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Chapter 21

NDEMC Midwest

Pilot in the United

States of America

Merle Giles and Cynthia McIntyre

21.1 INTRODUCTION

e National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium

(NDEMC), a public–private partnership, was founded in 2010 by

three Midwest university supercomputer centers, four FORTUNE100

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manufacturers, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, and

the U.S. Council on Competitiveness. John Deere, General Electric

(GE), Lockheed Martin, and Procter & Gamble (P&G) each invested

$500,000 of cash and in-kind services, matched equally by the U.S.

Economic Development Administration (EDA). Small and medium

CONTENTS

21.1 Introduction 285

21.2 NDEMC Case 1: John Deere and Adams ermal 287

21.3 NDEMC Case Study 2: John Deere and Rosenboom

Machineand Tool 291

21.4 NDEMC Lessons for John Deere 292

21.5 NDEMC Case 3: GE, ESI, and an Unnamed Supplier 293

21.6 NDEMC Case 4: Jeco Plastic Products, LLC 295

21.7 NDEMC Overall Lessons Learned 296

21.8 NDEMC Outcomes 298

Endnotes 299

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manufacturers (SMMs) were chosen by each original equipment

manufacturer (OEM) to participate in advanced digital modeling and

simulation at no cost. e pilot lasted approximately 30months.

Initially, two suppliers per OEM whose advanced modeling and

simulation capabilities ranged from none to modest were chosen. In

each case, these companies were using two-dimensional (2D) geometry

CAD (computer-aided design) packages, whereas some companies

were using 3D modeling applications on desktop computers. None

were using supercomputers. The difference between 2D and 3D can

be described as the comparison between a traditional blueprint and

a 3D rotating image of a part that fits in an assembly (as in the Iron

Man movies).

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Advanced simulations explore structures using finite-

element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermal

progression (such as molten steel as it cools), and other physical

domains, either separately or together. The most advanced simulations,

known as multiphysics simulations, analyze two or more physical

domains simultaneously.

e initial scope for NDEMC was to concentrate on 3D simulation

training that used well-known commercial o-the-shelf (COTS) codes.

NDEMC STAKEHOLDERS

OEMs ($2 million)

Deere & Company

General Electric

Lockheed Martin

Procter & Gamble

Solution Partners

NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing

Applications, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign)

OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center, e Ohio

State University, Columbus, Indiana)

NCMS (National Center for Manufacturing

Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Purdue University, Indiana

Non-Prot Fiduciary

U.S. Council on Competitiveness

Federal Government ($2 million)

Economic Development Administration

White House (Oce of Science and

Technology Policy, Federal CTO)

State Governments

State of Ohio ($1 million)

State of Indiana ($150,000)

Other Signees

NSF (National Science Foundation)

NSF (National Science Foundation)

DOE (Department of Energy)

NIST (National Institute of Standards

and Technology)

NASA (National Aeronautic and Space

Administration)