Name: Rationalizing your CAD Portfolio: How to Maximize Flexibility while Reducing Costs
Start: 2022-05-31T11:00:00.000-07:00
End: 2022-05-31T12:03:00.000-07:00

OK, welcome everyone. It's good to have all of you here. Good to be speaking with you and today's session will be on rationalizing your cat portfolio. How to maximize flexibility while reducing costs? So my name is Sean and I'm the regional technical manager in Siemens industry and with me is Alvin Tan. He is the business development director for mainstream engineering and science as well. OK, so hello hi. So this hour long session will take you through a few things as we can see. So first we'll talk about the Siemens mechanical design bundle, how we rationalize your CAD portfolio. So the three areas I want to touch on how we first of all operate on a single geometric kernel and why that is an advantage we will go into, you know, multidisciplinary engineering as well. And then you know, taking your design. From 3D to a full mechatronics production product. And then Elvin will touch on the next portion, which is next generation collaboration and specifically cloud based collaboration. And how we all can benefit from it, especially in the new normal that we're living in. We'll have some time for Q&A after both sessions. So if you have a question, please feel free to put it in the chat box on the left hand side. I believe there's a box. That says, ask a question. OK, just put it in and we will get to you and then we'll wrap up after that, OK? All right, so great. Now we are in 2022 with various. Degrees of relaxation of COVID measures in our different countries at the same time in in you know, getting back to our you know pre COVID days or what we consider a normal way of working. We find that we face certain challenges right? First of all, is delivery delays in one industry survey more than 2/3 of respondents reported being told to expect delays. Of course, we know that due to lots of circumstances, external circumstances there are supply chain issues. And while the average quota delay is 3 weeks, 15% of respondents have been quoted delays of six weeks or even more. And so manufacturers are forecasting actual delays of five weeks as a result of a full 2 weeks in excess of what they're being quoted. The next challenge that we're facing is one of increased costs, so most manufacturers are tempting to maintain the production levels while trying to return to business as usual with an increase in demand. But in order to maintain production in the face of supply chain disruptions, manufacturers have to seek alternative suppliers, suppliers and so this can often lead to. Higher cost in the new suppliers alternative suppliers quoting. Higher cost and they might have to pass this along to customers. Otherwise find ways to be more efficient. And of course there is uncertainty, right? Uncertainty the stock markets again in slide chains and more than two years after COVID started and suddenly remains one of the few things that is what we call a constant in the manufacturing business. So manufacturers who have been able to pivot and remain nimble. Adapting to new business realities have experienced the greatest success exhibiting the importance of data, trends and the ability to extract useful information from them. So with all this in mind, wouldn't it be great to address those you know issues? For example, wouldn't it be great to be able to manage your design tools to meet your business needs? Would it be great to lower your overall cost? Your overall cost of ownership through effective licensing and support? And instead of dealing with multiple vendors, you know to work with a single, trusted vendor? And wouldn't it be great also to address the issues of uncertainty by predicting protecting your data and full proofing your future design tools? So. You know, we we, we used to the difference between working harder and working smarter. The idea of working smarter, not harder, originated in the 1930s, right? And in all walks of life. The most important advice you can be given sometimes is worked hard, but you know. Sometimes is a way around that you know, and what does working smart actually mean? Well. As far as design is concerned, we look at the Siemens mechanical design offering as giving you the industry's most powerful and flexible can solution, which is perfectly tailored to your business needs as well as your budget. All right, we're able to strengthen the comprehensive digital twin that's in Siemens while reducing risk, maximizing flexibility and simplifying your total cost of ownership. While when it comes to reducing the risk and protecting your data, only Siemens operates on the industry-leading parasolid kernel you know. For all its scared products, and only Siemens can allow you the maximum flexibility and licensing, which allows you to mix and match your canned options to meet the diverse needs of your business, and only Siemens simplifies your licensing, billing and support to effectively lower your total cost of ownership all right. How does this look like? So basically what we're talking about is combining the value of an X and solid edge in into one interoperable hole. OK, that allows for great integration, so this will in turn reduce design time and promote a more collaborative environment. Now, some of the benefits will include large scale design, integration, increase productivity and collaborative engineering. Alright, so let's have an example of how you know this looks like. In order to maximize your design capabilities, Siemens mechanical Design Bundle offers you. Combination of the annex mark one as well as solid edge classic all right and flexible software deployment lets you mix and match these licensing options so you can easily deploy the design tool according to how you need it all right. So here we have an example of two licenses of the Siemens mechanical design bundle each license. Of the mechanical design bundle. Gives you access to 1 license of NX and three licenses of