CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 May 2004
Implementation Investments
Alpine Electronics Improves Manufacturing Process Using Lattice3D Technology
Lattice3D announced that Alpine Electronics, Inc., an industry-leading manufacturer of high performance mobile electronics, has standardized on Lattice3D technology for the publication and distribution of 3D design data.
Alpine had a need to simply and efficiently share complex 3D models throughout all corporate, design and manufacturing facilities. Using Lattice3D applications, Alpine is now exploiting world-class compression of CAD data without any resulting loss of data or information. The use of Lattice3D has saved thousands of dollars for the company in reduced time, smaller communication charges and the ability to make design decisions faster.
"We needed a way for an entire project team in geographically dispersed locations to view and discuss various models in the project," said Mr. Mick Ono, BP Project Manager, Alpine Electronics. "Using Lattice3D, project members are able to see 3-dimensional parts. The 3D parts can be shaded and rotated to show detail that was not available before. Lattice3D was the only technology that gave us quick reliable publishing capabilities of large data files. Lattice3D's publishing capabilities have shortened the time it takes to get a product to market and has resulted in several thousand dollars in savings."
The Lattice3D technology directly converts, compresses, and publishes 2D and 3D data from engineering for immediate use in downstream applications ranging from assembly instructions to parts catalogs. By merging the highly compressed data into their PDM system, Alpine designers, engineers, manufacturers and others can access and integrate the data into MS Office, PDF, the Web or other applications. The Lattice3D technology speeds development and design cycles by allowing departments to publish, review and mark up data with a simple browser.
Major automotive, manufacturing, architecture and aerospace companies use Lattice3D's XVL-based technologies throughout the world to take data directly from engineering and convert and compress 3D images into an XVL file. Easy to use publishing applications are then used by multiple business operations to produce user manuals, documentation, parts lists, assembly instructions and more in almost any format including Microsoft Office®, Adobe PDF®, Internet formats and html. XVL enables the compression of very large data and the usage of computer memory so that end-users are able to manipulate, email, and publish models that were originally 50-250 times larger, without loss of detail.
With over 500,000 users at 2,000 companies, Lattice3D's applications enable customers to use existing 2D & 3D data beyond engineering-throughout the extended enterprise. For more information, visit http://www.lattice3D.com
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