Tool Design
Ideal coordination between tool design and product development
High tool costs and long delivery times demand clear decision-making processes
Tools and production equipment are often expensive key components, which for example can cost up to several hundred thousand euros when it comes to injection molding and mold making. Coordination with internal tool design or external suppliers therefore requires a great deal of care. Not least because tool manufacture itself is a long process, and it is important that the risks of front loading be minimized and order placement be optimized.
Benefits
- Make relationships between products and tools transparent
- Shorten time to market by parallelizing design and work preparation
- Avoid delays to the start of production and additional costs with integrated project management
- Seamless integration of suppliers
Make relationships between products and tools transparent
Tool design as a separate entity with its own tools normally leads an isolated existence. As a result, the interrelationships between product and tool are often not transparent. Tool Design permits the comprehensive mapping of relationships between the product and the required tools. This makes it possible for tools to be taken into account when technical changes are made to a product by reliably mapping the CAD data of the tool to the model data of the product.
Tool design as a separate entity with its own tools normally leads an isolated existence. As a result, the interrelationships between product and tool are often not transparent. Tool Design permits the comprehensive mapping of relationships between the product and the required tools. This makes it possible for tools to be taken into account when technical changes are made to a product by reliably mapping the CAD data of the tool to the model data of the product.
Parallelize design and work preparation – shorten the time to market
With CONTACT Elements as a cross-discipline database, you create the prerequisite for simultaneous engineering. Tool Design allows you to work on tasks in parallel or with a certain amount of overlap. For example, the work preparation department can plan the manufacturing steps and production equipment before design engineering has been completed. This allows you to shorten the time to market by up to 30 percent.
With CONTACT Elements as a cross-discipline database, you create the prerequisite for simultaneous engineering. Tool Design allows you to work on tasks in parallel or with a certain amount of overlap. For example, the work preparation department can plan the manufacturing steps and production equipment before design engineering has been completed. This allows you to shorten the time to market by up to 30 percent.
Save time and costs with integrated project management
Integrated project management ensures that coordination between product development and tool design remains transparent. Joint schedule and task planning using task boards and open issues ensure clearly-defined responsibilities and problem-free workflows. Early production planning with coordinated work plans and manufacturing BOMs allow you to accelerate the start of production and avoid additional costs resulting from a lack of coordination.
Save time and costs with integrated project management
Integrated project management ensures that coordination between product development and tool design remains transparent. Joint schedule and task planning using task boards and open issues ensure clearly-defined responsibilities and problem-free workflows. Early production planning with coordinated work plans and manufacturing BOMs allow you to accelerate the start of production and avoid additional costs resulting from a lack of coordination.
Integrated project management ensures that coordination between product development and tool design remains transparent. Joint schedule and task planning using task boards and open issues ensure clearly-defined responsibilities and problem-free workflows. Early production planning with coordinated work plans and manufacturing BOMs allow you to accelerate the start of production and avoid additional costs resulting from a lack of coordination.
Seamlessly integrate tool and production equipment suppliers
Seamlessly integrate external suppliers of tools and production equipment in your processes using a collaboration environment designed for engineering. Exchange requirements, changes and design data for machine tools intelligently and securely via CONTACT's Collaboration Hub. This makes costly coordination errors and friction losses a thing of the past.
Seamlessly integrate tool and production equipment suppliers
Seamlessly integrate external suppliers of tools and production equipment in your processes using a collaboration environment designed for engineering. Exchange requirements, changes and design data for machine tools intelligently and securely via CONTACT's Collaboration Hub. This makes costly coordination errors and friction losses a thing of the past.
Seamlessly integrate external suppliers of tools and production equipment in your processes using a collaboration environment designed for engineering. Exchange requirements, changes and design data for machine tools intelligently and securely via CONTACT's Collaboration Hub. This makes costly coordination errors and friction losses a thing of the past.
Related Elements
From virtual product to smooth start of production
Transparency in the pre-series process thanks to matchless support
Map series startup process robustly and control it cost-effectively
Use prototype BOM to plan materials requirements precisely and to schedule
Record activities in prototyping and testing and synchronize tools with production
Ensure a smooth transition to manufacturing with early work planning
Seamless transition between development and manufacturing thanks to work planning in the PLM system
Reliable transfer of the changes made to engineering BOMs to production
Direct transfer of work plans for processing production orders
Fast and reliable synchronization of engineering and manufacturing BOMs
Efficient interaction between development and production planning
Fast and safe elimination of quantity differences
Synchronization with other parts lists for service, spare parts and maintenance
Reliably evaluate deviations directly in the 3D model
Manage technical changes efficiently and ensure traceable documentation
Accelerate your change processes through digital workflows and standards
Simplify your employees' work with digital folders and Task Manager
Adapt your change processes easily and flexibly and benefit from end-to-end documentation
Validate the analysis of technical changes using 3D models
Overview of all existing project tasks
Smooth transition from planning to implementation
Optimum self-organization of project participants
Combine reliability and agility and maintain an overview in multi-project mode
