Utilizing Kubotek ECO Manager Product Suite to Reduce Engineering Costs
Utilizing Kubotek ECO Manager Product Suite to Reduce Engineering Costs
Jul 01, 2015
Global Product Data Interoperability Summit Presentation by Tony Anderson of Kubotek USA detailing use of Kubotek Comparison suite to identify and communicate changes in CAD Design files.
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Utilizing Kubotek ECO Manager Product Suite to Reduce Engineering Costs
100 YEARS OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
Improving Communications
Computing for the Masses
The Electronic Age
Electronic Communication
Engineering Tools
MRP
ERP
PLM
KBE
Engineering Tools
MRP
ERP
PLM
KBE
With Increased Capability Comes Increased Complexity!
Why is Change Management Hard?
Communication
Flugplatz
Importance of Communication
kamar kecil
Importance of Communication
EXOAIKO
Importance of Communication
A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE TO CHANGE MANAGEMENT
ECO MANAGER PRODUCT SUITE
ECO Manager Configurations
• ECO Manager Provides a Robust Graphical Interface to Identify, Organize and Communicate the Impact of an Engineering Change.
• ECO Inspector Provides Designers and Engineers with the capability to visually define and review differences between two CAD documents.
• ECO Navigator is a Graphical Interface which Allows Non-Engineers to Browse Engineering Change Information. It’s a Change Browser.
• ECO Server Utilizes a Powerful Differencing Engine to Indentify Engineering Changes Between Revisions of Components or Assemblies through a Geometric Comparison Process. The ECO Data Model is then Saved to the ECO Server or Local PDM System for Access by the ECO Manager or ECO Navigator Products.
Customers
Customer Success Story
• “ECO Manager saved many hundreds of man-years of time through its ability to accurately and completely compare source and target files after translation,” Deragisch concluded. “A key advantage of the tool is its ability to highlight the differences between the two files including sorting the differences by dimensional tolerances. But even more important than the time savings, this new approach provides an independent validation of the translation process that helps to ensure the accuracy of our critical product definition files. An added plus is the time-savings we have achieved in the ECO process by highlighting the differences between the existing product definition and the product definition after the change to identify the change and make sure that nothing else has been accidentally changed.”– Bob Deragisch Parker Hannifin Corporation
Use Cases
• Design Iteration Comparison & Documentation• Engineering Change Communication• Design Quality Check• Customer / Supplier Management
Key Manufacturing Information
Conceptual Design Preliminary Design Interim Design Review
Critical Design Review
D1
D2
D3
Approval
Approval
Approval
Challenge of Data Management
Current Change Management Process
Original CAD file Revised file
Manually Overlay Models
Manually Document Change
Manually Measure Change
Manually Locate Change
New Release
NC Manufacturing
CAE Engineer
Manufacturing Engineer
Project Engineer Design Engineer
Assembly
Current Change Management Process
COMMUNICATE CHANGE CONFIDENTLY
Best-in-Class Management Process
Automatic Graphical Change Report Creation Including Dimensions and Storage of Results for Viewing by Additional Team Members
Automatic Geometric Comparison
User organizes Changes
Read Into ECO Manager and Define Tolerances
Revision A Revision B
Data Oriented Architecture
D1
Engineering Project Manager
Manufacturing Engineer
CAE Engineer
NC Manufacturing
Assembly
ECO Data Model
DEMONSTRATION
PRODUCT CONFIGURATIONS & ARCHITECTURE
Role Based Configurations
Estimating
Project Management
Design Engineer
NC Manufacturing
Manufacturing Engineer
Quality Engineer
Sales
CAE Engineer
Tooling
Request for Proposal Shipping
Estimating / Proposal Design
Project Review &
Acceptance Manufacturing Quality Assembly
Typical Supplier
ECO Manager
• Interactive processing of ECO Information• Robust Capabilities for Difference Reporting• Create Graphical Change Report• PLM / ERP Integration Capabilities
CAD Dataset B
CAD Dataset ADataset B
Dataset A
Data ServerData Server
Manual Comparison of Datasets
EngineerEngineer
ECO Inspector
• Design level configuration for Interactive processing of differences between design iterations
• PLM / ERP Integration Capabilities
Design Iteration B
Design Iteration AIteration B
Iteration A
Data ServerData Server
ECO Inspector Process
EngineerEngineer
PDF Report or Session File
ECO Navigator• Browse ECO Information processed by ECO Manager or ECO Server• PLM / ERP Integration Capabilities• Export ECO Reports to PowerPoint or Print On-Demand
Data ServerData Server
EngineerEngineer
EstimatingEstimating
ManufacturingManufacturing
Project ManagerProject Manager
PDF Report or Session File
ECO Server
• Automatic processing of ECO Information• Automatic Queuing • Automatic Storage of ECO Results• Multi-CAD Support• PLM / ERP Integrations*
Dataset BDataset A
Network Client ECO Server / Data Server
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