XVL Digital Manufacturing Software reduces manufacturing errors up to 35%.
Medical Device Manufacturing is a hot segment of the manufacturing market with more than $70 billion a year spent on it in the US alone. This sector demands a lot from its design and production engineers – developing the newest innovations to support medicine, while conforming with strict regulation from the FDA, rigorous testing, and the fact that a product failure could result in the death of a patient.
Add to that the need to keep manufacturing processes at optimum levels of efficiency, productivity and profitability, and you find that good software applications to support this market become very important.
Lattice Technology’s Digital manufacturing solutions work in concert with existing ERP, PLM and digital manufacturing technologies to reinvigorate an automotive organization’s divisional, company-wide and global efforts. By working hand-in-hand with all major 3D CAD systems, the XVL applications leverage and streamline the digital workflow – delivering affordable tools for design review, digital assembly, process simulation, 3D parts lists, illustration and digital instructions.
The XVL format delivers speed improvements by making 3D data ultra-compressed with no loss of accuracy of the data. This means that massive or complex 3D assemblies used by the medical device engineers can suddenly become easily handled, easily tested and simulated and quickly shared. No other 3D format can offer these features along with no loss of accuracy – and accuracy of the data is critical with the closely tested, critical systems that are used in medicine.
The XVL Studio and Lattice3D Reporter tools allow product engineers to truly leverage 3D CAD data for faster, more effective product design, while reducing costs for manufacturing companies.
Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing Solutions deliver the following tools that work directly on 3D CAD assemblies, and parts.
- Design Review – be able to pan, rotate, view and zoom data. Use XVL Studio to perform rapid static and dynamic interference, clearance, gap and contact checks on entire assemblies, and create visual and text-based reports automatically into Excel spreadsheets.
- Motion Simulation – test, simulate and animate motion for kinetics and mechatronics, and check for clearances and interference in XVL Studio. Report automatically using both visual graphics and related list data in Microsoft Excel.
- Process Simulation – simulate and animate production lines and processes in XVL Studio. Check for clearances and interferences early in the design process.
- Digital Assembly – rapidly create and test assemblies digitally early in design in XVL Studio. Reuse this work for instruction animations and ‘how-to’ guides directly from the 3D data.
- 3D Parts lists – be able to refer directly between parts lists and BOMs and the specific 3D data in Microsoft Excel using Lattice 3D Reporter. Improve productivity by having accurate visual 3D models with each parts list that can be used by anyone using the free XVL Player software.
- Illustration – generate realistic illustrations for print and online instruction books, build 3D animations for instructions, using XVL Studio, and also be able to post this data directly into html using the easy Lattice3D Reporter application.