NX:Transforming digital product development

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Developing high-quality productsquickly and cheaply is no longer a strategic business objective – it’s a basic requirement formanufacturing organizations in the global economy. Tosustain a competitive advantage,companies must transform theircore business process: productdevelopment.

NX™ from UGS is a solution that transforms the entireproduct development process to reduce wastes and design inquality. More than a suite ofintegrated CAD, CAM and CAEapplications, NX goes beyondindividual and departmentalproductivity to improve efficiencyin the overall process and at each step in the process.A comprehensive solution, NX is built on an open foundationand advanced technologies thatdirectly support initiatives totransform business processes.

Transforming the processNX delivers all the tools and technologies that companies need to implement formal businesstransformation initiatives like LeanDesign and Design for Six Sigma.With a unified design-through-manufacturing solution, NX enablesorganizations to manage all of theirproduct and process knowledgeassets to transform productdevelopment.

Eliminating wasteWith NX, companies can engineerlean processes, eliminating thewastes that add time and expenseto the overall development cycle.NX helps companies reduce delays and downtime whiledevelopment personnel are looking for information or waiting for test results andfeedback. It helps eliminate theresources wasted on designs that are never completed, or on unnecessary documents andprototypes. It helps companies rein in wastes due to overdesigningproducts with unnecessaryfeatures, or due to underutilizationof proven design knowledge.With NX, manufacturers reducetime and effort wasted onmanufacturing errors and product performance failures.

Building in qualityNX transforms productdevelopment from a reactiveprocess where quality is inspectedin, to a proactive process thatassures quality at every step.

By managing key product attributes and guiding thedevelopment process to meetmarket requirements, NX helpscompanies design in quality that adds customer value. Bybringing critical performance andmanufacturing requirements upfront in the development process,NX helps companies optimize and balance design objectives and define processes that willachieve those objectives.

Integrated simulation, validation and optimization tools in NXsupport continuous analysis andverification of both product andprocess to help manufacturersreduce defects and achieve thehighest levels of quality.

Product development: your core strategic business process

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Product development in product lifecycle managementProduct development is the core business activity of manufacturingcompanies, comprising the complete definition of products and their development processes. NX is the product development component of UGS’ PLM solutions.

NX: One solution for the whole process

NX brings together all disciplines and all activities in the productdevelopment process with a unified solution. It includes the broadestsuite of applications that share the same open, leading technologyfoundation. With this integrated, associative solution, companies can

rapidly propagate product and process information throughoutdevelopment. Synchronized product data enables focused collaborationand eliminates the waste and inefficiency of translating data betweensystems, departments and phases of the process.

StylingA powerful and flexible toolkit for industrial design and stylingwith freeform shape modeling;surface continuity and analysis;color, materials, textures,lighting and studio effects;advanced rendering.

DesignA leading-edge design solutionincluding hybrid modeling withparametric, explicit and directtechniques; assembly design andmanagement; process-specifictools for sheet metal and routedsystems; continuous design validation;dimensioning and drafting.

SimulationAn extensive portfolio ofsimulation tools includes motion and structural analysis wizardsfor designers; advanced modeling and post-processingfor simulation specialists andenterprise solver solutions formultiphysics CAE.

ToolingGeneral-purpose jig, fixture and workholding tool design;knowledge-enabled special-purpose solutions for injection mold development, progressivestamping die design and die engineering.

MachiningIndustry-leading solutions for NC programming;integrated toolpath and machinesimulation; postprocessing;shop documentation; and manufacturing resource management.

ConceptTools for capturing and managing customer and engineering requirements,embedding knowledge rules in conceptual models and evaluating multiple design alternatives.

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Managing product and process:NX Managed Development Environment

Process transformation requires more than CAD, CAM and CAEsoftware applications. Companies also need tools that control product information and enable continuous process management and improvement.

NX augments all product development applications with the ManagedDevelopment Environment, a set of management tools that are fully integrated, unobtrusive and scalable to match the organization’srequirements.

Protect and control product informationThe NX Managed Development Environment delivers essential data management capabilities with every NX application.These enable allproduct definition information to be captured, managed and protectedthrough vaulting, check-in and check-out and access control.

Scale to your requirementsThe Managed Development Environment is a scalable solution – fromsimple vaulting to engineering process management, continuous digitalvalidation, multi-site integration, requirements management andmanufacturing planning. Customers can implement these solutions in phases, each solution delivering greater ROI.