Solid Edge, but not altogether all right it's. It's a combination of both, so the example here that you see is that we have two licenses of the Siemens mechanical design bundle. Here are the options you can play with, right? Let's say at 8:00 o'clock. You have the NX users, so you can use up to two NX licenses. Right? But, and this means that the the the mechanical design bundle is fully utilized by using two NX licenses and that is zero solid Edge users or at 9:00 o'clock one of the annex users logs off when they log off, it opens up and it frees up to three licenses of solid edge. All right. So you can use one NX and three licenses of solid edge. Concurrently. And let's say at 10:00 o'clock that Anex users have finished their work, so this frees up up to six concurrent solid Edge licenses. All right, so you can see the the ratio is one to three ratio where it's one license of an X and three licenses of solid edge, so. In this example, we are dealing with two licenses of the Siemens mechanical design bundle. If it was one license of Siemens mechanical Design bundle, then it would be 1 license of NX. All three licenses of solid Edge concurrently, all right. So one of our customers, Joe Gibbs Racing. This is the Siemens mechanical design bundle, and here's a great quote from. One of the simulation engineers, so he's convinced that the ability to seamlessly move back and forth between solid edge and NX improves the racing teams capabilities and combined with the ability to start working on an idea with solid edge and then pick it up back in the shop with NX. Keeps them going and. Really helps them along. So lowering your total cost of ownership, that's a big one, right? What does this mean? Well, if you see on the you know top rectangle over here, managing multiple platforms and technology vendors as a great deal of complexity and cost to your business. So you have different cost drivers, so things like protecting your design data, minimizing interoperability issues because of your disparate CAD systems, managing. Multiple pricing schedules, licensing schemes, training support. All of these drivers impact your total cost of ownership. It's not just the software now Siemens is the only company that can meet these diverse needs of your businesses while protecting and future proofing your data, unifying your licensing, billing, and support to significantly lower your total cost of ownership. So you heard me say protecting and future proofing your data. What do you mean by that? So when you look at the underlying technology or what we call the kernel? That that both NXN solid edge sits on Siemens owns and licenses this kind of called parasolid and it's the industries leading geometric kernel, right? So Siemens is the only company whose can offerings both leverage the PARASOLID kernel. What does this mean to you? Well, if you look over here, the parasolid kernel is used by over 4,000,000 users and in over 350 applications worldwide. Parasolid gives you a single digital backbone for best in class interoperability, so we have an extensive ecosystem for unmatched third party interoperability, providing you with the most comprehensive set of engineering tools in the industry. And you know, since Siemens owns and develops and openly shares parasolid, we are really future proofing your design data. All right, we have a statement here from another of our customers. This large French conglomerate group, Seb. You might know them from the different brands like Mullinex. Yeah, and you know so the the innovation manager said that Siemens mechanical design solutions are critical components in enabling them to meet their diverse needs of their business and lower the total cost of ownership. And by using a single Simons design mechanical backbone both annex and solid Edge provide them with the right design tool for their job. Whether it's research, product development, tooling design or factory layout. Right, so they have the right solution for all the design requirements. OK, let's get into an example of how of the workflow of you know how the Siemens mechanical Designer design bundle might work. All right, so imagine. You, an industrial machinery OEM right and you're working with your supplier to optimize the design of the control boxes. You know that the the operators are using, so without the interoperability of. Annex and solid edge. You have a lot of interruptions. You know as you work with your supplier. But you know what, we're gonna take a look at is the the the workflow over here looking at the five key components of interoperability? So first of all, we look at annexes quick environment to load and work on large assemblies. Secondly, the creation of solid edge files. And how fast that is. Thirdly, importing the data back into NX4, updating the solid edge data and 5th using the interoperability to integrate everything back in. So I'll just walk you through that so step one. Able to create and manage the assembly models of any size or complexity, and then you will see how we can manage that in. An ex. OK, so let me just. Play this. OK, so here in annex as you can see, you can access your assembly. You know by opening the file very very quickly in seconds you have you're fully loaded large scale machinery, then it's ready to be worked on, and this is not just a simple you know showing the outside of the machine. As you can see while it's sections, the machine you have access to thousands of individual. Pack components and all of this is loaded in minimal time, so this is just one example of machine. It could be a series of machines, or even something even more complex, and X is able to load all of this very, very easily. OK. So next. We move on to the second part here. Which is. That you want to create the control box right? So solid Edge is a great. Easy to use. High value tool that allows you to create your component very very quickly. OK and very simply as well. So let's see how. We do that. Alright, so now we are in solid edge, OK, and maybe the supplier. Is we