms – Shows attributes of an object
Tables – Similar to forms…i.e. relationships
Channels
Portals – Multiple Channels make up a portal

16. Triggers Please to add custom code to the system 3 Types
Check – Before the action occurs
Action – After the action occurs
Override – instead of the action occurring

17. Administration Business Legacy tool for administration Property Files
JPOs

18. Migration Methods, Technologies & Tools
Manual
Good for small data set – Lengthy process
No support for full history migration
Automated
JPOs, MQL and Tcl scripts - Requires comprehensive understanding of both source and target systems data model and possible source system APIs
Strongly recommended to break it down to two steps (export\import), especially for large data sets (more than files or so)
Uses V6 API – slower migration
ENOVIA V6 Adaplet - Partially Automated – several automated steps to extract and later import the data into ENOVIA
Requires comprehensive understanding of both source and target systems data model and possible source system APIs and SQL knowledge
Direct DB updates methodology – fast
Spinner - Partially Automated
Requires comprehensive understanding of both source and target systems data model and the Spinner tool itself
Data needs to be programmatically extracted into spinner
Additional fee
Spinner has additional license cost
Allows you to grow with data – by extracting existing schema and compare to upgraded environment’s schema.
Spinner – Easier to incorporate data model changes although it is a manual tedious process.
Spinner – escape characters where as in adaplet we anyways handle it on lower level.

19. Conclusion PLM Concepts are the same across various PLM systems
3D Experience is a great platform to map your business process to
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