NX:Transforming digital product development

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Developing high-quality productsquickly and cheaply is no longer a strategic business objective its 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 organizationsrequirements.

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 UGSextensive 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