CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
03 November 2004
Implementation Investments
Corrada Implements UGS NX
Corrada , a global leader in the design and manufacturing of carbide progressive dies to blank magnetic laminations, has adopted UGS ' NX digital product development system in an effort to increase productivity and competitiveness. The agreement includes the installation of 13 NX sites by June 2005.
"Corrada selected UGS' NX to help increase productivity and competitiveness while maintaining our high standards of innovation in the strategic area of design," said Bruno Corrada, IT program manager for EUROGROUP. "UGS' NX products provide us with numerous benefits. The dies manufactured by Corrada are often unique pieces, rather than series products, so by implementing the UGS solution, we will develop the best methods to leverage the similarities between the designs of different dies, reduce design times and improve the quality of our designs.
"In addition, NX will help us deal with an increasingly unpredictable business by effectively simplifying the changes that are often requested after the design work has already started. Finally, we hope to optimize computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) integration. This means, for instance, that a change to the 3D CAD design will be directly reflected into the programming of numerical control (NC) machinery for the production of die components."
"NX has a full range of easy-to-use features for the creation, simulation and verification of NC tool paths," said Franco Megali, sales manager, UGS Italy. "These features were developed to meet the requirements of key production areas, offering process-oriented solutions that allow companies to develop and manufacture any object efficiently, from holes to airfoil sections, with applications including planar milling, 3-axis contouring, multi-axis milling, wire EDM, turning and milling/turning operations."
"NX has a full range of easy-to-use features for the creation, simulation and verification of NC tool paths," said Franco Megali, sales manager, UGS Italy. "These features were developed to meet the requirements of key production areas, offering process-oriented solutions that allow companies to develop and manufacture any object efficiently, from holes to airfoil sections, with applications including planar milling, 3-axis contouring, multi-axis milling, wire EDM, turning and milling/turning operations."
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