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Reference : http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/141875/en/Design_for_Manufacturability_Building_Quality_by_Design.pdf

New Product Development Challenges : Schedule, Cost and quality

SCHEDULE

COST

QUALITY

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Factors impacting the schedule and release to market

REWORKEXOTIC

MATERIALS

HIGHER MANUFACTURING

TIME

SCRAP

NON-STD TOOLS

NON-STANDARD FEATURES

TIGHT TOLERANCES

Various factors need to be looked at during the design stage which can impact the manufacturing time, cost and quality

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On top of all this, designs are getting more complex day by day

Design For eXcellence (DFX) consists of methods, guidelines, standards and checks for creating better products focused on providing benefits in multiple stages of the product lifecycle

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Geometric DFX helps address these issues at the early design and implement “Design for eXcellence” in a systematic manner

CAD Formats File Formats CATIA V4 .modelCATIA V5 .CATPart, .CATProductIGES .igs, .igesInventor .ipt, .iamNX .prtParasolid .x_t, .x_bPro/E / Creo .prt, .prt.*,.asm, .asm.*Solid Edge .par, .asm, .psmSolidWorks .sldprt, .sldasmSTEP .stp, .step

Add-in for your CAD

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Geometric’s DFX solution provides pre-configured global best practices …

Machining

InjectionMolding

Assembly

Additivemanufacturing

Casting

Sheet Metal

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And enables easy capture of in-house and suppliers best practices

Rule configuration allows creation of multiple ‘sets’ of rule files

Rule manager allows configuration of various values within a rule

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Improves design collaboration and reviews through powerful reporting …

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And provides the mechanism to track key metrics.

Track Critical Violations

Identify DFX Areas needing Attention

Trends of DFX Issues

Responsible Departments/Sup

pliers

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Knowledge, Competency

Cost

CollaborationQuality

Productivity

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Business Benefits

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• Reduction in design iterations

• Savings in DFM analysis time

Output with reduced number of defects

• Identification of areas in design which are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture

• Reduction in Rework cost

• Availability of global best practices• Framework to capture knowledge within organization• Statistics on common mistakes made by specific engineer which identifies training needs

Clear communication through reports

Existing processExpected improvementFinal objective

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