Position Papers

TraceParts is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of its online CAD platform. A subsidiary of the Trace Group created in 1989, TraceParts started its activity by distributing DVDs containing the 3D content of a few manufacturers. At that time, the DVDs were sent by post to design offices. Today, almost 600 industrial-part suppliers have chosen the TraceParts online platform to publish their catalogs and make them available to design engineers. In 2001, TraceParts launched its first web platform for downloading CAD files, enabling the company to expand its publishing network around the whole world. The past fifteen years have been marked by constant growth and innovation; in 2016, the TracePartsOnline.net platform had 2.5 million designers registered on the site.  Françoise PFISTER, Managing Director of SIAM RINGSPANN, shares her experience of working with TraceParts since the launch of the first online platform, “SIAM – RINGSPANN has always appreciated the

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that customers and ecosystem partners are expanding their use of Calibre Pattern Matching solution to overcome previously intractable IC verification and manufacturing problems. The solution is integrated into the Mentor® Calibre nmPlatform solution, creating a synergy that drives these new applications at IC design companies and foundries, across multiple process nodes. Calibre Pattern Matching technology supplements multi-operational text-based design rules with an automated visual geometry capture and compare process. This visual approach is both very powerful in its ability to capture complex pattern relationships, and to work within mixed tool flows, making it much easier for Mentor customers to create new applications to solve difficult problems. Because it is integrated into the Calibre nmPlatform toolset, the Calibre Pattern Matching functionality can leverage the industry-leading performance and accuracy of all Calibre tools and flows to create new opportunities for design-rule checking (DRC), reliability checking, DFM, yield

International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) today introduces a white paper outlining seven recommendations to help manufacturers develop a strategy to improve profitability by managing engineering errors, changes and escapes. Engineering escapes happen as a result of routine product data exchange throughout the lifecycle and across the supply chain. Escapes are typically very costly in terms of labor waste, material, and part scrap, assembly errors, and manufacturing delays; but escapes are often not thoroughly or accurately identified and measured. Over the past 15 years, ITI consulting projects revealed that engineering changes throughout the product lifecycle result in engineering escapes, or “unidentified changes to 3D product data that lead to a negative economic consequence.” Traditionally, the management of engineering escapes, changes and errors has been viewed as an opportunity to reduce costs. Many authors and industry experts have written on the topic, including Ed Lopategui, Michael Grieves, Dean Beutel, Donald G. Reinertsen,

"This past April, CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, announced the launch of their AEC & Manufacturing Convergence consulting practice with Ed Martin at the helm. CIMdata provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. The goal of the new consulting practice is to bridge the gap between manufacturing and the design, fabrication, and operation of facilities and ultimately reduce waste, budget, and timeline contingencies, improve compliance, quality, and the flow of information. They aim to work with industrial companies and software/service providers and draw on

 PDF Key takeaways: Capgemini offers a custom solution to access product information across disparate data managed repositories Metadata search capabilities leverage Dassault Systèmes’ EXALEAD solution In order to fight increasing competition, industrial product companies allocate extensive time and budget to increase the productivity of their product development design process by installing the latest technology including up-to-date design software and strong computing IT infrastructures. Yet the “weak link” in the workflow of new product design—lack of effective search capabilities that enable part reuse—often goes ignored. Most product design companies maintain extensive repositories of released components and subassemblies that if reused in their current new product development can dramatically reduce time and cost. Capgemini[1], the consulting, technology, and outsourcing services company, offers their clients support for an effective metadata search across multiple, data-managed repositories. CIMdata views this capability as a strong positive for industrial companies who often have to work in a multi-provider solution environment. Today, industrial