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.
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.
For many designers, being able to change and modify a concept design to evaluate new ideas is technically challenging. It can be a frustrating process, particularly when you’re working on a complex assembly, with many interdependencies.
Creo Simulate provides the capabilities necessary for structural and thermal simulation analysis. It gives users that all-important early insight into how their product will perform. It can also reduce the time and cost associated with physical prototying.
You’re probably familiar with the challenges that are associated with increasing product complexity. It’s an issue that’s resulting in many companies reviewing their CAD capabilities, to see how they match up to their CAD needs. But, actually, there’s a lot that can be achieved by emulating the way best in class companies use their CAD tools. In fact, according to research by Aberdeen, these exceptional CAD users are able to decrease their product design time and costs by nearly double the amount compared to the industry average. So what are the product design secrets that enable these results?
Right from the start of the process, the proverbial drawing board, there are real design challenges involved in creating large assembly lines. This can be for several reasons. Often the customer will not know exactly what they want their automated assembly line to do, so this inevitably impacts on the design process. On top of this, there can also be changes made to the underlying product, which mean the design of the assembly needs to be altered.
We’ve been talking a lot on the blog recently about the new release of Creo – PTC Creo 3.0. We’ve looked at the exciting opportunities made possible with the new UNITE technology and explored improvements made to help during concept design development with Creo 3.0.
We’ve talked quite a bit in recent months about the challenges of working in a multi-CAD environment. We also talked about the benefits to organisation of being able to overcome these challenges.
Modern manufacturers demand technology that allows their engineers to be agile, flexible and efficient and PTC has certainly delivered with Creo 3.0. Last week, we had the pleasure of showcasing this innovative new software to our customers at the UK launch event in Solihull, demonstrating how the new features and functionality work in practice.