Concurrent Engineering Blog

When competition picks up, your want to make sure that your engineering team has every possible advantage. But how can you make sure your team is? A good place to start is to make sure you are getting the most out of your product design software, with all of the capabilities that you need. In fact, with PTC Creo Packages, you can start to meet your growing engineering needs by being able to speed up the design process, reduce errors, reduce re-works and move your products forward with confidence. 

Working with suppliers, customer and even other teams in your organisation inevitably brings with it challenges. You’re probably familiar with the difficulties of working with multiple CAD systems and the inevitable problems that come with importing and trying to recreated CAD data.

PTC Creo has extensive simulation capabilities, enabling designers to analyse both parts and assemblies. It means you can investigate the structural, thermal and motional behaviour of your designs under real-life conditions. To begin your analysis, Creo provides you with an easy to follow process, which include an intuitive user interface.  

Routing cables and pipes can be a long and complicated element to product design, and with products becoming more and more complex, it’s important that your design process for piping and cables is optimised and as quick and easy as possible. Enter the PTC Creo Piping and Cabling Extension, or PCX. Create routed systems with ease, either directly into a 3D environment, or driven by a 2D schematic.

What are some of the common themes, issues and problems that are currently being talked about in industry on concept design and its importance to the product development process? PTC recently did a survey and they found that 92% of their customers, when asked, said their businesses could benefit financially if they had a better platform for exploring concept designs.

For companies, getting products to market faster than ever before is a key priority.

It’s about making sure you get ahead, and stay ahead, of your competition. And, at the same time, working ensuring your products are still the best in class option for your customers. It’s a challenge for manufacturers across the world. But, to be successful, companies are increasingly required to optimise their product development processes and reduce time to lead.

With Creo Parametric, designers are able to build assemblies using mechanical connections. This enables them to investigate the motion behaviour of their designs in real-life conditions.

Where do you stand on the parametric vs. direct modelling debate? For some design engineers, the openness and flexibility of direct modelling makes it the ideal design tool. Others, however, prefer the control that comes with using a parametric approach.