need to create a brand new control box for the NX machine? That was sent to them by the OEM. So we see one control box on the left. We want to create a new one. We can open the next assembly inside of solid edge and instead of creating the bot the box in empty space we can rely on the surrounding components to. To to place our part and also to you know, make sure it is the correct size so you see what we're doing is we're doing what we call the top down assembly approach to ensure that all the parts fit effectively. It also means that when you talk about things like mounting holes as you can see that we're going to do next. Alright, we have the brackets and we have the mounting holes so we can. Apply the position and size of the mounting hole. In the right place and the first time without, you know, making references and doing measurements right? And this really speeds up the design process. OK, so. We can also create. Other features like. You know bunch of holes. At the bottom of the box. So this allows a connecting space for the tubing. OK, and then we'll just add a few more holes in the sheet metal for buttons and the screen components. Alright, so we've got our sheet metal control box, so we'll place the screen. We'll place the button components, make sure everything fits properly, and so solid edges. Intelligent assembly associations allow us to save the constraints for easy placement. Right, so all this is done and ready to be sent back to the OEM to import into the NX assembly. So as you can see from there, the main benefit of choosing solid edge to going along with NX is that it works in perfect harmony for true Multicare associative workflow. OK, let's see how this is done. So next. We go back to. UMNX OK so. We open the file. The the solid edge files that we have just created. The small sub assembly of the control box using the same process that we used to open any file, so that's no different to opening an X files. So you just select the solid edge files from the drop down menu and then you open the files OK and then that gets loaded. Alright, so we find the assembly there and then we use the orientation tools to relocate. It to the area you know that that we constrain it so constraining the files and it simply is always important. But especially when you talk about interoperability constraints are the glue that hold the pieces together. So when using the interoperability function in the assembly, they'll also identify how the solid edge data is connected to the next assembly. So these constraints allow the system to recognize how the parts are. Printed and connected to one another. All right, and then, once you know the constraints are done, the associative features will be recognized and remembered, so it allows the updated files to integrate smoothly. Alright, so once assembly is complete you just save at the top level. So as you can see, the main benefit for using indexes, adaptive work environment is because it's supports many file sources requiring no additional rework corrections or reverse engineering. Now let's dive into editing the control box within solid Edge as our next step. OK, so solid Edge makes creating and editing 3D CAD model very very fast. I'll just show you how that is done. What we want to do is maybe we want to reuse the design details from the other CAD models and. Respond to late stage changes because as we know in design. There's always design changes, and some of these design changes are unplanned form. That means you you never expected to make this design change, but you always should be able to respond to it. OK. Yeah, so let's see how that goes. OK, so we're back in solid edge, right? So the OEM has asked the supplier to combine the two controller boxes that needs itself. Having two of them. We just have one of them, so the one that we've created needs to be a bit bigger all right. So back in solid edge. Let's see how we can do that so you see the control box and the sheet metal part here. The taken the holes of the other control box and copied it. In solid edge, all we need to do to make it longer is just select the area and as you can see type in how much longer you want it to be and synchronous technology within SolidWorks gets it done so easily. We want to move the bottom hole to center it. That also is so simple all right. Instead of having to measure everything from scratch in the use of data. All right, we already have copied the mounting holes instead of having to redo all of them, all we need to do is copy and then use a simple paste just like you would with any other windows. Program all right. So. Once, once that is done, you can turn on the control you know the other components and using these mounting plates, mount the the rest of the components like brackets and the other screen and all of that. So as you can see, making these design changes. Such a short time if you want to add more changes again, you just select what you want and just drag it. It's really really as simple as that so. What this means is that you know you are really shortcutting both the design as well as the editing process, making it easier and faster to respond to these design changes, especially late in the game where the changes need to be made as quickly as possible, all right. So you can see one of the main benefits of using synchronous modeling and solid edges that really reduces the need for preplanning, right? You didn't have to say, OK, I plan for it to change this way. Any changes that are asked for you can respond to it quickly. OK, it also allows you to treat Multicare data just like native files. OK, you don't need to have you know all the feature information before you make that design change. So moving on. You know we we go to our last our last step, which is the interoperability. OK, so it allows us to update the most. Up to date files in an X. So finally you see that the control box is being referenced all right. And you have a 2D drawing as well. OK, so we can identify the dimensions of the control box with