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BOM to CAD
Revolutionizing Product Development
What are some of the costliest aspects of developing and delivering your products to your customers?
In the evolving global marketplace, pressure to accelerate the design-to-manufacturing process and adapt to remain competitive is paramount for businesses today. Embracing technological advancements is crucial to staying ahead of the game and, frankly, just to stay in business.
Do you experience any of the following common “cost drain points” today?
- Price estimation, procurement planning, coordination of lead times with suppliers
- Designing the product – including creating, reviewing and approving CAD models and drawings
- Analysis of new designs – including FEA, CFD, inspections, test procedures, and validation
- Developing product documentation including CAD Documents, manuals, maintenance and repair procedures
- Achieving certification – such as product maturity level or compliance with an industry standard or trade agreement
What if you could reuse most of the above product data and deliverables from an existing product that you already brought to market?
How many days or months of effort could you eliminate from your “get to market” path? How much would that cut out from the overall development process, enabling you to increase your profit margins or to be more cost-competitive with your products?
This paper highlights how Essig PLM BOM to CAD functionality can lead to significant time savings, successful collaboration, and improved efficiency, quality, and consistency across all phases of the product development lifecycle. Essig PLM BOM to CAD is not just a tool feature, but a new operational strategy.
- Invest more time early in product development in establishing reusable product structures
- Gain efficiency in downstream product lifecycle phases
- ROI in reuse – time saved for any derived configuration
- Effectively manage derived product families
The idea is – how fast can you make one product from another. You want to be able to reuse all, or a significant portion, of the available product information so if you build it once, then the second time you build, it should be substantially faster and so forth. By the time you get to the 5th variant as an example, you would expect to see a dramatic reduction in overall time and cost to bring a new product to market. Each iteration builds upon a strong foundation of rich product data and deliverables that you can reuse, saving valuable time and money, and enabling you to run a more efficient and profitable business.
