Strategic Advantages of implementing Enventive 6

• Huge savings in tooling rework, design iterations, scrap, customer loyalty.• Proven corporate application in fortune 500 industrial companies.• Unique technology and fastest growing MCAD company.

• Initially developed by USA Universities for Cognition

• Management Buy-out 2001, Boston USA

• First re-developed product delivery: 2005

• Average growth over last 8 years: 40%

• We have been busy !

“Enventive has enabled our mechanism design engineers to literally start thinking again in order to make the right decisions on their preliminary designs problems. This allows us to avoid various types of costly late stage problems in our design and industrialization processes”Norbert Hertling, Engineering Director – Lear Corporation Gmbh

Recent Quote from Client (there are many more)

Cost/Benefits

Company Background

Sample clients using Enventive

Sample clients using Enventive

• Intensive time pressure to get a.s.a.p. in production and on the market (solve costly Problems).

• Sometimes forgotten due to time and pressure constraints.

• Results not interpreted and valued. Simply sent to customer for justification.

• Complex problems Require engineering change requests or tooling changes, meaning time and costs.

• The probability to have problems in production/assembly/usage is much higher

• Tolerance analysis is a bottleneck in the development & industrialisation process.

Typical process for optimizing of design for robustness

Voice ofCustomer

Product Releaseto Manufacturing

Pilot Program(Soft Tooling)

ProductionRelease

(Hard Tooling)

ProblemResolution

ToleranceAnalysis

ProductRequirement

Specifications

ConceptualDesign

(Initial prototypes)

Detail Design(Further prototypes

and testing)

Tolerance

Analysis

Typically completed after detail design

…….or whenproblems arise

Solution Desired by Customers…

• Managers want pushbutton tolerance analysis from CAD system

• This solution does not currently exist

• CAD mathematical structure inadequate for tolerance analysis.

• Because of the CAD limitations, extremely difficult to develop a CAD-based pushbutton solution.

Plane defined by X,Y,ZCoordinates of points.

Plane defined by X,Y,ZCoordinates of points.

No mathematical relationships between the surfaces

NO MATH STRUCTURE IN CAD SYSTEM

Enventive – Evaluating return on investment:

Voice ofCustomer

Pilot Program(Soft Tooling)

ProductionRelease

(Hard Tooling)

ProblemResolution

TraditionalToleranceAnalysis

Product Release

to Manufacturing

ProductRequirement

Specifications

ConceptualDesign

(Initial prototypes)

Detail Design(Further prototypes

and testing)

ToleranceAnalysis-Based

Design Optimization

TraditionalToleranceAnalysis

What is preliminary tolerance analysis based design optimisation ?

Enventive enables engineers to visualize complex tolerance stacks and interact actively with any changes during the design stage, such as:* Forces, Moments, Friction* Temperature, Stiffness, Stress* Area, Volume, Cost, etc.* Any physical parameter that can be calculated by an equation

Speeding the design process by reducing or removing the need for iteration

It is preferably used at the concept design stage

It can also be used on legacy product issues

Enventive – Evaluating return on investment:

Statistical analysis and optimisation of complex designs in early stages of the design:

↘Design Iterations↘Prototypes↗Customer Confidence

Example:Plunger following Cam Profile

Measuring forces, friction and wear

↘Tooling changes – pre-production problems.↘Manufacturing costs. ↘ Design Iterations.

Enventive – Evaluating return on investment:

Design Definition based on statistical optimisation.Exhaustive small contributor optimisation (due to technology).

Percent Impact on design

Enventive – Evaluating return on investment:

Ability for engineers to « perturb » their designs and understand its behavior early stage.

↘Probability of production & pre-series problem.↘Probability of warranty returns.↗Capability & knowledge of identical engineering resources.

Perturb Design

• Better satisfaction and confidence from customers, due to the fact that robust design methods can be the basis for taking decisions in preliminary design.

• Savings in terms of tooling changes, design iterations and scrap.1 avoided tooling change in one programme allows to save in general at least £30k and much more than £75k in most of the cases.

• Better capacity to innovate, with same human resources and R&D investmentsBecause the R&D teams are able to design more easily and more quickly products that are more sophisticated.

• Better capacity to manage changes during the lifecycle of the product. (Better management of crossed impacts on several conflicting functional requirements).

• Better capacity to react when facing drifts of production outputs.(Leveraging sensitivity information to know where and how much to act.)

• Exhaustively when enlarging tolerances of small impacts contributors.Savings that can be made by asking larger tolerances to subcontractors on small impact contributors can be valued to several thousands of £’s and often several tens of thousands of £’s.

• Reduction of prototyping costs. (Enventive acts like a variational mock up).Depending on the industry, avoiding one prototype allows to save several thousand of £’s and in high tech industries (aerospace, medical instruments…), this can go up to several tens of thousands of £’s. Clients often go from 5 to 1 to 0 Prototypes.

Enventive – Evaluating return on investment:The financial amounts given below are communicated by Enventive Engineering only for information as they vary strongly in function of the industrial sector considered.

One Enventive license typically brings ≥£75,000 per year of return.

Alan Smith

Enventive Engineering

European Manager

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+44 (0)7791 024092

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