Here are some key ways manufacturers can control and improve new product development and introduction processes in the age of IoT.
Scott Reedy, Senior Director of Marketing, Arena Solutions.
这些号码讲述了故事：2022年，IOT上的全球技术支出将达到1.2万亿美元，而IoT设备和服务将在2019年达到18％至20％的收养。人工智能（AI）的结合，机器学习和IOT传感器和网络提供的实时数据流将在2019年使IOT业务案例非常引人注目。
如今,物联网功能包括我n handheld devices, household appliances, and medical implants to monitor patients, to name just a few. The auto industry is all in: enabling greater connectivity in cars to seamlessly gather, monitor, and share data with smart city services and other vehicles. So it’s no surprise that electronics suppliers are racing to deliver more value to support consumer electronics and cars.
IoT capabilities are in handheld devices, household appliances, and medical implants. The auto industry is all in: enabling greater connectivity in cars to seamlessly gather, monitor, and share data with smart city services and other vehicles. Electronics suppliers are racing to deliver more value to support consumer electronics and cars.
Indeed, one might say the manufacturing world has become obsessed with the global network of connected devices and people. Rightfully so, as these performance insights can greatly improve the way we manufacture products.
消费电子制造商继续introduce IoT capabilities because they provide critical knowledge that helps save money, improve product quality by tracking equipment performance, and ultimately satisfies consumers’ growing appetite to connect anytime and anywhere. But these improvements introduce complexity and risks to operations and the overall supply chain as distributed teams struggle to manage terabytes, or even petabytes, of data across multiple systems and platforms. There’s also a growing list of concerns surrounding consumer privacy as companies find new ways to tap into consumer behavior—with and without their knowledge.
IoT, along with increasing regulations and globalization of teams and partners, is changing the landscape of new product development and introduction (NPDI). Product innovators are forced to contend with a deluge of data as they struggle to effectively coordinate dispersed teams to design, validate, and build new products on ever-tighter schedules and budgets.
With greater complexity, we expect to see an increased risk of product quality issues and product launch failures. Manufacturers must seek better ways to manage their design processes, improve the customer experience, and reduce quality defects.
At the same time, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) are constantly improving the way their products integrate with a wide array of IoT protocols (e.g., JSON-LD, Wi-Fi, IPv4/IPv6, Bluetooth) and devices. Many consumer and industrial products are already equipped with wireless technologies that serve as IoT gateways to collect information from products in the field or identify design and quality weaknesses.
IoT-enabled devices generate vast amounts of data for NPDI teams to sort through, analyze, and leverage. With this new IoT paradigm, multidisciplinary design and development-team collaboration early and throughout the entire product lifecycle is essential to product launch success.
理想情况下，贡献者将连接并同步到以下位置：
•整个产品团队可以在产品的相同版本上工作。
•无论何处接口，每个学科都与其他人同步。
• Everyone can see the project details, milestones, and deliverables that lead to an on-time launch.
•该产品采用地下设计，以满足监管要求。
• Tests are run at every phase to ensure interoperability and manufacturability.
As devices become more connected and complex, both quality and software issues are more prevalent. As a case in point, more than 20% of recalls in Q3 of 2018 were caused by software.
Here are some key ways manufacturers can control and improve NPDI processes in the age of IoT.
Collaborate around the entire product record
设计团队继续使用多种电气，机械和软件设计工具来管理复杂产品的各个方面。但IOT的出现已经大幅增加了产品中包含的软件量，增加了对跨学科合作的需求。
As devices become more connected and complex, both quality and software issues are more prevalent. As a case in point, more than 20% of recalls in Q3 of 2018 were caused by software.
Thus, it’s critical to aggregate the entire product bill of materials (BOM) and associated drawings, software, firmware, and documents to ensure interoperability as early in the design process as possible. Otherwise, product design flaws could go unnoticed until later in the development cycle, increasing costs, delaying product launches, and introducing the type of quality issues that lead to recalls.
Whether companies create and manage BOMs in product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions, spreadsheets, or even document-centric tools, they need a controlled way to manage a hierarchical, relational BOM. Upstream computer-aided design (CAD) systems also need a way to quickly pass the entire BOM directly to the design or PLM system to eliminate errors and delays.
Additionally, upon release of the final design, the design or PLM system should be able to automatically pass the entire BOM with components, approved manufacturers, and suppliers to the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to speed planning and production.
Whenever a specification is changed for any component in a complex device, it’s critical the entire team knows which other parts, procedures, and manufacturing processes are affected. With a comprehensive BOM management solution like a PLM, the team can move quickly from requirements to design specification changes to product team approvals using automated routings.
通过增加IoT设计复杂性，管理整个BOM的最佳方式，从最终组装到最低级别组件，是通过管理单个系统中的设计和相关图纸，规范和文件的所有方面。所有各方都必须轻松使用和理解，以支持与工程，采购，制造，较少的技术供应链伙伴如机器商店的交叉功能合作。
在机械，电气和软件设计之间透明地协作
Spreadsheets and CAD-centric PLM systems only help OEMs or ODMs manage a portion of the product record and BOM. For example, spreadsheets fail to provide relational connections to associated components, change orders, quality processes, and project information, making it harder to control as more people are added to the review process.
CAD-centric PLM solutions typically focus on a single aspect of the design like mechanical CAD and are not designed to manage software and electrical designs such as printed circuit boards (PCBs). They also lack access by all impacted teams outside of engineering and are not equipped to pass the complete product design to ERP systems at the point of release.
相比之下，今天的以产品为中心，基于云的PLM解决方案容易汇总了机械，电气和软件设计工具的产品信息，BOM和相关文件。工程团队可以在CAD和PDM中开发本机设计，然后在与产品团队的其余部分审查设计时，将零件，BOM和可观众的设计文件传输到PLM系统中的信息。一旦该产品获得批准，简单的接口使得将所有相关信息下载到ERP快速简便。
Looking ahead: leveraging IoT for continual product design improvement
物联网的未开发潜力仍在展开。虽然与连接设备共享的信息可以在生产和客户使用过程中产生有意义的见解，但尚未充分利用以自动化持续的产品设计改进。
Since there’s a direct correlation between product design and quality, it will also be critical for manufacturers and supply chains to collaborate in a single system with highly controlled, traceable processes and design history.
Although the advantages and potential dangers around IoT will continue to evolve, one thing is certain—the ability to effectively manage these complex product development processes will determine which manufacturers succeed and which flounder in their efforts to get high-quality products to market ahead of the competition.
Arena Solutions
www.arenasolutions.com.
Sources:
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2018/12/13/2018-roundup-of-internet-of-things-forecasts-and-market- istimates/#531cda7c7d83[1] https://www.iotforall.com/6-key-iot-trends-and-predictions-for-2019/[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/supply-chain/software-issue-drive-medical-device-recalls-for-10th-consechutt-quarter-report-finds.htmlFiled Under:AI•机器学习,设计世界文章,IoT • IIoT • internet of things • Industry 4.0,Networks • connectivity • fieldbuses
