Title: Digital Engineering Visualization in Automotive Product Creation Processes
Speaker: Dr. Reinhold Klass (Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India)
Seminar on 27th August, 2010, Friday, at 3.00 p.m.
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg Department
Abstract: The visualization of 3D product data on a PC becomes more and more important, especially in processes which do not use traditional CAD systems. For this purpose a format to describe 3D CAD Data incl. Production Manufacturing Information was developed by several companies. For the processes in the Automotive Industry the JT technology provides a powerful data format together with the appropriate visualization tools and converters. The basic principle and content of the JT Format will be explained including some typical use cases at Daimler and the data exchange with suppliers. Based on productive examples we show how JT data are used for Digital Engineering Visualization for 3D based processes without 2D drawings, virtual reality, packaging and digital mock up, body in white and powertrain use cases, Digital factory and more. We also point out future challenges, tasks and trends.
Another aspect is the standardization and publishing of the JT format specification. This will ensure the universal and cost saving usage of JT data throughout the process chains, e.g. for long term archiving of 3D models.
The development of JT is linked to international organizations and projects.
The usage of this Digital Engineering Visualization brings a big advantage in the automotive product creation processes: low cost, easy to use, enables non-CAD users to perform functions currently only performed by CAD operators, mobility using portable DEV formats on laptops, better collaboration, reduction and/or elimination of drawings.
About the Speaker:
Dr. rer. nat. Reinhold Klass studied Mathematics and Physics in Germany. Having finished the Master at the University Stuttgart he did his PhD in Mathematics on a task defined by Mercedes: Correction of surface reflection lines for high surface quality.
In 1981 he started at Daimler as a software developer for the Daimler inhouse CAD System. During this time he worked in a team of more then 80 IT experts and was given the responsibility to define the basic IT architecture and to lead several teams.
After 1990 he worked in many Daimler IT projects and teams (e.g. Bill of Material, EDM, PLM, EngineeringPortal, Supplier Integration, JT Viewing of CAD Files). His role was to define a strategy to connect and integrate the various complex Mercedes IT systems and to implement the requirements for Daimler Engineering tasks. During that time he represented Daimler in several international projects and organizations; his collaboration with MBRDI started in 2007.
Since April 2010 he is the General Manager and Head of Departement IT services at MBRDI in Bangalore.