3D Interactive Parts Lists Deliver Accuracy Improvements and Time Savings for Manufacturers, Suppliers and Customers,

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Complex products require tools that enable procurement staff to easily understand the various parts that are required. While simple parts lists are often used to meet the need, they fail to communicate the related 3D and design data that can allow immediate understanding of the product being manufactured.

Improve Internal Ordering Accuracy
Procurement Managers can increase accuracy of parts ordering by 30% simply by having accurate 3D information linked to the parts lists they are using. 3D Parts Lists or BOMs created in XVL combine accurate 3D data with a related parts list, allowing a user to select and review specific list data and 3D data simultaneously in both Excel spreadsheets and HTML.

Improve External Ordering Accuracy with 3D Online Parts Catalogs
Incorrect ordering of parts wastes everyone's time and money. Online parts catalogs that accurately display 3D data alongside related parts list data improve accuracy of parts ordering, reducing mistakes and decreasing the effort involved in locating, specifying and ordering the parts needed.

XVL Digital Manufacturing solutions deliver the tools critical to improving all aspects of procurement by combining accurate 3D data with parts lists and BOMs. Lattice Technology’s solutions work within a digital manufacturing, PLM or digital prototyping process to be able to deliver accurate, timely, and usable information to Procurement departments. By delivering that data in both 3D data and integrated Parts Lists and BOMs, procurement managers can more quickly understand and use the data provided.

And in Lattice’s ultra-lightweight XVL format, the integrated 3D data can be read, used and securely shared by all authorized supply chain members without needing expensive CAD workstations, or highly trained CAD personnel.

One of the greatest benefits of the XVL applications from Lattice Technology is that it seamlessly supports standards such as Microsoft Excel for communication of integrated Parts Lists/BOMs with related 3D data. XVL applications also support all major PLM, PDM and ERP systems to ensure that integrated data flows remain in place. It also supports 3D CAD data from all major CAD systems including Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor, UG-NX, and all standard interoperability formats including STEP, IGES, VRML and PDF.

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Deliver more efficient multi-site manufacturing planning and communication... and enjoy these benefits:

• Increased Accuracy of Parts Purchasing. Deliver more tightly controlled parts ordering that works within budget and responds to lean manufacturing targets set by management
• Maintain Corporate Communication Standards. With XVL Studio, Lattice3D Reporter and XVL Web Master your 3D parts lists can be communicated and used while maintaining corporate standards for communication. The new XVL Plug-In for Adobe Acrobat also builds on corporate standards for communication.
• Faster time-to-market. By having more immediate access to interrelated product and BOM data earlier in the process, so issues and problems can be solved more quickly, and any barriers to production anticipated earlier. Simulations of the 3D data also provide keys to early planning of production and assembly processes and schedules.
• Reduce errors across procurement and production. Be able to compare revisions of the design data, alongside parts lists to more accurately plan production, and spot problems sooner in the process.
• Leverage existing IT systems and processes. XVL applications can be integrated directly within PLM, digital manufacturing and ERP systems.
• Leverage 3D data. Build understanding of the product, its interrelated parts, numbers and listings by being able to simultaneously view parts listings and 3D.
• Share CAD data throughout the enterprise. Typically, CAD data is trapped inside its CAD system. Under normal circumstances, sharing CAD data is limited to those with matching CAD platforms. Furthermore, 3D CAD assemblies are dramatically increasing in size, as digital manufacturing processes become more commonplace in manufacturing operations. The XVL format offers very high compression of the 3D data with no loss of accuracy. This means that 3D data becomes very small and easy to handle and share, while maintaining high accuracy, and anyone with the free XVL Player can receive and view the data.

• Dynamic viewing of Parts lists/BOMs with interrelated 3D part and assembly data
• Share data via Excel spreadsheet, PDF, XVL and HTML,
• Exploit XVL's mathematically correct checking of 3D design data within your digital manufacturing operation
• Support of all major CAD file formats
• Integrate into the PLM, manufacturing and ERP workflows using XVL System Toolkit
• Share data, simulations and animations seamlessly using the free XVL Player
• Start working concurrently on procurement planning long before the initial design is complete.
• Security. Control access to your 3D data, using NIST (AES) encryption and 3 levels of password protection.