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Solutions - Lattice Technology - Manufacturing Business Technology Industry -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 6/9/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT
Build productivity and efficiency in your lean manufacturing process with Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing Solutions
Implement an environment in your design-to-manufacture process that seamlessly delivers the critical tools for efficient, lean digital manufacturing while working effortlessly within your existing 3D CAD, PLM, PDM and ERP systems.
Lattice Technology solutions deliver applications that build on top of existing design and engineering technologies so that manufacturers can now seamlessly use, analyze, simulate, animate and create instructions directly from 3D design data through every part of the design-to-manufacture process.
Lattice Technology solutions use the XVL format to accurately compress 3D data so it can be used on standard desktop hardware, and yet retain the usability and functionality needed by manufacturers to perform or create digital mockups, process designs, kinematic simulations, design review, process instructions, instruction animations and illustrations directly from the 3D data. Leveraging your existing 3D CAD, PLM and digital manufacturing process with Lattice Technology solutions delivers higher productivity, much leaner efficiency and the potential for greater profit than ever before.
These solutions deliver into two broad areas of digital manufacturing: Digital Mockup and the creation of Documentation for Manufacture. (see chart below right)
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Digital Mockup functions.
Digital Mockup (DMU) is described in Wikipedia as allowing “engineers to design and configure complex products and validate their designs without ever needing to build a physical model.”
While 3D CAD vendors strive hard to deliver the tools needed for the vision of DMU, they remain hampered by the functional limitations of their 3D CAD systems, and restrained by the sheer weight of the 3D files created. The size of the data means that communicating, testing, simulating and sharing the data becomes difficult and arduous, requiring more expensive hardware, more robust networks and more time spent waiting for data to be disseminated.
XVL applications from Lattice Technology address these issues by delivering specific functionality for:
*Mathematically accurate static interference, clearance and contact checks of your 3D data
*Annotation, measuring and dimensioning
*Accurate dynamic interference and clearance checks for simulations and animations in 3D
*Dynamic cross-sectioning and geometry checks
*Kinematics checks, motion checks and simulation of movement
*Manufacturability and maintainability checks in process design
*All these checks, simulation and animation are created using the industry's most lightweight and most accurate 3D format that can be easily shared and used
3D Documentation functions
Creating usable documentation, instructions and illustrations directly from 3D has always proved challenging in part due to the proprietary 3D CAD formats in use that are incompatible with industry-standard illustration and documentation tools. That is changing with solutions from Lattice Technology that deliver automated and semi-automated tools for many varieties of documentation directly from the 3D design data including:
*Process lists that can be played alongside assembly animations
*Automated assembly/disassembly animation creation
*Fully-functioning 3D Parts Lists in Microsoft Excel
*Fully-functioning 3D Parts Lists in html
*Automated creation of 2D illustrations directly from 3D
Lattice Technology Digital Manufacturing Solutions work seamlessly in any 3D, PLM, PDM and ERP environment to leverage your digital manufacturing process to higher productivity and efficiency. To find out the benefits provided by Lattice Technology solutions for your lean manufacturing process, please select the options on the left hand side of this page.
XVL solutions deliver industry-leading security integration and protection for your engineering data, using NIST (AES) encryption and 3 levels of password protection, as well as integration with Adobe Rights Manager. Find out more about security with XVL.
Lattice Technology delivers solutions that deliver immediate results for your 3D data in the following design-to-manufacture disciplines:
* Product Design Review
* Product Engineering
* Production Planning & Process Planning
* Manufacturing Planning and Assembly Management
* Procurement
* Illustration & Instructions
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