respect to the other components location, so this will be important later, because as you see in the 2D drawing, it will update when the assembly updates as well. OK, so as you can see, the control box is here in. In in X. And just right click and select properties OK and then if it is updated you just say updated OK and in the interoperability tab. In a few seconds you see. That it has successfully updated. OK, you see the green tick there and it's the new control box, so all the constraints remain, so you do not have to redo the constraints again and whatever has changed. You know, because of the connection with the mounting holes. Everything has moved correctly and you also see that the wiring cable located at the bottom because of the mounting hole has moved. The wiring cable has also moved its well, so to confirm all of this we go back to the 2D drawing and as we update it. And you will see that that has updated. But you also can see that the distances the dimensions have also been changed from what they were previously, so we don't have to redo or rework this drawing. OK, so so that is great and. Because that is done, we do not need the left hand side control box. OK, so we'll just take it and delete them and just. Save the risk so. You know, in in this interoperability demo you see that optimizing the design time. Is is it takes the chore out of. First of all, creating files, editing files and then working back and forth between solid pitch and and X. So that's a great thing. Alright, so now. Moving back again. OK, you can see that in this collaborative environment. Be really reduce the amount of design time. OK, so that is the total workflow that we have using the strength of an X and solid edge in the Siemens mechanical design bundle. So coming back again, alright, you will no longer have to suffer, you know, with just working hard because now you have the tools to work smarter as well. Annex and solid Edge into operability allows you to get more work done, so that means increasing productivity, reducing design time, optimizing collaboration, and cutting costs. So with NX and Solid Edge, you'll always be able to deliver more than expected. And now. You know, if you're interested in either of the software, here is our QR code 2 QR codes to allow you to scan and download the trial versions of Solid Edge on the left and an X on the right. So I'll just give you a little bit of time to do that. And in the next slide is some information about the Siemens mechanical design bundle. So if you want more information about it or you just want to contact us. Then scan this QR code and it will get you to a form where you're able to get to us. Will be happy to get back to you about anything or any questions that you might have. Alright, now we move on to our next subject, which is a multidisciplinary engineering. Now we talked about the Siemens mechanical design bundle all right, but you know the Siemens mechanical design bundle doesn't just exist on its own as you know, solid edge and NX both platforms on which you can add additional tools, additional capability. And one of this fits right in to machine builders. Alright, but you know when you talk about machine builders you talk are very specific challenges, right? They they have to deliver high quality products with increasing product complexity. There's also the question of collaboration, not just within the Mechanical Department, but between mechanical, electrical and even automation engineers, right? Because they're very complex mechatronic designs, and they also have to test the machine designs as early as possible so that you reduce the amount of the later in the production. You do all this testing, the more it's costly. It's going to be. That because the more the more costly the rework it is. Plus it's going to take a lot more time. So these are some challenges that machine builders face. Alright, so in the past. Could we write the machine builders, face them in the past? The engineering process often started with requirements documents as well as concept designs written on paper. Then the detailed design small like a sequential process. And communication between the different engineering disciplines was done a lot times on paper as well, and after that the machine was available the shop floor. That's when you then start with the commissioning when everything's physical. So imagine taking a mechatronics approach to the design, right, taking advantage of all the engineering disciplines concept to detailed design in a simultaneous environment between all the different disciplines in one digital thread. Imagine being able to go from concept to functional productive machine quickly and reliably. You know, imagine the impact that. Simulated 3D model that communicates the function of the machine in a language that everyone can understand would have and the power of automating parts of the design process to ensure that the solution is the most effective and highest quality. Lowest cost with fewer errors. So. With. Annex, So what we're proposing is actually the product call. Annex, Mechatronics, concept design. So it goes through all those different processes. OK, starting with a concept design so the basic idea of concept design is addressing process requirement with the right solution and the very early design stage. OK to get it in the right direction. So NX, mechatronics, concept designer or MCD for short. Is scalable solution right? Which first of all can work with concept models and then as well As for the detailed machine design, right? So the big benefit is that concept designs can be used for. Kinematics motion studies for basic dimensioning of drives using the physics engine of MCD. And also basic setup of automation engineering projects. OK so this enables you to validate your design decisions and stage and save time and reduce design waste. Next would be the next stage would be multidisciplinary engineering. OK, once you get to detailed design and then you involve the different disciplines, right be the mechanical, electrical and automation. So you have interactive real time kinematics for the design analysis with. Physics driven motion design and documentation. And you also have the dimensioning of drives by leveraging the physics engine you can have workflows to collaborate with ecad as well, and the Virginia MCDC sequence of operations as well as the motion design for automation programming. So all of this by doing them simultaneously instead of sequentially means to reduce your design cost and reduce your design time with MCD. Then finally we go on to the very important part which is virtual commissioning. OK so virtual commissioning as its name suggests, means you do your commissioning of the machine before you actually build it. It makes it easy to conduct machine commissioning tests early in the development phase so you validate. 