PLM Proving Invaluable to NASA Mars Mission
August 9, 2012
Just when we think we’ve seen product lifecycle management (PLM) used for every possible use a news story proves us wrong. The recent article, “New Sim, Testing Tools Used to Design Mars Lander”, on EE Times, shares the details of how a PLM solution is making it possible for NASA to land a robotic rover on the Martian surface.
According to the article NASA has chosen Siemens PLM to design a way for the space team to test various landing and take-off scenarios for the rover spacecraft. The response from Siemens was enthusiastically optimistic:
“The company claims its integrated suite of tools called NX pulled together disperate CAD, CAE and CAM tools to allow JPL engineers to ‘capture all of the DNA of [the Mars Science Laboratory] design’ and determine, for instance, whether they ‘over-designed it,’ (Tim Nichols, managing director of Siemens PLM Software ) said. NX was used to develop many of the mechanical portions of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, particularly the thermal control systems for entry, descent and landing as well as for surface operations at Curiosity’s planned landing site at Gale Crater.”
Now that more providers, and users for that matter, are realizing that PLM is not industry specific and relegated to only manufacturing but rather is a new way of doing data management the possibilities are endless.
Catherine Lamsfuss, August 9, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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