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CAD Data Exchange Automation
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Sharing product data among dissimilar software applications seems impossible at times and often results in increased turnaround times and greater cost. Even in the age where technology should be helping (and not hindering) lean manufacturing initiatives, it is often the roadblock to concurrent process and product development. Consequently, reliable data exchange automation has never been more critical, yet more complex.
ITI TranscenData's Data Exchange solutions provide a robust CAD processing environment to address complex multi-CAD challenges. Our solutions can be utilized as part of a system for Supplier CAD Data Collaboration or as a behind the scenes batch translation process driven from PLM or other business applications. Our solutions intelligently adapt to different translation conditions which might require using different translators or different translation options. Multiple translation servers are supported, allowing scaling to achieve desired throughput.
Our approach to data exchange automation also maximizes the use of expensive software licenses. Rather than have multiple translator licenses on assorted user’s desktops, consolidating use through the DEXcenter reduces the need for licenses. License checking and load balancing keeps these licenses busy while simultaneously reducing the risk of failures due to unavailable resources.
Explore the tabs below to learn how incorporating ITI TranscenData technology into your engineering practices will lead to optimal CAD Data Exchange Automation.
DEXcenter
DEXcenter offers OEMs and suppliers a secure, SOA-compliant, vendor-neutral platform for automating CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM interoperability workflows, including:
- Supplier-OEM collaboration
- Legacy data conversion
- Model usability and validation
- Long-term data retention and archival
The DEXcenter CAD processing environment can be utilized with the Global Collaboration Portal as a complete standalone solution or the Process Automation Engine can be integrated with PLM or other business applications to provide translation and/or secure managed file transfer. The result for customers is an automated solution that reduces more than 80% of wasted labor and resource costs associated with data exchange, delivering critical data to partners faster.
Benefits of DEXcenter’s automated data exchange environment include:
- Automation of typical multi-step translation and transmission processes for speed, efficiency and accuracy
- Automated translation validation to ensure translation quality
- Automatic management of supplier translation and delivery requirements
- Reducing translations (including recipient unique flavoring) to the “Push of a Button”
- Automatic secure delivery
- Ensures consistency and reliability
- Incorporates “Best Practices” to provide high quality translations
- Delivered with hundreds of predefined CAD related processes and workflows
- Modular architecture supports easy extension for new processing tasks and workflows
- Dynamic translation workflows enable use of different translators and/or translation options automatically in a single processing session
- CAD license management maximizes use of expensive CAD licenses.
- Dynamic load balancing allows multiple concurrent processes to maximize computing resources and provide scalability for growth as demand increases.
To learn more, please visit the DEXcenter Product Page.
CADfix
By enabling effective engineering data interoperability, CADfix removes significant barriers that can hamper the reuse of solid models. Without CADfix, users of downstream applications have little alternative but to rework models from scratch.
Research suggests that remodeling can consume as much as 80% of the length of a typical engineering project, time that can only be considered wasted. With CADfix, little or no rework is necessary and engineers are free to spend their time doing what they’re being paid for. Experience has shown that CADfix pays for itself in productivity gains within the first few months.
Through a user-friendly Wizard interface, the geometry repair and preparation process within CADfix ensures that the model is correctly defined and suitably flavored for the downstream application by detecting and repairing a range of CAD geometry issues. CADfix also offers model de-featuring utilities which are very popular with CAE analysis users who require automated de-featuring operations (i.e. joining or collapsing of short edges and small faces, removing fillets and rounds, removing holes, etc.).
To learn more, please visit the CADfix Product Page.
Proficiency
Proficiency is a feature-based translation solution enabling the transfer of complete design intelligence between major CAD systems, such as geometry, features, sketches, manufacturing information, metadata, assembly information and drawings in the conversion process. Accurate and usable models are achieved with up to 95% automation. Proficiency also provides a CAD completion wizard to help users improve the automated results.
Proficiency offers automated reporting, including feature Q/A validation, transaction records, and integration with CADIQ (for source-to-target validation and downstream usability analysis). This reporting allows design teams to understand issues related to their data capture practice, such as what modeling techniques and features are most or least portable, robust or standard, resulting in designs that capture true design intent without peculiarities of one particular system or representation. The Proficiency solution is packaged as a scalable web-based server and may be integrated as part of a PLM workflow or embedded in an interoperability automation solution (i.e. DEXcenter).
To learn more, please visit the Proficiency Product Page.
CADIQ
When data exchange automation is combined with quality checking and validation via ITI TranscenData's CADIQ Product, a mathematical comparison of the original and translated models can be performed. Rather than just a visual inspection, deviations in mass properties, shape, structure through a deep geometric evaluation can be executed. Quality parameters affecting usability are identified and the relationships between underlying quality issues and related feature parameters are established. For more details, please visit the CAD Model Validation Solution Page.
To learn more, please visit the CADIQ Product Page.
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