Model-based Design
The bar for product innovation is higher than ever and traditional innovation processes are no longer enough. It’s time to take a visionary approach – looking beyond the product design to validate the full product experience. To do this, your innovation environment must be able to validate product performance, sustainability and the way customers experience the product. This means modeling the full product and then connecting virtual and real worlds with a comprehensive Virtual Twin Experience. A fully integrated Virtual Twin allows you to design, develop, simulate, optimize and validate the product with confidence to deliver a meaningfully innovative product experience. Are you considering MBD? Contact Usfor in depth insights regarding the calculation of measurable benefits and critical implementation steps for MBD
The Model-based Design Environment
The Model-based Design Environment
Implementing MBD will result in increased CAD Data Quality. This will in turn reduce error rates downstream, ECO Overhead and Churn, and will increase CAD Design Productivity to enable more time to optimize the Products Cost, Quality, and Manufacturability.
Implementing MBD will result in a measurable reduction of Producibility Escapes. This will in turn reduce the time and cost to perform costly Manufacturing Assessment & Verification Builds and will reduce the number of build iterations. This will in turn reduce time and cost to market as well as Warranty Returns and Service under Warranty Post Launch.
Implementing a fully integrated set of MBD Utilities will substantially increase CAD Designer Productivity. The integrated MBD Environment can automatically Read Validation Reports and only notify the CAD Designers when issues are identified. The MBD Utilities will automatically produce, validate and store derivatives. The MBD Environment will automatically produce and store Bills of Characteristics and Part Specific FAI Forms. All in total adding up to significant gains in CAD Designer Productivity.
Implementing MBD will enable the production of optimally annotated 3D Technical Data Packages. These TDP’s will contain all the information about a specific Part or Assembly to enable a more efficient production of, and a higher 1st Pass Yield of; Tooling Design, Tooling Verification, Specification of Equipment Settings, MES Setup, Manufacturing Work Instructions, Quality & Inspection Plans, CMM Code, and CNC Code
Implementing MBD in sum total of all the gains outlined above will dramatically increase your CAD Design and Engineering Teams ability to perform Cost and Quality Optimizations prior to launch. This will in turn reduce Warranty Returns, Service Under Warranty Costs, reduce the number of quality and cost optimizations required post launch and increase the margin per unit sold on every product shipped
Implementing MBD for a Measurable ROI
Some initial words of wisdom
- The adoption of ASME Standards are core to your success. Failure to standardize your application of GD&T Standards, establish a Common Model Schema and specify your Model-based Definitions will substantially restrict your ability to:
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- Automate your CAD Data Quality Validation process
- Automate your Producibility Validation process
- Produce consistent high quality derivatives e.g., QIF, STEP 242, Bills of Characteristics, Part Specific FAI Templates Automate the production of Technical Data Packages
- Conduct a True Root Cause & Impact Analysis of the issues encountered at specific stages across your Product Lifecycle including; Engineering Assessment Builds, Manufacturing Assessment Builds and First Article Inspections. This Root Cause Analysis will enable your specification of CAD Data Quality and Producibility Validation Checks that will dramatically increase First Pass Yield. The impact Analysis will enable you to calculate the specific measurable ROI for the Validation Stack.
- The PLM Part Data Model and ECO Processes must be configured to support automated validation including the ability to read the .xml Validation Reports and only notify the Responsible CAD Designer based on exception/failure. Failing to do this will require CAD Designers to open and interrogate the validation reports for every CAD Model produced and at each Actionable Lifecycle State Release. Do not implement a Validation Environment that unnecessarily increases administrative overhead for CAD Designers.
- The PLM Part Object Model and ECO Processes must be configured to support automated production, store and validation of Technical Data Packages
- The PLM Part Object Model and ECO Processes must be configured to support automated production, store and Validation of Derivatives
- The PLM Part Object Model and ECO Processes must be configured to support automated production, store of CAD and Producibility Validation Reports
- Model-based Definitions are critical and can vary depending upon Part Category e.g., Machined, Molded, Sheet Metal and additionally depending upon whether you are making internally or Outsource Manufacturing
- Libraries of Simulation and Test ready models will increase simulation and test efficiencies and assure more consistent results. Analyst Note: Your Library of Simulation and Test ready models should align to you library of Physical blocks in your SysML Tool
