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BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE: OUR CLASSIFICATION JOURNEY

Brian Iwerks & Cassie Fuls Daktronics PLM Team

June 2016

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YOU’RE IN RIGHT PLACE IF…

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DAKTRONICS

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WHO ARE WE?

Brian Iwerks Cassie Fuls

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• PTC Windchill 10.2 M030 CPS11

• PTC Creo 3 & AutoCAD 2016

• Cadence (PCB)

• Glovia (ERP) & SharePoint

• Consultant: Datafrond

• Launched PLM in 2015

OUR SYSTEMS

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POLL

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Why Classify?

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OUTDATED METHODS

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• Hard to Search

• Cryptic Part Descriptions

• Death by Decoding

• Difficult Reporting

• Variation by Business Unit

• Changing Attributes

• Duplicate Parts

CHALLENGES BEFORE CLASSIFICATION

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CHALLENGE

Migrate and Classify 1,000,000 Parts

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NEED SMALLER ROCKS!!!

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MINIMUM FUNCTIONALITY

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• Migrated 220,000 Parts from ERP

• Set Part Attributes

• Provided Basic PLM Value

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CHALLENGE #1: NO INDUSTRY STANDARD

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DEVELOPED OUR OWN

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CONSENSUS BUILDING

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“THE BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE”

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“THE BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE”

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CHALLENGE #2: PARSE 2000 UNIQUE NAMING RULES

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MANUAL EFFORT

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• Manual Spreadsheet Work

• Tedious and Error Prone

• Opportunity to Cleanse

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CHALLENGE #3: FINDING A LOADER TOOL

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NO SILVER BULLET

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• Counterpart Discontinued

• Considered Custom Tools

• Selected Excel

• Struggled with Tags and Human Error

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CHALLENGE #4: MIGRATING ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS

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LAUNCHED IN WAVES

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STEP-BY-STEP

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Test Environment

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Classification Tree & Attributes Part Data, Classification & Attribute Values

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NO SMALL FEAT

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NO SMALL FEAT

• 13,000+ classified buy parts

• 402 total branches

• 33 average parts per branch

• 2.8 average branches deep

• 1,101 total attributes

• 2.7 avg. attributes per branch

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LESSONS LEARNED

• Start Small

• Lack of Standards

• Governance Is Important

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Where do we

go from here?

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Load Parts Only Classify Buy Parts Classify Make Parts

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The search screens greatly increase the ease of finding existing parts. They are as easy as some of the websites that designers use frequently.

— Darrin Sourcing Engineer

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I'm pretty excited about the new part

search. For parts I don't work with

often, it will be a huge time savings!

— Jason Design Engineer

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Using classifications and attributes greatly increases the efficiency of searching, organizing, rationalizing, and selecting the components.

— Dallas Sourcing Engineer

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