CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 January 2009
Implementation Investments
Nagase Integrecs Standardizes Its Engineering Systems on PTC CoCreate
PTC announced that Nagase Integrecs Co., Ltd. has standardized its engineering platform on PTC’s explicit modeling CoCreate ® 3D CAD solutions, CoCreate Modeling™ and CoCreate Model Manager™. Nagase Integrecs is a leading machine tool manufacturer with the world’s highest precision, nanometer-level “super precision” machining technology (Nano = One billionth). The company provides precision machine tools to large Japanese precision machinery and electronic device manufacturers, customizing products based on individual customer requirements. In August 2007, Nagase was given a Prime Minister’s Award, the highest award in the government-sponsored second Monodzukuri Nippon Grand Award for its world-class technology.
Nagase Integrecs has been using CoCreate Drafting™, PTC’s 2D CAD solution, for the past 20 years. The company deployed CoCreate Modeling in order to address customer requirements for improved machining precision. Specifically, Nagase improved their product development by placing 3D CAD data at the center of their process and then integrating engineering, manufacturing, and assembly organizations as well as its component suppliers. Ultimately, CoCreate Modeling was selected because of its ease in making geometric changes, and its integration with CoCreate Drafting, which allowed for reuse of existing 2D assets through its support for data compatibility.
The company also develops super precision machine tools for optical components, such as LCD components for TVs and cell phones. The following products were all machined by Nagase developed machine tools:
• The “Subaru” telescope’s FMOS observation equipment at the Hawaiian observatory of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
• The primary mirror used in the telescope at the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory
• The secondary mirror, the world’s first ceramic mirror, of the “Kanata” telescope at the Hiroshima Astronomical Observatory
“With the deployment of CoCreate Modeling, we started moving from 2D to 3D design, and are now using 3D models to check interference and perform a variety of analyses. CoCreate Modeling has enabled our design engineers to quickly create a model with precise geometries using surface and other capabilities and generate super precise, nano-level machining representations,” said Takeshi Itazu, assistant general manager for Engineering, Nagase Integrecs. “CoCreate Modeling also enables us to make frequent design changes, flexibly addressing changing customer requirements. The software also supports accurate calculations of purchased material weight, which was not possible in 2D design and helps us calculate machining cost and also reduce transportation cost.”
“The CoCreate Model Manager data management solution, with its tight integration with CoCreate Modeling, is showing excellent performance in handling very large, complex assembly data. Nagase Integrecs uses CoCreate Model Manager to manage large, 10 meter+ machine model data,” said Martin Neumueller, Director of Product Management for CoCreate products at PTC. “With the light weight model and partial data loading capabilities of CoCreate, Nagase’s design engineers can quickly retrieve and save data regardless of the data size without generating much impact on system resources.” Also, access control capabilities at the component level enable multiple users to view overall design and work on individual components in parallel, reducing the overall product development cycle by 30%.
Nagase Integrecs purchased CoCreate products through OBIC, a PTC channel partner. Nagase Integrecs is currently working to further improve its precision machining technology and competitiveness through an expansion of its 3D product development platform with additional products of the CoCreate family.
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