Realizing the Promise of Model-Based Definition

Today's leading manufacturers constantly strive to achieve design and manufacturing process efficiencies to gain a competitive advantage. Model-based design represents an important opportunity for these organizations to streamline and automate the entire design process for highly-engineered products. Using a model-based approach, engineers can capture all design detail and information within a 3D CAD model and, for the first time, create a complete digital product definition that eliminates the need for generating 2D drawings or manual reports. By automating the design process and moving away from the tedious, manual step of creating separate 2D drawings and documentation, engineers can potentially reduce development costs and compress delivery schedules by 30 to 40 percent.

But model-based definition is more than merely substituting a digital process for a manual process. It is also about capturing and reusing data and sharing information downstream and around the world more efficiently and effectively than ever before. Organizations need a design partner that understands the need for authoring part designs in 3D while ensuring that non-geometric information is associated correctly to the CAD software model to develop accurate parts that meet all requirements and specifications. With model-based design, manufacturers will achieve these advantages while reducing design cycles and ensuring more accurate manufacture of products.

At VISTAGY, we intimately understand these issues, so we’ve developed an approach—a complete suite of design and manufacturing software solutions, powered by our unique EnCapta® technology—that addresses the entire development process for model-based design. By merely streamlining the definition step, engineers will not achieve dramatic savings. But, with VISTAGY’s set of specialized design environments, manufacturers will realize the benefits of model-based design across the entire development process—from design definition to analysis, information sharing, manufacturing, and quality assurance.

VISTAGY software for model-based design helps engineers to:

• Create an efficient means of authoring truly complete 3D product definitions for the first time;
• Automate the design process and re-use data to eliminate data entry and design errors;
• Move away from manual generation of 2D drawings and hard copy documentation in order to share information more efficiently and effectively;
• Enable companies to address the unique requirements of each step of the design and manufacturing process.

To read about our customers’ success using EnCapta for model-based definition, please click here.