When it comes to product quality, dimensional variations are common contributors to product failures and recalls. After a design is complete and prototypes are ordered, many companies find that not all pieces fit or function well together. Manufacturers often order hundreds of prototypes just to get 1 or 2 working models. When these models fail, it can be difficult to understand what the point of error is. As a result, prototype phases are often lengthy, expensive, and inefficient.

While the manufacturing industry is flooded with compressed timelines, increased quality, lower costs, streamlined productivity, and high demand for innovation, manufacturing engineers are primarily concerned with the validation process, cost overruns, meeting production targets, launch delays, and enhanced flexibility. With ever-increasing industry drivers, manufacturers are constantly attempting to mitigate risk. Cost overruns and missed deadlines are project killers. However, there is a way to perform manufacturing planning activities earlier when the ability to change and the cost of change are more forgiving.

Watch Dan Turk, Certified NX Professional Elite 100 User and Solid Edge Expert, explain:

• What is PMI?
• Why is there a debate to use it or not use it?
• Why should you use it?
• How do PMI and NX work together?
• How can PMI be implemented at your company?

Quarantine day 50… time to un-stall the layout design project for your next production line. Can this be done from home? Watch Curtis DeSaele, Director of Technology at Geometric Solutions, demonstrate this and more during this expert-led live webinar:

• Quickly design and visualize layouts of production lines
• Use drag & drop tools include standard components into your line
• Leverage Point Cloud Scan Data for the retrofit of existing plants
• Color-coded visualization of your manufacturing equipment, including component type, design changes, suppliers, investment cost and build dates

Would you like your line foreman to receive automated texts if a part is getting close to falling out of specifications? Who should be notified if it is not fixed within 24 hours? Watch Curtis DeSaele, Director of Technology at Geometric Solutions, demonstrate this and more during this expert-led live webinar.

Did we mention the best part? DPV can be used from any remote work location to allow teams to collaborate and perform non-conformance root-cause analysis.

While additive manufacturing and 3D printing help bring down the cost of producing physical prototypes- testing and validating products requires a solution that can animate parts and test, form, fit, and function. NX Animation Designer was developed to create true-to-life product animations that can simulate complex motions, adopt assembly constraints, and check for collisions between parts that move simultaneously.

Get professional tips on how to create your Siemens VSA/VA models quicker, faster, better straight from the experts! During this webinar, you will learn how to work within teams, structure in your models, and other modeling techniques that will improve your VSA models.

See the new "VA Reporter" tool that makes reporting VSA/VA results quick and easy in Microsoft PowerPoint. The "Drag & Drop" interface allows you to place statistical data into common locations, so reports are clean and professional. Automated Red/Yellow/Green color-coding to show measurements conform to the required specifications.

Modeling the same parts, the same machines, the same thing again and again and again.... STOP! Use Product Template Studio

The remote-work world has hit many manufacturing companies like a ton of bricks. There is no better time to start transitioning to remote-friendly processes and by digitally transforming your machine shop, you can become more competitive, efficient, and profitable.