The Maestro project is a digital twin for a representative small-to-medium (SME) product development and manufacturing company.
The Maestro project encompasses:
- Parts – part numbers, bills-of-materials, revisions, change management, supply chain documentation…
- Projects – resources, activities and tasks, milestones, planning, forecasting, scheduling, costing, resources, human resource time recording (timesheets), billing…
- Manufacturing – production scheduling, material requirements planning (MRP), purchasing, stock control, serialization and lot control, work center routing, testing, non-conformance reporting (NCR)…
- Quality Management – Issues, failure reporting and corrective actions (FRACAS), corective/preventitive action (CAPA), ISO 9000 / 14000 / 13485, IATF 16949…
- Document Control – engineering design drawings, documents and CAE projects, approval, revisions and change management…
The Swift Construction Company
The fictional Swift Construction Company (SCC) provides the back story for the Maestro project and supports exploring engineering product development, product lifecycle management and general business workflows.
The SCC is based on the Tom Swift series of youth science fiction and adventure books published in the early 1900’s. Tom’s father founded the Swift Construction Company as a design engineering, manufacturing, sales and services business.
Books published before 1923 are in the public domain, allowing the employees, projects, customers and suppliers to be used for the Maestro project.
SCC Quality Management System (QMS)
The Swift Construction Company maintains a formal quality management system or QMS, modelled on ISO 9001:2008. The SCC Quality System Manual (QSM) is managed online in the SCC Wiki.
Swift Construction Company QSM pages include:
Employees
The Swift Construction Company has individuals in typical representative roles needed to explore common business workflows.
Aircraft Wireless
The primary SCC product used in Maestro is the Aircraft Wireless.
Aircraft Wireless Product Lifecycle
| Milestone | Name | Description |
| 1 | Prototype | Electronics design complete. |
| 2 | Design Release | Product design complete. Preliminary design verification and validation testing passes. |
| 3 | Product Release | New product introduction process completed. The Aircraft Wireless can now be manufactured and sold without waivers. |
| 4 | Continuous Improvement | Changes to reduce manufacturing cost. |
| 5 | Field Service Kit | Parts kit made available for customer field service. |