Digital Manufacturing Challenges
Dealing with
Digital Manufacturing Challenges
As manufacturers adopt Digital Manufacturing processes within their
workflow, so they begin to encounter the challenges that an
all-digital design-to-manufacture process brings.
- As more and more 3D design is used, so it results in ever bigger 3D assemblies that need to be validated, tested, simulated and shared. But simply transmitting these massive data to others in the chain is a challenge in itself, especially as supply chains become more widely distributed. So a way of handling that massive data between all parties becomes necessary.
- Many of the participants in a product development process need to be able to check the design, verify its accuracy, determine and plan how to manufacture the product, verify the parts lists for ordering and scheduling, and define assembly processes. As it is not cost-effective or productive for everyone in the manufacturing chain to have expensive CAD systems and hardware, so they need to find a way to see and use the data quickly, easily and flawlessly.
- Proprietary 3D CAD formats make it impossible to reuse 3D data in areas that would seem to be obvious - technical manuals, animations, spreadsheet reports, PDFs, marketing materials and more. This creates a tremendous data gap between the designers and the support and service teams who will maintain the product.
Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing Solutions deliver applications that fit neatly into a Digital Manufacturing or PLM workflow, allowing engineers, designers, production and procurement personnel to quickly and interactively validate, analyze, simulate and manage the designs of even the biggest assemblies, quality check products and production lines before they are put into physical forms, and to deliver comprehensive instructions, illustrations and service and support documentation directly from 3D data.
While manufacturers benefit at certain levels from adopting Digital Manufacturing, Digital Prototyping or PLM technologies into their workflow, so Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing solutions allow for the true benefits of Digital Manufacturing to be experienced - without the normal challenges and speed bumps noted above.
Benefits of Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing solutions
Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing solutions enable manufacturers to deliver greater productivity, decrease costs, improve product and manufacturing quality, and increase efficiency throughout the entire design to manufacture process while manufacturers can continue to use any CAD or PLM system of their choice. Lattice Technology XVL applications deliver digital manufacturing applications that leverage all major 3D CAD data formats and assemblies to streamline your design, engineering and manufacturing processes into a seamless digital operation. These applications integrate validation, design review, engineering simulation, process planning, assembly simulation, quality control, parts list and BOM management, and creation of instructions and illustrations directly into your 3D CAD design and engineering process, regardless of CAD system.
Benefits to the manufacturing operation are achieved by:
- Reducing and avoiding costly mistakes in a product or process design by delivering tools to interactively and rapidly check and validate digital designs
- Delivering a manufactured product faster and more efficiently than ever before from design all the way through to manufacture, assembly and delivery to market
- Leveraging massive 3D data easily and quickly throughout the operation
- Saving time, money and effort by rapidly reusing CAD data in engineering, analysis and downstream operations
- Saving time and confusion by allowing easy, interactive management of parts lists and Bills of Materials directly between the 3D data and the lists attached to them
- Creating bottom-line gains by quickly communicating approved processes to your production and assembly lines
- Streamlining Maintenance, and Repair Operations by rapid communication of accurate instructions both in print and online
- Delivering 3D data far more easily within an existing PLM, ERP, digital manufacturing or digital prototyping process
- By not being required to adopt new CAD platforms.
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