9 by using is the physical before the physical model is produced. Digital twin enables machine builders to try out multiple iterations. To optimize the designs in the virtual environment. And then the total design. The total time taken for the commissioning can be reduced by as much as 70%, so that means production process that's higher quality, better in reliability and productivity. And because the process is more efficient, your ability to deliver machines quickly gives you an edge over your competition. And by adopting this technology, you can be confident that your next machine will be a properly production machine and not just a prototype, so Siemens is uniquely positioned to bring together these virtual and real worlds because our expertise covers the whole machinery lifecycle from concept development, bidding, commissioning to, you know, through to decommissioning as well so. You know the the benefit of this is, you know, you're levering leveraging these concept models into a fully skilled virtual commissioning solution. So. Let's take a look at a short video showing this and you know the virtual commissioning. So you do the virtual commissioning in MCD. Using you know the. The. Automation components. And then you see what is happening is that you see the virtual environment and this translates into the real world environment. You can see how they stack up next to each other, and then you can be confident that whatever you're doing in that virtual environment would translate to the real world. And that is something that's really very. Valuable. So in summary. MCD supports your design process right from the beginning during the concept design phase through to the detailed engineering phase right up to virtual commissioning. So in practice we found that this can reduce overall engineering costs by up to 33%. During their concept design, MCD can be leveraged to make the right decisions at a very early stage of the project and also the distribute and reuse the information throughout the whole project. During the detailed design phase, MCD offers different capabilities to collaborate with between the mechanical, electrical and automation engineers to be used as a full mechatronic design tool and MCD offers. Scalable virtual commissioning tool you know? So with conceptual models, automation designer can start to set up the automation solution and scale this up to a full detailed virtual commissioning setup. Overall MCD offers a broad variety of opportunities to streamline the mechatronics engineering process. Focused on machine builders and it's also a great tool to start with, particularly when you put in. Things like virtual commissioning and, you know, expand the scope step by step. So with that I thank you for your time and again I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. Just put it in the question box and we will now move on to the next section with Elvin so Elvin take it away. Alright, thank you Sean for your great presentation. Hello everyone, once again welcome to our Siemens webinar regarding rationalizing your CAP portfolio. How to maximize flexibility while reducing costs. My name is Alvin Tan and I will be covering the topic on improving collaboration with accelerator share. As Simon digital industry software starts to speed up on the digital transformation journey for our customers, we are also moving to software as a service or known as set licensing model for our customers. This is because we want to help our corporate and manufacturing customers big and small to reduce costs and save money over a long period of time in the future. This licensing model really makes economical sense to our customers because the investment is spread over a long period of time and cash flow is not tied up front for going with Simon software. I started to share is an important part of the sex licensing experience and I want to share how exceptor share can play an important role in your organization in the next 10 minutes. But what is a shelter shared exactly? Number one, as of the share is the first clock component of accelerator as a service subscriptions. Offered by Simon software. This is not a standalone product right? This bundle with all the software licenses that you will get to enjoy from Siemens. Number two, I said the share offers a rich set of features to add every day's collaboration. And finally, said the share contributes to making digital transformation even more accessible, flexible and scalable to our customers. Extra Dosha helps to solve today's collaboration challenges. But what are the challenges? This is what we hear from our customers. Traditional office and things where everybody is colocated. Are becoming rarer, especially in this pandemic times. Instead, teams are dispersed locally or even globally. If the Internet becoming the lifeline for productivity. Teams are not just a matter of internal employees and this external players made supply chain or customers need to be closely involved to ensure success. Sharing data externally is often challenging with existing systems. Teams often have regional expertise. Often on different time zones as well. So always on access to