Uniquely suited to product developmentUnlike conventional data management solutions, the ManagedDevelopment Environment was designed to meet the requirementsof product developers. It fits seamlessly into the development workflow,removing the need for engineering personnel to worry about datamanagement actions such as file check-in and check-out. By automatingthese processes and automating procedures such as release and signoff, the Managed Development Environment is transparent and far lessintrusive than other solutions.

From the leader in development process managementThe NX Managed Development Environment is powered byTeamcenter®, the open PLM foundation from UGS. It builds on UGS’extensive experience in managing complete development processes forsuccessful manufacturing organizations worldwide. NX customers canaccess these powerful tools in a phased, incremental approach, attainingthe benefits of PLM in a way that makes sense for their businesses.

Re-use informationWith the Managed Development Environment, companies cancapture product and process data and configure it so that it can bereadily reapplied to automate and expedite product development.It structures information so that it is easy to locate and re-use andprotects it with secure access controls.

Unified view of product dataCompanies can improve communication throughoutthe development team and to partners and supplierswith a unified view of product data. The ManagedDevelopment Environment gets the right informationwhere it is need to help team members accomplishtheir work.

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“UGS’ products are a total suite of collaborationtools.An important aspect of the system at JaguarRacing is the data management tools, which arethe backbone to the whole system and to a largeextent to the whole company, making engineeringand other information available to everybody.”

Steve NeveyJaguar Racing

The NX Managed DevelopmentEnvironment brings together all product development disciplines with synchronized product data. Each NX application benefits from built-in, transparent data vaulting and access controls. Customers can scale the Managed Development Environment to include engineering process management,continuous validation, multi-site integration,requirements management and manufacturing planning.

Product and process synchronizationThe Managed DevelopmentEnvironment synchronizes disciplines, engineering dataand processes to improvecollaboration in a fully digital environment. Everyone in the value chain works from the same versions of data toward a common objective.Managing all types of data

NX Managed Development Environment handles the full range of product and process data: designmodels, drawings, simulation models and results, tooling components,NC toolpaths, engineering criteria and requirements, process specific-ations, project schedules and company specific business rules and standard workflows.

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Leveraging product and process knowledge:Knowledge-driven automation in NX

Product and process knowledge is the most valuable intellectual assetof manufacturing companies. This knowledge too frequently residesonly in the minds of experienced personnel, limiting its availability andapplication in product development.

NX helps companies gain a greater return on their intellectual assets with knowledge driven automation. It provides tools and technologies that capture, manage and re-use knowledge to improve products and streamline development processes.

Capturing and re-using product knowledgeEvery product development discipline can take advantage of knowledge-enabled capabilities in NX applications. At the fundamental level, NXdraws extensively on stores of product information – existing productdesigns, industry standard parts libraries, materials, engineering rulesand formulas, frequently used component features and other company-specific product information. Ready availability and re-use of productinformation accelerates development and reduces the time andresources wasted on re-invention.

Capitalize on process knowledgeWith NX, manufacturers can easily capitalize on their uniqueknowledge of how to develop products. Company best practices anddevelopment standards can be easily encapsulated in customizedtemplates that standardize workflows and automate processes likedrawing creation, feature modeling, engineering analysis, machining set-ups or shop documentation.

NX also includes a dedicated environment that enables experienced personnel to define standard procedures for specialized processes thatcan be re-used throughout the organization to apply expert know-howand enforce proven methodologies. Unique company knowledge canalso be captured and re-used with Knowledge Fusion, a knowledge-based engineering tool that joins knowledge databases and NX systemfunctions in custom automation applications.

Leveraging industry best practicesProcess wizards are prepackaged NX applications that structure complex, specialized processes into step-by-step workflows.These knowledge-enabled solutions embody the best practices of industry experts and automate tedious, time-consuming workflow steps.

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“In a true design automation environment,companies are infusing their design processes with knowledge.With solutions such as NXKnowledge Fusion, companies can design better quality products much quicker and much more compatible with their engineeringstandards.The enlightened, or early, adopters of this type of technology will achieve competitive advantage.”

Jeff MoffaVP, Knowledge SystemsEmergent Systems

NX helps manufacturers develop products right the first time with a complete range of simulation, validation and optimization tools. Atevery stage of development, these integrated tools check products andprocesses to ensure quality, performance and manufacturability.

