Best Practice and Tips and Tricks from Mike Watkins

This week I'm covering a new app in the PLM 360 App Store, the  Autodesk Services Implementation Tracker PLM 360 App . I met with Ian Hadden from Autodesk Services to discuss the app and tell us all about it. Mike:  Hi Ian, thanks for taking the time to speak to me, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you do for Autodesk? Ian: I sure can Mike, I am a Solution Architect with Autodesk PLM Services. My role is to help Autodesk’s PLM customers get the most out of their PLM deployments. That means understanding what they are looking to do with PLM, helping them find the right configuration of the system to achieve their goals and assisting in the development of that configuration.  Mike: Sounds like you’re a busy man! Can you tell me about Autodesk Services and what are the main services you offer our customers? Ian: Autodesk PLM Services has a menu of offerings designed for a variety of customer needs from packaged workflow s...

This week I'm covering a new app in the PLM 360 App Store, the CE Marking  App. The purpose of this app is to manage the approval stages needed for the affixing of the CE marking on your products. With this app you can also create the EC Declaration Of Conformity  and get an automatically generated document ready to print and sign for the official bodies to approve. Background to CE Marking.. CE marking does not indicate that a product was made in the EEA, but merely states that the product is assessed before being placed on the market and thus satisfies the legislative requirements (e.g. a harmonised level of safety) to be sold there. It means that the manufacturer has verified that the product complies with all relevant essential requirements (e.g.safety, health, environmental protection requirements) of the applicable directive(s) – or, if stipulated in the directive(s), has had it examined by a notified conformity assessment body. Using the CE Marking App ...

So as discussed in my last post, I'm gonna do a deep dive into the Apps in the PLM 360 App Store over the coming months to give you an overview of what they are all about. First up is the FMEA App, the FMEA App or the Failure Mode  Effect Analysis  is used to  record the results for each type for Functional, Design or Process analysis for   components, assemblies, and subsystems. The Wiki View of FMEA Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) was one of the first systematic techniques for failure analysis. It was developed by reliability engineers in the 1950s to study problems that might arise from malfunctions of military systems. An FMEA is often the first step of a system reliability study. It involves reviewing as many components, assemblies, and subsystems as possible to identify failure modes, and their causes and effects. For each component, the failure modes and their resulting effects on the rest of the system are recorded in the App. An FMEA i...