Free eBook: Optimize Assembly Ops

Using 3D Data to Improve Manufacturing Processes

How Manufacturers are Leveraging their 3D CAD Data to Lower Costs, Improve Quality and Accelerate Time-to-Market

Companies can face many problems in the planning, validation and sharing of large assemblies. Whether it’s with their own shop floor or with their partners in the supply chain, product design companies can run into many problems.

Some of the big problems when engaging stakeholders outside the company include protecting intellectual property, multi-CAD collaboration and interoperability, or sharing models with customers. In house-sharing has its own set of challenges, including communication problems between product designers and manufacturing engineers, use of paper drawings on the shop floor and making sure you have access to the latest version and access to CAD altogether.

Technical Challenge

These problems are exacerbated if the model sizes are large…and for companies that make heavy equipment, vehicles and machinery, the CAD model sizes can easily be in the gigabytes. For these companies, often times they cannot bring all of their sub-assemblies into a single instance as it would take too long to load and the performance would not be workable.

And finally, CAD was never meant to be a communication tool. CAD is expensive and requires a significant amount of skill and expertise to operate.

Companies have all of the precise 3D data but how can users effectively use it outside of the engineering department?

Solution

For a manufacturer to succeed in the global marketplace, it needs to use IT innovations such as XVL to develop optimized processes and implement these processes as standards throughout the organization.

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