data is required and there's the need to connect different functions of the business to address the multiple domains of a digital twin. Pressure on productivity drives the ability to carry out tasks on any devices at anytime and not being limited by a device dependency. And finally, secure access to data is crucial. This not only means the right people having the right level assessors of access to the right data, but also dealing with the challenges of wrong people having access to data and also we need to protect against that as well. Simple file sharing tools increase risks and limit productivity and creativity. Let's take a look at today's scenario. Workout 2 subway using. Commonly we use emails we use zip files. We use mobile phone sharing. We use instant messaging all this when post reads to our customers and also our internal organizations. To help solve these challenges as well, the share has a wealth of collaboration features. Number one secure cloud storage. This is. Our number one priority protecting protecting our customer data and files. Desktop file syncing working projects on your desktop and able to sync to the cloud storage immediately. Permission based. Well, Jack sharing, but I think your data and also protecting your security and your faults as well. Thus, management, better collaboration and you can allocate different tasks to the different Members in your project team. A generic centric view and markup. You know product design will be able to do mockups and all the Members can make comments to improve the design of your product. A visualization. Where we can do a mock up of your product design in the real life setting? How cool is that? Team messaging and notifications. We can do instant messages in the accepted share for better communication. Any device and install that is a bonus to the project members working on a single project. Use multi user override protection. This will ensure better data protections and finally a connection to team center our Simmons PDM platform solution. And all these features are wrapped up in an intuitive experience. Plus, if any guidance is required, interactive user assistance, including tools, are just a click or touch away. Now let's take a look at different interface of accepting share using the coffee maker machine as an example. Well, firstly we can upload our coffee maker 3D model in the accepted share. Then all the Members can add comments and markups to the 3D model. There is also a dimensioning feature available in selected share where we can add actual dimensions to the 3D models in share. This shows an exploded view of the coffee maker model with all the parts clearly visible and how they are assembled together. And finally, using an iPad or iPhone or even your Android phones, we can virtually position the coffee maker in an AR environment setting. Helping designers and manufacturers to make realistic and visually impactful scenes. Screens for the new products. This is another scenario by a contract manufacturer collaborating with a customer using asserted share. Now number one. First step, the customer will submit a specification for product and uploads to the accepted share. Now the interested party. The designer who works for a contract manufacturer. Were able to download the specs. Review it. Create a concept design plus the quotations and then proceed to upload to the accepted share. Then the customer will review the concept design. Yes, they share and do some mockups and changes. The designer were able to review the markups and assessor share and create the final design before uploading to access the shares. If the customer approved the final design. Well, the contract manufacturer will review and approve the final design from its engineering manager. And lastly, the purchasing department will review the final design and were able to purchase the required components. From this prototype. Now I said the share works with many solutions from CMS accelerator portfolio. Bridging from Annex Solish, theme center and many others. It is the common engineering focus collaboration platform for all companies for to our customers. Next, I want to do a quick example how so less users can access the share. Well. How do we use Excel share installation while opening files in the accelerator share is very easy. This can be done directly from solace user interface. And saving files is equally easy. We can save a file directly to establish share in solage. Though you can see this is very easy to use and straightforward. All said subscription includes. Share top storage for users to collaborate using the share. Now each customer's account will start with a minimum of 500 gig of cloud storage shed across all users in the company. This minimal storage is provided to ensure all customers within the same company have access to the sufficient crop storage to take advantage of the share collaboration features and capabilities. And in additional to the starting final gig, additional 5 gig per license will be added for every set subscription. That would include the best products and options and for all user types. No, I said the share collaboration is centered around projects for any given project as a limit of 10 collaborators, which can be any measure of users known as members. And other internal or external collaborators known as CAS. In this example, the team is trying to develop a dishwasher, which is the project. Now there are six members from the OEM customers designing and engineering the project. Now there are also three suppliers to the OEM's which are invited to participate in this project as guests with limited project permissions. And finally, one customer representative with the same limited project permissions to view the final product design. Making it a total of 10 collaborators on the dishwasher project. Again, the collaborator Rose can be any mix of full members and guests. However, the total number of users. Who can collaborate on a single project is limited to 10? Now you can, as you can