Leverage exptertise in PTC CREO View

Most engineers are living in a 3D world. The CAD models they build as part of the design process are 3D as are the simulations  that prove out those concepts and the realistic prototypes output with, you guessed it, 3D printers working off the same 3D data. Yet outside of engineering—in manufacturing departments, throughout the supply chain, even within service—the 3D model has  yet to become the holy grail. In fact, it’s more likely that 2D drawings are the go to resource for information about a particular product design.

 As a result, organizations are not poised to capitalize on the myriad benefits of the Model-Based Enterprise, a vision for a collaborative environment with a 3D product definition as the definitive information resource for activities spanning a product’s complete lifecycle.As standards evolve for 3D models to embed other types of non geometric data product and manufacturing information (PMI) such as geometric dimensions and tolerances, materials information, and surface finishes, among other items—pioneering companies like Toyota and Boeing have gone on record with claims that a MBE approach can translate into a 50% reduction in costs. The savings are due to the efficiencies and increased accuracy of leveraging the 3D product definition for everything from setting up manufacturing workflows to inspecting parts and creating process planning instructions.

A model-based definitions help companies save time, eliminate scrap, and promote reuse since engineers are devoting fewer hours to creating, clarifying or fixing documentation, they have more time to spend on actual design and engineering work, which leads to better products. A model-based approach to have particular value for developing and managing families of products and their variants.

The research showed companies delivering 23% more projects on time at 62% lower cost compared to organizations using MBE alternative approaches.Invest in the right tools. CAD is at the crux of an MBE, but the CAD tool has to be agnostic so it can work with a variety of CAD data and it has to have options for annotating the 3D CAD model with data required by downstream users in manufacturing. PTC Creo View MCAD, for example, provides a way to publish design intent from a 3D CAD model into a format that can be easily viewed and interrogated by downstream users, including selective geometry, dimensions, and tolerances. Further, the PTC Creo View Design Check option replaces the redlining/pen and paper-based process with a digital tool that maintains an electronic marking history of all design check cycles.
PTC Creo View Design Check replaces traditional  redlining and paper-based processes.