An Introduction to the DAMA Project

The DAMA project (created in 1993) was part of the American Textile Partnership (AMTEXTM). DAMA represents a nationwide effort focused on increasing the competitiveness of the fiber, textile, sewn products, and retail industries. For purposes of this project, we collectively refer to these industries as the U.S. Integrated Textile Complex (ITC). The support for AMTEX and the DAMA Project resulted from funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) and a consortium of industry companies and universities.DAMA developed an inter-enterprise architecture and analysis methodology for supply chains that enables improved collaborative business across the supply chain.

The industry has determined that collaborative business practices are necessary to provide a significant reduction in time and cost to product pipelines. Potential savings in the U.S. Integrated Textile Complex (ITC) are estimated at $45 Billion per year with a realistically achievable 50% reduction in time. DOE has determined that there was a need to ensure a reliable nuclear deterrent with declining resources by applying information technologies and shared business practices to product realization. The DOE goal was to reduce product realization cycle time by 50%, which will result in significant cost savings, while achieving ten times fewer defects.DAMA Participants.

The DAMA project team consisted of around 30 companies, four Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, one DOE production facility, several universities, and one Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) spread across the entire country. The DAMA Project Office coordinated the activities across all participating DOE laboratories. The DAMA Project web site was created and maintained by Sandia National Laboratories until the end of the project. It is now maintained by [TC]2. Our thanks goes out to all the participants listed below in making the DAMA Project an industry success.

DAMA Project Participants

DAMA Goals for Project Closeout in FY01
DAMA Resources will concentrate on accomplishing the following goals during FY99 and the first part of FY01:

1. Supply Chain Architecture: Develop, validate, and publish an inter-enterprise supply chain architecture and gain its endorsement by key industry trade associations and DOE Defense Programs (DP). Accomplishment of this will furnish current information at an inter-enterprise level, leading to improved planning, JIT, and inventory management for all participants. The U.S. ITC will have an architecture standard for collaborative business across inter-enterprise supply chains. DOE DP will have tested and proven examples of implementation of the architecture in industry and DP sites to enable improved Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) supply chains.

2. Supply Chain Analysis: Complete development, validation, and transfer to industry and DOE DP of the methodology for performing supply chain analysis. Accomplishment of this goal will provide opportunity identification, synchronization, and improved high-level business process access leading to cost, time, and quality improvements in the U.S. ITC. DP will have a tool with which to analyze and optimize its Mechanical Safing and Arming Device and NWC component supply chains.

3. Commercialization: Commercialize appropriate DAMA tools and methodologies (e.g., Collaborative Supply Chain Simulation, Sourcing Simulator, Textile Industry Supply Chain Business Model and Textile Game). Accomplishment of the Commercialization goal will provide better and broader access to the knowledge and products of DAMA, and wider deployment of cost and time saving tools and information.

DAMA Technologies

DAME (Data Analysis Modeling Environment)
Enabling Collaborative Practices

TEXNET (Textile Industry Data-Sharing Network)
A Prototype for Building Bridges

SCS (Supply Chain Simulation)
Analyzing the Links of the Chain

NSDB (The National Sourcing Database)
Leveraging the Power at Sourcingmall.com

PA (Pipeline Analysis)
How Does Your Business Flow?

SS (Sourcing Simulator)
Helping Retailers and Manufacturers Make the Right Sourcing Decisions

For more information, please contact:

Jim Lovejoy
Textile/Clothing Technology Corp.
211 Gregson Drive
Cary, NC 27511
(919) 380-2184
FAX: (919) 380-2181

e-mail: jlovejo@tc2.com

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