Prashanth Mysore, DELMIA Strategic Business Development Senior Director, Dassault Systèmes
The growth of labor-intensive industries like manufacturing and construction are essential for developing sovereign industrial capabilities — a priority for national governments after COVID-19-induced supply chain disruptions and evolving geopolitical challenges. Today practically all countries have discovered that it is unwise not to have local or near-shore production, especially with the global supply chains going haywire during Covid.
A younger generation of Gen Z and millennials have emerged as the key demographic in the global workforce. The new digital native generation of workers do not find the traditional ways of working of the manufacturing industries especially in sectors like defense sufficiently digitalized and in tune with their ‘fun at work’ preferences.
Companies are required to reorient supply chain strategies towards developing sovereign capabilities in light of the evolving challenges. In defense and aerospace manufacturing, particularly in Asia Pacific South including Australia, asset acquisitions and technology transfers are vital for this development. The vast data involved in asset acquisition and technology transfer makes cybersecurity a key concern. Manufacturing processes must also incorporate sustainability frameworks, focusing on the ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ motto.
How the 3DEXPERIENCE platform accelerates capability building
Dassault Systèmes facilitates collaboration between academia, industry, and government to develop sovereign capabilities. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform helps upskill our client’s employees as well as students at universities, STEM schools, and institutions like TAFE in Australia, fostering seamlessly integrated knowledge ecosystems for Aerospace and Defense manufacturing built upon the dynamic exchange of information. Knowledge transfer and best practices can extend to any relevant institution, including defense manufacturing training centers.
The platform enhances research and development capabilities, adapting global best practices to local norms. It supports innovation and research with advanced digital toolkits for complete product lifecycle management.
Dassault Systèmes also establishes commercial centers of excellence to drive research and innovation, uniting universities, industries, and governments. The centers of excellence foster innovation through regular technology upgrades and actual industry-like training in the latest technology advancements. Users can leverage virtual twin technologies to upgrade skills and knowledge based on market demands and the needs of industry 5.0 as well as deploy smart factory platforms.
In short, the virtual twin technologies enable a data-empowered smart workforce and the seamless adoption of smart factory frameworks that are essential not only retaining the workforce but also constantly upgrading their skills in latest technologies.
3DEXPERIENCE platform: Value delivery in defense
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables digital knowledge management and work execution support, such as facilitating remote support, crucial for workers in nuclear submarine development. Since nuclear submarine manufacturing is new to many workforces in Asia Pacific South, the platform enhances knowledge management on worker safety, radioactive dosage management, and standard operating procedures. Remote support, enhanced with data and mixed reality, fosters a digitally enabled workforce, driving innovation in defense manufacturing.
On the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, people, processes, and data dynamically connect and enrich each other with an integrated AI-based approach. Sensors collect data and enhance worker training through AR and VR, driving analytics for better decision-making by the leadership. Predictive analytics empower workers to perform maintenance before breakdowns occur. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform facilitates future proofing the frontline workforce with digital enablement, leading to a more connected and smarter workforce.
The virtual twin technology seamlessly connects the workforce across specializations with operational systems, tracking material and manpower safety, and driving AI-based insights to improve performance. The platform also supports assisted reality to help workers dynamically connect to their environment.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform places seamless collaboration and integration at the center of the drive to achieve sovereign capabilities in Asia Pacific South. Collaboration on the platform is indeed a framework that connects people, process and technology to realize value delivery while people-centricity is all about updating the skills of the workforce based on current and future market conditions.
The system simulation capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform helps companies focus on lean design and manufacturing by reducing the usage of land, raw materials, and power. Organizations can also simulate what-if scenarios of carbon footprint management. The inherent capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform are built to ensure sustainability. Whichever process people are involved in, the virtual twin helps introduce the concepts of circular economy there, making them essential to sovereign capabilities development in strategic areas such as defense, shipbuilding, and aerospace.
Dassault Systèmes is committed to sovereign capability development
Dassault Systèmes is dedicated to skill development and empowering the future workforce by creating courses for STEM schools, TAFE, industrial institutes, and universities and the existing workforce in the industry. We have built state-of-the-art experiential learning centers backed by AI and using AR and VR technologies, and ideation centers for faculty development and interactive sessions. We have also established innovation centers for the workforce to explore the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with 3D immersive learning. A rapid prototyping lab has been set up at an Australian university.
Dassault Systèmes can establish industry-specific centers of excellence, crucial for Asia Pacific South nations, in Aerospace and Defense, Transportation and Mobility, Industrial Equipment, hydrogen plant construction, and Marine and Offshore manufacturing among others. We offer submarine development walkthroughs and immersive learning using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, providing industry-specific content to students and future workers in marine and offshore sectors. Across Asia, Dassault Systèmes has built centers for smart supply chain, smart shipyard, smart manufacturing, and aircraft composite innovation using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to accelerate innovation.
Prashanth Mysore Senior Director for Strategic Business Development, DELMIA