Monday, May 19, 2008

Geometric to unveil DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER at PTC World 2008

Geometric Limited , a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and technologies, today announced that a new offering for Pro/ENGINEER users, ‘DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER’, will be showcased during the PTC User World 2008 in Long Beach, CA. Geometric will be at Booth # 301 from June 1-4, 2008. Registration for the beta program for the product will also commence at the event.

DFMPro is a revolutionary Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tool which facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of design areas that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. Used at the designing stage, this tool allows quick and in-depth examination of product manufacturability and potentially, product manufacturing costs. DFMPro performs rule based checks which can predict manufacturing problems early in the designing stage. It considerably reduces the design review steps, thereby pushing new products into the manufacturing stage swiftly. For more information, visit www.dfmpro.com .

Other products that will be showcased at the event are GeomCaliper® for Pro/ENGINEER® and eDrawings® for Pro/ENGINEER®. GeomCaliper is a wall thickness analysis tool for designers in injection molding and castings, whereas, eDrawings is a light weight visualization tool to communicate designs through email.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

How to justify buying tool to implement DFM practices?

For any new tool, best justification is ROI it offers. Al Dean, in his article in Desktop Engineering, gives some tips on justifying purchase of DFMPro and summarizes it as Justifying - the Ridiculously Easy.

Read full article at:
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaahnb.htm