Geometric launches DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER

Design for manufacturability checks and analysis performed in a single session

Geometric Limited, a leader in Engineering Services and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and technologies, today announced the launch of DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER. This design for manufacturability (DFM) product is integrated within the Pro/ENGINEER design environment, and provides a series of automated checks and analysis to assist a designer in creating designs, which are cost effective and easy to manufacture.
In today’s competitive market, manufacturers use design rules to help improve part quality, and reduce the cost of manufacturing. Manual DFM approaches are time consuming and prone to errors, creating a need for automation in the DFM analysis.
DFMPro is precisely such a revolutionary DFM tool developed for designers to facilitate upstream manufacturability validation and identification of areas in design that are difficult, expensive and impossible to manufacture. This design for manufacturability tool is engineered for quick and in‐depth examination of product manufacturability. It includes advanced design rules for manufacturing processes like milling, drilling, turning and sheet metal fabrication.

Some benefits of DFMPro include:
• Early prediction and prevention of production problems or manufacturing inefficiencies
• Evolution of optimal design and product quality
• Automation of manufacturability review process
• Reduction of lead‐time by reducing backtracking and design iterations
• A scalable framework for manufacturability knowledge capture and reuse

DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER assists multiple users:
• Design engineers can use DFMPro during design creation to improve designs with respect to manufacturability
• Manufacturing engineers can easily validate multiple designs from internal design departments or external vendors
• New engineers can learn organizational standards and design guidelines on the job using customized rule scripts

This version delivers:
• Seamless integration with Pro/ENGINEER with a simple and intuitive user interface
• Over 30 built‐in Design for Manufacturing rules
• Ability to customize DFM rules using the VSTA (Visual Studio Tools for Application) capabilities

For further details and your free 15‐day trial version, please visit:
http://dfmpro.geometricglobal.com

Geometric to showcase DFMPro ver 2.0 at SolidWorks World

Geometric Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Geometric Limited and an industry leader in developing advanced manufacturing software will showcase the upcoming releases of CAMWorks® and DFMPro at SolidWorks World 2009, at booth #605, in Orlando, Florida from February 8 to 11, 2009. These products are seamlessly integrated within the SolidWorks® platform, and enable intelligence and automation in design and manufacturing.

Version 2.0 of DFMPro for SolidWorks provides users with additional checks to validate the design for sheet metal parts resulting in stronger parts, and longer die and punch life of the sheet metal model. This version of the design for manufacturability tool supports DFM analysis on an assembly, allowing the user to analyze all the parts in an assembly in a single execution, thus saving time. DFMPro 2.0 generates 3D reports as eDrawings files for easier offline analysis, where problem areas are highlighted and corresponding analysis details are provided in the file itself. For a free trial version of DFMPro, please visit http://dfmpro.geometricglobal.com.

The team from Geometric will be making presentation at the event:
“Get your machined and sheet metal parts ready for manufacturing with DFMXpress and DFMPro” on Monday February 9 , at 1:30 p.m. in room # Swan 9/10.