Enabling Engineering Processes with ENOVIA SmarTeam Engineering Express
By using technology provided by ENOVIA SmarTeam Engineering Express, users can simplify their daily engineering tasks and launch products ahead of time
Quick-Start for Engineering
Most mid-market manufacturers are challenged by managing day-to-day engineering processes. They want to avoid miscommunication, errors and delays, especially when managing the development of many products simultaneously. As product development processes become more complex and customers more demanding, they seek a cost-effective and quick-to-implement item-centric PLM engineering solution. Customers can expect many benefits using the new ENOVIA SmarTeam engineering technology enablers introduced in the SmarTeam Engineering Express package. On account of pre-packaged express technology and implementation technology, customers can employ Express packages within a fraction of the time required by other solutions so that they can avoid lengthy and cumbersome processes – days and weeks as opposed to many months. SmarTeam Engineering Express provides a modular, dynamic, out-of-the-box environment that is built on the fly according to customer needs. Customers can extend their out-of-the-box environment as their PLM needs change, by using core ENOVIA SmarTeam platform technology. It offers scalable best practice PLM capabilities and a BOM/item-centric approach. Users will find the offering very easy-to-learn due to its optimized usability, easy navigation, in-context and intuitive actions as well as built-in implementation and methodology guides, on-line help and single installation.
Top-Down Technology
Customers can benefit from implementation that optimizes work around the Engineering BOM (E-BOM), starting from concept, through development, testing and eventually creation of the Manufacturing BOM (M-BOM) due to ENOVIA SmarTeam’s multiple view representation capabilities. They can choose the top-down engineering methodology enabling the team to see the complete product concept before initiating bottom-up design. The offering also applies concurrent engineering best practices, enabling the different members of each team to work collaboratively on the E-BOM from the start, carrying out their tasks both individually and concurrently as they update the E-BOM items, so that each aspect of product development is managed in context.
"Now we can handle multiple options within a single BOM, increasing BOM accuracy," said Yong Seok Choi, Manager of Systems Operations Section, Corecess. "ECOS are distributed in a much shorter time and their accuracy is much higher, letting us release new products to market much faster."
Optimizing Resources and Cost
Together with the ENOVIA SmarTeam Design Express that is integrated with CATIA or other CAD systems, ENOVIA SmarTeam Engineering Express offers mid-sized companies a pre-configured, end-to-end engineering solution – from concept to manufacturing phases – on the same platform. Thanks to ENOVIA SmarTeam’s technological approach and packaging, SmarTeam Engineering Express bundles PLM functionality, training, methodology, and services to minimize costs and implementation and user ramp-up time.
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Outsourcing CNC programming is a Cost-Effective Solution
Bryan Felsher, True Precision
Often times, outsourcing CNC programming is the best option for many small, medium, and large companies. Offloading CNC programming can benefit a company in numerous ways. Among them: shrinking the engineering backlog, the ability to take on extra projects, and most importantly tremendous financial advantage.
“CATIA V5 software gives us the ability to support our customers using their existing techniques and even improving upon them. We keep machine proven Catprocesses on file for each customer which are then used as seed processes to ensure we use their preferred methodology. In addition complete tool paths are stored which can be recalled again and again using techniques which have proven themselves. Tool catalogues are kept on file for each customer, ensuring we use exactly what they have easily and readily available. It’s as if we’ve worked right in their shops for years,” says Bryan Felsher, owner of True Precision, a CNC contract programming services bureau. “Using cell-phones linked to the internet, we are notified instantly of any e-mail and are available around the clock. Customers feel as if we are right there working along side them, and can even watch their jobs run right on their own computer screens.”
A busy manufacturer often has more programming work than they can handle with their given staff of programmers. Companies are constantly looking for ways to take on more work, support new machines, or reprogram old jobs to run faster. A CNC programming bureau such as True Precision has the advantage of having worked with many customers cutting every imaginable material on every type of machine, and with this global knowledge can provide a customer with programs using techniques that give them a great edge.
CATIA V5 software is expensive. It is often more cost effective to outsource complex programming then to spend the money on software purchases, licenses, and training. The trial and error process can cost a company thousands of dollars in scrap parts, and damaged machinery. Using the powerful CATIA V5 software, True Precision can provide a program guaranteed to be error free. Countless dollars are saved by avoiding these costs, not to mention employee wages, workman’s compensation insurance, and benefits packages.
“Many times customers have been surprised by the low-cost solution of outsourcing CNC programming. By using CATIA V5 automatic feature recognition, powerful automatic roughing routines, process catalogues, and knowledge ware, we are able to program parts in far fewer hours than our customers expect. Imagine actually making a profit from quoted N.R.E.,” continues Felsher. “Using powerful tool paths included with our advanced machining licenses, we’ve given customers the ability to take on work they had previously thought too complex. We recognize the need for our customers to stay competitive and customize each program to work with the resources available.”
True Precision is a CNC programming services bureau specializing in complex multi-axis programming. They support any machine configuration and can be reached through their Website at www.trueprecisioncnc.com.
Pentair Processes Flow Faster with Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes recently announced that Pentair Water Group, one of the world’s largest suppliers of products for moving, treating, storing and enjoying water, has implemented ENOVIA SmarTeam’s product lifecycle management software with multi-CAD and multi-site capabilities to create a single collaborative PLM data management environment across twelve sites worldwide. With ENOVIA SmarTeam, Pentair has cut product design cycles by as much as 50 percent, while maintaining secure and instantaneous data access across its global operations.
Pentair Water Group chose ENOVIA SmarTeam to address its top needs: a collaborative 3D design system supporting multiple sites, a unified approach to workflow processes, and a centralized data repository with a common model.
“Simplifying our data sources provides a direct benefit to our data consumers, including our overseas manufacturing sites in China and Mexico, which was a primary goal of this effort,” explains Carlos Moreno, Pentair Water’s PLM Systems Manager. Moreno wanted multi-accessible data, because it would reduce Pentair’s business risks and lower the overhead involved in meeting its quality standards. “In the end, SmarTeam‘s multi-site capability is what got everyone on board, as the ability to interact was very appealing. ENOVIA SmarTeam’s ability to work seamlessly with multiple CAD systems including SolidWorks, Pentair’s top choice for 3D engineering design, was another clear advantage.”
Following Pentair's session at CPDA's annual conference, PLM Road Map 2007, D. H. Brown, Founder and Managing Partner of CPDA, stated that “Moreno's approach is fascinating – he was quite clear on how important ENOVIA SmarTeam was strategically. The success of the program established PLM as a strategic tool enabling innovation, extended the payoff well beyond cost savings, process and knowledge reuse.”
Dassault Systèmes reseller InFlow Technology, which specializes in PLM strategy and implementation, was instrumental to this effort. By partnering with Pentair and working as an extension of its team and also as its worldwide integrator, InFlow’s technical leadership and accumulated experience helped make a single vision and approach to this project a reality, a critical factor to its success. |