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As a result of ever changing consumer tastes and fierce competition in the aerospace and automotive industries, OEMs are demanding their supply chain dramatically reduce the length of time-to-market.
Cycle Time has become a critical element for any supplier to remain competitive.
Many factors can impede cycle time: redundant steps in the design process, development activities that are done consecutively rather than concurrently, ineffective or poorly used technology, miscommunication between engineering and manufacturing leading to greater errors, and poor change management.
When cycle times are reduced, it means less inventory, rework and overhead, all of which directly impact your organization's overall cost structure.
- Improving cycle times
- Reducing training time
- Reducing bidding time by the ability to create new concepts faster
- Dramatically reducing time needed to access data
- Allowing the reuse of previously validated designs across various projects
- Automation of repetitive design tasks through intelligent design templates
- Creating associative tooling parts directly from the master component
- Providing early digital simulation and validation tools for parts and sub-assemblies
- Providing an integrated engineering/manufacturing platform therefore cutting time to product delivery
- Enabling the production of error-free product the first time
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"Our experience shows that we can achieve 20% time saving at the design phase with CATIA V5 and up to 40% on some projects. It takes us 180 hours to design a new jig, compared to 300 hours previously."
Jose Bernal, Design Group Manager, Serra Soldadura,
Supplier to GM, Daimler Chrysler & Airbus.
"By using the CATIA V5 Generative approach to powertrain development, we can generate detailed and accurate concepts in 40% less time, and so win more business and stay ahead of the competition."
Roger Duckworth, Engineering Director, Integral powertrain,
Supplier to GM, Daimler Chrysler, Nissan, Ford, Harley Davidson and Jaguar
"Errors found at the final assembly stage have decreased by 30% to 40%. In addition, we can meet increasingly severe customer demands to cut lead-time."
Satoshi Yasuda, Manager Mechanical Engineering, Sanyo Machine Works,
Supplier to GM, Daimler Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Nissan and Toyota.
"With CATIA V5, we make significant improvements since we can revise our process planning for a new part very quickly-a lot quicker than in the past."
Andrew Cion, Director Manufacturing Engineering and Development, P&WC,
Supplier to Boeing, Airbus, Cessna, Embraer, Raytheon
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