Productivity is a business concern that must be continuously addressed. The pressure to accelerate design and new product introduction is constant. When dealing with many different clients and partners, product development companies cannot buy and train their designers on every possible CAD product - they must deal with the import of "dumb" solids and even severely cleansed native models built in their own CAD product of choice. They must be able to easily work with these solids - explore and understand, make minor edits, and remove or alter geometric "features" to better prepare them for downstream processes in CAE and manufacturing.

Kubotek USA's KeyCreator solution delivers Face Logic technology for intelligent geometry selection, allowing users to perform real-time identification of geometry feature constructs and patterns of features within dumb solids that far surpasses the capabilities found in competing CAD products. The implementation extends beyond the recognition of simple hole-and-blend feature structures to capture "Super Features," such as nested cavities, with a single user mouse click.
Number of pages in report, 6.

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Altair Data Manager (ADM) addresses the pressing need to shorten design cycle development times, and accelerate decision making with the sharing of data across multiple disciplines. ADM provides a tool for analysts and product development teams to manage simulation data and facilitate processes in a secured environment by maintaining up-to-date references in a central location for all dispersed CAE data. ADM can also manage test data independently as a standalone test data management system.

When combined with CAE data management, test data can be easily accessed for correlation with simulation results. ADM organizes all references centrally with web-based features to support access of that data from any global location. It provides seamless data management for engineers and rapid decision making for management. A search or query based on metadata gives up-to-date information on the status of any simulation. Number of pages in report, 7.

The Delphi design and development framework encompasses Design for Six Sigma with many tool sets, including simulation. Particularly critical, three initiatives target core engineering excellence, which all focus on managing variation – Design for Six Sigma, analytical design confirmation covering integrated analysis and test, and dimensional management.

Design for Six Sigma shifts the effort on controlling variation forward, up front to the development effort, well ahead of production where it has in the past had the most impact in terms of both quality and cost. Dimensional management enables robust design to be insensitive to process variation. Number of pages in report, 24.

"Simulation" is an ambiguous term. If the product development industry is to champion the use and advancement of simulation technologies, it is reasonable to assume that the terminology and definitions of those technologies be consistent and well understood.

The acronym CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) has evolved to encompass a number of distinct technical disciplines and tools within the product design and engineering community. Can the same be said for manufacturing simulation? What is proposed is a framework or a context of understanding that applies to the variations inherent across the spectrum of manufacturing simulation solutions.
Number of pages in report, 3.

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