see from the earlier slides, there are three types of users in the acceptor share. The hidden one will be the administrator, right? Is what we call it. Normally the superuser. Now the administrator will be responsible to manage the accounts in the company. He or she will be able to add or delete members for each project. Each projects inside the company. Now Members can create their own projects and start to share those projects to existing members or guests. For guests they are invited by members only and have limited permissions as compared to members. Now, as it does share support, most of the operating systems for the computer and mobile devices. All users in respective of their role can access the web browser on any common device, be it phone, tablet, computer. Laptop etcetera. Concurrent sign-in across devices is supported and not currently limited. As I mentioned earlier, the accelerator share is only available for similar software on sales licensing. Now, how do I try to access the share for my company? Now we are offering free trial for sector share for two months starting from today for each company. Please contact your local CMS reseller or partners For more information. I've come to the end. To my topic, and we welcome questions from the audience, I'll hand over to Sean for the Q&A segment. Thank you so much. OK, great, thanks alpin. Great presentation, OK, it's Q&A time. We have a few minutes for that so. If you again if you have any questions, please feel free to type this out. OK, we have some questions already coming in. Number one can I add solid edge or annex modules on top of the Siemens mechanical design licenses? Well, the answer is yes, and one of the examples given was MCD Metronics concept designer, which visual speech and so the answer is yes. Here's one that maybe Elvin you want to take. Is there a limit to the number of projects in accelerator share? Well, Sean, there's no limits to the projects and the share. But each project is only limited to 10 collaborators, right? And of course it also depends on how much data storage that you have in the cloud. So as I mentioned, you can have as many projects as you like, but you're constrained by the capacity in the cloud storage. Got it, got it OK. OK, here's another one. This one is about MCD. Will MCD work with non Siemens controllers? The answer is yes. So it doesn't have to be Siemens controllers when you talk about the virtual commissioning and automation right non Siemens controllers will work with MCP as well. That's really a great thing. That's one one of the main driving forces behind MCD and why it's so useful. All right, here's another one. In case the subscription is stopped, what happens to the data in the cloud? Can it be accessed again? So Alvin, you want to take this one? Yeah Sean, I think this is a great questions. So as I mentioned, the asserted share is tied with the subscription of the cement software right under the set licensing wonder. So unfortunately all the data will no longer be accessible if the software stops the subscription. So to ensure that you can access the data continuously, we encourage you to of course keep the seamless software with the company as long as possible. Now I also want to mention that if any engineers leave the company, the administrator have the rights to retrieve the data from any engineers, right? That has retired or in that sense right left the company. Now the administrator can retrieve the data and also reassign the data to another member. That is possible. But the key thing is that the company needs to be constantly, you know. Ensure that the similar software is on on current status. OK, great. Lots of questions about accelerated share elbin very popular it's great. Another one is accelerated share limited to solid edge software. That means a collaboration with Solid Edge software. Is it possible for the user? Uses of design different existing modeling software. Instead of something edge. That's a great question as well. Now let me clarify right. There are two things I said to share is only available with similar software. But with a soda share you can upload any 3D CAD models, upload it to accelerator share. So you can view and do the workouts for your 3D models. They are designed in all different types of software. Right, not limiting to simple software. I hope that, yeah, that clarifies. Yes, very good. Yeah, so it's. It's not just solid edges and X as well, but beyond that, like Elvin says, even if the the models are created in, you know other software regardless of the file type accelerated share you can think of it as like a CAD viewer, right? Universal CAD viewer. So whether it's you know specific. This model in another design tool or even it could be a neutral format such as I just file or step file. You can upload it into accelerator share and it also can be viewed as if it was native as well. So thank you for that question. Alright. Once again, thanks so much for your participation. If there any other questions we will get back to you, but. That's it for now. So I think it's time to wrap up. Thank you for participating everyone at our session, so we really hope you enjoyed our our our presentations. If you missed any of the speeches, I know some of you came a little bit late or if you would like to listen to them again, please don't worry, you can use the same login information that you use to register and revisit the platform to playback the presentation so the on demand sessions will be available soon and finally. But before you leave today's webinar, we would appreciate it if you could complete the survey, which is located at the bottom left corner of your screen. The one that says take survey, right? So your feedback is really important to us and how we conduct our future events as well. So that's it. From Alvin myself, we thank you so much for your time and we appreciate you for being here. Have a great day ahead, bye. Goodbye, thank you. _1656848848100

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