Understanding Digital Manufacturing
What is Digital Manufacturing and Digital Prototyping?
As the use and adoption of 3D CAD systems increases, so manufacturing operations strive to implement the benefits of 3D data directly into their entire process. Successful implementation can deliver dramatic benefits in terms of cost, time, effort, and accuracy during the design to manufacture process.
But what does Digital Manufacturing (or another common term 'Digital Prototyping') really mean?
Others in the industry describe it as follows.
CIMdata defines Digital Manufacturing as:
"Solutions that support manufacturing process planning collaboration among engineering disciplines, such as design and manufacturing. Digital manufacturing solutions incorporate best practices and allow access to the full digital product definition, including tooling and manufacturing process designs. Digital manufacturing is an integrated suite of tools that work with product definition data to support tool design, manufacturing process design, visualization, simulation, and other analyses necessary to optimize the manufacturing process."
Autodesk describes Digital Prototyping as follows:
"Digital Prototyping gives manufacturers the ability to virtually explore a complete product before it is built-so they can create, validate, optimize, and manage designs from the conceptual design phase through the manufacturing process. By using a digital prototype, manufacturers can visualize and simulate real-world performance of the design with less reliance on costly physical prototypes."
Lattice
Technology Digital Manufacturing Solutions deliver applications that
fit neatly into an existing or growing Digital Manufacturing, Digital Prototyping or PLM workflow, allowing engineers,
designers, production and procurement personnel to quickly and
interactively:
- Check, validate and analyze 3D product data for interferences, tolerances and clearances
- Simulate kinematic production and assembly processes
- Create rapid reports in Microsoft Excel that integrates 3d data with product information and metadata
- Manage parts lists and BOMs interactively with 3D design data
- Create illustrations, instructions, maintenance operations and more directly from 3D data
- Integrate with existing PLM, PDM and ERP systems
- Share data securely with non-CAD users
- Handle huge data files easily and quickly
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