When designing new products, it is crucial to shorten the time between concept definition and time to market as much as possible. This goal is often thwarted by all the complex processes required to get to market: inspecting documentation, translating data, and designing the model often involve tedious tasks. With simultaneous engineering and manufacturing processes, you gain greater visibility into tasks, which directly impacts stakeholders, saves you time, and improves product quality. These five suggestions will help you break down any silos, apply the automation needed to design your products with confidence, and manufacture them quickly.
SOLIDWORKS Costing makes it easy to create accurate, re-usable quotes. Make sure your new design is on target and track costs against your baseline assessments.
This tool automatically estimates the following:
Users can make design changes, define other materials for parts, or change the location of manufacture. All of these changes update instantly, and you see the effects of those decisions on the unit cost of the room.
Since most engineers spend very little time in the manufacturing environment, they can have difficulty designing products that can be manufactured. You can now bring design and manufacturing knowledge together with SOLIDWORKS CAM. It draws on the richness of the 3D model’s content to assess the manufacturing potential of the design and directly program the toolpaths on the model.
Decisions about tools and tolerances are easier and more precise. Likewise, when you update your standards, SOLIDWORKS CAM teaches each user their preferences for programming toolpaths.
To stay ahead of the game, use 3D printing with SOLIDWORKS. Just like you print an Excel or Word document, you can print your design to get a prototype, or even a finished product. You can also present more model information with 3MF and AMF formats, which do not require post-processing to define the data.
Most industries have to adhere to strict safety regulations, which require standards-compliant control documents. There are many steps involved in this manual effort, but SOLIDWORKS simplifies it all by automating the creation of first article inspection and inspection reports, and mark-up drawings. SOLIDWORKS Inspection virtually eliminates data entry errors and cuts the time it takes to create documentation by almost 90%.
Whether designing plastic or sheet metal products, SOLIDWORKS has all the tools and features you need to make these processes more efficient and economical. The design and production of plastic products is a very complex operation, which increases lead times. This leaves a greater margin of error and rework can be costly. With SOLIDWORKS ‘molded and plastic part design tools, all designs are created on the same platform and all updates are referenced in associated files.
Many industries need a wide range of sheet metal parts to complete their designs. SOLIDWORKS gives you the flexibility to quickly and efficiently unfold your 3D design to create fabrication documentation and add weld details to your model. Regarding welding, SOLIDWORKS allows you to design a welded structural structure using a large library of predefined structural shapes. SOLIDWORKS also automatically generates cut parts lists, BOMs, and other documents required for manufacturing.
So here are five suggestions that will help you break down silos, apply the automation needed to design your products with confidence, and get them manufactured quickly. Find out how SOLIDWORKS solutions can make your design and design processes more efficient and dynamic by visiting https://launch.solidworks.fr/.