Product quality with fewer prototypesWith NX digital simulation, companies accurately model and analyzeproduct performance characteristics without physical prototypes. NXproduct simulation applications include dynamic motion simulation,basic strength analysis, system-level performance evaluation and advancedresponse, durability, fluid flow and multi-physics engineering analysis, forrobust simulation of functional performance. NX also manages CAEprocesses, workflows and data to deliver vital performance feedbackwhere it is needed to improve the product.

Simulation that drives the development processSimulation is frequently carried out by specialists downstream fromproduct design, providing performance feedback too late in the overallprocess to impact the performance and quality of the final product.NXmoves simulation forward in the development process with tools thatdesigners can use to quickly evaluate performance against basic designcriteria, without translating or re-creating design data. The result isfewer errors, fewer engineering changes and fewer product failures.

Validating development processesNX ensures manufacturability and compliance with best practices bysimulating and validating development processes. Integrated designcheckers continuously monitor the quality of data and the conformityof the design to engineering criteria, providing real-time feedback asthe design develops. An optimization wizard guides designers indetermining the relative influence of multiple design parameters anddetermines their optimal balance to achieve specific design objectives.

Other validation tools offer immediate analysis of part designs todetect potential problems in molding and casting operations. Materialremoval and machine tool motion simulation are directly accessiblefrom within NX NC programming sessions, providing feedback on manufacturability and machining efficiency.

Designing in quality:Simulation, validation and optimization in NX

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“Simulation is transforming from a reactive and defensive tool to a proactively deployed competitive weapon.”

Daratech, Inc.Industry update, March, 2004

As products become more complex, companies must improveorganizational understanding of the product as a whole – how itscomponents and subsystems interact and how well the product meetscustomer and engineering requirements. System-level knowledge of the total product helps to drive decisions throughout thedevelopment process and to optimize the tradeoffs in detail design,analysis and manufacturing.

System-level product controlNX delivers a dedicated environment for defining product layouts thatlogically develop and manage the dependencies among product components.With NX, product developers create product control structures – high-level templates that establish design parameters among subsystemsand individual parts. Top-down product templates partition the developmentprocess into functional subsystems, define interfaces among subsystemsand components and establish their functional and behavioral requirements.

Develop alternatives rapidlySystem based modeling offers manufacturers a means of rapidly creating and evaluating multiple product solutions. The product templateautomatically controls and manages changes through the productsubsystems and components, minimizing cost, errors and re-work.With this capability companies can respond quickly to technologyinnovations or specific customer requirements with alternative productconfigurations and variants.

Capitalizing on R&D investmentsBy maximizing opportunities for re-using product data and developmentknowledge, NX system-based modeling enables companies to gain greaterreturn on their investments in research and development.

Business benefits of NX system-based modeling

• “Right-to-market” products that increasecustomer value while improving time to market and quality

• Better leverage of previous R&D investmentsby increasing re-use opportunities

• Reduce change management time and costs by managing effects of change andautomating their propagation

• Reduce cycle time and promote design re-use for product configurations and variants

Holistic product development:System based modeling in NX

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With NX system-based modeling, GE AircraftEngines saved 3 to 6 months time in developing a new engine, performed 20 times the analysis iterations in 25 percent of the time and realized a 50 percent savings in manufacturing costs.

Throughout its broad product application suite,NX leverages key attributes that help companiesachieve business objectives of waste reduction, qualityimprovement, shorter cycle times and greater productinnovation. These unique attributes directly supportbusiness process initiatives aimed at transformingproduct development:

Managed development environment NX solutions include fully integrated, synchronizedmanagement of all product data and process knowledge to transform product development with a structured collaborative environment.

Unified product development solutionSeamless integration of NX applications rapidly propagates changes of product and process information, replacing point solutions with a unified development system, from concept to manufacturing.

Knowledge-driven automationWith NX, companies can apply product and processknowledge across all elements of product developmentto automate processes and maximize re-use.

Simulation, validation and optimizationComprehensive simulation and validation tools in NXautomatically check performance and manufacturabilityat every step of the development process, for closed-loop, continuous, repeatable validation.

System-based modelingNX structured conceptual models standardize design practices and allow rapid creation of variants,transforming development from component-baseddesign to a systems engineering approach.

The NX advantage

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