Model-based Enterprise

Achieve the Model-based Enterprise (MBE) by harnessing and propagating design decisions downstream to manufacturing and throughout the product lifecycle.

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Exclusive Report: Building a Model-based Enterprise

iBase-t provides research offering insights for manufacturers looking to integrate their tech stack and evolve into a Model-based Enterprise.

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Solumina MBE Overview

Solumina MBE is the first model-based MES solution tailored for aerospace and defense manufacturers. It integrates 3D digital models across the Solumina Manufacturing Operations Platform to enhance quality, efficiency, and traceability throughout the product lifecycle.

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Top Three Reasons to Become a Model-based Enterprise

The MBE is uniquely capable of effecting positive change in three key areas: quality, velocity, and efficiency.

Quality

Design and process change is propagated systematically. Fewer mistakes or discrepancies are made during the production process.

Velocity

Engineering changes now take minutes or hours versus days or weeks. Scrap and obsolescence are cut sharply.

Efficiency

Hours of indirect activities analyzing drawings and processing changes are eliminated. Engineers can focus on innovation.

MBE, the Key to Smart Manufacturing

MBE unlocks the intelligence of engineering models to automate downstream processes, improve efficiency, lower costs, and increase quality. Many manufacturers look at MBE as an integral part of their digital transformation strategy; it has the potential to help them become more competitive and responsive to market opportunities today and more resilient in the face of disruptions in the future.

Modernize the Way You Think About Product Lifecycle

Manufacturers are particularly interested in MBE when they realize that their existing systems are holding them back. Consequently, they are especially motivated to implement a modern approach that will support future growth. Manufacturers are integrating applications such as PLM, MES, SQM, and MRO as part of their MBE strategy.

Model Data Becomes the Core of the Digital Thread

Model features and characteristics (PMI Data) are linked to the manufacturing and supplier processes. Changes are automatically propagated for review and publication. Model visuals can now be accessible at every step of the process with intelligent highlights.

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Reflecting Manufacturing Quality Data in the Model-based Enterprise

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Webinars

On-Demand: MBE Webinar Series

Attend our webinar to learn about product lifecycle execution, define the mode-based enterprise, and see how to develop digital continuity.

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By the Numbers

Revenue, Time, Value; MBE Makes a Lasting Impact

Those with an MBE strategy enjoy greater efficiencies, enabling more revenue growth, profit margin expansion, and lower costs.

3-5%

Revenue back to EBITDA

50%

Expected reduction of time wasted

48%

Increased likelihood for growth above competitors without MBE

Solumina MBE

Solumina Model-based Enterprise (MBE)

Solumina MBE is the industry’s first model-based MES solution purpose-built for complex discrete manufacturers in Aerospace & Defense and other critical manufacturing industries. Our solution integrates 3D digital models across the Solumina Manufacturing Operations Platform to drive quality, efficiency, traceability, and cost savings, contributing a potential 3-5% revenue back to EBITDA.

Features

Features of Solumina MBE

Transform static, 2D processes into a dynamic 3D experience

Get a real-time, fully contextualized, and trackable digital view of your product throughout its lifecycle. Solumina MBE digitally integrates design engineering, planning, production, and quality like never before, providing a single visual source of truth across every step of the process.

Our solution empowers process planners and technicians alike with interactive 3D work instructions that streamline production, reduce errors, and improve traceability. Take your productivity, quality, and competitiveness to the next level with this significant step towards a fully model-based enterprise.

Convert CAD Files to a Web-Viewable Format

Native CAD files are imported into the Solumina database and converted to a 3D format that reduces the file size and is easily viewed in the Solumina Web UI.

Enhanced Process Planning

During process authoring, planners assign components from the 3D model to operations or steps within the process plan via an intuitive, “what you see is what you get” visual experience.

Dynamic 3D Work Instructions

Once assigned, 3D components are systematically highlighted in the work instructions during shopfloor execution. The dynamic 3D model evolves with each step, reflecting the current state of the assembly.

Intuitive Shop Floor Execution

The 3D model guides shop floor technicians through each operation with clear visual indicators, driving efficiency and reducing errors. Selecting a part on the 3D model highlights the corresponding part data in other fields like the parts list and “Need to Collect” panel —and vice versa—aiding in the accurate execution of each step.

Interactive Control

The 3D model is highly interactive, allowing users to maneuver, zoom into, or explode their view of the assembly as needed. The PMI data displayed on the model can also be toggled on and off.

End-to-End Traceability

Solumina MBE delivers end-to-end traceability of an assembly by leveraging the universally unique identifier (UUID) data in the model to create a complete digital thread.

Benefits

Bring Intelligence to Your Model-based Enterprise

Solid model data is key in the manufacturing and quality processes. All evolutions are propagated as intended: supplier and work instructions, control plans, and auto-generated operation and step visuals.

No More Transcribing

Engineers are no longer called upon to interpret and transcribe engineering data.

Step Visuals Auto-Created

Each instruction step has a self-generated 3D visual highlighting key information and warnings.

Engineering Change-Time Collapses

Engineering changes that historically took months now get executed in hours.

Suppliers are Linked

Suppliers benefit from all the associative data by receiving rapid and accurate change notices.

The Model Speaks “Executive”

The solid model is no longer the property of engineering alone. It can use colors to tell executives where to improve.

3-5 % of Revenue Saved

Three to five percent of revenue is redirected to the EBITDA line. Engineers now focus on Innovating

Partners

MBE Transformation Partners

iBase-t has an ecosystem of specialized partners that can help you analyze your MBE maturity and opportunities by program and define a realistic strategy to achieve your MBE transformational objectives. Change is hard. These partners can bring you lessons from all of those who got there first, avoiding costly mistakes and speeding-up the process.

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MBE Presentation

The ABCs and Opportunities of MBE by Michel Gadbois, VP, Chief Enterprise Architect, iBase-t.

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Terminology

Key Phrases Associated with MBE

Digital Thread

A communication framework that connects data and information from across the product lifecycle.

Digital Twin

A virtual model designed to accurately reflect a physical object.

Cyber Asset

The digital representation of a physical system used to communicate to other cyber-physical systems and applications in future smart factories.

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Model-based Enterprise

Exclusive Report: Building a Model-based Enterprise

Solumina MBE Overview

Top Three Reasons to Become a Model-based Enterprise

Quality

Velocity

Efficiency

MBE, the Key to Smart Manufacturing

Modernize the Way You Think About Product Lifecycle

Model Data Becomes the Core of the Digital Thread

Reflecting Manufacturing Quality Data in the Model-based Enterprise

Reflecting Manufacturing Quality Data in the Model-based Enterprise

On-Demand: MBE Webinar Series

Revenue, Time, Value; MBE Makes a Lasting Impact

3-5%

50%

48%

Solumina Model-based Enterprise (MBE)

Features of Solumina MBE

Transform static, 2D processes into a dynamic 3D experience

Convert CAD Files to a Web-Viewable Format

Enhanced Process Planning

Dynamic 3D Work Instructions

Intuitive Shop Floor Execution

Interactive Control

End-to-End Traceability

Bring Intelligence to Your Model-based Enterprise

No More Transcribing

Step Visuals Auto-Created

Engineering Change-Time Collapses

Suppliers are Linked

The Model Speaks “Executive”

3-5 % of Revenue Saved

MBE Transformation Partners

Key Phrases Associated with MBE

Digital Thread

Digital Twin

Cyber Asset

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What You Should Know About Adopting a Model-Based Enterprise

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